Damn Damn it. Damn it. On August 13th, 2025 [music] deputies with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office responded after a 911 caller reported a pickup truck driving recklessly southbound over the Seven Mile Bridge. Is there Yes. Sweet. Scott is Sheriff. Hello. Uh can you roll down the the back windows for me, too? Sorry, you got you got real dark tint. Hello. Uh So Scott, where where are you coming from? Miami down here to Islamorada and then back. So you're coming from Miami to Islamorada and then you're going back to Miami? Yeah, Islamorada. Okay. Do you do you know where you are right now? Yeah. What where are you? We've got the overpass over here. 18 mile stretch Overseas Highway. Okay. Where where did you uh where did you do today? Where'd you go? Did you go fishing? Did you go to a restaurant? What you you're you're you're about 100 miles off of where you think you are. I'm not. You are. >> Who is the guy in the white shirt? That's the Colonel. Colonel don't mess with me. Okay, well. Uh >> I'm federal. Okay. I'm trying to get home. I got my boys with me. Who do you work for? DHS. Do you have your ID with you? No, I don't. Okay. But if I called them, they'd verify that you're a department >> 100% bro. Okay. You don't have any type of credentials or anything to say you're DHS? No, call me. No. Okay. All right. >> bring my weapon with me if I'm if I'm Okay. But you don't have any weapons on you right now? No, I don't. Okay. So what I want to do I want to talk to you away from the kids. So I'm going to ask you to step out of the car and we're going to walk back to the back of your car, okay? Are you [ __ ] serious right now? Yes, sir, I am. Thanks, sir. I appreciate it. So if you just walk right right over here. Guys, seriously. If you just come over here for me. Okay, so you said you're coming from Miami going to Islamorada and going back to Miami. What are you going to Islamorada for? Guys, seriously, are we are we really doing this right now? I'm just asking you a question. You said you're going to Islamorada. What are you What are you going to Islamorada for? Lane. Yeah. Are we really doing this right now? Sir, I'm just asking you a simple question. You don't have to answer if you don't want to, but you said you're going to Islamorada, so I'm just asking what you're going for. Guys. Zack, how much have you had to drink today? About four. Four what? Four drinks. Like water, alcohol, beer, what did you drink? Kool-Aid? Are you guys really trying to [ __ ] me right now? I'm just asking what you you look like you're impaired. I smell alcohol coming from you, so I'm just asking how much you had to drink to make sure you're not too impaired to drive that vehicle. Okay, how about this, Scott? So again, I think that you might be impaired. You look Your eyes are bloodshot, they're kind of glassy. >> really? Yes, sir, they are. Show me. I don't I don't know how you want me to do that. Take a picture. Okay, we get we can do that in a minute. Um but the other reason why I think you're impaired is just the way you're walking. You were kind of stumbling a little bit. >> walking anywhere. Okay. And then also the way that you were seen driving, you're like kind of swerving and stuff. And then the the colonel tried to pull you over and you didn't immediately stop. You stopped here on the bridge. He tried to stop you at a safer spot a little bit back there. Okay. Doing this. Okay. Okay. So, again, I believe that you may be impaired by alcohol and or some type of chemical substance which may inhibit your ability to operate a motor vehicle safely. So, I'm going to ask you voluntarily participate in standardized field sobriety exercises to dispel my belief you may be impaired. Are you willing to do those exercises? >> Yeah. You'll do them? I mean, yeah. Okay. Guys, are we really doing this? Okay. Do you have any medical issues that I need to know about? Are you on blood thinners, painkillers? Lame. Yep. Talk to me. I'm talking to you right now. Don't do this. I'm just talking to you, man. This is This is right. It's It's all right. Take Take a deep breath. If If you're If you're If you haven't drank too much to to not be able to operate a vehicle safely, then, you know. >> Lame. Yeah. Come on, guys. We are both wrong for this. I'm just I'm going through a divorce. Don't take my kids, man. I'm not taking your kids from you, man. I'm just making sure that you're safe to drive the car. Okay. Do you have any other medical issues that I need to know about? I don't know. Just any medical issues that might >> Bad [ __ ] blow up around me. I've been shot at. Okay. Sorry, man. Take a deep breath. >> Don't tell my kids. I'm not. You're all right. Take a deep breath. You're okay. I've been shot at. People have tried to kill me. I just want to go home, guys. Come on, man. I got you, man. We've been We've Come on. We know what's up. We've been We've been down this road before. Problem is is that we're at this point right now. I understand that. And you know that I have to do what I have to do. I understand that, but my boys are everything. Okay. Where's uh their mom at? I don't [ __ ] know. Do they have anyone down here that would be able to take care of them? I'm not saying you're going with me, man, but you're you're all worried about this stuff. I'm just trying to figure out, you know, if there's someone else around here that you know, maybe they could come drive the car if you think maybe you you drank too much to drive. Guys, no. No? They're my everything. Okay. So, no medical problems that are going to affect your ability to follow my finger? No. Okay. So, again, what I'm going to have you do is just keep your head straight, and I'm just going to have you follow the tip of my finger with your eyes, and I'm just going to go side to side, and then I'm going to go up and down, and I'm going to do a circle around your head. Do it. And I'm going to tell you what I'm doing before I do it, okay? I'm not going to touch you or anything, but again, I just want you to follow my finger with your eyes and don't move your head. Do you understand? Yep. Okay. Ready? Yep. Okay. If you can just You just like make your head straight. You're kind of lean your head to the side a little bit. There you go. Uh so, what I'm going to do now is vertical, so I'm just going to go up and down, okay? Ready? Same thing. Just follow with your eyes. Don't move your head. Ready? Okay. Um so, the next thing I'm going to have you do is the walk and turn. Probably do it right here. I don't know how easy this would be for you to do in flip-flops or if it would be easier in your uh Lane, I just want to get my kids home. I got you, man. Come on, dude. I'll tell you a true story. I went through the same thing 2 years ago. You divorced? No. Lane, This. I'm going through a divorce right now. Look, man. You I You drank too much to drive a car. No, I haven't. You didn't. Okay? Let me get my kids home. You can't drive a car right now, man. Ba- based on what I'm seeing so far, unless you know, if you do good on this, maybe I'm wrong. Okay? That's why we're doing these so that you can dispel my belief that you're impaired. Okay? Because right now, what I'm seeing, the the stumbling and stuff, I want to see if you can do this stuff. >> I'm not doing anything. I'm sitting right here. Well, no, no, when you walked out of the truck at first, you kind of It it looked like it. Maybe I'm wrong, okay? But that's what this stuff is for so that we can dispel that belief that I have that you're impaired. Okay? So, the next thing we'll do is the one leg or the uh the walk and turn, okay? So, what I'm going to have you do is just put your left foot on this line right here. Here, begin to step forward. I don't want you to be touching the truck at all. Do you understand those instructions, sir? Yeah. Okay, could you get back in the starting position for me, please? Just left foot on the line and right foot in front. >> you, Lane. Okay. All right, you got it, man. You can do it, okay? We I don't You don't understand anything. Okay. I just don't want to be standing on the side of the road any longer than that. >> What about this, but Okay. Would you like to try uh the one leg stand instead? >> I can show you the one-leg stand if you'd like. Okay. Come on. Guys, I'm going through a divorce right now. We're just going to hold this. My wife is trying to take my kids. Just give me a minute, all right? Okay. Okay, man. We It's either a yes or a no. Just give me a minute, all right, deputy? I I did give you a minute, sir, but we can't we can't stand here for for this long, okay? >> Lane. Yes, sir. I'm federal law enforcement. I'm going through a divorce. My ex-wife is trying to take my kids. I'm just Give me a minute, all right? Okay. >> You know what it's like. You know what it's like to be law enforcement. >> Well, how long do you need, buddy? Just give me a minute, all right? Guys, If we give you a minute, are you going to do the exercise? I will do it. [ __ ] my hand. Okay. Like I said, I just don't like us standing here in the road, man. >> either, but you don't know what my kids are in my life. I got you. No, you don't. Do you got kids? Exactly. Do you have kids, though? >> No. Exactly. See, you don't know what it's like. You know what? Call my supervisor. Okay. Do you want to do the exercises or no? >> I'll do it. But, you know what? What's homeboy doing down there? You know what, guys? Come on. Make sure we all You don't want to sit here and wait this out of the water. You You want to get hit. You don't want to get to get hit. That's why we're trying to do the exercise that way we can move. Are you Asian? That's nothing to do with my race, buddy. My question was, are you Asian? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter where he's from. Okay. Look, man. I really need you to do the exercise. If you don't If you don't do it, then I'm going to say that you're refusing to do the exercise. I get it, you need a minute. I gave you a few minutes, okay? But Can we talk to your supervisor? Not right now, sir. Yeah. That's not how this works. You can talk to him at It is how it works because you guys are local. Okay, that's not a statute or a law or a policy or anything that we have. He's the second from the top underneath of the sheriff, okay? He's the one that pulled you over. Okay? If you want to talk to him, we can, but right now I'm in the mid I'm in the middle of a of an investigation and you're not going to talk to my supervisor in the middle of my investigation. When I'm concluded with my investigation, with whichever way that goes, whether it's you in your car driving away or you in the back of my car in handcuffs, if you want to talk to my supervisor then, then by all means you can. But when I'm in the middle of an investigation, it's you and me. No one else. Okay? So, this is This is the last chance I'm going to give you, okay? Do you want to do the walk and turn exercise? Yeah, I'll do it. Okay. So, again, put your left foot on the line and then put your right foot in front touching heel to toe and your arms straight down by your side. Okay, I'm going to show you the instructions again real quick just to to refresh your memory, okay? Do you understand the instructions? I do. Okay. I want to talk to your supervisor. Again, sir, once we're done with the investigation, you are more than welcome to talk to anyone that you would like. Okay, you may begin. >> Okay, awesome. Uh so for the next one, the one leg stand, we can come over here just so we're not in the road anymore. Scott, can you walk over to me, please? Do you want to do the one leg stand exercise? Why are you [ __ ] me, man? All right, so just take a couple steps forward, like right here. What is first? Okay, well, in order for me to instruct you on how to do the exercise, I need you to stand over here. Awesome, thank you so much, Scott. So if you can, just put your feet together with your heels touching. Okay? And now put your arms straight down by your side. Okay, you may begin. 1,000 1,000 2, 1,000 3, 1,000 4, 1,000 5, 1,000 6. Guys, what the [ __ ] What doing right now? Seriously. Okay, Scott, can you be honest with me? How much did you drink today? I had about four. Four what? Drinks. Okay, a drink to me is alcohol or is uh water. >> drank in several weeks. You don't drink alcohol? I have not drank alcohol in several Guys, come Do you take any depressants? I take medication because I'm a war vet. What type of medication do you take? I don't know what the [ __ ] it's called. Okay. Uh does it say not to drive a vehicle when you're when you're >> No. Laying. Do you take Xanax or anything like that? >> No. Do you take any other type of drugs? Don't do this. I had three drinks. Okay. What What did you get? I don't know. The bartender made it up. Was it like a cocktail, like a mixed drink, or a beer? >> Guys, Like whiskey, vodka, tequila, rum, gin? I don't know. Okay. You don't know if it was like >> have not drank in weeks. Did you eat anything today? Yeah. What did you eat? I made the boys some pancakes. This morning? Dinosaur pancakes and What else did we have? Uh Pancakes. That's all I remember. Okay. All right, Scott, I need you to come back here with me, please. I'm not going to do this in front of your kids, man, but you got to come with me. I'm I'm not going to do it if Now you can put your hands behind your back. If you're going to pull away, then I'll do it in front of your kids. >> No way. Okay. Don't squeeze my hand. I'm not going to let I'm not doing [ __ ] Guys, I am law enforcement. Okay. I was going to I was going to do this away from your kids, man, but if you're going to pull away from me, then I'll do it in front of them. >> I'm not pulling away. I'm not [ __ ] Just relax, man. Are you kidding me right now? Female officer Well, sir, I'm doing my job today. Try to keep your hands turned the way that I have this one. Your Your left hand right now. Okay. Let's try to get this. Go back. I'm going on the left side. Guys, Lane, why are you doing this? It's uh it's clear to the right. You can go to my hood. God damn it. Do you have anything on you that's going to hurt us? No, man. Okay. So, Scott, unfortunately, right now you are under the you are under arrest for driving under the influence, okay? >> Lane. Scott, I believe you're impaired. Guys, don't do this. Can you see me? I believe you're too impaired to operate a motor vehicle safely, Scott. We have water. Why are you doing What about my kids? We're We're going to have to figure that out next. Damn it, Lane. Do you have any shield back there? Guys, please, I'm going through a divorce. Don't do this to me. Scott, are you able to fit in there? Lane. Look, man, we wear the same [ __ ] Lane, just talk to me for a minute, all right? I guess man, but I really need that you get out of the car, please. >> I get it. You see this suit, man? What the [ __ ] Divorce because Lane, come on, man. You're just going to [ __ ] me, dude. Please, don't do this to me. I got arrested for DUI 2 years ago. Lane. I get it. Do you have kids? Own up to your mistakes, man. You're you're you're you're a grown adult. I cried my ass off, too. Own up to it. You're going to sit in jail tonight. It's going to suck. >> Are you serious? >> Yeah. You're going to sit >> Lane. It's going to suck, man. It sucked for me. It's going to suck for you, too. It is what it is. Be a man. Suck it up. That's what everyone tells us. I know. I get it. Whatever. If you're a cop, whatever. No, I'm I'm [ __ ] law enforcement, dude. >> Just stop talking and sit in the back of the car and stop stop this. >> Let's go. Stop this. >> What about my kids? We're going to We're going to take care of it. >> No. I'm not going in there. Let me talk to your supervisor. Again, you can talk to him in a second. >> No. Not going in there without my supervisor. >> Okay. Let's go to the other side. Come here. Come on, man. Don't pull against me. Let's go to the >> I'm not moving. Bro, don't [ __ ] do this. Lane. Okay. I'm moving. Hey, come on, buddy. We're not doing this. Come on. That's a DUI. So, you guys are [ __ ] shut up. Come on. Put your feet in. Stand up. >> Stand up. Come on. >> Stand up. Put your feet in there. No. Man, don't be a kid. Come on. >> Stop. Where are my kids? >> Stand up. Put your feet in. What? >> Put your feet in. Put your feet in. You don't want to make this worse already. Come on. Come on, buddy. Let's go. You got to sit in the car, man. >> to jail for DUI with your kids in the car. If you don't cooperate, you go to jail for resisting. You don't want to make it worse. Come on. Put your feet in, buddy. All right. Your kids will be fine. There's no doubt. Listen to me. No, sir. I'm not on the side of the Come on. Let's go, man. Okay. We We We got to sit down, Scott. >> God damn you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Lane, you really [ __ ] me, man. [ __ ] you, man. I'm not the one that drank today and drove. Two. Deputy spoke with the children to identify a a guardian and were able to obtain contact information for their mother. She was notified of the situation and agreed to respond and take custody of the children. Over here. Here you guys go. And then just uh the back seat of this first car right here, you guys can just hop in the back. Yep. He's melt. He's going nuts in the back of your car. He's going nuts? What's he doing? He's begging dad. You in? Yeah. All right, I would just kick up the AC as high as you can. What are you doing, man? Don't [ __ ] with my kids, man. I'm not messing with your kids. They're going to go with their mother for tonight. They're just going to go sit at the station. Their mom's driving out to pick them up. God damn it. Look, I get that you're mad, man, but don't take it out on me. I'm not taking [ __ ] out on you, Lane. Yeah, well, you told me a few times you hate me and to go [ __ ] yourself. Yeah, you did. No, I didn't. Look, man, I'm not trying to be hard on you. I'm not trying to be a dick to you. You said it when I first pulled you over. I'm just doing my job. This pays the bills. This is my job. It is what it is, man. I can't say no to it. You're It is what it is, man. Let me see my kids. Brother, I really do not want them to see you and the way that you're in right now. Right now, they're fine. They think dad's chill, he's just going to go hang out with us for a few hours. >> they know guys. They do. Lane. I'll be cool. We can't We can't do that right now, man. You [ __ ] I'm not bringing your kids over here on the side of the road. I'm not putting them over there. I Let me go see them. We can't do that right now, Scott. Lane. We can't do that, man. Lane, everything will be fine. I just should go for the night. Everything will be cool off and then tomorrow >> Go for the night? >> tomorrow you'll be, you know. But they really really just think You got to calm down. You got to calm down. >> to see my kids. I got you. But you got to calm down, okay? Lane. I promise you unhook me. Let me just go see my boys, man. Cannot do that, Scott. I damn you, Lane. I'm sorry. No, you're not. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. >> [snorts] >> What, man? Lane. Put this [ __ ] up front, man. No, dude. The way you're acting No, cuz you're cutting me Bro. You're trying to like destroy the the sheriff's car right now. No, I'm not. You can cuff me up front if you're going to cuff me. >> Look, if you really still want to have your job after this, you need to stop this. Then cuff me up front. >> No. That's not our policy. Our policy is that you're handcuffed in the back. Then take me somewhere. I I am. We're trying to work out how we're going to get your and you're making it a lot more difficult cuz you're sitting back here acting like a child. Stop, man. Then put the air on. The air is on. No, it's not. >> Well, every time I roll the window down and open up my door, what do you think happens to all the AC? Come on. I get some air. >> Exactly. I get some air. >> Okay, watch your head. No. Stop stop banging on the windows. If you want the AC to reach back to you It doesn't. Lane. It will eventually. So, you'd rather have the window down like this? Yeah, I would. Okay, fantastic. Lane. Yeah. Talk to me. What Dude, there's nothing to talk about. Yes, there is. There's not, man. We don't have anything to talk about after for Yeah, we do, Lane. Deputy. You're from Haiti, right? I said again, man, I don't have to answer that question, okay? You do. Because you're on the payroll. You are from Haiti, right? I don't have to answer your question if I'm from Haiti or not. I'm from the Keys, and that's it. >> No, you're not. I don't have to answer your question about it. You're not from the Keys. >> matter because you weren't to job for a DUI. You are from Haiti. Tell me, right? Hey, man, I'm half ginger. Uh come on, look at all that freaking red beard. It's It's tri-colored. I got blonde here. I got like Well, I would show you the hair on my head, but there's not really too much left. There's not much hair left there. I had a full head of hair when I started when I was 21, but I'm 30 now, and uh the hair all went away. See, that's what I'm telling you. They won't They won't fire you over a a DUI. Just That's why I said they won't fire you over a DUI or anything, but that's why I'm telling you to please calm down cuz I don't I don't want you to I don't want it to look worse. If they watch this video and they see you going crazy in my car, I don't want them to So, just take Calm down, man. I know you're upset, but just please, for the cameras and for your own job, just You're doing You're doing good now. I appreciate it, man. You're not slamming your head or anything. I really appreciate that, but just for your own sake Well, for your own sake, man, just try to calm down and look better on the video. I'm not threatening or anything. I'm just saying you know. Well, you seem legit. I'm not going to [ __ ] do anything with you. But, your boy talks a lot of [ __ ] And does not want to tell me anything. So, I'll run him. Make sure he's legit. And allowed to, you know, do the [ __ ] he's doing. Because he refused to answer any questions. He seemed to get real nervous. So, I'll run him once I get out of here. And if he's not legit, oh, he's taking a ride back to Haiti. Well, that'd be sad. He's a nice guy. Well, you know, he may be a nice guy, but laws are laws, right? Yeah. Hey, when you get out of jail, if you want a good laugh, my DUI arrest is on YouTube. I said, if you want a good laugh when you get out of jail, my DUI arrest is on YouTube. You can watch me get arrested for the same thing. Deputies transported the children to a designated meeting location in Islamorada, where deputies would turn over the kids to the guardian. Yeah? He's really quiet. Yes, he didn't say a word. >> quiet. It's all right. You're like my my uh I have a I have a little one. She doesn't talk at all. So, it's all right. I was the same way as you as well as a kid. It's funny. What happens? Uh so, just to kind of So, this is a different district's arrest. So, I wasn't involved with it. >> Yeah. Um but, obviously, he's going to get charged with, just from the outside looking in, uh the DUI, probably like child neglect, uh a couple different crimes. Uh he's going to have to go see a judge in the morning. And then, >> him overnight? Huh? He'll be there overnight cuz he's I'm If I So, it's a different district, but if I'm the supervisor for Marathon, if it was my shift, he'd get me in charge with the child neglect, which is a felony. Um They told me he's getting charged with They told me he's getting charged with a misdemeanor. I don't know. Again, it's it's not my district and it's not my arrest. >> if they're being lenient because And it's a DUI, you have to see a judge. So either way, he's going to be there tomorrow. Because I'm fighting for them. And it's what they're doing to force them in You guys are going through a lot. I understand. Basically And you can't drive. He's trying to open the door. You're going to get me arrested. Go in the back. You don't want me arrested. And then you're stuck with me and you guys got to hang out with me the rest of the day. Scott Diceroth was taken into custody and charged with driving under the influence with a breath alcohol level over the legal limit, as well as child neglect, two counts.