on January 18th 2023 deputies from the wallworth county sheriff's office responded to the report of a vehicle in a [Applause] ditch so I know you talk to this officer here where are you coming from it's Jason right yeah okay where you coming from moringo yeah okay and where are you headed to my crib to what to my crib to your crib yeah okay have you had anything to drink tonight no no what about the alcohol bottle that's uh the can that's in the passenger floorboard wait there's a there's a Monaco bottle that's an alcoholic beverage in the floorboard over there oh yeah from earlier that's from earlier way earlier way earlier yeah okay you have any metal conditions at all no no okay not like AED yeah you have a that's what I nothing really not that really serious but okay really okay so what H why' you why are you in the you do do you know where you are right now right now right now really for a little bit no okay I where am I though well you're in the middle of a field yeah but you rolled off into a field do you know why you did that like talk where am I yeah you're in a field a corn field the road's right here in a field pull off and like I don't know you tell me do you remember to be honest like not really no have you been drinking tonight is that why where am I though you're uh just south of wallworth you know where wallworth is the village of w i I definitely know where yeah okay so where so what road did you take to get here where you're coming from oranga um I from where well where did you say you were coming from no no you said I I come from where I thought you said you were coming from oranga no I was but I was a little farther than that no a little farther than that I a fact she said uh she said uh from where where are you coming from right now I know I know Wisconsin okay where in Wisconsin um damn I'm not too sure it's like either either W Warth or a little bit farther I'm not too sure okay you're not sure where you're coming from a little farther from W Warth okay um yeah do you have any sort of disability at all any medication for what are you reaching for um my ID okay I have your ID oh you do yeah I do okay um so who are you visiting um my friends your friends what's your friend's name Matthew Matthew do you know his last name r okay do you feel okay yeah I feel I feel perfect fine okay yeah you're acting very odd that's my concern odd what do you odd well you're you're slurring your wor you're just talking very slowly and I'm trying to figure out what's going on no I'm trying to get home it's just how it is I'm trying to home to go to sleep right okay well my concern is that you're sitting here passed out right pass out yeah you got woke up by this officer cuz you're I mean you're in a cornfield is that normal for you to park in a cornfield no so okay we can say that's not normal is it normal you to fall asleep while driving no okay so we can say that's not normal so there's some weird things going on right no you don't think that's weird that you're sleeping in a cornfield in your car I wasn't sleeping did he wake you up no no up I was sleeping you were awake sitting here yeah no no no no I was even sleeping okay what were you doing here what do you mean I was sleep me all so what were you doing in the field here playing my phone playing on your phone probably I don't know like I don't mean I don't out here H right here and that's what I'm concerned about okay do you have do you take drugs at all recreational drug use no no I'm saying but right here okay yeah you're sitting I mean I didn't put your car here I know but that's where you saw me at this is where this is where we found you in the middle here yes right here right here what the [ __ ] was anyone with you at allight I'm thinking like what the [ __ ] hold up here can you look at me just for a second so I can see your eyes yeah fine it's just like what the keep your head up and look at me okay cuz I'm trying to look at to get a look at your eyes yeah I say like what the [ __ ] okay like like what the [ __ ] do you know your phone number so you haven't drank tonight no okay when was the last time you ate ate food [ __ ] I I can't think you that what were you a long time ago long time ago what were you doing at your friend's house [ __ ] chilling like just [ __ ] do you smoke any weed or anything like just a little recreational use no okay your eyes are wiing you're all right I know they just wiing right right now right at a second yeah why I don't know cuz cuz it's cold out okay I don't no all right man stay in the car okay all right don't go anywhere obviously you really can't he feeli just sit tight for a second okay man I haven't seen a lot of like drugged driving but I don't smell a single thing coming off of them but he's clearly not okay you got to open in to in the car there's a bottle of M right here okay there um looks like he came straight through from the stop sign like he R through like he fell asleep and no I'm going to put him through Fields but I'm just curious if you cuz he I mean you heard him talking like that is weird yeah he does not sound normal no by any means he's definitely disar entities confused like yeah irrational it might be drugged who knows yeah you've been aide right no oh you haven't no I haven't so okay well if we got to do that route we can do that route okay all right cuz I have been so okay um yeah we'll un throw him through fields and uh you run him yet okay um yeah Mingo where he coming from yeah he's going to Mingo okay I heard Mingo in there but I wasn't sure if it was coming or going see but now he said he was coming from somewhere just outside of Walworth he's like not Walworth a little bit I don't know um that's just outside of wart I know what I'm thinking it doesn't like we don't have very good road here can we use your PD do you have a good spot I have PD yeah that's what I want to do just cuz it's we don't it's not really out and everything as long as as yeah I'm going to ask him if he's okay with that yeah yeah and then I can hang out here by the vehicle in case okay in case we do whatever okay all right man um obviously I'm concerned about how we found you right you're saying you don't have any medical conditions or anything okay there's a bottle of intoxicants in your vehicle all right um what okay you're sitting in a cornfield 2o okay um I'm concerned that you're impaired and that you're operating your vehicle impaired tonight okay so I want to run you through some tests okay all right um I don't want to do it out here in the middle of a cornfield in the co C I want to give you a fair shot so I want to head to um the wallworth police department where it's nice and warm and we have a nice smooth surface we can do them there does that sound like a good plan to you you're cool with that um what is it so it's like 5 minutes away so all right yeah all right okay take your seat belt off okay all right you can turn your car off is your car off seat belt off right now yeah you can take your seat belt off me get right we're in a field you're fine I wondering yeah it's just a little muddy you don't have any weapons on you do you except for like a like a dull a very dull knife okay KN nothing really just don't grab it okay no no no no it's there vehicles in park it's nothing here all right cool leave it in park leave it in nope you put it in Drive put leave it in park perfect yep okay you can step out then okay don't go reach in your pockets or anything okay okay all righty you Dro some money on the ground there we'll pick it up in just a second why don't you step back here that's fine we we'll pick it up here in a second come over here over come back over here yeah I know okay keep your hands out of your pockets yeah my phone I'm call okay I understand I've been Clos the windows and open okay no I understand your P okay your pants a little bit undone you want to just but those for me pull them up button them oh yeah okay okay this can't suck I ha a lot okay keep your hands out keep your hands out okay I'm going to I want to search you make sure me weapons okay is that cool with you awesome bring your hands behind your back you're a tall guy I'm a short guy okay so I'm going to have you bring your hands down low thank you awesome I don't mind you sing me at all okay appreciate that have nothing on okay are these nicotine Vapes is that a nicotine Vape GOA that one too we'll get you in the car here in just a second that's why we're going somewhere warm okay yeah if you come up with the key that off okay just got some cash yeah got a lot of cash where you coming from my friend's house your friend's house yeah you own a lot of money or something he owe you a lot of money not really okay all right man I'm going to put you in the back of the squad here okay I work okay yeah we're going to walk to the back of the squad oh keep going keep going stop right there there you are have a seat in there you warm you up okay thank you yeah ow you all right careful okay don't close the door on your foot all right there you go for the car no I a push start so it's I don't know if that's that's looks aftermarket but all right you're good here Banks you're hanging out here okay I'll follow you yeah it is cold thought it was like February uh if you do I'll just listen and then if and when you do I'll check for other stuff Within Reach obviously yep and uh handle the vehicle after that point sounds good sounds good thank you yep all right Jason let's go uh we're going to go to the police department like said so we can do those tests your car is going to sit here okay sit here yep the officer the other Deputy though bring bring it to the station no the other Deputy that was out here he's going to sit with it to make sure nothing happens to it okay so I'm going come back to it yep we'll come back to it if that's what we do okay okay I want no we won't do that yeah thank you yep you're welcome do you have a speech impediment or anything Jason um a not speech impediment like what do you mean by that like like you kind of talk with a list maybe or or you just talk slowly or okay but I got to um yeah yeah okay well it's nothing it's not necessar a speci I don't know how exp I don't know you you do take medication for okay I got you yeah like I said this officer found you just sitting in the corn field so y crazy yeah you don't know how you got there no do you remember driving home yeah yeah home okay I'm go home I'm having dresses on everything you remember it all yeah okay okay sounds good [Applause] all right he's going to go around and let us in so you remember driving you said yeah I remember everything I'm getting food I'm getting food eating where did you get food McDonald's okay eating McDonald's where in Delan or I don't know I my so what' you do with your friend tonight off okay so you came from your house yeah dropped him off at his house Harvard yeah and that's M of Wisconsin yeah okay so you went you went from Harvard to Wisconsin and then you went home I on the way home okay on the way home and home is in MinGa no my home is in harbard in Harvard okay got it yeah got it okay so I I why I got all right I'm going to come around and let you out okay all right hop on out all [Applause] right you're not going to run from you or anything all right there's a door open over here look this way Jason which way this way over here watch the step there you [Applause] go I hold I just want to make sure you don't fall or anything okay it does doesn't it home okay all right have you ever uh 555 we out the PD um have you ever been stop for drinking while driving or anything one time one time yeah by like let say like three I say three or four years ago did you get arrested for it or anything no no okay um so they stopped you and they decided you weren't drinking or I'm not too sure you're not too sure did you get to go home after yeah okay sounds good did they make you do like all the tests and everything yeah okay I got you so no recreational drug use tonight okay and you didn't drink tonight I I probably had weed like from like a day ago or two days ago oh like a couple days ago you have been drink no no no no weed I might have weed was oh weed okay gotcha but you haven't drank recently like a little like like couple hours ago a couple hours ago at your four 5 hours ago at your house or no from the bar from like four four hours ago I was in my friend's house and then I was about to go home and then you guys came came get me so did you go to the bar with your friend no okay when did you go to the bar before or after your friend 10:00 before you went with to your friend's house yeah okay okay gotcha all right all right and you how much did you have to drink like two beers two or three beers okay do you drink regularly no not really I don't I don't I don't I'm a smoker I'm not a drinker okay gotcha all right um so what I'm going to have you do I'm going to have you stand with your feet together arms at your side yeah just like that perfect thank you um I'm going to just have you take your glasses off okay yeah dirty anyway I'm going to set them over here on the counter so they don't break okay um um they dirty you haven't hit your head or anything have yeah I know they are really dirty you haven't hit your head or anything recently have you play football have you concussion a baby maybe okay not a but not not the past week or anything okay um do you have any physical or medical impairments that would prevent you from doing these tests yeah like a broken leg you have a hip injury okay fake eyes or anything like that both your eyes are really working all right yeah both are working yeah both working so all right yeah keep your hands at your side for me okay I'm going to check your eyes first okay I'm going to have you look at my finger okay my finger's going to move around you're going to follow it with your eyes okay and you're going to keep your head straight it's going to move like I said just keep your eyes following it but keep your head straight does that make sense okay you have any questions no okay I'm going to try not to Blind you here if you lose sight of it just just try to keep looking where you last side okay mhm keep your head straight okay mhm head straight okay you turn your head a little bit there there you go how old are you 30 30 yeah 92 okay you said your dad lives in Africa yep okay does your mom live here yep okay where does she live okay keep looking at my fingertip okay yeah I been doing these like PL times it's all drunk in Thousand PS okay so I can drive home safe gotcha you've you've been through these tests before yeah I've been through a couple of times like they thought I was drunk times keep looking at my finger okay I want to make sure I do the test correctly okay for your benefit and for mine okay yeah I feel you I understand he's doing your job yep yeah drunk like keep looking at a couple hours like not a couple hours ago but a couple like years ago yeah I thought I was drunk and then they realized I wasn't okay um all right next test we're going to do is the walk and turn test okay um I'm going to set you up in a position I'm going to have you keep that position and not start the test until I tell you to okay cuz I'm going to explain it demonstrate it explain it again okay um so I'm going to have you come and stand well you can stand right here where this mat starts okay okay um so this is the walk and turn test um I'm not going to have you use one of the lines cuz they're kind of small but I'm just going to have you imagine that there's a line down here on the ground okay are you able to do that yeah I'm oh you want your glasses back on maybe yeah I'm kind back okay you want to wipe them off of your shirt maybe yeah so I've been I've been told do some test like this and then like I the GL on I'm like yeah I should proba let you have those on for this that's why is on always you have trouble seeing far away or up close far away gotcha yeah I'm close that's easy yeah very easy so you didn't smoke weed tonight or anything no okay didn't do any other random drugs that people gave you okay I on my way home okay when was the last time you slept so today is Wednesday it's now 4 in the morning 3:00 this morning okay you woke up at like 3 so like a whole day ago basically okay I got you yeah um all right so for this test I'm going to have you that line you're imagining I'm going to have you put your left foot on it okay left foot left foot yep put your right foot in front of that touching heel the toe now put your arms down at your side and stay in this position until I tell you to do otherwise okay okay so for this test you're going to take a series of nine steps down that line that you're imagining in front of you okay on that ninth step you're going to keep that foot on the ground you're going to take a series of small steps to turn ninth step and then turn yeah I'm going to demonstrate it too okay you're going to take nine steps down that line on that nin step keep that foot on the ground take a series of small steps to turn back the way you came taking nine steps down that line again okay you're going to look down at your feet as you're doing it keeping your hands at your side you're going count your steps out loud one 2 three four and so on okay you're not going to stop the test until you've completed it okay it's going to look something like this okay so with that left foot and then right foot in front of it you're going to take nine steps like I said 1 2 three I did three you're going to do nine taking a series a small step to turn back the way you came 1 2 3 all the way to 9 again turn around okay do you have any questions do you understand the test yeah okay um put your right foot in front again touching heel toe okay you can start the test whenever you're ready okay ni yep yeah okay M all right for the last one you're going to do the oneel leg stand okay one leg Yeah one leg stand I'm going to have you stand in the same spot with your feet together arms on at your side outside of your pockets thank you um for this test um stay in this position again until I tell you to do otherwise okay for this one you're going to pick one leg off the ground um it can be either one you're going to pick that foot off the ground you're going to hold it uh above the ground approximately 6 in off the ground you're going to keep your leg straight your foot pointed like that you're going to look down at your foot and you're going to count out loud 1,1 1,2 I still have to explain it okay 13 1,4 and so on until I tell you to stop okay if you put your foot down just pick it up and keep going okay until I tell you to stop again do you understand yeah I understand okay did you graduate high school or yes okay so you know how it counts yeah all right sounds good whenever you're ready man make sure you down at your foot okay and count out loud wait to what just count until I tell you to stop okay one 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 keep your hands out of your pockets okay 10 at your side but out of your pockets 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 okay you can put your foot down thank you um um have you ever done a pvt before did they have you do those when you did the test last time it's where you blow into the machine and it beeps it's like a little Yellen um so it's a preliminary breath test um it just tells me if you have alcohol in your breath would you be okay doing that one tonight okay let me go get it real quick he's going to sit tight with you here okay all right all right man I'm going have you form a Tight Seal around the tube um and blow like you're blowing up a balloon okay this white so yep this the white tube okay okay take a deep breath and then wrap your lips and blow blow blow blow blow keep going harder harder harder there you go keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going good job nice you got a first try okay man I'm going to have him hold on to that I'm going to have you turn around put your hands behind your back okay all right you are under arrest for happing a vehicle while paired okay uh based on the test and uh that machine was able to confirm that you it is alcohol that's causing it okay what is it saying well it said you blew a 0.12 oh what's saying um so it's saying that the the amount of alcohol in your breath is at 0.12 and the legal limits 8 okay I don't I don't understand what um [Music] I guess I don't understand your question you have more like more like whatever I don't understand that I don't understand the meter okay yeah the price of my my code what is this the price of my code oh okay yeah gotcha I don't have anything on me except for like a like a face yeah you can look at you want did you urinate on yourself really yeah your pants are wet maybe I don't know okay I I do but more likely I didn't okay I you put some water on me water yeah okay you have anything illegal on you right okay look okay like like look at my shoes and socks and everything I got you all right we're going to walk out to my car okay what's [Applause] that you home I'm in C so R okay I just got your job I your job but so to hold on to you now it's just cuz your hands are behind you so if you fall you can't catch yourself you know what I mean hold up my hand here's here's what I'm going to have you do I my I understand I'm trying to keep you up so you don't fall okay no I would fall my foot out all right the driver was arrested and booked for operating while intoxicating second offense he was transported to the wallworth county jail and released on a signature Bond he received citations totaling over $1,400