on the night of January 7th 2023 at 2:16
a.m. officer Adams responded to a
dispatch call reporting a man asleep at
the wheel at a red light upon arrival
officer learned from local police that
Chad kastler the driver remained
unresponsive despite various attempts to
wake him kesler's parents arrived on the
scene visibly distressed and vocal
despite officer Adams instructions to
stand back for safety one of them
persisted claiming her son had a medical
condition baby wake up my my baby to get
up we need the
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key
please this window please my son has a
he has a condition son
got the fire right
here ma'am that ma'am ma'am we've
already done that all this is already I
understand that but where's his daddy CH
you have a key you have a key man oh my
God that's who the vehicle come back
to come back to that guy oh my God you
you have a key
for a minute please please can I get in
something please you can't get in it's
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locked Chad sir we've already done all
that we we we done tried that okay
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I
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unlock can you can you go that is that
your wife yes my wife can you can you we
we we'll worry about getting him out can
you just take control we're not going to
break the window we're going to get the
door open from that
side I'm break the window they won't
break the window can you can you come
her now yes I need them to get in there
you know CH condition you know my son
condition I want somebody to open the
ma'am we are about to open the door you
have got to calm down I
can't
I'm all right sir I'm going to have you
have you move back his foot is on the
brakes if he take his foot off the
brakes I don't want the car to
go
for just just step back
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hey ma'am just step back up here for me
I know you but we don't want roll
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what's his name again
Chad
yeah I lock that door I throw them Park
real quick
is
advising her 14y old daughter is
supposed to be at home but it's not wake
up
you fell sleep in the car no no calm
down you sleeping the
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carad are
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to can you smelling alcohol or anything
on them
you once Emergency Services arrived and
gain access to the vehicle off officer
Adams detected the scent of alcohol
emanating from within kastler upon
exiting the vehicle displayed signs of
intoxication including unsteadiness and
bloodshot eyes continuing the
investigation outside the vehicle
officer Adams attempted to conduct a DUI
assessment but was met with resistance
from Kesler who became increasingly
disorderly and uncooperative leading to
his eventual arrest
hey what's up
man hey what's your name
huh hey what's your name
man yeah you had a park you had a stop L
man in the highway Chad you you at a
stop you at a you at a traffic light
brother
huh what are you doing step out man step
out of the car come on get out of the
car your mom's here get out of the car
get out of the
car dude dude get out of the car
right there there your mom right
there there's mom step out step out of
the
carad on the phone what's going on step
out of the car man ma'am get out of the
car he's doing his job I can't respond
to my come on get out of the car now
this one get out of the car handcuffs
cuz I'm trying to help my son like a
criminal I need to talk come over here
man how much you been drinking tonight
huh how much you been drinking
tonight Hey listen my cousin watch out
watch
out D watch out listen you about to go
and C
brother look look y my name ain't no
Derek man you need to calm down out I'm
trying to talk to you and you acting
crazy you going to go on handcuffs
brother calm down on watch up no I'm not
going to watch out you going to calm
down okay I'm about you watch up all
right up I'm about you all right handc
just just go
a that's fine we're trying to help you
okay on
on you're good man there you go
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come on here
man Hey listen how much you been
drinking man I just had I just had a
beer you just had one beer you had more
than one man or two huh or two or two
you had more than that man that's it how
big were they it was just two beer man
you falling asleep on the in the in the
in the at the traffic light I'm not
where your driver license at right here
my
okay I take this real quick buddy oh
yeah any more guns on you no
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yes that's the only thing you had on was
that gun yes sir you ain't got nothing
else on you no knives or anything no sir
turn around
for I'm going go ahead and um yeah
I'mma take my car read him in pockets
and I'm not going to uncuff him to do
Fields he was already un
rude man I'm so dumb bro so dumb I'm so
dumbb I'm so dumb bro I'm so hey I'm bro
dumb bro have a seat in
there bro so dumb
bro listen to me man how old are you
me is this dumb bro man I don't care I
don't care man let me go bro I care you
ain't you listen bro I'm trying to I'm
trying to keep my patience with you
man [ __ ] my
man what some light so I can read this
man in plent so I can get
him yeah this is
wallet bro let's drive a license it whe
1157 K copy
1027 059
79 5 so he's over 21
11
11 all right man listen I'm going to
read something read something to you all
right you going to be on arrest of
driving on influence all right
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Jesus Christ get off the
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radio 11:57 canm 1015 one time
all right listen to me man I'm going
read this Qui yes or know the end end of
it all right the state of Georgia has
conditioned your privilege to drive upon
the highways of this state upon your
submission to the state admin chemal
test your blood bread other body subs
and for the purpose of determining if
you're under influence of drugs or
alcohol if you refuse this test in your
Georgia driver license the priv to drive
on the highways in the state will be
suspended for a minimum period of one
year your refuser to submit to the blood
of your intes may be offer an Evidence
against you at trial if you submit to
the testing and results indicated an
alcohol concentration is 0.08 G of Mo
your Jia driver license or privilege to
drive on the highways of this state may
be suspended for a minimum period of one
year after first amend to the requir
state test you are en throughout the
process despite the unfolding events and
the reason for her son's arrest becoming
quite apparent his mother remained
steadfast in her claims about his
medical condition all right Mom let me
explain to you what's going to happen
he's going to go down to uh
I can I talk to you in person I don't
want to talk to
them
okay can son well he's in custody now so
because he's going to jail for driving
down an influence okay of alcohol all
right I'm going I'm going uh give you
his
gun and his and his car and you can take
his gun and the car home what's going to
happen is
have a first appearance
tomorrow and he can he can call you
tomorrow get his first
appearance okay now how this work
where's my son
going Detention Center who is he going
to be around and who he going to be with
he's going to be in the jail so whoever
was in jail I don't okay then that's a
that's a concern in mine because of my
son condition okay well they got they
got nurses and everything on staff with
nurses okay nothing to do with nurses
they nothing to do with the people in
there well he's going to be I guess they
all over the news everybody know what's
going on in there and my son condition
is life and death okay
so I need to know who is going to be
over my son who's going to be what I
need to know that well we I'm going to
take him down right now he's in my
custody and then I'm going take him down
and I'll release him to the detention
center and then he'll be in the custody
of C Detention Center when he get a
first appearance here in tomorrow he can
call you with his BN to get
out okay I don't know about his
condition but he's drinking and he's got
and he's got marij
so I don't know if his condition calls
for drugs and alcohol but that's exactly
that's exactly what what he's going to
jail for
okay do you have IDE yourself
i
t yeah you it's a Detention Center I
don't I don't have the I don't have
their number you can call but it's on
Google yeah you could you could call
down there um I would just wait for him
to call you he won't be able to get out
tonight he won't get first appearance
till in the morning but my concern is
talking that
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where Che of
to know my son's condition
okay well my concern yeah I mean if you
if you you can call down to the cter
detention center and you can you can
talk to them and let them know like I
said they got nurses and stuff on
standby down there so your son should be
in good
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hands man he literally has to talk to a
nurse before he gets right they're going
to talk to him you can tell the
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all right
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so let me get you his um as a matter of
fact I'm just going to take his gun and
put it in the put it up under the seat
and that way when y'all drive off y' can
get it off from up under the seat
okay following the arrest Kesler was
transported to the local detention
center where he was charged with DUI
less safe failure to obey traffic
control device and open container
although Kesler maintain a his
assertions of having a medical condition
and being merely intoxicated