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I'm going to pull this car. >> On October 22nd, 2023, around 3:11 a.m., Officer Joshua Rodriguez with the Elmwood Park Police Department responded to a complaint of a possibly intoxicated driver in the area of River Drive and Market Street. Shortly afterwards, he observed a Y2010 Chrysler van driving at a slow rate of speed and swerving between lanes while headed southbound on River Drive. He activated his emergency lights to initiate a traffic stop and the driver pulled over near the intersection of River Drive and Locust Street. >> To this left right here, listen to me. Listen to me. Pay attention. You know you're intoxicated, correct? Right. Why are you operating a motor vehicle? Uh, no one will do better. Step out of the vehicle, man. Put your sandals on. Put your sandals on. Put the car in park. Park. Nope. That's in reverse. Park. Pull it up. All the way up. Up. Put it up. Officer Rodriguez initiated contact with the driver of the Chrysler who was later identified as Jenny Amador Nicolas. As he was speaking with Jenny, he detected the odor of alcohol and observed other indicators of impairment. After Sergeant Christopher Finn arrived on scene to assist, officer Rodriguez moved Jenny's car to a safe location inside a gravel lot so that they were not blocking traffic. The officers asked her where she was coming from and she eventually admitted to coming from a bar in Garfield. She also admitted to consuming White Claws earlier that evening. >> Come here. Put your sandals off. [Applause] Got to sit in the back of my car and I'm going to move this car. Come on. Actually, you're going to sit right here. I'm going to open this back door cuz I'm going to move this car for you. Take a seat right there. Take a seat right there. Wait, somebody else comes over here. See, we can move this car. Come here real quick. Come here real quick. Watch your stop. Hey, SGE. I'm going just move this car into this lot right here. Come on. Stay right here. Stay right here. Just over here. All right. Come on. Walk over. Coming. Hold on. Here you go. Everybody else watch your step this way. This way. You speak English? You speak English? >> Okay. You speak fluent English? >> Where you coming from? Where you coming from? Huh? >> You want the truth? >> Yeah, the truth. Here, just sit right here. Look. Put your butt right here. Come here. Listen to me. Over here. >> You want the truth? >> Yeah. Come here. I don't want you to fall. Come here. Go this way. Yep. Right there. Yeah. Throw your back. right there. >> I can't. >> Somebody stole my heart. >> Okay. Somebody stole your heart. You have your license on you. Where's your license at? >> In my car. >> In your car. Where at in your car? Is this vehicle registered to you? So, it's under your name. So if I run the plate, it's going to come back to you. Okay. Where you coming from today? Hello. Where you coming from today? I killed myself. >> Oh, okay. So, uh, she just made suicidal statements. >> Yeah. Did you have a drink tonight? >> What did you drink tonight? Nothing. >> Nothing. You tell me you had no alcohol or beverages tonight. >> Hello. What does that mean? >> A white clown. >> What happened? >> A white clown. >> A white claw. >> White clown. >> A white clown or white claw? >> White claw. >> How many? >> Two. >> How many? >> Two. >> Two. Are you sure? Maybe more than two. Where you coming from? Where do you live? >> Near here. >> Where though? >> Maybe like >> Maybe. Why? You don't know for sure. >> No, I'm thinking. >> You shouldn't really have to think. You should know where you live. It shouldn't take a thought. >> No, I'm thinking >> what six. >> Like what? >> Six. >> You had six white clothes. >> No. What are you thinking? >> What does six mean? >> Six what? >> Six white clause. >> No. >> Six what then? What does six mean? >> Headquarters. Want to confirm going to be whiskey 29 November delta whiskey. >> Yeah. At 404. Can you respond here? Yeah, cuz I'm not either. What is 6 mean? Where you Where do you live? >> Six blocks from here. >> Six blocks from here. Where? In Garfield. >> Elmo Park. >> Six blocks from here. From Newark. >> Where? >> From Newark. >> From Newark. Do you know where you are? >> Mhm. >> Where are you? >> Who? >> Who? Northfield. >> Northfield. Where is that? >> You live in Newark. You have identification. You have an ID. >> I don't have it. >> You have no ID. You have no wallet? >> Yes. >> Purse? I'm looking for my car. >> I can't look through your car. Yeah, I can. It's right there. >> I need you to give me your ID. >> I don't have my ID. >> Why not? >> I never bring you. >> You never got one? You have some ID. You have to have a You got a visa. You have a uh >> I never bring it. >> You don't bring it. But if you have one, then I can look it up. I just need something with your name on it. You have something with your name on it. Somebody identification with your name on it. Grab your purse over here. Come here. >> Come here. Grab your purse. What are you driving? >> What's your name? >> I have it. >> You have nothing. Show me where your wallet is. >> Something with your name on it. >> My >> Say Jenny. >> Yeah. Jenny. >> Jenny. Here. That's why. >> That's it. >> This one. >> Whose car is this? >> Mine. >> Who? Yours. Where's the registration insurance card? >> You don't have a license? No license? >> I have it. But >> where is it? Where's your license? Come here. Stay right here. >> Right here. Right here. Come here. >> Yeah. Yeah, he ran it. >> This one? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> All right. Come here. >> All right. Come here, Johnny. I can do it. We'll do it up there, though. >> In the dark, right? What? >> It's got to be in the dark. Yeah, we'll bring you up to the sidewalk where it's flat and not on the top of the rocks. >> All right. Come on, Johnny. I'm going to walk this way. >> You bring your car up so you can videotape it. >> All right. >> Come on, Johnny. >> We're walking this way. We got to follow. >> Are you able to walk, John? You fine? I'm fine. >> You're fine. Very rock. Be careful. >> Stand over here. Right there. >> Hi. How you doing? Hello. >> She said she had two white claws. That was it. >> All right. So, I'm Lieutenant Hartman of the Elmo Park Police Department. I'm going to ask you if you have any deformities or disabilities that would prevent you from doing a field sobriety test. >> No. >> No. Okay. So, this is what I'm going to ask you do. You have a recording, right? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, this is what I'm going to have you do. Ma'am, can you stand facing towards me, please? Can you take your hands out of your pockets? Put your feet together. Put your arms down. Okay. So, do you see the tip of my pen where my finger is? >> After Lieutenant Keith Hartman arrived on scene, Jenny was asked to perform field sobriety exercises. Lieutenant Hartman started with the horizontal gaze nestagmas HGN test. Following the HGN test, Jenny refused to perform any additional field sobriety exercises. >> Right here. Look. Look at my my finger. my finger right here. You see it? Okay. So, what you're going to do is you're going to follow my pen with only your eyes. Okay? So, you keep your head perfectly still and you follow my pen with only your eyes. You >> What's that? >> You have what? Send me a I don't know what that means. >> You know it in English what that means. >> My >> Give me a second. Just follow it. >> Can Can you follow the Can you follow the pen with your eyes? Can you follow my finger right here? Yes. No. >> Keep your hands out your pockets. >> Take Keep your hands out your pockets, please. All right. Here. Look at my finger. My finger. Look up here. >> Okay. You see it? >> You got to look at my finger. Not Not the camera. You got to look at my finger. Okay. Up here, ma'am. Ma'am, do you understand what I'm saying? Hands down your pockets. my >> Okay, >> I've heard that. >> Okay, >> your English is pretty well. Do you understand English? >> That's what I'm trying to say. Yeah, >> but no one understand glasses. Oh, your glasses. >> Is it a medical thing? >> Yeah, my >> your glasses. >> You're not supposed to wear glasses for this. You can't wear glasses for this. >> I have my >> Oh, you can only look straight. Mhm. You can't you So, it's a medical thing. Can't look left and right with your eyes. >> Do you have a license to drive with this? You allowed to drive with this. >> Okay. So, you you wear glasses? >> Yeah. But you can see his finger. >> Yeah. But you can you see my finger? >> Okay. So, you just follow the finger. >> Yeah. Just follow. You got to look. Right here. Follow follow my finger up. You ready? Here you go. Right here. Right here. Look. You see? >> Okay. >> Here we go. Ma'am, right here. Right there. right here. Keep your head straight. You ready? Here. Over here. You ready? Okay. You got to follow. Keep blinking on me. Last one. Okay, >> continue. Do >> you have any issues with your legs? >> No, he asked already. >> Okay. You have more tests than you do. >> That's it. No, no. >> Yeah, you you're going to do walk and turn and one leg. >> Yeah, I'm not certified. >> Yeah, you don't have to be certified for that. >> Hold on. Uh, you have the little thing for all the statues that I don't think so. >> How many did you drink tonight before? More than two, right? How much? More than two. Where you coming from? Where was it? Where were you drinking? >> You wanted the two. >> Who? >> You want the two? >> Yeah. Yeah. Please tell me the truth. What's going on tonight? What's up? Tell me. You speak good English. >> I want me to cry. >> Why? It's I mean I I understand. You can tell me. I'm here to help. >> You want me to cry? >> I don't want you to cry. I want you to tell me what's going on. >> If I I help you. I help you, >> you know. So, what happened? What happened tonight? Why are you crying? What? Okay, man. You got to take your hands out of your pocket. >> Put your ma'am. So, put your arms down on your side. You're going to take You're going to take your right foot. You're going to put in front of your left foot like this. And you're going to put your arms down your side. And you're going to stay like that until I tell you to start while I explain the instructions. Do you understand? Yeah. Okay. What's that, man? What's up, ma'am? >> Can you stand like that or no? In that position. >> Go ahead. >> All right. So, can you start like that for me, please? So, it's going to be one leg in front of the other with your arms down on your side. >> Hands out of your pockets. >> Yeah. Hands out of the pockets. Okay. >> Not going the way. You're not going to do it. >> You're refusing. >> Okay. >> Okay. What? >> What's going on with you? Explain to me. You tell you about to tell me what's going on tonight. Where are you coming from? >> Okay. I'm sorry to hear that. Where were you though? Where were you at? Where you coming from? >> That part. >> Your friend's house. >> All right. So, ma'am, are are are you going to do any of my other test or >> No. Okay. All right. So overall though, uh, just from what I have seen and from what we we were told and stuff from the caller, I I believe that you you're intoxicated and we're going to bring you into headquarters for a DWI uh to so you could uh blow on the alka test machine. based on her erratic driving, her indicators of impairment, the odor of alcohol, her admission to consuming alcohol earlier that evening, and her inability to adequately perform the all field sobriety exercises. Jenny was placed under arrest for operating under the influence. A search of her vehicle incident to arrest indicated the presence of an open container of White Claw. Her vehicle was impounded by for a mandatory 12-hour hold under J's law. Okay. >> All right. Put your hands behind your back. All right. Your left hand. Watch your step. >> Right here. Right here. >> You have nothing on you, right? >> Your pockets or anything? There's nothing on you. >> You got the keys in here. Got the keys in here. All right. All right. You're going to just take a seat. All right. Okay. Just sit. Turn around. >> Yep. Pull your left in. >> This is just our disregard. One second. All right. Right next to the police station. >> All right. Romeo. >> Is that the first? >> That's That's our card. >> No. Yeah. I mean, there's a white claw right here. >> Got one right there. Open. Perfect. Put that on. You have to bring it. You have it that she has open. >> All right. >> Oh, there's a whole package of >> Is there a bunch of them? >> It's a box though. You don't know when that's >> what's going to happen. >> You're going to bring her in. You're going to put her on the machine. She's probably going to refuse, but that's up to her. Tell >> me to put her on the machine. What? I do the machine, but you're going to read everything to her. >> All right. Yeah. Yeah. >> And then after that, you're going to Yeah, I think I had this for Jesus. Try this for 23 quarters. >> Show me transporting one female under to HQ. Starting mileage 18045. Camera's rolling. She's seat belted. Horn in the yard. Any mileage 18 046 033 Come on, Johnny. Come on. Sport your step, Jenny. Come on, dude. Put your right foot right foot your chunk class. Put your chunks on. Put your chunkas. Your sandals. Put them on. Put them on. >> Come on, let's go. All right, move your right foot around. >> I know. >> Okay, I'm gonna help you so you don't fall. >> Officer Rodriguez transported her to the Elmwood Park Police Department for further processing. The standard statement from motor vehicle operators was read to her and she agreed to submit breath samples. Following a 20-minute observation, though, Lieutenant Hartman administered the Alco test machine. Her results indicated a back level of 0 to3% which was nearly triple the legal limit of 0.08%. Once they finished processing her and generated her tickets, Jenny was eventually released to a sober adult, pending her court appearance, he signed the potential share lady warning on Jenny's behalf. >> Yeah, your left foot put it down a little more so you can get get it in there. You want to push you want to push you up. Got it. And watch your foot. All right. Put your left foot in. Left foot down. There you go. All right. Come on. Watch your face. [Applause] Come on. I'm going to hold you so you don't fall. [Applause] I'm going to go in that door right there. All right. What is on that bench right over there? The steel one over there. Then this one. This one. Right. >> One second. One second. One second. I'm trying to think. I'm just trying to think how it's done in the past. The whole fact is we have no one to sign that John and no one at the hospital sign. No, we got sick. Yeah, we got it. This the whole thing. No, man. still falls on us. Oh, this will be there. I'll minimize We got right up there. [Music] First of all, what type of beamer was that? It was a nice ass beamer. >> BMW 228i. >> Oh, it was only 228. >> Yeah. I mean, still expensive. It >> It looked nicer. >> It was nice. It was really nice though. >> Only 22. >> That's still like a 3540,000. Actually a $40,000 car. So 26 96. >> She literally got there 2 minutes after I got there. It's a lot of me. Wait. Uh, Eric, >> what's up, ma'am? [Music] What? So I don't know if it [Applause] >> I'll try to get one. >> Is it the green? Hey, call the toe. Tell him to come here >> with uh for Van. Wait, >> it's all this is everything that's out there. >> Did they drop it already? [Applause] 46 phone. >> Yes. Oh, you count it again. >> I got 46. >> She just >> Did you see one in there? [Music] I see what you need. An ambulance. >> You need an ambulance? >> No. >> Let us know if it gets worse. Okay. No. We got a fingerprint. >> No, >> fingerprint. >> No, I'm sorry. The photo number [Applause] You throw all this stuff back into the purse after you. >> Okay. >> What was that? >> I'm I'm going to put the money into a separate bag. >> Johnny, >> what was that? >> You got to speak a little louder. I can't hear you. What the [ __ ] Officer Rodriguez issued her the following citations. Operating under the influence 39450. Reckless driving 39496. Careless driving 39497. Traffic on marked lanes 39 to 488B. Unsafe operation of a motor vehicle. 39 to 497.2 2, driving without a license. 3 9310. Driving an unregistered motor vehicle. 3 934. Failure to possess driver registration. 39-3 to9B. Failure to possess driver insurance card. 39-3 to 9C. Driving with an expired license 39-310A. Open container 39 for 51A. Court records indicate that Jenny had previously been arrested for DW in Paripony, New Jersey on November 6th, 2022. [Applause]