Today on Alpha Responder Network. I just need a hug, man. And then I thought the cops were after me, so I ran like an idiot, man. Wait. Boom. So, here's what's going to happen. You're going to be placed under arrest for DUI. What? How much meth is in here? I don't know. I don't do drugs, man. Join us as we ride along with the nation's bravest Alpha Responders. This is Alpha Responder Network. [Applause] [Music] All right, guys. Welcome back to another episode of Alpha Responder Network. I'm Ken Shelley, and I am once again joined by Deputy Ballard. What's up, brother? How you doing? Good, man. How are you? I'm not bad, man. So, tell me, dude, what do we uh It's Halloween night. >> It is. >> It's uh the 30 first, and we're out here patrolling in uh Is this San Tan? This is San Tan, the newly incorporated Oh, that's right. That's right. That's right. So, tell me, dude, on uh on a holiday evening like this, what do you uh what do you typically looking for? Uh well, first and foremost, uh happy Halloween to all you ghouls and goblins out there. Um but uh basically what we're doing tonight is we are trying to make sure that uh we're doing a DUI detail uh out here in the city. And we are trying to make sure that all the little trick-or-treaters uh are going to be safe while they're walking through the neighborhoods. And we're just uh kind of spread out throughout the county making sure that uh we get any impaired drivers, if there are any, uh off the road. So, we know that people like to indulge in adult beverages, and maybe some uh drugs that should not be being consumed on this evening. And uh our goal is to try to make sure that uh we get those drivers off the road before they potentially hurt anybody. I love it, man. Well, as always, thank you for allowing me to ride with you, and uh I'm excited, man. Absolutely. Let's see what we can get into, man. [Music] Happy Halloween. I like your costume. Thank thanks. I just got it at Goodwill. I love your guys' costumes. Thank you. They look so good. >> your real job, or is it a costume? >> No, this is my real job. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. I just had to make sure I came home and give you guys some candy. How are you, Mr. SWAT guy? Good. Yeah? Here, we'll give you extras. There you go. Wow, I love your costume. >> Thank you. You really went all out with it. >> Yeah, I sure did. All out. [Music] What's up, man? What's going on? I just need a hug, man. >> Oh, what's up, dude? >> I [ __ ] up, man. What happened, man? What's going on? Tell me what's going on. What's going on? Is that your car over there? It is, man. I was drunk driving in front of me. Yeah? You are drunk driving, that's for sure. Where's Is anybody in the car with you? Just you? I was just I mean just me, man. >> Just you? I promise you. All right, did you uh Where were you coming? Like, what direction were you coming this way up Thompson here? I'm going to be fully honest with you. I have my mom's ID. I don't have her address on it. I was trying to go to her house, and then I thought the cops were after me, so I ran like an idiot, man. I'm Okay, so which way were you coming? My phone's right there. I was coming from this way, from San Tan Valley. Cuz I'm dropping everything I have, man. I just regret it so How old are you? I'm 19, man. 19? I don't even know what that is. Um some probably expensive cologne. What's your name? My name's Yes, sir. I'm Deputy Ballard. Uh this is He wrecked his car. He said he was drunk driving. Okay. And thought the cops were after him, so he took off. And was coming up Thompson here, and forgot to zig when he should have zagged, and here we go. I shouldn't have been driving in the first place. Okay. Dude, um So, if you want to talk to him, I'll go check the car to make sure everything's okay in the car. Dang, dude. Killed the Saguaro. RP advised they're walking down the street saying someone's after him. Was breathing heavily, sounded 10-16. Walking south bound on Mitchell, nothing for them. There you go. That's why you don't drink and drive. Oof. Reeks like booze in there. Yep, open container there in the center console. Can see that there. Yep. It's Milwaukee's Best. It's not even good beer, man. All right. Nobody else in here. That's all that matters. All right. Deep breath and blow. Hard. Blow hard. Hard hard hard hard hard hard hard. 10-23, 29 negative, 2020 BMW out of Gilbert and attached. 10-20, 10-20. What you got? 20-11. And I'm over it too much. PC 11. >> Yeah, cuz you're 19, you're not supposed to be drinking anyway. At all. Not at all. All right. Hands behind your back. The 926 that's coming for this accident, can you change it to a 20-day 35-11 for agg DUI or uh extreme DUI? I understand. Okay. Copy 20-day. Do you need any medical attention? No, sir. Okay. Do you want to get checked out by meds? No, sir. Okay. Let's do this. Front seat, front passenger. [Music] Wait. Boom. Hit that curb. Your site call has been updated. Hi. Hi. I need an alignment. Uh bad. >> It does. It like randomly will pull to the left. It's not my car. Got you. I'm just borrowing it to do Amazon deliveries. Okay. Yeah, cuz well, even before that, you were swerving all over the road, and then bam, you hurt hit the median, so >> hit it. Oh, no, you actually hit it. No, I didn't. I didn't feel it. >> You actually hit it. I'm telling you, I was right behind you. You actually hit the median. Didn't even feel like it. Honestly, I didn't. But no, um this car is a nightmare, right? No, to me. And I'm just borrowing it from a friend so I can work. Okay. How's your night been? No? Good. How was yours? I kind of sketchy with this car. Yeah? Yeah, like 60 miles an hour down the road, it's like duh duh Got you. And you say you're doing you're delivering Amazon stuff? >> Amazon, yeah. Okay. All right, have you had any alcohol to drink tonight? No? All right, when's the last time you smoked cannabis? Um probably like 4 or 5 days ago. 4 or 5 days ago? Okay, any prescription meds or anything tonight? >> No, my dad actually just had a liver transplant recently, so I'm like totally against everything like that. I'm like, nah, I don't drink or anything. Okay. And when you did cannabis a couple days ago, did you use flower, did you THC pen, or what? Just flower? Okay. Do you smoke often, occasionally? Just occasionally. I have screws, pins, and rods in my back. Okay. So, I use it at night to help. For pain stuff? Okay. Do you use sativa or indica? It's indica at night. Yes, sativa during the day. So, you use both? Yeah. Okay. Well, when I do it, yeah. Got you. All right, hang tight for a second, okay? She said she smoked cannabis a couple days ago. I don't think that's true, so we're going to put her through some uh field sobriety tests just to see if she's being honest, or if uh maybe under the influence, which might explain why she hit that median. Okay, so your license is good and stuff, but I just want to do a couple quick tests on you. Make sure that it is your car, and not something else, okay? All right, hop on out for me. Do you have any uh is there any cannabis in the car right now? No? Not that you're aware of. All right, well, let's walk over here on the sidewalk, and then we'll we'll try to get you out of here as quick as we can, okay? You said there's no weed in the car? Any raw weed in the car? Nothing in it. I was asking cuz there was like a slight odor when you opened the door. So, I'm just trying Is there any like in your Do you have a purse or anything where there might be some? >> There might be some in my purse, but I mean, it's not like anything like major, maybe like a little bit. But if any if any Okay. Anything about That's fine. It's recreational. I just I like to ask cuz like I said, I could kind of smell a little bit, so >> I don't smoke and drive at all. I'm totally against it. My dad had a liver transplant. I'm like super strict about stuff like that. I'm like Got you. Um this first one, this little green light right here, I'm going to go back and forth in front of your face like this. Uh just like you were kind of doing right there, you're going to follow that green light with your eyes, but you keep your head straight at me, okay? If you need to blink, you can blink, it doesn't affect the test, okay? Uh sometimes it's going to stay way out here, just keep looking at it way out there. Don't try to turn your head back. You're just going to keep following it, okay? Any questions? No? Perfect. >> turning bright light in my face. I like that you have a green one, though. Yeah, it makes it a little easier to focus on. They have red ones, too, and then the red ones are a little bit harder, so Like it's a little softer to look at. >> Yeah. Than the other ones. But it looks like your light's moving. Yeah, it does. Just like the reflection of the light. So, for the next one, I'm going to go in a circle, and it'll come right to the bridge of your nose. It's not going to touch your nose. That's exactly what we're going to be doing, okay? So, you're just going to continue to follow the green light. There. All right, so go ahead and get back in that position. You're going to close your eyes. Yep, tilt your head back. And we're going to go left. Left. No, close your eyes. There you go. Yeah, I already find your nose and you can't see it. All right, you can relax for a second. You said how much how much weed do you think is in your car? Um I don't know. It's not my car, like I said. Um I I don't know. I don't think that there's very much of any at all. Like >> And where's it at that's in there? I I don't know. Okay, you don't have any like in your purse or anything like that? >> think so. I'm I'm almost 100% certain that I don't. So, >> Okay. Is there anything else in there that's illegal that I need to know about? That you would that you know of? Not that I'm aware of, but again, it's not my car. So, like Okay. Um I I don't know. All right. Um Hang tight just a second right there for me, okay? You just keep an eye on her for a second. I can smell weed. I'm trying to figure out what's going on with you cuz you're showing signs of impairment, but I There's two more tests I can put you through, but I can't put you through those cuz you got back problems. So, I'm trying to determine based off of just the three that I did if this is because of an impairment issue or if it's because of a car issue. My my my professional opinion, I think you smoked probably last night, maybe early this morning. I haven't smoked at all today, actually. I I and I put that on on everything. I have not smoked at all today. >> Did you smoke last night? Pro- Maybe. Oh, and you know I did have a a little bit last night, but it wasn't like smoking. I had a piece of brownie with my sister. Still cannabis, right? >> Yeah, you're you're correct. >> Right. So, um >> Wait, I promise you I'm I'm not impaired. It's this stupid car. I hate this stupid car, but I don't have a choice right now. Okay, but but do you understand you hit a median, okay? I was right behind you. Like you literally smacked the median. So, here's what's going to happen. You're going to be placed under arrest for DUI, okay? What? I am telling you right now you are you are under the influence. I promise you I'm not obviously So, you went from 4 days ago to smoking weed to maybe 3 days ago to last night. I understand that. And I am so sorry that you have to go through that right now. Please, I can't. I can't. I can't. Oh my god. I promise you I'm not impaired. I'm I'm not. >> would say differently. The car Look Can I show you? Absolutely, show me. What we got? So, that's a brand new tire. That's a brand new tire? These tires right here, yeah, I know. That's what I said to you. No, I know. These tires I just rotated from the back to the front, okay? So, the back tires, that those were in the front and they were super shitty and it messed the alignment up. And so, you can randomly be driving and it will just pull to the side for no reason whatso- >> So, then you know you're operating an unsafe vehicle, right? Which you shouldn't be doing, either. Because I I don't know if you even realized when you hit the median, you had a car right next to you. >> I swear I didn't hit it. Look, you can see I didn't There's no There's no curb. There's no There's Ma'am, I am telling you it is recorded. You hit the median. I am telling you you hit the median. Oh my god. Okay? You almost caused an accident. I was super concerned, which is why I stopped you at the next stop light so that we could get out of the roadway. So, I'm going to ask you one more time, you know what's in this car. You've been driving it. You said you've been borrowing it. I'm assuming there's something in here that you don't want me to find. So, what's in this car that I need to know about? I took some stuff from my friend's kids the other day and I haven't thrown it away yet. Okay. What is it that you took from your friend's kids that's in the car? [ __ ] What is it? >> car. It's in the car. What is it? Meth. Meth? Yeah, because her stupid boyfriend beats the [ __ ] out of her all the time and I'm tired of it. So, her boyfriend beats her, so you took her meth? No, they're kids. They're Their kids is meth? They're 17 and 18. They don't need to be doing that [ __ ] So, why are you holding on to it? >> I wasn't. I was going to throw it away. I just hadn't I've been so busy with the [ __ ] funeral and Okay. How much meth is in there? I don't know. You don't know? I don't know. I don't do it anymore. It's just it's in my bag. [ __ ] Hey guys, Kent here with Alpha Responder Network. Whether you have one employee or thousands, you need to verify your potential and or current employees are crime-free. I'm one of thousands of business owners who use CrimShield for our background checks and can confidently say I have peace of mind knowing my employees have no criminal history while they're working for me. Visit crimshield.com and protect yourself and your business today. Do you have something on you you're not supposed to have? >> No, no, no, no. Okay. All right, turn around, put your hands behind your back. Is there anything back >> Actually, I'm going to put him in the front since you have a back problem, okay? You are You are under arrest, okay? If you do anything that's you're not supposed to do, right? Like try to escape out of these handcuffs, it is considered escape, okay? Listen. Look at me. If you chill out, I will let you smoke a cigarette, but I need you to breathe and I need you to calm down, okay? All right. I'm going to lose my job. Well, you you can't be driving around impaired. I'm not impaired. >> impaired. You also can't be driving around with methamphetamine in your purse. I know. I know. I shouldn't have taken it from the kids, but they're kids and they don't you know anyways. And then out of traffic seeing and driving in the So, this red bag, this is your purse? This is where the meth is? [ __ ] take you. [ __ ] Stop walking away. If you don't keep walking away, then I'm going to go put you in the car so that way you can't move around. Trying to be nice cuz you have anxiety. So, just chill out for me. I'm driving. It's ridiculous what you're doing to me right now. Well, we shouldn't drive around impaired and have meth in our bag and we probably wouldn't get arrested again. So, you took their meth pipe, too? I took all of their stuff. That's why it's all in that bag. All right. Stand up for me. I'm going to put your phone up here. You have anything on you that you're not supposed to have? No, sir. Okay. So, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to put you in my cop car. You're going to get searched when you get back down to our station. If you have anything that's on you, it can be considered contraband and a class five felony. You have anything on you that you're not supposed to have? Anything in your bra? I like it. Anything in your underwear? No. Anything that's inside you that should not be there? No? Okay. Come over here with me. All right. So, have a seat right there. I'm going to go through the rest of your stuff up here. I'll be with you in a minute, okay? I'm going to turn the air on for you. It's a pretty good size chunk of meth right there. And more meth. And more meth. And a marijuana grinder. Knew I could smell marijuana. The one thing people haven't understood yet is yes, marijuana is recreational, but you still can't drive around with it. You only take it to and from the dispensary to your house. People just drive around with it all willy-nilly. More marijuana. All right, Deputy Ballard. Always a pleasure riding with you, bro. It was a fun night. We always get into some wild stuff, man, but uh you are an absolute rockstar. Absolutely. >> And I appreciate you all you do. Uh I appreciate you riding, man. It's uh it's great to have you come along and uh be able to show uh the public just exactly what we get to do every single day. So, uh obviously our job's a little bit different trying to get impaired drivers off the road, uh you know, than uh uh some of these other guys that you get to follow along with, but um getting these impaired drivers off the road that can, you know, cause some some potential dangers to the people out there. I I really appreciate you coming out and, you know, showing uh showing everybody what we get to do on uh on a nightly basis. So, thank you. I appreciate you, man. Look forward to the next one, dude, and uh thanks again. Absolutely. I'm going to see you guys soon. [Music] [Music]