On May 11th, 2023, at approximately 3:53 p.m., Officer Christopher Hoff of the Mendum Burough Police Department received a report of a fallen concrete street sign. Upon arrival, two deputies reported that a blue Mercedes car struck the sign and fled the scene. A few minutes later, a similar blue Mercedes 2017 model drove by and was stopped by the officer. The driver was Michelle, whose breath smelled of alcohol, and her 15-year-old son was also in the car. You okay? What? Yeah, just going home. They said you hit the sign, they watched you, and then you drove away. What? These two witnesses said that you hit the sign right there, the street sign, and knocked it down. You kept on going. That's why I'm here. I just got called here. I'm Chris Hoff with Men and Police. We're being recorded on a body warn camera. Okay. Did you hit the Did you hit the sign? No. Thanks. I'm going to look. This is the car, gentlemen. This is the car that hit it. You said it was a blue Mercedes and now it's coming back. It was a Mercedes that hit. Doesn't look like it was this one. That two blue Mercedes coming off of there. Was it a blue? What kind of Mercedes? You know, I'll be honest with you. I don't know. Okay. I don't know. I know it was a Mercedes. I thought I thought the lady had, you know, they said a blue Mercedes just came out of here and then you were pulling back in there and that's why I stopped to I stopped to speak with you. Okay. Okay. He just came. By the way, I didn't call. He just came by. Somebody else I think called from Whispering Ivy. Okay. So, you didn't have any accident? No. No. Okay. No. Doesn't look like this in it. No. This is the only This is the only mark here. What about this? Oh, there right there. That's it. It's right here. That's it. You hit it right here. Put your car in park, dear. You have your papers on you, your license, your registration, insurance, your plates's damaged, and there's a dent in your front hood. Okay. Why Why would you be dishonest with me, miss? I I didn't I anything? I don't know. Well, I say this with an enormous amount of respect. I really do. How could you leave, hit it, and then not know that you hit it and keep on driving then? I don't know. Mercedes. You have your license on you, Michelle? I told my I my license is at home. Would you step out for me for a second, please? You can stay inside your car, buddy. Come over here, miss. Are you okay? Yeah, I'm fine. Are you on medications? Hey, I just asked you to sit inside your car, please. What didn't you understand about that? I asked you to please stay inside the car, sweetie. Just in the car, baby. I'm sorry. You said you're on medications. Have you had anything to drink? No. Nothing today at all. Well, I just wonder. I thought I smelled alcohol when I was up there speaking to you. No. Are you familiar with the English alphabet? Yes. You think if I ask you to recite a portion of it, you might be able to do that for me? Yeah. I want you to start with the letter E like in Edward and I want you to go to the letter T like in Tom. But I don't want you to sing it. I want you to annunciate each and every letter. Do you understand those instructions? Yeah. Go ahead. D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T Okay, I just asked you not to sing it. I wanted you to annunciate each and every letter. That's why I asked you if you understood the instructions. You want to try it again? E A B C D E I can smell alcohol. How much have you had to drink today, miss? I've been doing it for 25 years. I can smell alcohol. I'm asking you how much you had to drink. You're not going to cooperate. Well, I'm trying to do some simple tests here. I smell alcohol coming from your breath, and you're you're not answering me. You're not doing the test that I asked you perform. Now, I'm concerned. You're driving around with a a young man in the car, presumably your son, with alcohol in your breath, and you just knocked over a sign and kept on going. You left the scene of an accident. I don't know why you're acting so surprised. So, how much did you drink today? A lot. No. No. Well, you drank enough that you hit a sign and kept on driving. Okay. So, if you're not going to help me, you know, and perform the test, I'll just take you into custody and we can go down and have you blow in the box. Okay. All right. Do you want to do the tests? Yeah. Yes, you do want to do the tests. Okay. 1845 from 41. Swing over here if you can. Please have a one out. Testing for four and a half county. It's November 12. King uniform Lincoln. 1848. Receive. I'll be on duty. Can you count backwards for me? 87 to 68. Go ahead. 87. I'm sorry. Hey, just need a second. I'm just I know you're impaired. That's That's No, I'm just upset. Why would you think it was okay to to to drink and then drive and go pick up your son from school? How old are you, Michelle? I've been 49. All right. So, I'm the same I'm 48. We're the same age and we're two adults. I mean, just you and I talking now. Do you have a drinking problem? You came over from County Worth. No, you just got into it a little bit today. Everything all right going on? Everything all right in your life? Yeah. Yeah. And there's nothing that says you can't have a drink. I have a drink during the day sometimes, but I'm concerned because you had an accident and then left. I didn't. Yeah. I'll I'll show you the damage later if you want to see it. But right now, I'm concerned. I said I want to make sure that I that you're Well, I don't think you're okay to drive. Thank you. I'll be honest with you. So, I'm going to have another unit come. All right. We'll have your car pulled over here in case anybody else has to come and go and then we'll run you through the tests. All right. Can I 41 from 48? Are you on Brookfield way or just get my husband? I'm at the intersection of Mirfield and Whispering Ivy in the culdeac. Take care, sir. Thanks. 48. No, calling your husband's not going to do anything. I just want my I don't want my son to be here. Can Can Well, if when the other policeman gets here, if you want to let your son walk up to the house with your blessing, we can do that. How old is he? 15. 15. Give me one second. All right. Stand there. Yes, sir. Can I just get your name and number, sir? You mind? My name is You want my legal name? Yeah. Joani. Spell it. G I O. G I O V A. Mhm. N I going to John Dimo. V E S I M O N E. What's the phone number for you, sir? Number. So you heard you heard the crash and and then saw this car leave. Okay. She's been drinking. Okay. Thanks a lot, sir. All right. I give you a call. I need you. Thank you. He'll be here in a minute. Okay. What were you drinking? Wine. I'm sorry. What were you drinking? Wine or do you drink hard stuff? I don't drink anything hard. No. No. I like Jack Daniels myself. You seem very disoriented though if I'm being honest. Miss, you're very disoriented. I'm a little I know. Taking my back. Yeah. Well, I understand, but I'm just trying to to do my job. 1848. I'm just going to brief my partner on what's going on. Then we'll figure out what we can do with your son if you don't want him to be here for this. Okay. Just wait right there, please. We received a call for a street sign that was knocked down. I'm still trying to determine who the caller was. Okay. But these guys were working here. So they heard it, heard the bank. Just kept on going. The car said a blue Mercedes. Few minutes later, she came back up. I checked the front of her car. She definitely hit that street sign right there. That street sign. Okay. All right. She had alcohol on her breath. She's very disoriented. Okay. Can't answer a simple question or do simple tests. Okay. She admitted to finding that she was drinking. All right. What was she drinking? I asked for was hard stop or wine. She said don't drink the hard stuff. That's why she said she's concerned because she has her 15-year-old son in the car with her. All right. While she's driving. Yeah. Where is she? She wants him to I guess she was up here. She wants him to go back up to the house. Get out of the car. You want to let him? Yep. I'm just going to grab his information real quick. Hi, ma'am. Hey. Hi. My name's Chris. You want your son to go back to your house? Right up the street. Okay. I'm just I'm just going to I'm just going to grab his name real quick. Date of birth. Okay. While you're here. Why? What's that? No. Just a document that he's leaving. That's all. Yeah. Just What's What's your name, buddy? To the house, sir. All right. Ready to go home? Yes, sir. Okay. You're good to go, bud. Have a good one. Take care. The alcohol ever get inside? Yeah. How much did you have? I'm sorry. How much did you drink? How did this fall this way if she hit it this way? I don't know. But I just got here. I just pulled up on scene. We'll have to figure that out. So, I don't really know what's going on with this right now. Okay. would have done much more damage to that. I don't really know what what's going on right now, bud. I'm sorry. I haven't uh I haven't seen what's going on yet. I haven't even seen the damage yet. I'm seeing it right now, I think. All right, Mom. It's a cobblestone stone. That would have wrecked the car. Yeah. Straight up. Do you remember? Do you remember hitting it, ma'am? There's no way. I Do you remember hitting it or no? No, I did not hit it. Okay. If she was leaving, probably would have been a left tire, possibly hit the curb. Okay. Looks like it was struck right here on this side. Take the damage. It was struck heading this way. So, probably would have been a a front right tire mark. And here's a mark right here where it hit the manhole, hit the uh metal retaining basin. Okay. So, damage, possible damage to the front right tire rim. No other evidence. Looks like we have some rub marks here on the tire. Also right here some high rub marks which is unusual. Okay. So it was struck in this direction. This was impacted first. You can see tire marks smudged here and it's slightly kicked back the whole basin unit. And if we were to take a measurement from a front tire on that car to the impact zone, it's it's perfect. And at the same man, this is what we do for a living, okay? Um, and it's nothing personal against you. We are He's a former detective. I'm a former detective and we we're pretty good at our jobs. So, let me show you the damage. And there's also, so what you're going to have here with this tire impacting that, you're going to have some type of side rub or damage to the rim possibly. You got lucky you didn't damage your rim, but you have rub marks here on the side of the tire, which are indicative of hitting that that basin right here. Here's the damage where you hit it. Right down your whole front of your car here, here, and on the plate straight down. There's the there's the dent from when you hit the top of the top of At the end of the day, it's just it's a good thing you didn't get injured or nobody else got injured, but we would just like to know what happened, you know? Um were you distracted? Did something jump out in front of you? We're just looking to see what what happened. Were you did you take your eyes off the road for a second? I mean, we're just looking for an explanation as to why what caused you to swing a little too wide and hit it. So, hold on to that. Is there anything you can tell us on the reason why you hit it? Hey, I'm sorry I was distracted. I don't know. All right. Well, listen, it's it's good. I mean, the first step here is just to admit it. It's It's okay. Um, you know, people heard it. We responded out here and all of a sudden you come up here with the the vehicle that hit it. So, it it is what it is. It is what it is. So, I'm just glad you admitted it. Was your son in the car when you hit it or were you? No. No. Okay. And this just happened just a few minutes ago. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. You want to hit I'm going to do some additional tests? Yeah, no problem. Hi there. Okay, let's explain to you what happened, sir. Okay, so we got called here for this street sign being knocked down. Okay, I believe uh I don't know who called it in. Somebody called in. They said they just um heard a bang and they noticed that somebody hit this and left the scene. So, we responded out here and my partner was here looking at the area and when your wife pulled up and she's got um discre, you know, she just she has the damage marks here from hitting the post and she also hit that metal basin. So, she basically went off the road like this and and knocked it over. So, with the metal basin, there's tire marks that it's pushed in a little bit. So, there's going to be rim damage or tire side damage and that's what we have right here. We've got rub marks here. We've got rub marks here and here from hitting it. Um, and so once we confront her with all these facts, if you line up the tire and that beam, the measurement is absolutely perfect. So, basically, we got her to admit that she's hit it and she said she was distracted. Um, and she uh, you know, she took her eyes off the road for a second. She got distracted and she hit it and she's basically sorry. And I said, "It's okay." So, you know, we're going to deal with that. But in the meantime, um, she's been drinking alcohol. I don't know what she's been drinking. I got here secondary. my partner is the one that was dealing with her in I'm sorry in initially and um that's what we're doing right now. We're just putting her through some field sobriety tests to make sure to determine if she's technically intoxicated right now or not. So that's what my partner's doing right now. That's pretty much all we have right now. So do you know what she's been drinking? I just got home a few minutes ago. Okay. All right. She likes to drink wine. would never I mean as long as we've been married would ever do that and then go get my son from school. Is there is everything okay at home recently? Is there no issues? Is there anything going on like with her as far as like needing to drink during the day or No. Okay. All right. And then she's had a stressful week traveling, but other than that, nothing. All right. These are all fair questions, right? I'm not I'm not I'm not pushing the limits, right? We're just we're just here doing our job, man. You know, so making sure everybody's okay. I mean, I was literally in the house just I don't know why she just didn't let me go get them if there was Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's the thing about, you know, living close to home with everything around here. It's all so close, you know. Everyone gets very comfortable within their one square mile, you know. What What school was it? The high school. Yeah. Yeah. on the line that he made. You know, c can I ask you a favor, though? What's up? Can we not do this here in front of the I'm sorry, sir. This is my my partner's in charge here. Oh, I have to tell you as well, I'm wearing a body camera that's recording us. Just so you know, just make you aware of that. Sorry, I forgot to tell you that earlier. This will take all of five minutes. And um I know I know it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing. But at this point, it's just between those two. You know, he's the one that basically has stopped her is his investigation at this point. So if I can just have you stand right here. Okay. When I ask you to, you're going to put your feet together and your hands at your side. Okay. When I ask you to, you're going to lift whatever leg you feel more comfortable with six inches off the ground. I'll demonstrate. Okay? With your feet together, your hands at your side. You're going to hold it off the ground six inches. You're going to look down at your foot, and I want you to count out 1,000, 2, 100,000, 3, 1,000, 4, 10,000. And continue, excuse me, until I tell you to stop. You understand that? Mhm. Okay. Go ahead and put your feet together. Keep your hands at your side. Remember to look down. Put your feet together, dear. Together, touching. There you go. I want you to stay in that position until I tell you to begin. Remember, when you hold whatever foot you feel more comfortable with off the ground, I want you to hold it there and look down at it while you're doing it. Okay. Any questions? No. All right. Go ahead. Go. Go. Two 100,000 500 600 700 800 900 All right, continue. Start at 11. 12,000 1300 1400 1500 1600 17 18 All right. Okay. All right. Take your take your take your time. Next test I'm going to have you do is called the walk and turn. All right. You're going to start in the same position. When I ask you to, you're going to put your right foot in front of your left, heel to toe, and you're going to stay in that position until I tell you to begin the test. When I ask you to begin the test, you're going to walk nine steps in this direction, heel to toe, touching. And you're going to count them out as you go. One through nine. Okay? This is how you're going to start. When I say begin, your first foot, which is your left, is one, two, three, all the way down to nine. When you get down to the end and you're at number nine, okay? And you reach number nine. Small choppy steps. You're going to turn around and you're going to walk nine steps back to where you began. Do you understand that? Mhm. Okay. I'm going to give you some instructions as we go. Okay, remember I want you to count it out as you go. So, put your feet together, feet together, hands at your side. When I ask you to, you're going to put your right foot in front of your left, and you're going to stand there until I tell you to begin. Okay, put your right foot in front of your left. Keep your hands down. I have a monik on the line returning a phone call that he made. Okay, go ahead and begin the test. Now you know what general guard is. Okay. Remember I said when you get to the end I want you to do small choppy steps and turn around. Count back down the other way. One, two, three. Okay, come out me, miss. Over here. Stand right here for a second. 49 is going to be related to DC. Sir, I know he told you everything that's going on. I smelled alcohol on her breath. She's been very disoriented. I don't know how much she had. She ultimately admitted that she had drank something. Okay. She's impaired. She's going to be placed under arrest right now for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Okay. That's where we're at at this point. Okay. She also hit the sign and then she was driving around with your son while she was drinking. Does she have a drinking problem? No. No. Something happened in her life that she was upset today that she got into it. Just got into just had a stressful week traveling for work and Okay. I don't know why she would have gotten in the car to get our son's home. Do you want something? No, we can't not do this here. I can't pick and choose, unfortunately. Turn around, miss. Turn around. Turn around. Go back home. Right now, you're being placed under arrest for suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Okay. Right now, you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford to hire an attorney, one will be appointed to represent you before any questioning. If you wish, you can decide at any time to exercise these rights and not answer any questions or make any statements. You understand your rights? You understand your rights, miss? You have anything? Are there pockets in these pants? I'm not going to touch you in any way. I just want to let me just check right in here. Anything in here? No. No. And there's no Yeah. You said no. That doesn't mean anything to me. Unfortunately, I still need a check. Okay, I have one question for you. So, there's nothing in there. I saw there's some type of soda bottle is you were drinking out of the county 1841 will have one female 1011 450 bottle you're drinking in there. Is that alcohol in that bottle? Just a simple question. One female 1011 42. Just so you know, the car is also recorded. And the medication you're on, you said the the only one you have is I've been taking a lot of medication for I've been sick. All right. So maybe that along with the alcohol is what's doing it. I you know, but you're definitely you're impaired. You shouldn't be driving. I'll I'll tell you that. Okay. Let me turn the air conditioning on so you're comfortable. Okay. Can I just take a couple pictures of the damage? You have the You have your department phone on you. Turn the air up for you. Nice. If you can just please give us a little bit of time to handle the processing. Okay. If you don't mind, then you can come and pick her up. So, what what are you thinking about but an hour? That seems about fair. If you come to the front, we'll let you in the lobby. And just to be clear, I said there was two men working here. They heard the bang and saw the car leave at some point or leave in some direction. Then somebody, I believe, from your street called it in. And I think he showed you the damage where she hit it. Yep. Okay. Do you have any questions, sir? Nope. No. Can I talk to her or not? I'd rather you not because I said at this point she's in custody and I said I want to do it by the book. I don't want there to be any misunderstanding about what was said to her or anything like that. I'm not being a hard guy. It's just it is what it is. Okay. Okay. 1841 county. Can you see if there's a matron available, please? This is yours as well. [Applause] Is her license in here? Do we know? What's that? Her license. License. Yeah. Ask that. No. Can you check these already? There's nothing in these these these bottles. Yep. Okay. I'm sure we can run her information through the system and get her her license number. All right. There we are. Where was it? Uh, he pulled out of her purse. Yeah, she couldn't find it when we were looking. You have the plate number right there. November 12. KUL. Yep. Let's head back. Good. Yeah. 1841 account. Go ahead. I'll be arro to headquarters starting at 69 866.7. Her husband uh came to the scene. He's taking the car a couple doors up to the house. [Music] Are you cool enough back there? 1848 [Music] done. I'm not sure if it was requested or not. If you can get a a train at the headquarters, please. Crazy. County 1841 is out at headquarters. 69 868.5. Where is he? [Music] Just sit tight for a second, please. All right, step out for me, please. Go around the back of the car and then you're going to go straight around into that room. Turn around, please. Undo these cups and put them on the front. Okay. So, you're a little more comfortable now that we're here. This one for a second. Have a seat for me. Put your hands in front of you like you're praying. Go ahead. What? What did he say? You're 68. 68. Can you repeat your message? County on the line. She's saying that she will be available in 15 minutes. All right. 104 as soon as she can. Do me a favor. Can you open your mouth, please? Open your mouth. Stick your tongue out. Lift up your tongue. Okay. All right. You have any um fake teeth or anything like that? Okay. All right. I'm I'm gonna stop this now that we're here. Do you have any um smart devices? I'm reactivating the body camera. Do you have any scars, marks, or tattoos? Tons of scars. Okay. What's your most prominent scar? Anything that's visible and identifiable? Legs. So, right knee. Okay. Any tattoos? No. Okay. Thank you. 30 location. Were you born in New Jersey? Yeah. Okay. Kelly 471 on top. 47 joint cleaners with delta 63 kilo whiskey. Delta 63 kilo whiskey delivery. and height at 53. Is that correct? 53. 53. Okay. And what color are your eyes? Brown. Brown. Thank you. I'm sorry. I have to ask you to wait. Officer told me it indicated before was 168. Does that sound accurate? And what color we call the hair? Brown. Are you employed? Yes. Okay. Where are you going? What's your position there? Account executive. Thank you. I think just received for 21town Road. I heard a car attached all the information. ridicul. Yeah, I'll be in 10 minutes. He'll be in in 10 minutes. I don't think it wants this now. What's man? Back up on me. Oh, here it is. I like the le there's bad luck in here somewhere. You think so? Yeah. I don't know. Like that breathalyzer I think that was a real I think they just got it back in. Oh yeah, it's Oh, it's a scientific instrument, you know. It's uh it needs tender loving care. Sometimes a lot of certifications go into it. If you go to a really advanced, you know, specialist in field of like pulmonology. Yeah. And allergy. They have like boots where they do those tests. They have what? Boots. Oh yeah. Has her husband been called back again? Not yet. We're still going to be about an hour. Okay. your employer employer's name, address, and your phone number for your employer, please. The name of the employer. Just tell me. Okay, stand up, please. We're going to stand right in these little footprint marks and the camera's up there. We're going to be taking your picture here. Can you take off your glasses, please? Can you set on the bench for a minute? [Music] I don't. Where do you Who do you call? Where do you report? Okay, you ready to take your picture? Here we go. Ready? One, two, three. You can relax. Just stay there. We're going to take one more actually. Did you recapture that one? That was good. I took it. Yep. So now what I want you to do is keep your body facing me. Uh go put your feet back in the little And now you're going to keep your body facing me and just turn your head that way. There you go. Hold that. Okay, you can relax. Okay, maybe you can put your glasses back on. use the bathroom. Um, yeah, just a minute. Okay, we're just going to get through these fingerprints and then we can uh use the bathroom. Once I get done with these, we get the other process. Should only be about another two or three minutes. Okay, is that all right? Okay. All right. Just stand right in front of this little gray box, please. [Applause] All right. First, we're going to start with the uh right thumb, please. I'm I'm going to be doing all the pushing and pulling. We're going to be like doing a little dance here. I'll break this first. Right. Left four fingers. Now we're going to be rolling right down, please. 3847. I'm headed down that way. [Music] I got one minute. Okay. [Applause] Just need your signature saints. These are my fingerprints. Maybe try once more. Try it again. Go ahead. Try it. Try putting the pen down a little bit. Come on center. Little slow. Okay, you guys can go to the bathroom. All right. Oh, like front doors. We are going in here. Okay. Yes. Mhm. [Music] [Applause] Hold on. We can Is it more comfortable out there? Yeah, it's fine. Just going to get her a napkin to dry our hands. Oh, okay. Um, are they there? Yeah, there's one one right here. Here we go. Any more water around? Yes, you do. Okay. Okay. So, deactivating. Just activating activating my body camera right now. So, it's on. No worries. Um, here's this back. This is the form we're going to be uh completing between you and me. Uh, I'm going to fill all this stuff out and I'm going to read it to you. I'll actually just read it to you right now and I'll fill it out as we go. Okay. Yep. All right. I'm gonna read this verbatim. So, yeah, go for it. We'll get through this. Okay. Yeah. Um, okay. This is called a potential liability warning. U, like I explained to you before real briefly, um, it's basically warning you that you're taking responsibility of your wife. If you allow her to drive and she gets into a crash and kill somebody, you guys can be responsible for it. Okay. So, I'm just going to read this basically verbatim for you, please. So, uh, it'll have your wife's information up here. It'll have the arresting officer's information right here. Um, what she's charged with. Um, she's being charged with a refusal. Um she basically the second that the uh she had the opportunity to blow into the machine, she started having this coughing fit that you're hearing right now. It's a dry cough. Um but basically she was not coughing at any time during the traffic stop. She was not coughing at any point in time during the entire process in the back room until she was moved into the testing room and where she had to provide samples with her breast. I'm sorry, her breath and she started to uh just have coughing fits and we basically warned her multiple times. because we give her multiple opportunities and um so when this happens, we feel someone's trying to defeat the test for us, we uh we charge him with refusal. So um if you have any other information, Officer Hoff can um tell you what's going on there because I wasn't in the I was not in the room when that was happening. So in the meantime, um so she's being charged with DWI and refusal. Um so the the the one uh test that we did run that was a good test, she and it was the result was a 0.17. So the legal limit is 008. And what test is that? That's the alco test machine. It tells the content of alcohol in your blood. Okay. Um, so basically, uh, so it's it's a she's more than double the legal limit. Double would be 16. She's a 17. Okay. So she's more than double. Um, okay. I'm going to read this verbatim. Here we go. You've been summoned by or on behalf of the person whose name appears above as defendant to transport or accompany the defendant from this law enforcement agency. The defendant has been arrested. 47 carbs. You've been arrested and charged with one or both of the motor vehicle violations checked in the box above pursuant to New Jersey statute 39450.22. This warning is to advise you that if you accept responsibility to transport or accompany the defendant and you permit or facilitate the operation of a motor vehicle by the defendant while the defendant is intoxicated or has a blood alcohol concentration at or above that permitted by law, then you are potentially subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. Permitting a person who is intoxicated or who has a blood alcohol concentration at or above that permitted by law to operate a motor vehicle is a violation of New Jersey statute 39450A. If you are charged and convicted under that statute, your driving privileges will be suspended. Fines and monetary penalties will be imposed and you may be incarcerated. If you permit or facilitate the defendant to operate a motor vehicle while the defendant remains intoxicated or has a blood alcohol concentration at or above that permitted by law and the defendant becomes involved in a motor vehicle collision where other persons are injured or killed, then you may be subject to indictment and criminal prosecution. If you are prosecuted and found guilty, the court can impose fines and mandatory penalties and a prison sentence. In addition to any criminal liability, if you permit or facilitate the defendant to operate a motor vehicle while the defendant remains intoxicated or has a blood alcohol concentration at or above that permitted by law and the defendant becomes involved in a motor vehicle collision where there is property damage or personal injury or death, then you may be held liable for civil damages and those damages may not be covered by insurance. And then the next section would be the person acknowledging receipt and I'm going to be filling in uh your information here. I'm going to be filling in my information here. And basically it says acknowledgement of receipt of the potential liability form. I signature of the person summoned have received this potential liability warning from the law enforcement officer whose name appears below. And once we fill this out, I'm going to give you a copy of this. Um and then the next section is refusal to acknowledge in writing. Receipt a potential liability warning. Um I would be if you're refusing to sign here, I will print your name here. print name of person summoned was given a copy of this potential liability warning but refused to sign the acknowledgement of receipt and then I'll sign it and I'll uh date and time the refusal. Okay. Is that we're going to do the refusal part? Yeah. Okay. Um you know just taking advice right now. I I don't blame you sir whatsoever. You've been polite to me and uh I've been polite to you but I no no need to do what I got to do. No offense. I'm not I don't take it personally. You talk to your attorney. You said you're doing that from the beginning. So it's all good. If I can show your license one more time. I left the copy of it back here. guys need to fill out this form and we'll take care of this. No worries. No worries. Thank you, sir. All right. So, as we do this, what questions did you have for me? Uh, I didn't know how much longer this is going to take. I'm trying to get the kids for soccer. It was a very straightforward question. You wanted to get your camera, which is fine. Yeah. No, no problem. Am I going to be able to take her as soon as we finish up this form or is there We have um it's going to be a little bit more time. If you would like, we can call you to come back here. Yeah. If you would like me to do that, um we can do that. I'll have this form ready to go if you need to run right now. And because I've got I mean as long as I get home by 6. But you're I don't know if you No. Do is we can call you. Yep. The second that we're ready to go and it's no rush. We can keep her here, you know. Um so we'll just give you a call as soon as it's ready. Okay. All right. So here's your license. I will have this all ready to go for you when you get back and um I'll give you a copy of it and we'll go from there. All right. Okay. All right, sir. Thank you. Thank you, buddy. You got it. And we're going to be uh can get back in. Yep. Same thing before. Yep. You know what? Just hit the uh if you just pull on this door right here on the outside door. If you just pull on it, there's actually a little doorbell. You'll hear it right now. Ready? Yeah. Listen. Ready? Hear that? Yeah. So, if you just pull light lightly on it, it uh we should answer the door within a minute or so. Um if not, you have my phone number. Uh she has it, right? Your light. So you might