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the mittnik school how are you license registration Insurance please I'm good right now around 11:30 to p.m. on August 9th 2023 Sergeant William Barkus with the lower Township Police Department observed the driver of a 2015 Jeep Renegade speeding excessively at 60 MPH and a 40 mph Zone on Town Bank Road the Jeep also struck the curb while being driven in an erratic manner Sergeant Barkus initiated a traffic stop in the vicinity of the seashore Road Bridge the driver was identified as 24-year-old Ava and Sergeant Barkus told her that she was driving like a lunatic I'm sorry I don't where are you coming from man I'm coming from North K May okay where at North Cape May um right you just swerved on camera you just swerved and you had to squeak your brakes because you almost went over the curb and you probably would have killed yourself cuz you're driving like an absolute lunatic right now I'm sorry have you been drinking tonight I was earlier yes okay I will not lie um I'm sorry here is my I'm sorry I have a lot of stuff my no problem okay registration and my license is in my phone thank you thank you how much have you had to drink tonight I had two drinks earlier at dinner okay where you headed to right now we're just heading into May okay nowh all right just hang tight for me okay where is he holy [ __ ] dude what's up what's this connection are they Rel I know I didn't know if you know heard of so I'm going downtown I'm going downtown bank headed to the waha I'm like look at at my radar I'm like no way 68 so I'm like all right so I bang UB in front of K May wiy she's already by the time I get to the intersection there by Jehova Witness she's already at the light here I get I'm gunning up behind her she guns it out of there comes around this curb so fast that she loses it hits the curb and like then realizes and swerves back and like locks up the brakes and starts fing like fish tail and she was she was trying to gun I don't know I don't think she was trying to run from me I just think she's I mean she's moving huh in a hurry she's in a hurry you want to do me a favor B her out please because she's I I said where you comeing from I North K may I had two drinks at dinner but then I said where you haded Kate may I said we nowhere in particular go drive around Kate May at 60 MPH a lot of people out driving retardedly that's two I had almost 70 and a 40 to twice tonight she was 68 other one was 68 only I don't like with balance test is we're on the hill there I get it I mean we can that's new yeah he put that in after somebody's kid almost ran over his kids I really they think was like a cut through somebody's kid I mean we can transport her right back down here right right back you know right at the base of the down further if you want obviously we don't want to do it up here that's even steeper I only stopped her here it's not the ideal spot but I thought she was either taken off from me or she was going to wreck and go off the bridge Ava admitted to consuming alcohol before operating a motor vehicle Sergeant Barkus returned to his his patrol car to check her documents patrolman Louis bartleson arrived on scene around 11:36 p.m. to assist based on the officer's suspicion of impairment Ava was asked to exit the vehicle and perform field sobriety exercises hi ma'am I'm officer bson uh Sergeant Vargas who's my supervisor so um he asked me to uh ask you to come out and do some fields of ridy testing real quick okay you said you had a couple drinks tonight I did yeah okay I just want to make sure I have some drinks with um my mom we have one after dinner okay yeah I just want to make sure you're safe to drive all right so we're going to walk back to uh back behind the other police cars so we're not we're on like the hill of the bridge so for the purpose of balance testing I don't want to be on the steepest part of the the bridge where do you need me to go we're just going to walk back have heels on too so I don't walk well on Heels okay we uh if you want you have the option I'll let you take them off and you can do it Barefoot um it's just some balance testing and I'm going to do I'm going to uh just check your eyes for some ticks and stuff like that and I mean as long as you didn't have too many drinks we'll get you out of here okay okay um so we're just going to walk back to between this car and the next car and like I said everything's on camera just so you're aware so go ahead and just walk back that way toward between the cars okay pulling out okay all right so we'll stop in between these two cars right here ma'am ma'am we're going to stop between these two cars I know it's still a little bit of a hill um you do you want to take your uh well actually we're going to once he moves I it's up to you well it's up to you whatever you feel more comfortable with um would you rather do it in your shoes or would you I mean I'm always comfortable out of fi so okay yeah I mean if you want to just have a seat on the curb and take your shoes off so I don't want to have you fall down or anything we'll make sure that we collect them before you can put them back on or whatever you got to do before we head out of here all right so we're going to we'll walk back towards my car a little bit and just use this clear space that's only some water that dripped off the other car me do a certain no right now at this point I'm just going to Serge can you trying to think how to kill your back just you want to just turn your back lights off you can just turn all your lights off all together sir please me ey ticks still flashing yes you got to put it you got to turn yours all the way off and can you do me another favor yeah you want to just stand with her real quick I'm going to turn mine to just the back ones all right that's better uh it's I mean it's lit well enough I don't want to I just don't want to have light shining directly in her eyes the first exercise was the horizontal gaze nagus hgn test the second exercise was the walk and turn test during the walk and turn test Ava failed to touch Heel To Toe on each step and turned improperly the final exercise was the one like stand test and Ava failed to raise her foot in the proper fashion and displayed a lack of balance so I'm going to use my smaller flashlight so I don't blind you like a just blinding myself all right do you have um can you remove your glasses yeah even if you have like significant Vision issues yeah I need to wear glasses to drive but the the glasses won't affect the test that I'm going to do so what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold my pen up and I'm going to hold I want you to follow the pen I'm going to try not to shine this directly in your eyes can you see the tip of my pen okay yes I'm going to can you is is your I know that one strain of ha it's just a bang okay so I'm going to move my pen from side to side okay when I move my pen from from side to side I want you to turn move your eyes and your eyes only don't turn your head keep your head straight pointed towards me okay mhm so just I'm going to move it from side to side I'm going to hold it Center I'm going to hold it out at one side just follow with your eyes and your eyes only understand that M [Music] okay okay got lack of smooth Pursuit just focus on the pen okay no resting the stagos I'm just making notes for my camera okay that distinct and sustain and maximum [Music] deviation like a smooth Pursuit both directions to sync and sustain at maximum deviation [Music] okay now I'm going to go upward with it okay just follow it up [Music] okay no verticle all right all right so the next test um can you light me up Sergeant your flashlight glasses or no glasses you can wear your glasses now um so that way you'll be able to see me the next test is called the one leg stand again I understand stand at the ground's a little bit on level but it's not so bad that it should hinder us from being able to do balance um so I going to do what I'm going to have you do is stand in the starting position you're going to put your arms down at your sides like they are and your heels together your feet together with your heels together at you can choose either foot that you wish you're going to raise that foot approximately 6 Ines off the ground okay you're going to keep your eye on the raised foot and you're going to count out loud 1,1 1,2 13 and so on until I tell you to stop okay again you can choose either foot I'm going to demonstrate so you see what the test is supposed to be okay so you're going to raise one foot 1001 10002 1003 1004 1005 and so on until I tell you to stop okay you understand the instructions yes sir okay you may begin whenever you're ready okay 1001 1002 13 100456 178 1009 110 1001 112 134 2015 20167 2018 2019 2020 2021 okay you can put your feet down all right the next test we're going to imagine that there's a line here I'm going to just focus on what I'm doing I'm going to demonstrate we're just going to imagine that there is a line here would you agree that this area is free of debris there's nothing you're going to trip on no sticks or stems or anything like that so you're going to put your left foot on the imaginary line and you're going to put your right foot in front of it touching Heel To Toe this is where the unevenness of the bridge is going to come into a factor so I'm you know I I'm going to put that I'm going to put that into Factor okay so you're going to keep your arms down to your side just like before and your feet will be like this you're going to take nine not 10 nine Heel To Toe steps okay okay when you reach the ninth step you're going to do you're going to turn around and walk nine steps back to your starting position okay I'm going to demonstrate I'm going to do three steps you're going to do nine okay so it's Heel To Toe one heel to toe two Heel To Toe three and then small steps and then Heel To Toe one heel to toe two Heel To Toe three do you understand those instructions yes sir all right you can begin yep all right the bridge makes it very difficult um put shoes back on yeah yeah you want to go ahead and put your shoes back on put your shoes man you just remain seated there okay okay turn these back thank you okay a dark com those coming out yeah what was I badad lot of ticks um maximum deviation she had the sinking stain to both sides um I mean you saw her balance tests that weren't terrible no would have being on the bridge to me I W more on the hgm yeah that's you surface all yep I mean hbn I mean she's definitely I think okay what do you think think she I agree I mean especially the way she was driving I tell you she came on that and how she kept it together it was actually impressive you going to do a sub for me okay all right you got documents are already yeah it's all my car okay yeah I got everything all right so again the the bridge comes into factor with the balance test but the hdn the eyeball test you you know you're significantly impaired the the tracking of your eyes when I was again talking to my camera your eyes when you're not impaired your eyes mooved fluidly and smoothly and yours were ticking and that's an indication of impairment based on her erratic driving the odor of alcohol her admission to consuming alcohol before driving and her inab ility to adequately complete the field sobriety exercises patrolman barlon placed Ava under arrest for driving Under the Influence her vehicle was impounded for a mandatory 12-hour hold under John's law she was transported to the lower Township Police Department for further processing so at this time I have to place you under arrest okay for DUI all right so it's a policy that I handcuffed you behind your back um I'm going to take you to lower you're not going to jail or anything it's not the end of the world so I have to handcuff you behind your back and I'm going to place you in the rear of my vehicle and transport you okay okay all right so if you put your palms together like your palms facing together it's okay I I understand it's you know I'm going to put this below can you raise your hands away from your rearend I I just don't want to touch you like that I'm just trying to no like I'm going to here no no no you're it's okay I just don't want to mess up your watch and I'm not trying to you know you need out of your vehicle like a like a purse pocket book your cell phone my um because your car be told your car is going to be towed it has to be towed by law um my well we can walk you up there you can show us what we can grab it for you I just don't want to mess up your Camilla bracelet or whatever now I'm trying not to bite you if you turn your hands in like put your palms together like that beautiful that'll work I'm going to double lock these so they don't tighten up on you okay okay so just hold on one second let me uh okay just trying to my glasses open all right so they're the handcuffs are double locked so they're not very tight on you but they won't tighten up if you you know when you sit back on them so just follow my sergeant up on the sidewalk what would you like out of your vehicle um I mean I just have my phone and my wallet with like my ID and stuff whatever you guys need B no whatever you need when you get when we're done processing you're going to be released someone's going to come pick you up and then if it's something you need your car is going to be towed and secured overnight you won't be able to get your car till tomorrow so obviously cell phones or so do you want this brown purse yes please and my phone if you can put it in my brown yet yes what I'm going to do and then my keys are in there but yeah well they'll the Cod company will have them for you when you go get your car tomorrow okay just slide your phone right in there all right you are your house keys or anything on your key ring for your car you it's just my okay I just wanted to make sure you don't need anything off your key car key ring all right so that you nothing else sure you need out your vehicle for tonight tomorrow morning okay all right all right no problem I'll make sure your windows go up and uh everything get secured properly like you sir um so we're going to go walk back to the back police car okay so just be careful the fuing car yeah the one with they light one in front just uh watch your step step down please I'm going to put your bag up front you don't have any Pockets or anything in your dress right no sir okay I'm not going to like search you all right than it's kind of can you uh go to the other side Sergeant so I can hand you the seat belt please those new cars will be so much nicer it'll be so much better okay I'll be in you okay yes sure all right sure I'll pull up a little closer to you thank you sir all right I'll say again what exactly am I get uh right now just DUI just uh suspicion of DUI 1219 fora County all right I have one female on board 1095 I'll be in route to the station starting is 223 seat was checked MBR rolling body wor camera is rolling as well on for 94 to 208 are you 19 complex now 10 Sor that's okay yeah I just I'm going to print in here rather than handr write so I just wanted to make sure you would be here to sit with her or whatever 75 County toen [Music] okay we're going to undo the seat belt I'm going to try and not let it fly and smack you in the face I'm sure and I'm want to come around to your side at the lower Township Police Department Ava was read the standard statement from motor vehicle operators and agreed to submit breath samples for testing her Alco test results indicated a back of 0.19% which was more than double the legal limit of 0.08% after the officers were finished with their paperwork a eventually released to her feather after he signed the potential Sherl warning form on aa's behalf she was issued the following summonses operating Under the Influence reckless driving speed and failure to maintain Lane all right you can step out we're going to walk around the front of the car cuz we're kind of close to a barrier used to have go to that door follow right I'm going to go straight through all right I'm going to take those handcuffs off you and then you're going to have I'm going to have you have a seat on that blue bench okay yeah firm did I give you my ending stand by one I got to go back out my vehicle yeah you can have a seat on the on the blue b it is policy everything's on camera in here it is policy that uh you just lay your wrist in there but I would put it down here so it's in the small oh all right oh sure whatever is more comfortable for you the smaller part's usually more comfortable yeah I'm going to go dump all my stuff and print it oh yeah I need to remove your Smartwatch and your roll I'm sorry yeah I'm just going to set all this in your vehicle I'm going to grab your uh cell phone out of your purse it'll just be in my car until the conclusion of the testing real quick you yeah right so I've only done one just I'll yeah I'll be in here to help remind me throw that yeah so I'm going to just push this well I always do just because sometimes you push the button and it throws an error so we'll get ahead of the game yep so basically how this works is Officer arm Rod is going to observe you make sure you don't stick anything in your mouth um belch vomit or uh burp or yeah Bel vomit or spit okay um for the next 20 minutes again everything's on camera um so I usually go by that clock on the computer bill yeah and then uh so for you I mean you can push time like do the function time thing and then uh after 20 minutes we're going to get we're going to read you some things give you the opportunity to provide breast samples and we'll start I'll bring your uh cell phone back in and you can make a call to whoever you need to make a call to to get you out of here like I said you're not going to jail it's not the end of the world this the penalty these for DUI have significantly reduced over the last several years but you know you just want to make sure you're safe and everyone else is okay thank you yep I'll be right back so for next 20 minutes got spit clearing 94 County my ending mileage was 227 I will be off radio be available at 221 all right so I'm placing her self credit and Smartwatch on the dash of my car I'm going to end this recording and I will be printing the summons for 450 how you doing how's it going um so she was stopped by my sergeant uh bill barcas um she was doing 68 on Town Bank Road he spun around by the time he stopped her she was already burning up the bridge he lit her up he hit the Curve she's a 1 n um so and she's been I got to tell you aside from the DUI she's been the most polite respectful responsible person that I've ever placed under arrest you know yes sir no sir like you did a good job you know raising a good girl at least that way um you know what I mean it's it's a learning experience it sucks um I will say I already called her um Murphy has significantly reduced the penalties for DUIs so since she has a job and everything they'll more than likely just give her an interlock I can't promise you anything but you know they'll be fines and whatever else but she probably will not lose her license because of the fact that she has a job and everything else so um I explained to your wife I don't know if she already so so this is um for a potential liability for John's law so she's not allowed to drive again until like 11:30 in the morning it's 12 hours from the time that she was arrested um her car was towed I got to find out where who towed it I I'll find out when I go back in get her um so you just I need you to sign just saying that you're not going to allow her to drive for a minimum of 12 hours that's all this is and uh if you want to read it you can I'll give you a copy if you want once you sign it and then uh I'll bring her out and just turn her over to your custody and um like I said she's been awesome you I I I feel terrible that we had to do this but you know she was going to hurt herself or someone else so that's why she's wound up here all right all right like I said long and a short of it this is all basically just um your I'm telling you not to let her drive because she's been charged with you know a DUI so um I just need you to sign there and date and time on that line please to it's the 10th now is it 10 10th now yep and it's 1:18 a.m. like I said I'll burn you a copy if you want all right yeah that's fine I will be right back out with her thank you EXC me my body camera is active kind know it I'm just letting you know all right so your license registration and insurance are all together here okay here's your watch I'm going to put that on your dad is not being anywhere he what you thought he was going to be he's he's pretty mow now and I I even put in a good word for you I said you know out of all the people that I've ever had in here you're the most polite and respectable person the whole time yeah there's your purse your phone I just put in there thank you sir um so there's your license registration Insurance okay um this is a copy of the alatest report showing you were 0.19 you were a little over twice the legal limit okay um this is a copy of the uh potential liability form that your dad signed I'm going to give that back to him and then these are your summons is like I said Reckless fair to maintain Lan DUI and speeding speeding okay all right so we're going to walk out this way I give these to you too thank you sir mhm follow him we're going to go left at this intersection here and go straight through and left when we get to this cor records indicate that on October 3rd 2023 AA was found guilty of operating under the influence as a result of being found guilty Ava's license was revoked for 4 months and she had to use an ignition in herlock device for 9 months spend 12 hours at an intoxicated driver resource center and pay a total of $690 in fines the other three citations were dismissed as part of a plea agreement open that door straight out all right thank you sir good luck with everything guys thank you sir Y and recording