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Swerving across lanes and speeding excessively while headed northbound on Highway 12 in the vicinity of Patent Drive. She began pursuing the vehicle and initiated a traffic stop prior to the route 176 overpassments. As she activated her emergency lights, she observed the driver throw a can out of the vehiclements. The driver eventually stopped after making a right turn onto Pine Street. Where are you heading to? Um Raleigh. Raleigh. Where you coming from? I'm coming from Lake Zurich. From Lake Zurich. Okay. Why isn't she belted in? Yeah. No, she's not. [Music] Okay. All right. Just go ahead and stay there. Do you have an ID? Yes. Can I? Yeah, absolutely. Hi. [Music] [Music] Did you throw a can out the window? Okay. Cuz when I was behind you, looked like there was a can out the window. I'm stopping you because you were swerving all over the road. Okay. No, I'm telling you, I'm stopping you because you were swerving all over the road and it's on my dash cam video. So, okay. Not here to debate with you. Okay. 8121 a file. Officer Zorbas made contact with the driver who was identified as Lucia de Ltorments. There were two children in the backseat of the pickup truck and they were not wearing seat belts. Lucy was asked for her license, but she only provided her Illinois state ID card since her license was revoked due to a prior DUI. As she was speaking with Lucia, she detected the odor of alcohol and observed indicators of impairment. After officers Robert Pet and Jonathan Finn arrived on scene to assist, officer Zorbas asked Lucia to exit the vehicle and perform field sobriety exercises. [Music] Have you had anything to drink tonight? Okay. 8195. [Music] What's that? I'm coming from Lake. I came to pick up my baby daddy over there. Okay. We're not in Lake Zurich, though. You know what town we're in? No, I wasn't in Lake Zurich. Do you know what town you're in right now? Yes. What town are we in? Um, okay. [Music] Go ahead. Never step out of the vehicle. My window's um you open it. You can't open my door. No, I'm going to have you step out of the vehicle. Step out of the Step out of the vehicle. Why? Step out of the vehicle or we'll pull you out. I'm asking you once. I'm going to tell you once and then we'll force you out. Okay. Come back here. I have my kids in there. I know you have your kids there. Get your hands out of your pockets. Okay. How much have you had to drink tonight? Nothing. Do you have blood on your mouth? Yeah, somebody my baby daddy hit me. Okay. Yes, he hit me. Yeah, you're you've got Do I I just couldn't resist and I just Can I Can I see like Do you have any cuts inside your mouth or anything? I don't know. I really don't know. I just took off. I just took off. I don't I So, you need to be honest whether or not you were drinking. Okay, we'll deal with the I just was fighting with my my partner and he he told me to pick him up and I came to pick him up. Suspended. Okay. I came to pick him up and he just he hit me. Okay. You were swerving so badly on the road that I thought you were going to drive off the road and and drive into a cement barrier. I was just so You were off into the shoulder is what I made me notice you. Okay. address on the 28th. All right. So, have you ingested any kind of substance, any drugs or anything? Nothing. Okay. So, I'm going to run you through fields cuz based on your driving is very poor driving. You're you're slurring your speech. I know. I know. I know. I was just fighting with my my partner and I didn't realize that he I have blood. Yeah, you've got some blood on your mouth. Can you hold on a second? Can you stand by with me? I'm going to turn off my light and I just want to check something. Oh, is I couldn't see you. Pak. I'm just You live with your parents or Yeah. Yeah, I know. How are you? Can you send uh an officer over to that address? She's a piece of Yeah, she's just not buckled in. And I'm not sure if the other child's buckled in. She wasn't. When I stopped you and the window came, you got to stop arguing with me. And and you rolled the window down. She stood up immediately. She has no seat belt on. Okay. She does. All right. I'm going to run you through fields. All right. Cuz I think you're impaired. All right. Did you report the domestic to police? I didn't until I got home. You were going to do it when you got home? Well, I mean, we already have problems, you know, like he's my baby daddy. He's a father of my kids. It doesn't give them a right to hit you, though. Parents. Yeah. My dad. Would they be able to come get the kids if they need to? Okay. All right. Please. Um, hold just she she had dried blood on her mouth, too. She said her the father of her kids just hit her in the mouth. So, but I'm going to run her through fields. All right. So, here, come stand in front of me. Yes. Okay. The first field sobriety exercise was the horizontal gaze estabus HGN testments. During the HGN test, officer Zorbas observed the lack of smooth pursuit and distinct sustained nestagmas at maximum deviation and the onset of nestagmus prior to 45°. After some hesitation, she refused to complete any additional field sobriety exercises. I'm just going to do a couple of tests. So, first thing I'm going to have you do first, have you ever been arrested for DUI? It says you're revoked. What are you revoked for? Yes, I am for a DUI. For a DUI. How old are you? I'm 29. 29. Okay. So, you've been going you've gone through these before and I failed and I failed because I'm not like really I really like even like when I go to like children I'm not even like balanced. Okay. Well, just take your hands out of your pockets. Keep your feet together and just put your hands to your side. Okay. So, you're just going to follow this pen. You're going to keep your head straight facing me. You're going to follow this tip of the pen and you're just going to move your eyes. It's going to be repetitive, but just keep following the tip of the pen. You got to look up at it, though. You're looking down here. Is this like mandatory? Do I have to do fields? I'm offering you an opportunity to show me that you're not impaired because you're seeing I just want my kids to go. Can you please just give my kids? Yeah, we're going to make sure your kids are safe. Absolutely. Okay. All right. So, watch the top of the pen and just follow with your eyes. [Applause] You're like, I was so worried about my kids. I'm sorry. It's fine. I'm sorry. Okay, we can do this again. I'm sorry. I'm Your kids right now are safer than they were 5 minutes ago. Okay. And they're going to continue to be as safe as possible. Okay. In this situation, I'm just like really like Okay. Are you going to like do I have blood? Like they said that, but you do. So, you have blood on your mouth and a little in your nose. Okay. So, we're going to deal with that, but we also have to deal with the first situation here. Okay. So, do are do you want to do fields or not? Cuz I'm not going to force you. I'm not going to go back and forth. Okay. Okay. All right. So, let's try again. Why is it moving my truck? He's just moving it and you're warming up it. Keeping it warm. Keep the eyes. No, that's not He's keeping it warm. Why is it Listen to me right now. Okay. Your kids are in the car. We are protecting them. We are here for their safety and everybody else is on the road. What he's doing is turning your vehicle on cuz it's 40° out and he's keeping your children warm. Do you understand? Okay, let's continue. [Music] Okay, we're going to do one more [Music] pass. cuz my head's first bubbling. Huh? I was like, cuz my head is just bubbling. I'm just worried about my kids. Well, if you were worried about your kids, I I I believe you are worried about your kids, but you also should not be driving in in the condition you're in, whether it's weird or upset. You know what I mean? Yeah. Understandable. Um, [Music] okay. Just go ahead and stand right here for me. Okay. Go ahead and stand. You got to do just do it and process everything. I Well, do you I really don't want to make it. No. No. Lucia, do you want to do fields or not? I do, but I cannot make it. I was just trying to make it right now. Like I said, there's Okay. So, but it makes it better. Nothing. There's nothing for me to make it better. No. Okay. So, there's nothing in the situation. So, okay. So let's just get over and let's just get done. Okay. Do you want to do things? No. Okay. Based on her erratic driving, her indicators of impairment and her inability to adequately perform the field sobriety exercises. Officers Orbus placed Lucia under arrest for driving under the influencements. Her brother was called to come to the scene and take responsibility for her two children. She was handcuffed, placed in the patrol car, and transported to the Wakanda Police Department for further processing. A search of her vehicle incident to arrest later yielded an open can of White Claw. You're under arrest for DUI. We're going to continue the investigation at the PD. Okay. 8195. She's in custody for 55. Very small. [Music] Where are your parents? Do you have a phone number for your mom or dad? Do you have a phone number for your mom or dad? Yes, I do. What is it? [Music] Please, I'm trying to do what I can for your kids here. Okay. So, what's the phone number? Oh my god. Move your feet apart. Move your feet. Stand up. I'm sorry. I'm Move your feet apart. Stand up. Move your feet apart. Move your feet apart. Ma'am. Oh my god. Ma'am, don't play games. I'm not going to have you dropping down to the ground. Okay. God station. Do not make this harder than it used to be. Because my kids are in the car. Should thought about that, [Music] Logan. Okay. [Music] I called that number there already. They're okay. Good. Thank you. [Music] I want to see the It's not. Huh? It's not. Neither one of them are buckled up. No. So, I was going to I got to ask what we're going to We need to do. Uh yeah, they either need to I don't I don't think calling the dad right now, considering she had a bloody nose and bloody mouth is a good idea. Hello. What the voicemail? Hi honey. [Music] Dude, I when I was got behind her, she threw a can out the window. No. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Let's see. Um, it's two. Um, can you call from your phone? Cuz I called from my phone and they're not answering. Um uh just call mom. Say Siri or something. Siri, call mom. Is that right number? Hello. Yeah. Yeah, I heard. Is there a You want me to type a number in here or a name? Yeah, it's um um right there. Right there. Uh uh Keep going down down down. It's my mom. It's called Ma Ma. Well, call Victor. Victor. Victor. Who's Victor? My brother. Okay. Is he going to be able to pick up the kids? Yeah. [Music] They pulled me over. They pulled me over. Hey, Victor. This is off. This is Sergeant Finley with Wakanda Police. Wakanda. She we were trying to get her to call one of her parents maybe to pick up her kids. Uh she said to call you well. We're in Wakanda right now off Route 12. Are you able to come pick up the kids? Call my mom. Tell my dad. Well, right now we're on Route 12 in Pine Street. Pine Street. Pine Street. Route 12. It's always just north of 176. Yes. Do you was it just past the bridge? Yeah, just past the bridge. The first after going to was it 59? No, not yet. No, it's it's it's the first uh right after 176. After you go over 176 if you're coming from the south. Uh but where Round Lake. Round Lake. Okay. So, you're coming down 12. So, you would uh turn south and then um you'd come you'd go to 176, make a U-turn, get back on 12, and then come up and uh you you'll see the lights. Um I have the girls. I have the girls. What are they doing? Sounds good. Thank you. Why they keep looking in my the trunk? Like my kids are fine. They're sleeping. He's going to come to Okay, but why they keep going in my trunk? Like my kids are going to make sure your kids are my kids be crying. They're sleeping. So they're not sleeping. One is sleeping, but your oldest one isn't. So Victor's going to come pick up the kids and that's okay with my brother. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Oh my god. Please stop. Don't do this to my Don't do this to my kids. for you. Don't do it to my kid. Don't do that to my kids. We're going to It's It's going to be about 15 20 minutes before Victor um is able to get here. Yeah, but don't do it to my kids. Don't do what? Dude, she's sleeping. Listen, they're not sleeping. Okay. She's thinking of a Barbie's name. Okay. That's why we keep going in there to make sure that they're not watching this. All right. So, I got to ask you is so since your brother's a little bit away, can we get permission to relocate your truck so that we could keep the kids in their car seats and bring them we're bring them to the station where we're all going so we're off the highway and your brother can meet us there. We're not in the highway. This is a turn right off. But we're not in the highway. Okay. But this is an exit. This is an exit right off the highway though. This is not an exit. This This isn't Okay. Okay. All right. I'm just trying to relocate if that's all right with you. Are you okay with that? I'm not going to No, just stay here. Okay. Stay until my brother gets here. Until my brother gets here and kids are going to be here by yourself by Okay. Until my brother gets here and get my kids. Then we're we're good to go. Oh [ __ ] 8121 8121 I'll be 1101 post to one adult female be getting mad when you're ready. Hi. What's going on? 32877. What's that? Did you ask what's going on? Yeah. I said, "What's going on? Why you guys I Why are we What? Why you guys move? You're moving. You're okay. We're moving right here. I'm moving you from here because we're going I know exactly. My My brother's coming from my girls, right? Please don't be rude to me. They're waiting for a family member." Yes. My brother. Yeah. So, there's a family member. Okay. So, you're taking me away, but can we not wait till my brother gets here? No, we cannot. Why are you doing that? Please, you can I get permission that it's for him to save to say that him that it's coming for my girls only if it's a second. But why can't you just do me that favor? Please, are you doing that? Really? I'm sorry. What? Can you just wait until my brother gets here? No, I can't. How How do I give a permission for them to give him that he's okay to take my girls? I'm sorry. What? How is it a permission to give my girls? Who Who would you like? Here's the thing, Lucy, is that if we don't have a family member come get them, our alternate solution is to call DCFS and have them take them into protective custody. Is that what you would like for us to do? I'm not saying that. My brother's coming right now. Yes. I don't know who's coming. You spoke with the sergeant and whoever you told him to have come get the children. That's who he's having. So, I couldn't wait till he got there to get him. How was I knowing that? I was like, "Okay, you're under arrest for DUI. You would not be having a conversation with him. his job. We are removing you from the situation and he's going to come and get the children. It's going to the officers. Okay? You don't need to be there to facilitate that. You're not in any condition to facilitate that. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I don't think it's in the back. I know. It's the most annoying thing. I don't know what it is. I don't normally You need to light them up, but I I'm going to secure it at some point because I can't Oh my god. I just wanted to make sure that Okay, so if I just call a stranger, you guys are okay with them to pick them up? No, of course not. We wouldn't let them go with the stranger. So why would you wait till I got there to like to like verify that it's fine for them to take my kids? Very good at verifying that somebody is who they say they are. Did you not provide them the phone number for Well, it wasn't enough. It wasn't enough. But like you guys didn't even let me call another person and another person. It was just like that. They have they have Okay. Okay. Mom. Okay. I'm not trying to They have Lake County Sheriff. Okay. Okay. Okay. So that's how they're understand. I understand. I understand. Yes. I understand. streets. Yes. [Music] My my kids. You guys could have waited until I seen somebody pick up my kids. That's not That was not against the rule. That was not against the rule for me to please have somebody. What the [ __ ] Cuz somebody could take my kids out of nowhere. You put your kids at severe risk by Okay, then. Yes. Okay. All right. I'm not going to sit here and listen to you worry about how they get home. We're going to ensure that they are safe. Are you sure that Okay. Yeah. And I have a blue nose. I have a blue nose. [Music] I didn't even realize I had a blue nose. Now you guys are going to drug test me. 32879. 32879. My opinion is so like garlic wings. My mouth smells like garlic. velopments at the Walk on a Police apartment. Lucia was read the warning to motorist form, but she refused to provide breath samples. [Music] Okay, go ahead and exit. Watch the ST forward. Place the wall on your room. Face the wall. Okay, I'm going to take your left arm out of your cuff, place your hand on the wall above your head, and leave it there until I tell you otherwise. Do you understand? Do you understand? Yes, ma'am. [Music] on on the wall here. There you go. Same thing with your right. Place it on the wall above your head. Leave it there until I tell you otherwise. Move your feet [Music] apart. Move your feet apart. Okay, sit down on the bench. Go ahead and face in actually. Well, you can sit down, but I I just want to give you another opportunity to do fields. Do you want to do them? Okay. Do you want to provide a breath sample to show that you're sober? Okay. Are you left-handed or right-handed? All right. Okay. Give me your left wrist. That's your still bleeding. No, it wasn't bleeding when I when I first saw you. It was just dried dried blood. Do you want me to get something to wipe it off of? No. Do you want to see rescue? Subsequent to an arrest for driving while under the influence of alcohol, other drugs or intoxing compounds, or any combination thereof, DUI, or section 11-41, leaving the scene of a fatal or personal injury accident, you are hereby notified that as provided in section 11-500 of the Illinois vehicle code, you are a first offender unless within the last 5 years of this arrest for DUI or leaving the scene, you have had a previous conviction or court assigned supervision for DUI or similar provision of a local ordinance or conviction in any other state for DUI. or a similar offense again where the cause of action is the same or substantially similar to the Illinois vehicle code or a driver's license suspension revocation for violating section 11-501.1 of the Illinois vehicle code except in cases where you submit to a chemical test disclosing alcohol concentration of 08 or more or any amount of a drug substance or intoxing compound resulting from the unlawful use or consumption of cannabis is list in the cannabis control act for DUI arrest prior to 729 2016 or a delta 9 THC concentration of either 5 nanogs or more of whole blood or 10 nanogs or more of other bodily substance for a DUI arrest on or after 729 2016. A controlled substance is listed in the Illinois Controlled Substances Act. An intoxing compound is listed in the use of Intoxing Compounds Act or methamphetamine is listed in the Methamine Control and Community Protection Act and were subsequently found not guilty of the associated associated DUI charge. Considering the bailed, you are warned. If you refuse or fail to complete all chemical tests requested, and if you are a first offender, your driving privileges will be suspended for a minimum of 12 months. Or if you are not a first offender, your driving privileges will be suspended for a minimum of 3 years. Or if you were involved in a motor vehicle accident that caused personal injury or death to another, your driving privileges will be revoked for a minimum of 12 months. Personal injury means a type A injury that requires immediate professional attention in doctor's office or medical facility, including severely bleeding wounds, distorted extremities, and injuries that require the injured party to be carried from the scene. daily. If you submit to a chemical test disposing alcohol concentration 0.08 or more, a delta 9 THC concentration either 5 nanogs or more of whole blood or 10 nanogs or more of other bodily substance or any amount of controlled substance is listed in the Illinois controlled substance act. An intoxicating compound is listed in the use of intoxing compounds act or methamphetamine is listed in the methamphetamine control and community protection act. And if you are a first offender, your driving privilege will be suspended for a minimum of one year. You're further warned that if you are a commercial driver's license CDL holder, are you a CDL holder? No. Okay. Are you under the age of 21? No. And are you a school bus driver? No. Okay. [Music] Can I call my brother? Yeah, I'll let you make a phone call. Okay. Okay. Thank you. [Music] [Music] Your brother's told your brother's pick. Yeah. I think he did. Victor. What? Victor. Victory. Come on. Okay, I'm just going to have you go ahead and sign here. And that's just saying that I read you the warrant with the warning to motorist and that I'm providing you a copy of it. Okay. Just right here. [Applause] Were you born in Illinois? Lucia, were you born in Illinois? [Music] [Applause] I don't know what you 125. [Music] There's very few of them I remember. [Music] [Music] Did the truck get home? Yes. Isn't it 36 hours for the third? Uh, yeah, I believe so. Did he didn't say Mike was already He didn't say Mike's was already there. What did he Okay. Okay. [Music] Thank you, officer. And everybody pick up my kids. Absolutely. We just want to make sure they get home safe. We want to make sure you're safe as well. Is my nose bleeding? It It's not here. I'll wait. I mean, it's weird. It says Kleenex. They don't look like Kleenex, but they are. 315. Oh my god, they're thick as [ __ ] I know. Thank you. So, my kids got Yes. I want I don't care about me. I really don't care about myself. My girls. That's my phone. Your girls are adorable. That's my phone. That's That's hers. That's his phone. That's my phone. That's his He's answering his own phone. My phone. It No, I just heard him say that's my phone. Your phone is here. He's not answering your phone. Your phone is right back here. Okay. We would have no reason to answer your phone. Cuz I thought I would not disturb it this time. I just want to All right. So, get my license back in a few. Huh? I was about to get my license back cuz your last DUI was in 2017, right? Yes. That was a [ __ ] ice cold. I don't even know why. So, I mean, obviously, I've offered you fields multiple times. You said you don't want to do them, and that's fine. Um, so in 303, hold on one second. You didn't get data in Okay, I'll get them. In 10 minutes, I'm going to offer you the opportunity to provide a breath sample. Okay. And you can at the time let me know whether or not you're going to or not. Okay? M. So, just keep in mind for somebody with prior DUIs, that means you'll Well, you're already revoked, so I know. But that'll mean Yeah, I know. It'll continue to be revoked. I know. Okay. Is your vehicle registered to you? No, it's not. Okay. No, it's to her father. Okay. [Applause] Okay. It was mentioned that she already had a prior DUI from 2017. Officer Zorba spoke with the assistant state's attorney and Lucia was subsequently charged with the following DUI third or subsequent ti 5 LC 5 and 581 a day. Belgravated DUI while suspended or reveal as 575 and1 to G causing a child to be in danger to seven of LCS CT120C 5 letsu two countsing circumstances that injure a child 720 LC's 51 to C52 counts 8 625 ILC 244 two counts or transfer possession of open alcohol by driver 625 ILC's fifth 115D2 motor vehicle 415 LCS on 55 improper traffic lane usage 625 LCC 5179 [Music] What do you mean? Why am I asking? Cuz they were passengers in your vehicle. You're impaired. And they weren't buckled in. They were buckled in. Okay, I'm not going to argue with you. Neither of them were. It's on camera. Your children weren't buckled in. They were. You made sure you buckled yourself in, but your children were not. Neither of them. They were buckled in. I should have just made you. It's the first thing I looked at. So, what's