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registration [Music] on November 23rd 2023 around 12:47 a.m. betr man Jeremy Hackney and Matthew golf with the Magnolia Police Department were dispatched to the scene of a motor vehicle accident involving a silver 2015 Jeep Grand Cheroke that had struck a pole on an War Road near Maryland Avenue as arrived on scene around 12:52 a.m. pman had me noticed that the Jeep had sustained sever front 10 damages and he observed airbag deployment in inside the vehicle he made contact with the driver of the Jeep who was identified as 18-year-old Megan Megan admitted to driving the jeep while 18-year-old Michaela was seated inside the vehicle as her passenger for this is the registration I've never really been pulled over so I don't know what's wrong this is the registration I've never been pulled over so I don't know um yep that's it okay all right and your license um he took it all right so you were driving it's okay take your time it's not okay all right where are you coming from I'm coming from my friend's house all right walk with me over here okay no I've never even really it's okay it's all right take your time so what happened we were driving the phone call from her boyfriend and I looked down at the phone and I and I crashed into the pool okay I didn't even I looked down and I looked back up can I help you ma'am you need help no oh my God okay are you walking no I I just came out to see what happened okay all right so you at your friend's house yes and we left and I went to drop her off and I looked down at the phone cuz her boyfriend called her and I looked down for too long I guess how old are you 18 all right you need to drink or anything like that tonight I haven't had anything drink okay when's the last time you had something to drink no probably like a week ago okay I don't drink and drive I don't I'm just asking if you had anything no my parents are alcoholics and I don't do that you didn't have anything to drink no all right what are we doing at your friend's house we just hanging out just hanging out and are you're not hurt no my lip a little busted but it's nothing bad T your lip Megan told patroman hacky that she was distracted by looking at mela's phone when her boyfriend was calling and as a result she crashed into the pole while driving Northbound on an War Road as he was speaking with Megan he detected the odor of alcohol and noticed other signs of impairment based on his suspicion of impairment Megan was asked to perform field sobriety exercises nothing bad did you hit the airbag or the steering wheel you hit the steering wheel no the airbag air and it was just you and your other friend were in the car yes all right so where were you coming from like what street this way you were coming from that's why you look down at the phone all right what made you look at the phone other than the boyfriend calling nothing just then he was on the phone he was talking and I looked down and I looked back up and we were going and we just crashed okay do you have any um I know you said you're not injured from the motor vehicle crash but do you have any medical conditions anything that would affect your eyes anything like that no all right I know you said you weren't drinking okay yeah you can test me that's fine I'm just going to check your eyes fine if you if the eyes are fine and I don't see any indications you're not going to do any other test okay Y and you said you have nothing and you're okay right you say okay all right give me a favor to stand back here for me and put your feet together patrolman Hackney started with the horizontal Gaye nagus hgn test during the hgn test patrolman Hackney observed the lack of smooth Pursuit and disin and sustained nice stmas at maximum deviation in both eyes the second exercise was the walk and turn test during the walk and turn test Megan did not touch Heel To Toe on on each step the final exercise was the one leg stand test and Megan displayed a lack of balance while putting her foot down multiple times all right can I keep I'm really cold it's okay okay all right hold this all right do me the favor just look at the tip of my pen for me okay you see the tip of my pen yeah all right I want you to touch it with the tip of my pen okay can you touch it with your right ini finger good all right what I want you to do I want you I'm going to move the pen from side to side okay yeah I want you to do I want you to follow with your eyes and eyes on you understand you understand that y okay trust your [Music] eyes keep looking at the pen okay y [Applause] [Music] okay I let step back here further okay M come work with me all right what's your first name Megan all right and you have anything to drink no all right give me a favor stand just like that put your feet together for me okay put your hands down by your side okay what I want you to do I want you put your right foot in front of your left foot touching he to Tae right left fo yep all right and keep your hands down on your side okay yep all right just like that now stay in that position that's called the starting position I want you to stay in that position as I explained and demonstrate the test for you do you understand y okay what I want you to do is I want you to take a series of small steps okay each step you're going to count out loud one 2 3 and so forth okay if you lose your balance you can just put your foot back you can just put your foot back if you lose your balance okay all right and you're going to count with each step one two three and so forth okay with each step you're going to touch your heel to your toe okay it's look like this one two three and so forth you get to nine okay once you get to n you're going take a series of small steps you're going to turn around you're going to come back do you understand yes do you understand stand the test yes all right do me a favor put your right foot in front of your left foot touch and heel the tail all right you can begin the test when you're ready okay make you count out loud 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 3 4 5 okay all right for the next T want you do always put your your Hears A guy like this kind of make like a little angle yeah okay step back little bit I don't want you on that end up there there you go go all right why don't you do you're pick whatever you're going to pick whatever foot you feel more comfortable with whether be your right leg your left leg okay you're going to raise aox with 6 Ines off the ground keeping both legs straight can I put my pants on I have pants in my car I'm freezing can get my pants on my car just grab pants do the rest realation I guess I I don't have my sweat P all right we can just do it right here okay that's okay all right so like I said you going to put your heels together like this okay whatever whatever whatever leg you feel more comfortable you're going to raise approximately 6 in off the ground you going be keeping both legs straight okay all right imagine a soda can out underneath your foot you're going to count in this manner 1 1,000 2 1000 3 1,000 4 1,000 and so forth until I tell you to St you understand all right so I'm going to demonstrate it for you okay I'm going to raise my right leg it's going to go 1 1,000 2 1,000 3 1,000 4 1,000 5 1,000 look down at your foot and count okay do you understand yes keep both legs straight okay yeah good 1 1,000 2 1,000 3 1,00 4 1,000 5 1,000 6 1,000 7 1 you okay yes 8 1,000 9 1000 10 1,000 11 100000 all right come back here come back here all right I'm not going to embarrass you in front of your friends right now you're going to have to get my car okay I'm sry all right based on the motor vehicle accident the odor of alcohol and her inability to adequately perform the field sobriety exercises Megan was placed under arrest for driving while intoxicated in order to not embarrass her in front of her friend patroman Hackney decided to not Place handcuffs on her Megan was transported to the Magnolia Police Department for further processing the other officers stayed with the vehicle until it was towed for a mandatory 12-hour impound as required by John's law am I getting arrested yeah at this point arrest for du it's fine okay just have seat inside the car I don't know what to do just try to relax no I can't I'm going to I'm going to lose my job I work I get my finger I'm going to all you got her information her yeah no no you got hers how old are you I'm 18 did you have to drink tonight a while earlier I'm okay right now though I'm so good right now okay so if you being like 18 you can't drive a car as super alol at all M um we need to find her ride home though her yeah we can bring her if you need or well she her parents she's got to come back to our station okay can can I go there and then get her a ride yeah you can come to the station the Magnolia police station right there okay do you guys all have a car together well that's yeah my boyfriend he was driving behind us who has a car who said yeah all right what's your name man what uh you guys want to go to the station and pick her up in a little bit like 30 30 minutes hour could be like an hour it could is that okay yeah and she she she's got to be released to somebody um I don't know if she wants to be released to her parents or not probably not I know her parents that's what I'm saying yeah um why don't you do this did you want to come with us can I go with her you can come to our station um but this officer's got to stay by for the toe okay um she has to wait for him to get done and then he can bring you to the station and we can call whoever to come pick you guys up you were when we drinking right no they were just meeting us I make all right just give me you got good yes all right Matt you have the origin all Matt registration yeah yeah got meet you guys there yeah you you can meet us there that's fine [Applause] all right I'm backing up guys 2308 Central 238 I'll be transporting one adult female from my location to my 101 starting mile 71225 [Music] there 23 Central motor [Music] vehicle 38 Romeo K uniform Ser you okay ni special clear two brother would have never drove my God what' you say I would have never [Music] drove 31 13 3 [Music] man 309 210 PO is not involved saying there's a male and female verbally arguing and throwing things in the hallway Jale haers named Stephanie no weapons 23 on tra ending last 3 226 at the Magnolia Police Department patrolman hack me read her the standard statement for motor vehicle operators and she agreed to submit breath samples her Alco test results indicated a back of 0.19% which was more than double the limit of 0.08% for drivers over 21 and 19 times the legal limit of 0.01% for drivers under 21 okay just stay off your phone okay I got to take it come on come on okay I'm going to lose everything just follow me okay come here go America I need to tell my mom we'll give her a call okay [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Megan yes okay m a e g all right um I'm going to read a form to you all right I'm going to give you one to follow along with me okay um if any question you don't understand something stop me okay well if you don't understand no I'll understand okay the one thing I need you to do okay I need you to spit out the gum all right yeah that's so I know you mentioned you're going to lose everything and all that kind of stuff we don't notify your job nothing like that um so you said you were right I mean I don't want to speak for your job but I think you're going to be okay I think you made a mistake I think you know that okay no um let me never done something like this all right I'm going to read this to you okay yes do you want to follow along with that piece of paper there yes all right Megan you've been arrested for driving while intoxicated njs 39450 number two the law requires exit samples of your breath for the purpose of testing to determin alcohol content number three a record of the taken of breath samples including the test results will be made upon your request a copy of that record made available to you I'll tell you it what the reading is after okay after you have provided samples of your Breer test and you have of the right at your own expense have a person or position of your own selection take independent samples of your breath blood or urine for independent testing number five if you refus to provide samples of your breath you'll be issued a separate summons for the refusal a court might find you guilty of both refusal and dri all intoxicated number six if a court finds you guilty of the refusal You' be subject to various penalties including license rtion up to 20 years a fine up to $2,000 installation of U ignition air loock and referral to it and intoxicated driver Resource Center these penal be addition to penalties imposed by the court for any other feny which were found guilty number seven you have no legal right to have entertaining phys own else present for the purpose of taking breath samples you have no legal right to refuse give or delay given samples of your breath number eight any response to you that is in biguous or conditional in any respect to my request they provide breast samples will be treated as a refusal to submit breast testing even if you agree to take the test but then do not follow my instructions not prop form of test or not provide significant breath samples I will charge or the refusal testing number nine this is important okay I repeat that the law requires you submit samples of your breath for testing will you submit samples of your breath what is it I know I have do 112 all right so let me explain to everything that's going on now okay so now we're just going to kind of sit here we'll talk for 20 minutes okay and then I'll start the machine okay um do you have any watches on you no okay can you do me a favor and just lift it up for me okay you have anything in your mouth other than that bubble gum no can you do me a favor can you open your mouth for me and lift your head back okay all right um we'll sit here we'll talk for 20 minutes I do have a VAP on me but it's dead you can take it yeah you do um we'll sit here and talk for 20 minutes we'll do the test um at that point it'll provide you with a reading okay um which like I told you I'll tell you I'll tell you whatever it is um oh my God I'm going to go to ja y listen you're not going to I know hold on hold on hold on cuz we were drinking earlier and I know I shouldn't have drun Megan no let me explain this to you so you don't go to jail it's a ticket I don't care what it is it's still going to be on my record and that's not me I would have never drove them home they they were 10 times worse than me I could couldn't let them Drive I wouldn't let them and I should have just said no this is not me I would never God my I have to get fingerprinted for my work in less than two weeks and they're going to see that we don't fingerprint you no is it going to be on my record because they're going to see that so it's not hold on hold on I'm going to answer your questions for you I know it's upsetting so it's not a criminal record it goes on your what's called an abstract it's like a driving record my car is gone well your car is not gone I have no way to get to work I have no way um we have insurance on the car right yes okay it don't mean anything I don't think I have full coverage so my car is gone I have to pay thousands of doll I just want to talk to my mom as soon as we're done she needs to know what happened as soon as we do this we'll let her know okay this is I would never can't believe I did for Central toown Street INRI is going to be 27894 it'll be on my driving record right yeah it's called an abstracted yeah I mean you got to understand I I'm going to [ __ ] up well it still has to go to court and all you know that's fine I know so you could be found not guilty could be know and I know I'll plead guilty because I know I did have a couple drinks so I don't care I already know when you do this breath lier I'm probably not going to pass all right hold on no just let me tell you I'm we're in a camera okay that's fine and I don't care because I already know once it comes back I already know I know I should have drove but I wouldn't let my friends Drive home because I'm too generous and I know I shouldn't have been I just need to call my mom you will as soon as you do the test okay can we do it you got so the thing is you have to wait 20 minutes and that's the benefit you okay sh you said you're 18 yes are you in high school would you graduate you graduate I would never just did it with them and I know I'm in the RO because I should have just said this was never me I would never do this one oh all right for purpose of the accident who was in the car with you me and my friend Micha just those two yes okay or just you and Micha me Anda all right how old's Michaela 18 all right I think she might be coming back here I didn't mean to get anyone in trouble oh no no she's not in trouble she's not in trouble I hope not Bravo did Michaela come back did Michaela come back they're on way back okay here yeah yeah your friends are your friends are picking you up well up going to be able to leave after night yeah you're not going to jail okay you literally so let me explain something to now you're kind of more calm I don't want to make it seem like it's not you know no it is a big deal I know um but you get you get a ticket you're going to get a couple tickets and those tickets are going to have a court deal on then you're going to go to court and everything gets figured out in court regardless of what you blow the legal limit in New Jersey is 08 for someone 21 and above someone below 21 it's zero I know and I'm obviously hold on now remember I'm telling him we're in a body One camera is recording okay okay but I don't want to lie I know you're very so let me another thing I'll tell you is there's there's always going to be report done on the report we have to kind of talk about you know the person's cooperation you're very Cooperative I know I always will be and like I said I think you made a mistake but you're already starting to take the actions of that and own it um it's not going to destroy your life okay you just got to but it will cuz I'll always have a guilty conscience of it I could have probably killed someone I should have never done that I should have never more luckily as of now you only had a telephone poll my car is [Applause] go oh my God my car could be replaced you know trouble just don't let it snowball you know I don't want to say too much but I live a really love my I know it's not an excuse and it never will be but when I have a chance I go hang out with my friends and I have fun and I just didn't want them to drive home like that cuz I knew they were worse than me and I thought I would be fine but clearly that one phone go I got distracted and I know I'm on camera and I know this is not going to be taken to court but I just want to be honest I don't like lying and I never want to lie I barely ever been pulled over I don't do this stuff this is just a in shock has it been 20 minutes yet there six more minutes oh my God once the the longest part is to 20 minutes yes I just want to get it over with um once we get that machine up and running you're talking a couple minutes after that um I don't even know I don't even want to know what I it's up to you I can tell you no I'm going to want to know but I don't want to know oh my God I cannot believe this never happened tissue yeah Mt going grab our thank you God everyone's going to be so disappointed at me I literally work four jobs like this is not me I just didn't want them to drive should have never oh all right just to clarify no electronics on your right no cell phones no SmartWatches earbuds nothing like that okay 6 6 o' and the phone number to facts over 32 m is the time was that 32 32 yeah I almost give you all my stuff and then I'll start punching it again I don't want to do it [Music] oh for I'll get the time uh on the bench for my BWC two minutes 23d should I have another tissue thank you thank you [Applause] is thats yeah take that up for me yeah you're going to throw it out what no we not going to throw it out no no okay put up your phone thank you [Music] literally a minute all right it's time hold on De activating the camera another 20 minutes I'll been completed is Megan in there yeah it's an e sign this uh form I explain it all to you h i explain it so you're here to sign her out yeah okay so basically you're going to sign What's called the John's law form of potential liability just saying that you're you're sign saying that she's not going to be driving a vehicle for 12 hours just so you could be held reliable okay all right just come in here let me just print out the form just wait right here and I'll uh let you read it and sign it Come on load I'm just I'm putting out two forms one's going to be your copy the uh next one's going to be my copy there you want to take a Time read it I just get a brief what it stated but the same there basically the same thing it just one's going to be your copy that you can hold on to it okay e [Music] Los mean you are potentially subject to criminal penalties and civil liability say uh you guys leave and then she gets in a car and drives somewhere and gets in accident gets pulled over whatever you're the one you have live just that's what that the meaning like you're not anything that happened right now what she's getting you're not going to be held it's going to be on her but she gets leaves within the 12 hours you to be hell Al okay sign the top one if you accept it and bottom one if you don't top one okay that that's if you're accepting it okay one yes please all right you can hold on to one copies so uh she has a few more uh you have to ask a few more questions and and then she she'll be released so if you want to wait out in the hallway or if you want to wa wait out in the car it's whatever you would like okay I wait in theall okay thank you do you have any questions is she okay yeah she's fine she's just upset but she like we try to she's not going sent to jail U she's over the age of 18 so we're not going to let her we're not telling her parents she she's not a minor I'm sure that get dealt with well that will get dealt with but that's on her and like she can tell them yeah all right all right no problem after she was processed Megan was released to her friend Michaela pending her court appearance in the Magnolia Municipal Court on December 5th 2023 after she signed the potential shil warning form on her behalf patrolman Hackney issued her the following summonses operating Under the Influence operating Under the Influence under rage reckless driving careless driving and traffic on Mark Lanes e e e e e e e e e e so uh this is going to be a 450 a GUI drum 12 hours a going go nowhere no [Music] yeah they didn't get in this one I say to out of the Y guys watch out I think my car is unlocked yeah can you move my car up slow slow down slow down slow down slow down slow down slow down slow down slow down wait you got to move the car up all right you're good [Music] to South Street Road INRI [Music] 21 South Brown and W uh someone else transporting that person yeah yeah [Music] [Music] [Applause] you want me to get that stuff uh yeah some of that big stuff cor records indicate that on March 12th 2024 Megan was found guilty of operating Under the Influence she was required to use an ignition interlock device for 3 months spend 12 hours at an intoxicated driver resource center and pay a total of $640 in fines the the other for citations were dismissed as part of a plea agreement court records also indicate that on April 5th 2024 Megan was ticketed again for using a handeld wireless telephone in laide New Jersey [Music] thank you so much all right have a nice one thank you thank you guys thank you and call