On January 16th, 2023, a Chamblee police officer was on routine patrol when he observed a Mercedes SUV parked on the lawn at a car dealership in Chamblee, Georgia. When they went to investigate, they found just one person asleep in the driver's seat with vomit on him. Suspected drunk driver didn't know where he was, and while talking with the driver, an officer felt a strong odor of alcohol. Hello. What you doing? About a bean is out there sleeping. About a what? About About God. What are you saying? Bow Bow God. Who's Bow God? The the term for someone trying to use the term the terminology and Terminology of what? To the language and it just Do you know where you're at? I don't know how to exactly I'm at. Where you at? I'm here with the Where is here? Camp Creek. Huh? I'm here at Camp Creek. I can't hear what you're saying. I said I'm here with Camp Creek. Camp Creek? You sure about that? No, I hope so. Not exactly. Not exactly close either. Where were you coming from? Um You know, just from home. 209 407 408 Registered to a Okay. Richard subject out of Atlanta. Valid valid. How much you had to drink tonight? Oh oh yeah, this is my this is my car. Yeah, how much you had to drink tonight? I don't know. Nothing to drink. This is my car. 7074 Cuz that's why I asked you. How much have you had to drink tonight? I haven't had much. You haven't had much? What's much? What's not much? You know, like like one cup. I was hanging out with my friends and we where were we? We were on uh We were on Buford Highway. Yeah, we were on Buford Highway. Okay. What part of Buford Highway? We were on I don't know what part, but we were the freeway. We just hung out, we some food. And I just said it's time for me to go home and go to bed. Would you be willing to do a couple field sobriety tests? Whatever you need me to do. All right. Want to step on out for me. I'm going to turn I'm going to turn the engine off. Go ahead. All right. Watch it. Stay Stay here with Officer U real quick. Watch it. Stay Stay here with Officer U real quick. It was cold. It's a little chilly. Jesus. All right. Dispatch, 9 unit 10-4. Who you looking for? He's making sure I have all my documents. Okay. Ooh. We're okay. Oh my god. It is cold. Yeah, it's a little chilly. Uh Ooh. Nice car. Yeah. It's nice. Thank you. I'm just No, I just said I just don't go back in the car just yet, okay? Okay. Do you have any weapons on you or anything? Nope. Nope. You can check. Can check your pockets real quick, all right? Yep. Wallet? Nothing. I'm I'm just concerned that um my key is in there and the door will auto lock and the key is in there and I'm out here. You know what I mean? I don't think it's going to lock if it's in the car. Okay. But Right. You got your driver's license with you though? Sure. Here you go, sir. Okay. All right, Mr. Let me Let's actually go ahead and use this. It's freezing. Freezing out here. Woo. Before we begin, let me ask you a few Sure. First of all, do you work Woo. All right. Before we begin, let me ask you a few a few quick questions. First of all, do you work do you wear contact lenses at all? No. Okay. Do you um Do you wear a Have you had any um Have you had any uh recent head injuries at all? No. Do you have any conditions affecting your eyes? No. Okay. It's freezing. What is the temperature right now, by the way? Yeah, it's it's Yeah, this is freezing point. All right. Give me 1 second. All right. Tell you what. Given how cold it is right now It's freezing out here. We'll go go ahead and skip the field sobriety test. Yeah, I'm I'm going to like pass out. I need I need a coat. I'm I'm going to get you out of I'll get you out of the cold, right? All right, we're going to turn around but chance when you're back for me. I just want to let you know you're under arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol. Wait, wait. I'm not going to get in. No, it's too cold for that. I don't Wait, wait, wait. Just me. I'm I'm sober. You're not sober, dude. Please test me. Like We don't need to test you. Here's the thing. You are covered You are covered in vomit. I can smell the alcohol on you. Oh my god. You parked here on the grass. And you told When I asked you where you were, you were at Camp Creek Park. You said Camp Creek Parkway. We're in Chamblee. Please test me. I can't Well, so let me go and read this to you. I I I I can pass any test you need me to pass. Please. me let me read something for you for you first. All right. See, you were born in 1981, so you are over the over the age of 21. Yes. All right. This is what I got to read you this real quick. You need I need you to pay attention. All right. Unless you apply consent to all suspects age Will you submit to the state-administered chemical test of your breath? I would like to be tested. Okay, so is that a yes? Is that a yes to my to the question I just asked you? I Sir, sir, please test me. Okay, so I'm taking that that that is a yes that you that you will submit to the state-administered chemical test of your breath. Do you need me to read the card again, sir, so you can understand? I'm freez- I'm freezing right now. Okay. I'm freezing. need me to read the card for you one more time? Let me put you I'll put you in the car. Let me go and put you in the car. Oh my god, it's cold. I'm going to put you in the car. Alpha Charlie Kilo 369123 Please tell me Okay, hold on. Hold on. Let's Let's get back to the car first. Get you out of the cold so that you're not worried about the cold anymore. Okay. We're going to read you this card one more time. Okay, I'm going to read the card to you one more time. Pay attention. Pay attention and listen and listen closely to what I ask at the end of my asking you yes or no questions. Okay. Does this apply to Will you submit to the state administered chemical test of your breath? Right now Sir, I'm so cold. I'm like I'm so confused. I I don't Did you understand what I read read to you? I honestly did not did not understand. I'm I'm freezing. Okay, do you need me to read it to you again? We're out of the cold now. I'm shaking. I'm shaking. Okay, we're out of the cold. I got you out of the cold. You're in the car now. Okay. If you don't give me an answer, I I can only take it as a refusal. Sir, I'm shaking. Okay. Do you want me to read the card to you one more time? I I don't know what I'm I'm I'm saying yes to. I don't even Okay. I'll read it to you I'll read it to you one more time. This is your last chance, but I need you to pay attention so that you understand what I read to you and what I'm asking of you. Yes, sir. Okay. Will you submit to the state administered chemical test of your breath? Uh sir, I want to cooperate. Whatever you Whatever you want me to do, I'm I'm going to cooperate. Okay, so is that a yes or no? I'm I'm cooperating. Okay, that's not what I'm asking you. Is that a yes or no? Uh yes. Yes, okay. Are you answering me freely and voluntarily? Yes, I want to cooperate. Okay. All right, you answered yes that you will that you will submit to the state administered chemical test for your breath. We're going to do that at the Chamblee Police Department this way right here, right? Okay. This gun was in the uh glove box. I'll go and do the uh Hey Jess, you want to Hey Jess, you help me out with putting him in the car and I got I got my narrative from the last arrest. Appreciate it. I'll go and fill out the uh paperwork. 3:15 radio, warning Cassidy, implied consent read and accepted for breath. All right, come on up. Blow in that for me. Turn around. Turn around. I'm like in shock or something. I'm I can't stop shaking. I think I have like hypothermia or something. You do not have hypothermia. I want a water bottle. Just get get used to being here. Go and have a seat. Go and have a seat in the chair over there. Can I use the phone to call my friend and tell him I'm I'm locked up? You have no service in this building right now. Have a seat real quick. You'll be able to make a phone call later. Yes, sir. I I I can't stop shaking. Like something is wrong. Do you Do you guys have a a water bottle? Please. I can't please. I can't let you take anything right now until we're done with this. All right? So something Something's not right. I I my body is shaking. I think I'm about to pass out. You want an ambulance? I I just need water, please. Can't get All right. Well, if I can't get give you water while you if you're about to do this test. I feel like I'm I'm going to faint. Okay. I'm going to call call an ambulance then. I need Sir, I need I need I need a cup of water. I'm going to call you an ambulance. I mean then You got an ambulance coming now. Thank you. All right. But for now I do have to put the handcuffs back on you. Tell you what, for now I'm going to put them up front. I I do need water, sir, please. Okay, if I had any to give you I would, but I don't have any. Can can you please give me a seat or water? I know he was sleeping in a car parked on the grass. I hooked him up for DUI. I had brought him back here to breath test. He started saying that he shaking. He shaking. Yeah, he is he What he say he was worried about? He said he might feel like he's going to pass out. He was asking for water. Dizzy? Uh born in a DUI. What? Born in a DUI. Born in a DUI. Yeah. Is he in the back of the car? Yeah, yeah, mhm. I was born in a DUI, so. Yeah. Hi. Well, I am Hi. What's going on today? I'm I'm shaking. I I can't stop shaking. Okay, well, you weren't shaking when you were just texting on your phone, so. Yes, I was telling them that I was shaking that I'm I'm I'm getting arrested. Okay. Okay, no worries. I have nothing to hide, ma'am. No, I I didn't say you did, honey. Okay. Do you have any kind of medical history? I I uh ma'am, if I could you a water bottle, please. I don't I don't carry water bottles on my ambulance. I I have a But, you didn't answer my question. Um my medical history is just a normal is a normal history. Do you take medicine for anything? For cholesterol. Okay. But, not high blood pressure, diabetes, or anything like that? Just for high cholesterol. Okay. Are you allergic to anything? Uh no. Okay. He doesn't know what it Okay. Well, we're just going to check your vital signs and make sure everything checks out okay. Okay? Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. I will say that breathing's not going to help the way you're feeling. You got to take slow, deep breaths. That's called hyperventilating, okay? That's going to make you feel tingly, all that fun stuff. So, just breathe in through your nose, hold it for 4 seconds, and then out through your mouth for 4 seconds. All right. My partner's going to get you hooked up, and we're going to check your vital signs, okay? Thank you. You're welcome. He's fine. How long have you been feeling like this? Yeah, I mean, everything's looking good on our monitor. Oh, thank you. No worries. You got to try to relax your breathing, okay? That's going to cause you when you do when you start to breathe fast like that, all right? It's going to cause you to to get hyped up. Your fingers tingle in your fingers, all that stuff. That's from That's from that breathing, all right? Cuz you know what you're going to You know what's going to happen if you keep breathing that way? You're eventually going to pass out and your body's going to do a reset. All right? And then you know what I do? Absolutely nothing, because your body already fixed it. All right? I'll let you take those stickers off cuz they kind of they kind of hurt. Especially if you're a hairy guy. All right. Have a good Okay. Yep, you too. All right. So, here's where we're at. You know, so been checked out by ambulance. You're all right. Okay. Um Yep. You did You did agree to go You did agree You to submit to the standard necessary chemical breath breath test, which is what we were about to do. I I want to cooperate. Are you still wanting to do that? Uh sir, can I ask a uh just a a quick question? W- when you had me in my car, you offered to test me for sobriety. Yep. And the reason I didn't I didn't was because it is it is 32°, you're shaking, and W- but sir, I know I can pass a sobriety test. It's not about passing or f- or failing. It's about whether or not I see see um evidence on you that tells me that whether or not you're under the influence of alcohol. Here's the thing. I'm a drug recognition expert. Look, and right now I already had I already have w- I've seen enough on you to tell me that you're under the influence of alcohol. I I I left the party with my friends, but I'm I'm fully confident if you test me, I can pass the test. It's not It's not about passing or failing. It's at this point I have determined that you are under the influence of alcohol. Yes, sir. Based on my knowledge, training, and experience. Okay. Okay? And given the fact that we found you asleep in your car on the grass with and you got vomit on you and in the car. Yeah, I can smell it all over you. I can smell the I can still smell the alcohol from you from you. And so Still have the We still have the breath test that we were we were about to do. Are you still willing to do that? Just Do you want me to read you the card again? Yeah, I I I just want to know, sir, what are my options right now? What options do I even have? Well, right now you're I mean you are under arrest for you're being charged with DUI. Okay. Okay, I can read you the card one more time. I let let you let you like can I can I call my lawyer? Can I can I call a family member? Okay. Like what what what what You can call a lawyer later on down down the road after you get processed out of the jail. I mean it's not going to stop you from going to jail tonight. It's There's no way around that. Okay. All right, but I'll I'll read you the card one more time so you make sure that you understand what you're consenting to. Sir, I I just want to cooperate. So, whatever you need me to do to cooperate, I'm I'm cooperating. about what I need you to do. It's what it's what you're willing to do. Okay? So, just just so just to make clear, we're going to I'm going to read this card to you one more time. Yes, sir. I want you to I want you to pay attention. And and when I ask you the question at the end, I want you to answer accordingly. It's yes or no, okay? Yes, sir. Okay. So, if I can say no to suspects age 21 Will you submit to the state administered chemical test of your breath? You You said if I don't submit, then my license gets suspended for a year? It's It's what I read to you off the card. Did you hear? I can't I can't Listen, this is a technicality that I have to go through. I can only read to you what is on the card. I can't I can't try to explain it. I can't try to interpret it. I just I can only read to you as it is written on the card. Okay. Did you understand what was read to you? I I and and I'm sorry for being a pain in the ass. Can you just read it to me one more time? Sure. I'm sorry. Absolutely. Implied consent Will you submit to the state administered chemical test of your breath? Um Right Right now, sir, I I do not want to be tested. Okay. No problem. The man was arrested and charged with driving under the influence. The car was removed from the lawn and impounded. Can you hold him in your car real quick? I I need to put some gas in mine. I just follow you over there. You what? I'll just follow you over there. I'll stand by with him. Stand by with him until you put some gas. Which gas station you want to go to? Um Quick trip. Yeah, let's go. All right. I'll stand by with him. While you pump gas, I'll stand by. Okay.