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Around 12:20 a.m. on January 19, 2025. Officer Forsenito Genti with the Westfield Police Department were conducting an unrelated traffic stops in the area of West North Avenue in Clark Street when they observed a 2017 Jeep driving in the shoulderments. He activated his emergency lights and initiated a traffic stop on Park's Roadments. Sergeant Diedo instructed the vehicle to stop and the driver eventually stopped after he bangs his fist on the hood of her carments. As he was speaking with Dawn, Sergeant Diata detected the odor of alcohol. Dawn told him that she was coming from the Riverside in a bar in Cranford. She admitted to consuming alcohol earlier that evening. Based on his suspicion of impairment, she was asked to exit the vehicle and perform field sobriety exercises after officers Swerski and Sharettz arrived on scene to assist. He's telling me, but it doesn't come up on here. 400 put us out with another vehicle. Came to the rear end of us. We'll get you a plate in a minute. Can I see your license, registration, insurance, please, for your car in park? Where is he? Copy. You were in the right lane. Then you came up pretty quick. You almost ran into the back of me. I don't know where I'm going. Yeah. Did you have anything to drink tonight? I did. You did? I kind of could smell it. 30 central 400 on 313 with me. Car is in park. Yes. Where is he? Come on. Come on. Come on. Did I see your insurance card? Did I kick you? All right. Can you step out of the car for a minute for a minute? I'll head over. Step out of the car. [Music] Copy. Your car's in park, right? Just go over here to the curb line, please. Right over here on the sidewalk. Johnny, you want to do this for you? Come over here, please. Speak with us. Come over here. Want to sign off here? Stay right there. 400. 400. Um, where were you coming from? Riverside. Riverside. Yeah. Okay. Okay. How many drinks did you have? The first exercise was the recitation of the alphabet from B to W. Despite being a teacher, Dawn was unable to do so as instructed. The second exercise was the walk and turn test. During the walk and turn test, Dawn failed to touch heel to toe on each step and failed to keep her arms at her sides. The third exercise was the one leg stand test and Dawn failed to raise her foot in the proper fashion while putting her foot down before the test was complete. Exercise was the horizontal gaze nestagmus HGN testments. During the HGN test, Officer Schwiderski observed the lack of smooth pursuit, distinct and sustained nestagmas at maximum deviation, and the onset of nstagmus prior to 45°. Okay, you just had that recently. Could you recite the alphabet from B to Y? Oh my god, I'm a teacher. This is terrible. Okay, could you put your hands out of your pockets still? Thank you. Could you recite the alphabet from B to Y? B to Y. Oh my god. Alphabet. Yeah. From B to Y. Okay. Do you have any uh Can you do it or No, I'm just I'm thinking now I'm nervous. No, relax. You're making me nervous. Okay, I'll stand back then. Beat a Y. Yeah, Beta Y. The alphabet. Can you recite it? A B C D F G H Oh, I can't hear you. What? Oh my god. I'm a teacher. Okay. Do you have any injuries or any will prevent you from doing a test or anything? No. Any deformities or anything like that? What's that? You you sprain your knee or drop foot? Co vaccine. Okay. Can you walk normally with that? Okay. All right. Just stand still. Put your feet together. Okay. Put your feet together. Put your arms out your side. Okay. Pretend there's imaginary line in front of you. All right. Ma'am, you looking at me? Just pay attention to me. Pretend there's imaginary line in front of you. All right. Put your hands out your pocket. Put your left foot in front of you. Your left foot. Okay. Put your left foot on the line. Okay. You hear me? And then place your right foot ahead of your left foot where the where the heel of your right foot is touching the toe of your left foot. So bad. Okay. Can you do this? Can you listen? Can you focus here? Put your left foot foot here on the line. Imaginary line in front of you. And place your right foot ahead of your left foot and maintain this position until otherwise. Could you do could you line up your feet like this? Probably not with my ankle. Okay. Okay. So, when I tell you to begin, just watch. Okay. When I tell you to begin, okay, you're going to take nine heel totoe steps on the line. Okay, I'm going to demonstrate. Just watch. Okay, do not start until I tell you to do so. You're going to take nine heel to toe stop steps, please. Okay, can you just stand still? Okay. 1 2 3 4 5 six. I'm going to do six, but you're going to do nine. Okay. And then when you're on your ninth step, you're going to take a series of small steps. Okay? You're going to walk nine to heel toe back down. Okay? One 2 3 four five six. I'm going to do six, but you're going to do nine. Okay? When you're doing 90 heel toe steps, okay, I want you to look at your feet, put your arms at your side, count each step out loud, like one, two, three, and make sure touch heel to toe. Okay. Do I need to demonstrate again? Yeah. Okay. No, you got it. So, just remember nine heel to toe steps down imaginary line. You're going to take turn small series steps and you're going to walk back. Nine heel to toe steps. Have your arms at your side. Okay? Count each step out loud. We'll try to do the best you can. Okay? And then you stop until you have completed the test. You understand? Do you understand these instructions? Okay? You may proceed. [Applause] That's really okay. Go run back. That's my ankle. Okay, that's fine. You got to do nine packs now. Okay. All right. All right. One one more test. Okay. All right. Put your feet and your arms together. Okay. Maintain that position. Okay. Until told otherwise. All right. I have a chopped foot. Okay. So, you you probably want to use your other foot to use to do this test. Okay. I want you to put your free tail, arms at your side, and I want you to raise one leg approximately 6 in off the ground. Foot straight and keep it 6 in off the ground like this. Okay? And you're going to count out loud like 1 1000 200 3 100 4 100 5 100 6 100 and I'm going to tell you to stop. Okay? All right. So, you have any questions before you start this test or no? No. Okay. So, you're going to keep your legs together. Fiona. We're going to raise one six inches off the ground. Foot pointed out. I'm going to fall. Keep your legs straight. Look at the elevated foot. You're going to count out loud. 1 10 1 10 1 10 1 100 1 2 1 10 100 3 100 4 You have a watch. 30 seconds. Beautiful. I'm going to You have any other questions or anything? No. My ankle. So, you Okay. 30 seconds. Can you try? Is it dropped foot? I have dropped foot. Okay. Take all this consideration. Two. I don't know. You want to start again? No. That was out. That's the best I can do with that like dislike. Okay. Count out loud. All right. Ready? Do 30 seconds. One. Okay. All right. Yeah, I'm going do that now. All right. Put your Put your feet together, arms out your side. Okay. See, I want you to follow this tip with your eyes only. With your eyes only. Okay. Do not move your head. Keep your head straight. Okay. With your eyes only. You're going to follow the tip of my pen right here. Okay. [Music] there. You can turn aroundments based on her erratic driving, the odor of alcohol, and her inability to satisfactorily complete the field sobriety exercises. Officer Schwiderski placed Dawn under arrest for driving under the influence. Dawn's vehicle was impounded for a 12-hour hold according to J's lawments. Officer Schwiderski and Charfetts transported Dawn back to the Westfield Police Department for further processing. Bring hands behind your back. Bring hands behind your back. Now, I just want to let you know we did perform a motor vehicle stop in front of you. You almost ran into the back of my patrol vehicle and then you stopped. You were not in a lane. You failed to maintain lane coming approaching our vehicle. We were signaling for you to stop multiple times. You weren't seeing us or registering it. So, all right. Listen, you're under arrest for driving under influence of alcohol and or narcotics. Okay, let's just give you narcotics. Alcohol and or narcotics. I don't know what you're on, but it's okay. Okay. I say either or. All right. How about me? Ma'am, do you need anything out of the car? Purse, phone, anything like that? Do you need anything out of the car, ma'am? Or no? Everything. Everything. What's inside? My car's phone. Okay. You have a phone or a wallet inside or Everything. Everything. Okay. I get it. No, I hear you. Do you have anything in your pockets or anything? Anything? Weapons or anything? No, nothing. No, that's fine. [Music] All right, just come over here. Let's go over here. Sit down and watch your stuff. Just stand right there for a sec. Just relax. Just relax. Relax. Relax. What is happening? You don't have anything in your pockets or anything? But what is happening? Now you're just going to go to you're going to go to our headquarters. It's like a traffic summons for driving on their ambulance. That's it. Okay. As teacher. Yeah. Of course. It doesn't matter what you do for a living. You're you're on the rescue. Yeah. But what is going to happen? One of your keys are in here for your car. You want to see anything else? Wallet. I got your phone. I throw your phone in here. I'm just going to take your keys out cuz we have to tow your vehicle. Tow my vehicle. We have to tow your vehicle. We'll explain everything once we get inside. Okay. Okay. You got to grab a seat inside. Okay. I'm just grabbing your keys out. What is happening? Please tell me what's happening. Can you tell me what's happening? You're not going to tell me. Wait, hold on. Hold on. All right. Just sit tight. Okay. Are you going to tell me what's happening? We'll tell you in a minute. Okay. When? We will in a sec. Okay. We'll explain everything when we get to headquarters. Okay. Registration, license, and insurance card. Is it in her purse right here? Request that. Did she give it to you or no? For what? Her credentials. They should give it to you. No. Did you ask for it? No. Just asked for like straight street. You say she was She was coming from uh Frankfurt. We had the bar over there. What are you trying to What are you coming from? All right. You going to grab You going to sit. Who's coming in? Okay. [Music] was click on a bar in Cranford. Yeah, I I forgot the name. Oh, I thought you meant other credentials. No, no, she No, I want to know for violations. Did you give it? So, maintain lane coming up here. Can I explain to her again? You guys stop and she stopped behind you. You asked for registration insurance. She didn't give it to you. Oh, she did. That's all I wanted to know. Okay. Gotcha. Thanks. 400 left delta 2 be transporting one be following four vehicle for John. We have it. Am I going to lose my job? No, you won't. My boyfriend's a firefighter. I'm a teacher. I'm going to lose my job. Am I going to lose my job? Tell me the truth. Morning, Central. [Music] Go ahead. I'm a teacher. Am I going to lose my job? No one's going to talk to me and tell me if I'm going to lose my job. You want some Riverside? [Music] [Music] Oh my god. Oh my god. [ __ ] kill me right now. [Music] Headquarters end the starting mileage was 979. [Music] This hurts my hand. 035. My wrist hurting. I just want to go home. help her outments. Dawn was read the standard statement for motor vehicle operators, but she refused to submit breath samples after the officers finished processing herments. She eventually released to a sober adult pending her court appearance after he signed the potential liability warning form on Dawn's behalf. Officer Schwiderski issued Dawn the following citations. operating under the influence. Refusal to submit to chemical testments, consent to take samples of breath, reckless driving, careless drivingments, failure to yield driveway to emergency vehicles, and traffic on marked lanes. My wrists are hurting. You're going to be fine. Relax. My wrists are hurting. Okay, we're going to take it off in a second. All right, just walk that way. Okay. Watch your step. You're going to [ __ ] kill me. Watch your stuff.