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Are you Are you able to Do you have it like on an app on your phone that you can show? Yeah, your phone's up by your right foot, actually. She's uh she's saying that she's completely uninjured. Uh she doesn't even want us to check her out. She's going to sign a refusal, but she does smell a little bit of Okay. Ego Is there a way for the tow? She is Her glove box is like really smashed in, so she can't get all of her like insurance and registration. I think she has her registration and license. 20-10-10 On August 9th, 2022 around 8:55 p.m., Patrolman Thomas Anderson with the Evesham Township Police Department was dispatched to the scene of a motor vehicle accident involving a 2018 Nissan Rogue on Taunton Lake Road. When he arrived on scene around 9:00 p.m., he observed that the vehicle had struck the guardrails on both sides of the road and that the vehicle was blocking the roadway on a bridge in front of 199 Taunton Lake Road. Patrolwoman Danielle Torres made contact with the driver of the Nissan Rogue as she was being evaluated by first responders and she was identified as Marie Mendez. You don't want to get checked out or anything? No, I'm fine. Okay. Where are you coming from? I'm just coming from I'm just going home. Really? I know but Okay. Real quick, can I just go to the bathroom? Sure. My name is My first name is Sabrina Medina. Can you spell that for me? And I r i n a M e d i n a Okay. You said it was Apple phone. Yeah, keep coming this way. Baby girl And the N G Okay, she was like lined up for it. Have you ever been All right, what's your date of birth? What's this license What's your policy number? What's your home address? Yeah, do you need the address? I I don't think I have your address in here. Yeah, so Okay. Yeah, I can't get like any information out of 20 minutes. You want a second? I'm just going to pull up the the people to sign right here. Okay. I said just take steps. You can change your mind. We uh What is it? If you this is saying you don't want us to bring check you out or bring you to the hospital right now. No, I'm just We can't be held legally responsible, but you can change your mind at any point in time and just call back and we'll gladly check out bring the hospital. I'm fine. I just want to make sure everyone else is all right. Um is there a key ignition or is there like a button? No, it's a button. Do you have the fob? Before you leave I just want to make sure we get the fob from you so we can get the car. What is it? The fob. The key fob. The key fob, dude. What does that mean? For you to turn the car the key for the car. Oh, I have it. Yeah. Yeah, we'll just need that cuz the tow truck will need it when they tow your car. Oh, okay. Okay. All right, so miss Yeah. I'm going to step an out so we can kind of figure out what what happened here. Sure. Sure. I'm just looking for the key. That's okay. Don't worry about it for now. Is that the Is that the key right there? it is here on here. Okay. So just to be clear, nobody else was in the car with you, correct? No. Do you need anything on this key? It Are you going Is this my house key? All right, here. You want to take it? And then I'll give them the uh What what happened today from from your point of view? I have no idea. It's just this road. I have no luck with this road. I've had several flat tires on this road in the dark. Um Okay. All right, where Which way were you headed? I was heading this way. You were going 273. Yep, towards my home. I'm like less than half a mile and then I'm home. So So you mean this way? You mean east? No, this way. Okay. Do you live in Yep. Okay. Awesome. Here's the key fob. You're welcome. Yeah, for the central I have to get horrible dizzy when I drive. I've lost several flat tires on this road and Okay. today was just another night. All right, so you you don't know how you or what happened leading up to the accident as far as you were where you were driving normally or not. I was completely driving normally and I probably drove off the road because I couldn't see, which I replaced several tires for. Yeah. And then whoever was behind me, I mean I'm I'm I'm pretty sure this white driver was actually behind me. Yeah. All right, where do you come from today? Oh boy, this is my mom's house. Where is that? Marie declined further medical attention. Patrolman Anderson spoke with two witnesses who claimed that Marie had tailgated behind their vehicle and that they observed the crash. The witnesses also informed Patrolman Anderson that they observed a bottle of wine inside the vehicle. Based on the odor of alcohol and the witness accounts, the officers began their DWI investigation. Marie told the officers that she was coming from her mother's residence and denied consuming alcohol, but she was asked to perform field sobriety exercises. I mean, what town is that? Oh, Radnor? Oh, you're near Oh, okay. Awesome. All right, and you're just out of this place. How long were you at your mom's house? I'm a dog. I probably picked my son up from like like 4 or 5 o'clock and then I dropped him off and I went back over there. So, probably only 3 hours or so. All right. So, a couple hours. All right. What time did you leave the bar? I honestly don't know what time it is right now. But it was only it was only a few hours, yeah. I got you. All right. If you had to guess what time it is, what time do you think it is right now without looking at your clock? Probably around 9:00. Probably around 9:00. Okay. Have you had any alcoholic beverages to drink tonight? Not a lot or not at all? None at all. Any other substances, narcotics, anything like that? No. Prescription medications? No. Absolutely. Awesome. Okay. So, we are going to go ahead and proceed with field sobriety tests. Yeah, I I can smell the odor of an alcoholic beverage on you guys, so Um are you sure you haven't had anything to drink tonight? Okay. All right. No problem. So, in the meantime, obviously, your car is going to have to be towed. The airbags that are deployed, obviously, the entire wheel is off. That's yours. So, yeah, you can hold on to your keys. the key fob to uh fire. He's got that. Okay. Yep. And then um so, we're going to do field sobriety real quick and after that we'll explain to you and go through the whole process of the accident report and Sure. Okay. All right. Do you have your license on you? It's somewhere in here. As soon as I find it, I'll give it we are obviously we are going to give you an opportunity to remove any valuables from the car prior to it being towed. Um but we'll we'll go through that at that point, okay? Yeah, I was just taking a minute to find everything. We can see him now. Yeah. Okay. So, we're we're actually going to step over here, all right? We're going to do field sobriety, okay? Okay. All right. Do you want me to find my license or No, that's okay. Yeah, we have a little bit of time. Okay. Can we position the vehicle? No, we're just going to go over here. Yeah, and then yeah, that's fine. You can hold that there, that's totally fine. We're just going to go right over there. Do you have your other sandal? It's in the car somewhere. It's on the It's right there. I see it. So, like I said, we're just going to you can just follow this officer. We're going to go right over there. Right over Just watch Okay, you got your shoes on? Do you want me to pull my car up? So, you're not right here. All right, look at this. I need to practice some more. All right. So, the walk the line Are you 18 and verified adult? Yes. All right. All right, what's your name, ma'am? Marie Elena Mendez. All right, Marie, come over here right here. Stand right here. All right. Do you have any problem with your eyes? Do you have any problem with your eyes? Any medical issues or anything like that? Sergeant Robert Hansberry started with the horizontal gaze nystagmus HGN test. During the HGN test, Sergeant Hansberry observed the lack of smooth pursuit and distinct sustained nystagmus at maximum deviation in both eyes, and the onset of nystagmus prior to 45° in both eyes. The second exercise was the walk and turn test and it was administered by Patrolman Anderson. During the walk and turn test, Marie did not touch heel-to-toe on each step, failed to keep her arms at her sides, and took an incorrect number of steps. The final exercise was the one leg stand test and Marie failed to raise her foot in the proper fashion while displaying a lack of balance. No, not really well. All right, contact No. All right. Confirm 21 the tip of my pen? Yes. All right. With your eyes, your eyes only, just follow the tip of my pen, okay? All right. Field sobriety is 21 13 hours. You need to keep your head straight and you're just going to follow the tip of my pen, okay? Mhm. Ready? All right. All right. So, the next test, okay, is the walk and turn test, okay? Just just due to the lighting, I'm going to ask you to come over here, if you will. Over here? Yeah, we're going to start this way just so I can see you a little bit better, okay? You can just stand right where my light is, please. Mhm. Right where my light is, right here. There you go. You can turn around and face me. All right. So, this test is the walk and turn test, okay? First, I'm going to explain the test, then I'm going to demonstrate it, and then I'm going to ask you to demonstrate it, okay? Okay. So, to start each test, there's a starting position, okay? So, the starting position for this test is with your right foot back, put your left foot in front so that your heel and your toe are touching, okay? With your hands at your sides. So, I'm going to ask you to get in this position now, okay? Right here? Correct. Right foot back, left foot in front. Yes. Awesome. We're just heel Heel to toe touching. Ooh. Just like that. Right. Awesome. So, you just stay in that position until we begin the test, okay? What you're going to do is you're going to take nine heel to toe steps forward in a straight line, okay? With your hands at your sides, heel to toe touching every step, okay? On your ninth step, you're going to leave one foot planted, take a few steps to turn around, and you're going to take nine heel to toe steps forward again in a straight line, okay? Okay. So, I'm going to demonstrate it for you, all right? I'm in my starting position, heel to toe touching. One, two, three, four, five, all the way up to nine. One foot planted. Use the small steps to turn around. One, two, three, four, five, all the way up to nine, okay? Yep. If you lose your balance, uh step off the line, anything to that effect, just correct yourself and pick back up from where you left off, okay? Okay. Do you have any questions about that? Do you have any injuries, anything in your anything that would affect your balance or anything to that effect? No? think so. All right. And would you agree that this is a suitable place in the road to conduct this test? Yeah. Okay. All right. You can begin when you're ready. All right. It's hard, right? It was nine. Nine? It's all right. Okay. I could do nine. You feel like you can do it better with nine steps? It's fine. Go ahead. What's up? All right. Next test, okay? Again, this is There's a starting position for this test, okay? The starting position for this test with both feet together, with your hands at your sides, okay? So, I'm going to ask you to get in this position and stay in this position until we begin the test. Okay. What you're going to do is you're going to pick one leg, whichever one whichever leg you're more comfortable with, and you're going to lift it up 2 1,000, 3 1,000, and you're going to keep counting until I tell you to stop. Okay. This is what it's going to look like, all right? I'm going to choose my right leg. Again, you can choose whichever leg you're more comfortable Any questions about that test? Okay. All right. You can begin when you're ready. Ready. I went down. Just keep going. Yep. Keep going until you until you stop. Okay, you can stop. Thank you. You can put your sandals back on. Okay. All right. So, listen. You're saying you haven't had any alcoholic beverage tonight? No. Beverage tonight? Nope. Okay, you haven't had any other substances? No. No prescription medication? No. All right. Based on the motor vehicle accident, the odor of alcohol, the witness account regarding the bottle of wine, and her inability to adequately perform the field sobriety exercises, Marie was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated. Patrolman Anderson transported her to the Evesham Township Police Department for further processing. Her vehicle was towed for a mandatory 12-hour impound as required by John's Law. I am going to ask you to turn around. You are under arrest, okay? Okay. For uh driving while impaired, okay? I'm not impaired. Okay. I just want to let you know I don't feel well right now. Okay, do you have anything in your car that you need to have removed? I don't know. You have your cell phone in your house too, correct? Everything's in my house. I have to call my son's dad to get him from my house. All right. So, we say your cell phone All right. What was it that your keys are on this That's all correct. All right. And you said your name is Elena? Yep. Okay, Elena. We're just going to walk right back here to the where my phone is. We'll be all right. Over here. Over here. Sorry, that's my fault. All right. You have anything you want to stick up in your in your pockets? No? No. I'm not sure why I'm being arrested today. You can take it out, okay? Sure. Can you place it back in my case over there? I believe it's in the floorboard of your car. Okay. Sure. Let's have a seat, please. Back is good. The one on the Yep. Yeah. I'll do that. Okay. I don't know what this key goes to. This key is So, this key goes to the jewelry store and the registration. You think she thought this was a She thought that I don't know if she gave that to somebody else. That was a Sorry about So, it just had her full name and her address on it. Okay. Um in your car. It's It looks like a jewelry receipt. Okay. it's a jewelry receipt. No problem. Like my Like my jewelry is something. Okay. You said they saw a bottle in the The witness said that they heard a clunk and they also saw what they believe was a bottle of wine in the front passenger floorboard. She was in there for a little bit but I didn't EMS you know what I mean focused on her for injuries. It's hard to get in there anyway too because passenger side door. Just uh So describe her stuff, look around real fast. Uh see if anything of value we'll take with us whatever Uh everything's going to be in there. For future reference who what do we do about that? coming out. Eventually I hope. So you're actually going to say basically geared off the road here. Hit this whatever this is. I guess that's the Uh it's a street sign. what sign that's got to be. You living sign? I don't know if there is one maybe hidden driveway or something like that. I'm going to The front wheel came off. Cuz that was in the middle of here. Yeah. Right here the Right here and then she did a U-turn. Yeah like the okay. Got to hit that went across here. Uh make sure we put that down. 3107 County's going to see that right? Put it in your narrative that back off. Okay. Um and then Yes, hit that and turn around. And then hit that came over Cuz you see kind of like maybe came at the Well this is obvious to me they hit it turned around. Not the I guess we'll see if there's damage to to the back. It's probably that. Yeah. Um insurance information. Oh, car's totaled. Verify all airbags are out. Keep an eye on her. I'm not sure if she's a medical patient, but just keep an eye on her. Yeah. Where's the receipt? I have my iPod. If you can get your If you're able to find that and if you can find see on the driver side if you can get in the glove box over there. The glove box is in For the registration, so I'm sorry. If you see any signs of uh any beverage too, any alcohol beverage in Witnesses said they saw a bottle of wine in there. And anything of value? Just just put it in the document that we can You need to take your insurance card and put it in the shoes that are You got to show registration and insurance card, they want Mhm. Can you get it out? Let's go above and beyond for you right now. Yes, I owe you one. Bring it here, it says here. Where in the crease? Listen, if they heard that clunk, it she could just toss it, right? Yeah, well, that's true. What do you know, I want to tell you something. Dude, an eagle's coming down for you. Probably. Probably. She said she was restaurant owner, or she said her boyfriend was, or husband? I don't know. And she uh her Yeah, I had to break that thing open but I couldn't. That's her. And then this is Joyce Mhm. Um So, it just have a license on it? No, she said it was in here, but So, we can I don't know. Yeah. Nothing really of value in there. So, man, um the whole wheel's off, so you Just the one car? Yeah, it's just this. Um she's got a ton of the rest of the car here. You okay? Your arms hurt? That is from uh like the handcuffs being too tight? Would you like me to recheck them? Sure. What's that? Yeah. Yeah, I got to check the cuffs for her. She's uh She's saying the cuffs are hurting her arms, so I double-checked them. So, that's the keys, her phone, her glasses, and her AirPods. Is anything of value that we removed? Correct. Normally at 4:50 we wouldn't do that, but because of Well, right. All right, miss, we're going to help you out and we're going to re- do your cuffs for you, okay? Yeah. We got your cell phone, you have two AirPods, containers, chargers. Keys, and your bicycle, of course, sunglasses. That's all I think of value that don't understand why I'm being arrested, though. You're being arrested for uh theft of service at your job. I'm not a theft of service, though. Okay. That's what I'm a minute. All right. Can I do anything to help? We'll go to the station, and you'll provide uh the breath for the after test. Sure. And then we'll you know we'll make that I I was going to do that here, though. What uh The breathalyzer. Uh we don't In Burlington County we don't do it on the scene. We got to go to the station to do Okay. So, is there a way that I can make a phone call to my child's father so he can go home to my child? My son is home by himself right now. Once we get to the station, we'll give you a call. Officer Harrison, he's going to leave now. My son is 9, so he's probably going to wondering how he is. Okay. Well, right now you're under our custody. So, once we get back to the police station, we'll allow you make that phone call to your mother. How's that feel? A lot of it too is obviously when you sit down the pressure is going to be a little bit more pressure. So, lean forward, all right? It's hard to see about but I give it a try. me Give me 1 second. Let me grab this seat belt. So, I can put it back on you. This is how you feel so far? To be honest, yeah. What's your address? Okay. All right. Do you feel comfortable? If I could just have his dad call and just tell him that I'll be home soon then. All right. She does all say as she gets to the station he'll he'll make let's bring that phone call. Okay, great. Is this the lady Yeah. Yep. Um yeah. Oh. So, Marcus is not I think I I think I actually just called somebody. Do you want to let her call right now? We're going to do that right now, all right? You able to call for yourself? It's my All right. What's his name? Jeremy Sosa. All right. Who's Marcus? He's my boyfriend. Oh, okay. Do you want him to call or not? No. Okay. All right, we'll just call you when we get back. All right. Just to confirm that for the accident that you actually have you're You're going to the hospital tonight. We'll get you as soon as you get your in there. I'll get you out. Yeah. Sorry. At the Evesham Township Police Department, Patrolwoman Torres read her the standard statement for motor vehicle operators, and she agreed to submit breath samples. Her Alco test results indicated a back level of 0.19%, which was more than double the legal limit of 0.08%. After she was processed, Marie was released to a sober adult pending her court appearance. He signed the potential Shared Liability Warning form on her behalf. Patrolman Anderson issued her the following summonses: operating under the influence, careless driving, traffic on marked lanes, and open container. 22189 Copy. Central 22189 22189 Transporting one adult female in custody from the MBA to 220. Starting mileage 47828.8. Transport to the station at 21:32 hours. What's that? It is 9:40. Court records indicate that on November 26, 2022 Marie was arrested again for DWI, Evesham Township, New Jersey, on March 16th, 2023. Marie was found guilty of careless driving and her license was revoked for 90 days. The other three citations were dismissed as part of the plea agreement. On the same date, Marie was also found guilty of the other DWI from November 26th, 2022. While the other citations for traffic on marked lanes and reckless driving from the November DWI I were dismissed as part of the plea agreement. In total, she had to pay $1,130 in fines. Central 202189. 202189. Arriving 220 ending mileage last three 31.9. Copy that. Car 12 return.