At 2:05 a.m. on New Year's Day 2026, a traffic stop for a burnt-out license plate light quickly escalated when California Highway Patrol officers noticed signs of impairment from the driver. License and registration, Mhm. What is this? 119 See? Evening. Officer Vincent with Highway Patrol. You don't have a license plate light. I don't? Mhm. Oh, goodness. You got your uh license, registration, insurance on you? What are you up to tonight? I am leaving the casino. I'm not having a good night, but Oh, yeah? Any alcohol tonight? Uh no. Uh registration and registration Insurance? Insurance. Yeah. Why aren't you having a good night? Oh, I just got in a fight with my boyfriend, but Was it physical or anything like that? >> No, no, no. No, he didn't hit you or >> No, no. Absolutely not. Oh, right here. Right here. I don't know if that's the most current, but that is who I have it through. Okay. I'm going to come over there for a second, okay? Okay. I know. I know. All right. Do me a favor, look at my quick. See it's in my fingers? Follow it with your eyes only. Don't move your head, okay? How much alcohol have you had tonight? I haven't. You're honest with me. I've had a little bit, but not not a lot. I'm literally just going right there. Okay. Do me a favor, go and step out for me. I got to make sure you're safe to drive, okay? >> Oh, okay. >> All right. Do I me to turn the car off? Yeah, if you want to turn it off, go right ahead. Okay, I can do that. Go back here. Let's go on this side. Don't get hit by a car. No, that's cool. No problem. All right, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask you some questions, have you do some tests, make sure you're safe to drive. If everything's good, we'll let you go, okay? Okay. Is there anything that can interfere with your vehicle? No. Are you sick or injured? No. Are you diabetic or epileptic? No. Do you take any insulin? No. All right, do you have any physical impairments? No. When did you last sleep? Uh today I had a nap. Okay, for how long? Uh 2 hours, probably. Okay, when did you last eat? Uh 5 hours ago. And what did you eat? I had What did I have? Taquitos. Taquitos? And a banana. Okay, you're driving the vehicle right now. Yep. Uh where are you coming from, you said? The casino? Yes. And you're going home? Yes. Where's home? Okay, do you know where you are right now? Yes, I'm in between casinos with the river fields. Fields? Okay. 101. I don't know what you're looking for, but >> That's fine. Okay, and what have you had to drink alcohol-wise tonight? Uh just uh I had white class. How many? Uh three. What time did you uh start drinking? Uh it was 5:00. 5:00 p.m.? Yes. And when did you stop? Uh 2 hours ago, probably. Might be more than that. Okay. Where were you drinking at? The casino? >> yep. Okay, do you feel the effects of the alcohol or not? I don't think so. All right, so one being completely sober 10 being the most intoxicated you've ever been in your life, what do you think? Like a two. Two? Okay. Um are you under the care of a doctor, dentist, or on the routine checkups? Um no. Okay, have you taken any drugs or medication including marijuana? Nope. Any recent surgery performed in the last year? Nope. All right, nope. Nope. Nope. Do you wear glasses or contacts? No. Put your feet Put your Put your feet and toes together like this. Put your arms at your side. All right. You see the tip of my finger? You're going to follow it with your eyes only. Do not move your head, okay? Okay. Do you understand that? >> Yep. What's it? Rain drops on it. Rain drops The rain The rain drops are like Yeah. >> on my eyes. Yeah. All right, you can take it off. Blinking. Take a quick break. We're going to go up and down. Okay. All right. You ready? Yep. All right. So, what I'm going to do I'm going to draw a circle on your face coming towards the bridge of your nose. Not going to touch you. Just keep following to my finger. Allow your eyes to cross, okay? Okay. One more time, all right? Yep. All right. You relax for a second. All right. Where would be the best place to do this? I guess come over here. Like maybe stand right there and then face us back towards the patrol car. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to set you up in a starting position and I'll have you stand in that starting position while I explain and demonstrate the test and I'll have you do the test, okay? So, for right now imagine there's a straight line out right in front of you, okay? So, put your left foot on the line and then put your right foot in front of your left foot heel-to-toe contact. Okay. All right. Like this? Like this? Can I take Other way. Well, I'm like can I take a step away from the >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, So, left foot on the line. Left foot Yeah. And then right foot in front of your left foot heel-to-toe contact arms to your side. Okay. So, stay like that. So, I'm going to go back. Go back. Yeah. So, stay stay like that while I while I explain it. So, put So, right foot in front of your left foot. >> Okay. So, So, put your right foot in front of your left foot. Yep. Heel-to-toe contact. Yeah. Arms to your side. Yeah. So, stay like that while I explain and demonstrate, okay? So, when I tell you to you're going to take nine heel-to-toe steps down the line, okay? Count your steps out loud. It's going to look like this. One, two, three, all the way down to nine, okay? I'm going to back up so you can see this. So, when you get to nine you're going to turn around by leaving your front foot in place taking a series of small steps with your back foot and then you're going to take nine heel-to-toe steps back down the line, okay? It's going to look like this. >> Nine heel-to-toe steps down the >> Down the line, turn like I showed you in the nine heel toe steps back down the line, okay? >> Okay. So, it's going to look like this on the way back. 1 2 3 all the way down to nine, okay? Okay. So, while you're taking your steps, remember to keep your arms at your side. Make sure you get that heel to toe contact, count your steps out loud, and do not stop at any point until you're completely done with the test. Okay. Do you understand the test? >> Yep. All right, whenever you're ready, go ahead and begin. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Turn on my heel. All right. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 All right. All right, come back over here. This is where we're not going to walk anymore. So, go ahead and put your feet and toes together. Here's your center right here. Oh, sorry. >> No, you're good. Put feet and toes like this, arms at your side. All right, so stay like that while I explain and demonstrate the rest of the test, okay? So, when I tell you to, I'm going to have you raise one foot, okay? Right or left, you can decide which foot you're going to raise. I'm going to demonstrate using my right leg, okay? You're going to raise your foot approximately 6 in above the ground, keeping your foot parallel with the ground. All right, you're going to look down at that raised foot, and you're going to count out loud. So, it's going to look like this, okay? 1,001, 1,002, 1,003, all the way until I tell you to stop, okay? Make sure you keep both legs straight. Which leg? But, whichever one you want. You You can decide which one you want to raise. Um just Okay, so remember to keep your arms at your side, look down at that raised foot, and count out loud. Okay. >> Okay, do you understand the test? >> Yes. All All which foot are you going to use? I'm going to use my left. Or I'm going to put my left. Yeah, raise your left. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Uh whenever you're ready, go ahead and begin. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Keep going. Oh, how long did you Until I tell you to stop. Oh, sorry. Yeah, keep going. 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Oh. Keep going. All right, you can stop. You can stop. You can stop. >> 17 18 19 >> You can stop. All right. So, for this test, go ahead and put your feet and toes together like this. Arms at your side. All right, so stay like that while I explain and demonstrate this one. So, for this one, when I tell you to, I'm going to tell you to tilt your head back and then I'm going to say close your eyes, okay? After I say close your eyes, I'm going to tell you to begin. Once I say begin, you're going to allow 30 seconds to pass in your head. Once 30 seconds has passed, you just get to tilt your head forward, open your eyes, and tell me to stop. Okay. Do you understand the test? >> Yep. All right. Go ahead and tilt your head back, close your eyes, and begin. 1 30 All right, how how did you count to 30? Would Did you just go 1 2 3 or Okay. Counted. I didn't you know Mississippi or some people use thousands. >> I just 1 2 3. I didn't Mississippi it. Okay. So, the last thing I got to read you something first, okay? It's called the preliminary alcohol screening test. I request you take preliminary alcohol screening test to assist me in determining whether the influence of alcohol. You can refuse to take it. However, it's not the implied consent test. And if arrested, you will be required to give a sample of your blood for for determining the actual alcohol or drug content of your blood. So, it's called It's commonly called the breathalyzer. It only tests for alcohol. All right. So, we do you wrap your lips around this and blow until I tell you to stop, okay? Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. So, we got to wait 2 minutes and do it one more time, okay? Uh while we wait, what's a good phone number for you? Where were you born? Do you know your social security number? Yes, it is You got a discount casino? Got you. Did they do something special tonight or Uh yeah, they have like chairs and different things that they paid but I don't Got you. I don't use the card to get any of that stuff and I don't go there often enough to Oh, got you. Yeah, yeah. I feel you. Is this uh your car? Yes. You live in Carson City now or I do. How long have you lived >> I was going to my parents' but I've been there a couple of years, I think. 2 years, probably. What do you do for work? Um I work for Got you. Prior to that, I worked at the prison. Oh, really? What do you do at the prison? Um, I worked in medical, um, in the quality management support unit. Oh, really? Yeah. What does that entail? Uh, it does data, a lot of data, and running numbers, and making sure that they all get, you know, their medical care that they're supposed to get within a certain amount of time. Got you. >> Just making sure that, uh, we're meeting all the requirements of their medical care. All right. All right. Watch out. Same thing as before. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. All right. All right. Go ahead and turn around. So, you're going to be placing you under arrest for driving under the influence, okay? Yep. All right. Hey, get You got anything, uh, on you, in your pockets or anything like that? Yeah, I don't think so. Let's see. Let's see. Oh, sorry. There you go. I got to tie I got to lock these so that they don't, uh, tighten on you. No, no problem. I There might be cigarettes or something or lighters, but I don't think there's anything. The keys Oh, and my keys, yeah. What do you want to do with the car? We leave it parked here if you want. Uh, yeah, that's that's okay. That's okay? All right. know we're not liable if someone breaks into it. We'll make sure it's locked and the windows are up, but we can move it a little farther off the road if you'd like. Um You got a bag? Can you call my parents? Or just so that >> to put your your tobacco and your lighter back in the car, okay? Oh, yeah. No, that's fine. What do you What do you want to call your parents about? Oh, if they want to come might Well, we can't >> They can't come get the car. Yeah, we can't wait for them, unfortunately. So, you you only You have a couple options. We can tow it for safekeeping uh or we can just leave it here. Yeah, we can leave it if you can get it a little bit farther off the road, that'd be all right. Yeah. I Here. Um yeah, yeah. Done. I guess. She wants you to move it a little farther off the road if you could. >> Okay. Okay. All right. Come back here. Oh. Are you good? I don't know what that was. You good? Somebody else is laughing. Yeah. All right. You want to take a seat in there? Can you uh my phone something like this to make sure that I can >> Yeah. Only. Thank you. I'm going to get it. All right. So, this is the This is the non-phone part. So, these have to go on your handcuffs. Oh, Yeah. So, if you could like move your Yeah, sorry. All right. So, you can move them as far as you can at that point. That's it. John, where are you at? Can you go to your side and uh So, because you've been arrested uh for DUI in the state of California, you're required to submit to a chemical test to determine the actual alcohol or drug content of your blood. So, you have the choice between a breath or a blood test. So, we have the breath test here. Uh we can get it done right now. And that's all you have to do. >> Do you have the breath You want to do the breath test? Let me uh let me get it all set up real quick, okay? Do you have any other idea? Uh you want me to The what? You want to leave here or you want to No, she's she's good with it being parked here. Okay. No, it's fine. It's fine. We moved it farther off the road for you, so >> You're a big guy I've seen that. Yeah. All right, so this is very similar to the other one except for this kind of requires you to to blow a little more steadily. Sometimes it's a little longer, but >> Okay. same thing as before you'll do it once, we'll wait 2 minutes, we'll do it again and you're all done. Okay. >> It'll give us a little printout I can show you what it what it says, okay? All right, so blow until I tell you stop, okay? Go on, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going. All right, cool. I'm like oh my god, thank god my lungs let me do it. Yeah, so it it's like a smart machine. It it it captures that breath right as you're running out of air. Oh god. >> for how much you have to blow for each person depending on how much you can. Oh, okay. All right, so like I said, it's going to count down for 120 seconds. Then we'll do it one more time and then we'll be all done, okay? Um by the way, so this this breath test It's my breath. Sorry. Yeah. Uh it doesn't retain any sample of breath, so you have the option of doing a blood test as well. You don't have to do it by California, but you only have to do so we have to give you the option. >> It is what it is. All right, stay inside for a minute. What do they want? Oh, they still have the charger. Did they know it was the same one? Or did they assume it was the same one? They assumed it was the same one. I don't know. It's just a girl. We'll continue. We'll continue. But then I opened it cuz I'm going to throw the Why I just open this All right, stand here so I can get out of the rain. Well, that's >> Should I throw out my hood, but No, I think my hood is full of water. What? What was the hazard? 18. Mhm. >> [snorts] >> You guys ran everything? Whatever. You ran everything through dispatch? Mhm. You ran everything through the dispatch, right? >> Yeah, I already got uh so we already got the information already. So it was a 29, I think it was Took you guys forever to do that. It was a 20 What was it? Took you guys forever to do that, huh? Took you guys forever. To what? Run it. Oh, she was busy on that. I know. I'm just going to I'm just giving you a hard time. Yeah, I was busy doing that stuff. Stupid. All right. Same thing as before. So, when when we do it, do you get to tell me what it Yeah, I'll show I'll show Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. All right, so it will give us a little printout of everything, but I'll show you what the screen says at least for for this one. Do you know what the legal limit is in California? .08 >> Yeah, .08. Yeah. Yeah, she would have you double the legal limit. >> Not good. Yeah. Hey Ben. What's your Daniel. Daniel? Yeah. Hey, we locked the car over here. Perfect. You got keys and everything? >> the keys, your phone, and your wallet, yeah. Perfect, thank you. You got everything off the hood of the car? 0.05 you know.