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He made contact with the driver who was identified as Christina Yaso Ala. As he was speaking with Christina, he detected the odor of alcohol and observed other indicators of impairment. Christina initially denied consuming alcohol but eventually admitted to consuming one drink. Based on his suspicion of impairment, she was asked to exit the vehicle and perform field sobriety exercises. Hello. Hello. Do I see your license, registration, insurance, please? My insurance. Okay. Just so you know, I have a body camera on. It's recording. Okay. Where are you coming from tonight? My house. Where's that? Where you Where are you going? I'm going to 22. I'm going to my boyfriend's house. Okay. Okay. Um, so the reason I'm stopping, you're driving on the shoulder on Route 46. Okay. You're also driving on and over the double yellow lines on Franklin Avenue. You sat through an entire green cycle at the traffic light on Franklin Avenue and you keep crossing over the WL lines. Any reason for that? No. Any surveys tonight? Veno anything? Nothing medication? No. [Music] Okay. All right. Do me a favor. Step out. Come up front. [Music] up to the front. Right here. Can lean up against your car for now. You have any eye injuries? No, no, no, no, no. Face me. Face me. You have any eye injuries? Wear contacts or glasses? No. No alcohol? Nothing. The first exercise was the horizontal gaze nestagmus HGN test. The second exercise was the walk and turn test. During the walk and turn test, Christina failed to touch heel to toe on each step and did not count aloud as instructed. The final exercise was the one leg stand test. During the one leg stand test, Christina failed to raise her foot in the proper fashion and put her foot down before the test was complete. So, you just Just one drink. That's it. One. Yeah. I was I was at my friend said, "I'm going to go to my boyfriend's house." Okay. All right. No eye injuries or anything. Right. Don't Don't look at the light. Look at me. Okay. You ever do this test before? It's just a sobriety test. I'm just I'm just going to test your eyes. Okay? Just your eyes. I want you to follow the tip of my finger with your eyes only. I don't want you to move your head at all. You understand that? Yes. Just your eyes. Okay. Okay. Do you have any uh take a a step or two forward? Step forward two steps. Okay. Just keep your hands at your side. Stay right there. Okay. What I want you to do from there, okay, I want you to take your left foot where it is. Put your right foot directly in front of it like such. Okay. Hey, you're going to stay in that position while I demonstrate the test and explain everything to you. You understand that? Stay in this position. Okay? All right. When I tell you to, you're going to take nine heel to toe steps forward, counting out loud with each step. Okay? Like such. 1 2 3 4 5 up to nine. When you get to nine, keep your left foot on imaginary line. Come back to that same starting position. You're going to take nine more steps. One. Back. Two, three, up to nine. You understand that? Any injuries, hip injuries, knee injuries, foot injuries? No. Nothing. Okay. Keep your hands at your side. You can do the test. Hands at your side. Hands at your side. Okay. And then going back, right? Mhm. Just like I explained. Okay. Turn around. All right. Let's try that again. All right. Try and do it exactly as I explained it to you. You did nothing that I explained. Okay. Get in this position right here. Right foot in front of your left, touching heel to toe like that. Go ahead. Stand in that position. Marcos. Marcos. Marcos. Okay. All right. All right, I want you to stand with your right foot in front of your left. Right in front of it like this. There you go. Stay like that. Hands down at your side. Okay. Keep them right. Are your phone call more important than driving safely? No. As a matter of fact, I'm going to take it off. Okay. Hands at your side. Right foot directly in front of your left, touching heel to toe like that. Move it over. There you go. I want you to stay in that position, okay? When I tell you to. Nine heel to toe steps forward. Counting out loud with each step. Touching heel to toe with each step in a straight line just like this. One 2 3 4 5 up to nine. When you get to nine, you're going to keep your foot where it is. You're going to turn to the left. Come back to that starting position. Right. From here, it's nine more steps. Touching heel to toe. Counting out loud. One, two, three. Up to nine. Okay. Understood? Yes. Okay. Give that a try. One. Hands on your side. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Okay, step forward. All right, one more test. Come here. All right. Right there is perfect. Okay, again, no knee injuries, hip injuries, anything like that. Right. All right. When I tell you, keep your hands at your side. You're going to raise whichever leg of your choosing. Don't do it yet. Raise whichever leg of your choosing 6 in off the ground like such. You're going to point your toe. You're going to look at your foot and you're going to count out loud 1,00 1,002 1,003 1,004. If you lose balance, put your foot down. Pick it up and pick up where you left off. 100,00 on until I tell you to stop. You understand that? Okay. Give it a shot. You may go. 100,00 one. If 100,001 is too hard, you can say one 2 3. Okay. 1001. Okay. Yeah. If that I'm just saying if it's too much of a word jumble, that's fine. You could say 1 2 3. Or you could say 1 101 100 1 2 1 100 3 100 4 100 5 1 2 3 100 5 1 6 1 7 1 8 9 Okay. All right. One more test. Okay. I want you to close your eyes. Put your head all the way back like that. Okay, close your eyes. Head back. Based on her erratic driving and her inability to satisfactorily complete the field sobriety exercises, Christina was placed under arrest for driving under the influence. Christina's vehicle was impounded for a 12-hour hold according to J's law. She was transported by patrolman Flynn to the Rockaway Burough Police Department for further processing. Since their alco test machine was down, they transported her to the Rockaway Township Police Department. Christina refused to submit adequate breath samples despite multiple attempts while the machine was being operated. So, she was charged with a refusal. Okay. You're being placed under arrest for DWI. Okay. Oh my god. But you just said it was a test. Yep. Failed my test. I know. Wait. You failed my test. I know. Wait. Nope. There's nothing. Can I just get my phone? You're going to bring everything back. No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Let me just make a phone. Let me just make a phone call. Let me get my phone. Oh my god. Just grab her uh thing off the hood. Come on. Come with me. Yeah. Ask for DWI. There's no waiting. Wait, you didn't even I didn't What? Let me Wait. I'm not I had you do tests. I know. I know. Well, let me just get something out. Let me just get all your stuff that you need. Go grab it. Can I go with you and just tell you what I really need for my for my go? Really? Anything in your pockets? No. I don't have nothing for my pockets. Okay. Have a seat. No, wait. Have a seat. I just want to let you know what I need for my phone in the car. No. I I really need to show it. Have a seat. Have a seat in the car. You can show us. You can tell us once you get in once you're under arrest so you don't get access to your car again. Okay. We will grab your phone, your wallet, whatever you need from in there, this car passed me. I was like, she's driving on her shoulder on 46. Must have just did it. And then she sat through an entire green cycle on Franklin. Dude, I'm sitting at Silver Dodge and I see her come down. I'm like, "Hey, she's driving good." Damn it. Go. Nobody's making fun. I see you making fun of me. Nobody's making fun of you. I just saw him. You're saying no, but I saw it. Just grab whatever you think is important in there. It's my phone is a very square one. Her phone is a square one. You have any documents? I have uh she showed me good insurance. I have her registration and her uh license. got her purse. Yeah, I got all this. I would try Bill. Bill? Yeah, he can run the box wherever we got to go. I can run. Did someone say you're right? What's up? Yep. Got to go a little square here. Yep. I have your watch now on here. Do you have any in your bag or your house? Okay. 3414 county be transporting one adult female 1011 from location to headquarters 23819.7 This is Rockaway Bell. My car is going to turn off. What's that? My car is turning over. Your car is going to get towed for 12 hours. I know, but I [Music] We go in, I read you a long statement, you say Yes or no to breaths. Giving breaths. You get a bunch of tickets and you go uh you go home after we call someone to come pick you up. Okay. No, I can't get myself up. No, you you're you're released on your own recgnissance after somebody comes and signs you out. You You're going to have to call your boyfriend or something to come pick you up. What if no one has then you sit in our jail? What? Yeah. So, we'll have your phone once we're done. You can make calls to have somebody come get you. And I don't think you want to sit in our dirty our dirty jail. What are you doing out? Somebody's got to come and sign you out. That's how it works. 3414's out of headquarters. 23820.2. This is wrong. Yeah. Services without an appointment. I'll pop those off for you as soon as we get inside. Okay. All right. Stay right here. Okay. Watch it. Purse. Wallet. phone. Watch. Okay. Come with me. This door right here. See? Right there. Go straight in. The light should turn on. And if not, I'll hit the switch. Yep. See that white line on the floor? You're going to stand on that white line for me. Okay. Come over here. Go to the bathroom with this. I can still go to the bathroom with this, right? You need to go to the bathroom. Yeah, I can still go home with this. No, I'll pop these off. You can go to the bathroom. Thank you so much. Pop your arm out. There you go. There's a toilet right in there. Hat. in booking. Turning off body [Music] camera. Let's do an inventory. [Music] We have one watch, one phone, one wallet with several credit cards. One purse, credit card, and keys. I'm on I'm on. Who's coming? Bill soon. Uh, who's coming? box down. Yep. $7 and Yep. Nice. Five. So mad at myself. $1. Four. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. 804. One watch. So phone one purse CC keys one [Music] several cc's. Okay. Money back in purse. Change. Change in here. Wallet in here. Watch in here. Cell phone in here. to card in here. Inventory complete. Turning on body [Music] camera. Okay. Ready? We got to go to another department. Our machine doesn't work. Okay. All right. I'm going to handcuff you in the front as long as you act cool. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Ready. straight through straight. And then the other side of that truck we're going to go. I have everything. We have to come back here afterwards. Where are we going? We have to go to Rockway Township because our machine is broken. Careful going up. It's big. Okay, good. Oh, hi. Yeah, I got nothing up there. Just give me those make sure I got everything 34. 420 in the county. Myself and 17 will be transporting that female 11 from headquarters to Rockway Township. Starting my Oh, 3420 will be using 3417's body worn camera because his has a terrible battery. 0306 hours. You two minutes regular time seven. Yeah, it's already done. Jeez. Like no no no calls either. Last night we had almost two straight hours of it on and it with the maple. Yeah. And it didn't die. Why is there Who's that? Where's Dville going? Copper. Yeah. No, they seem frustrated with Oh, dude. circles. She just literally will tell you the same story 30 times. And that's the kid who was struck by a car by shot, right? Yeah. He's a Hills kid, right? Yeah. Stinks. Oh, it doesn't. It smells good. This one put Dave in the lead. I'm so mad. Trust your gut. Oh, I love it. I love that you saw it. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah, dude. I was like, "Yeah, maybe." Not bad. Didn't crash, right? No. No. No. Don't crash. Inbound or Yeah. Uh, do you have a uh son or daughter that goes to Morris Hills? Oh, ma'am. Do you have someone that goes to Morris Hills? No. Well, I saw the sticker, so I thought maybe someone went there. Thought maybe you would have known him. Is this better or worse? Better. I don't know if this fits in their sally port. It should. They have a truck. Um, great point. I don't know. Oh, man. I'm sweating. I guess they fixed theirs cuz they called us last week asking for ours. Do broke ours. The dove broke it when I was running it. So maybe I broke it. They got a lot of trailers. Iron your spirit. 3420 counting out of township. Ending mileage 27660. Well, we're going to try and squeeze around. Small sally port. I think I'm going to be getting out on your side. Thought I hit something tight. Want this one? Yes. I'm going to need it all. [Music] I got one. Am I fully in? Yeah. Go off. [Music] Christina was subsequently transported back to the Rockaway Burough Police Department. She was eventually released pending her court appearance. Patrolman Flynn issued Christina the following citations: operating under the influence. Refusal to submit to chemical test. Consent to take samples of breath. Reckless driving. Careless driving traffic on marked lanes. Failure to keep right and failure to obey traffic signal. [Music] Morning. Need your own. It's not going to fit. But turning off side. Rock. camera. I hate the lights on this thing. Yeah, they should have took the bar off of uh two or two. Yeah, one of them. No, no, no. one of the cars that are going away soon and throw it on this one of the SUVs. Yeah, R2 is actually R2 was a good car. Functional, everything works. of heat. Heat. Heat. You ever swim in this? No. No way. Well, no. I I have, but I actually know that for a swim team. I remember doing backstrokes in the field. Christmas trees, we call them tickling your back. The seaweed they had was so high. Ski weed. Oh, he had another call. Breathing issue. Where is it? Union. So must be transporting. over here. Where am I going? 66y old man. 20 county out of headquarters. Ending mileage 27661. Yep. Back to the bench. Straight through. Thank you. Back to the same spot. [Music] [Music] Christina had previously been arrested for DWA about 2 months earlier in Roxbury Township on March 3rd, 2024. Court records indicate that on November 20th, 2024, Christina pleaded guilty to operating under the influence. As a result of her guilty plea, Christina had to spend 48 hours at an intoxicated driver resource center, use an ignition interlock device for two years, perform 30 days of community service, and spend days in jail. She also had to pay a total of $965 in fines. The other seven citations were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. [Music] I'm going to get your phone so you can Okay. Call somebody to pick you up. Okay. Turning