on September 24th 2023 an officer from the amyy police department saw a vehicle sitting in a park whose owner was a habitual drunk driver the officer decided to approach the man in the driver's seat to make sure he was okay to drive speed how's it going pretty good officer good I got concerns about your condition about driving I know that's why I'm driving why are you driving I'm not okay you got the key turn the radio down well what I need you to do is I need you to turn the vehicle off if it's not on take the keys out of the ignition I'm not driving okay you got your driver's license on you yes I do I'm not driving here go officer thank you you're welcome Wayne is this your current address in Turtle Lake I'm between moving right now you're between moving where do you normally stay yes okay all righty well is there a way I can give you ride back to the residence and we'll just leave your car parked here wow I can I won't drive tonight well I can't trust you on that one officer I ain't going to drive tonight well if you're going to be going home then I'd rather just give you a ride and we can leave your car here I got a friend with me where's your friend the bathroom all right well I can hang out until your friend gets you your friend been drinking too couple be couple beers all right can you do me a favor can you just hand me the keys for right now I can't do that officer thank you so much I'm just going to sit on top of the car for now all right just hang tight in the vehicle for me okay okay can you run Wayne born in 58 time for can you check for any open cases 415 4015 I'm any open done for thank you copy 41919 all right Wayne this is the deal okay buddy okay you don't want me to give you a ride you're not in the condition to drive I don't have anything on you or I can arrest you for anything um here's the deal this car is going to stay here oh way it's going to be hours upon hours before you're even clear enough to even operate a motor vehicle thank you very much so here's the deal okay Officer I'm going to give you the keys back M I'm going to allow you to crack windows Yep and then you're going to put the keys somewhere where you can't get to them well thank offic but here's here's the deal all right the second I see this car rolling I'm stopping you and we're going to go through the gamut can I stay here for a little while today like I said you're going to have to sit here for a long time so either figure out a ride home from somewhere or if you can find someone sober to come pick you up okay but I'm telling you right now I catch you operating this motor vehicle you're going for a drunk and you know how many you already have right I know I you know the next one's going to happen to you that's my like to park you know what the I'm just warning you though you know the next time you get hooked for an ow okay you know you know what's happening right yes sir you know where you're going to go for a while I know cuz it's going to be a seventh and that's that's that's a guaranteed 3 and A2 years okay so you'll be going to state state prison on that one so I don't want to do that I don't I don't think anybody really wants to do that so here's the keys back crack window crack Windows no I'm going to watch you put those I'm going to watch you crack windows and put those keys somewhere nope that's not where they're going to go no cuz even if you put that key in that ignition you make this vehicle reibly operable that's operated motor vehicle all intoxicated so if I come even if I come by here and I see this car's running I'm going to yank you out I'm going to run you field sobriety I'm going to hook you for drunk thank you off understand thank you for the warning all right keep it safe yeah you too did you get the 4105 County where reactivate that last traffic complain at Michael's Park I'll be out the vehicle behind the fire department wa I tell you if I caught you driving well I told my I said I should drink I rested though let's go just hop out of the vehicle for me front of my squad car stand right in front of me in front of the squad you can just hang tight for me for right now okay I'll take your driver's license I need that anyways all right what did I tell you the last time I talk to you and it's not it hasn't even been 1 hour I CAU you driving what was I going to do I SL no I told you it was going to be several hours before you would be even able to move that vehicle right and I offered you a ride that's well you didn't take it the first time so now so now we're going to go through field sobriety exercises if you're will to do some field sobriety exercises are you will to do field variety exercises whatever have sir okay stand in front of my squad car right there 41052 4105 I'll be out on field work all right take one step wait for my squad car all right now I want you to turn and face me okay you have anything wrong with your eyes oh can you see my finger can you touch my finger go and touch my finger Perfect all right what I want you to do is I want you to follow my finger with your eyes only do not move your head during the exercise do you understand all right follow my finger okay you're going to follow my finger with your eyes only not moving your head do you understand are you in the area at all keep following my finger you got to keep following my finger look at my finger I'll follow my finger with your eyes only do not move your head okay keep following it you got to keep following it keep following it I was able to get that tree off the road not aard keep following it you got to keep looking for [Applause] it you have any problems with your legs ankles knees don't not no nothing that's going to have the inability to balance no all right what I want you to do is I want you to imagine a line in front of us I want you to put your left foot on that imaginary line with your right foot in front touching Heel To Toe with your arms to your side and I want you to stay in this position until I instruct you to do something else yes sir you understand yes sir all right go ahead and get in this position nope I just want you to get in this position until I tell you to do something else left foot on the line hands to your side left foot on that line Right Foot In Front touching heel to toe and I don't I want you to stay in that position until I instruct you to do something else get into this instructional position please do you understand what I'm asking Wayne I do okay then I need you to follow the instruction and get into an instructional position left foot on that line Right Foot In Front touching heel toe and do not move when I asked you to I want you to take nine heel the toe steps like this one 2 3 until you get to the ninth step on the ninth step you're going to take a couple choppy steps turning to your left get back into this position take nine more heelo steps one two 3 until you get to the nine during this exercises I want your arms to your side I want you to look down at your feet and I want you to count each step out loud do you understand do you understand okay all right go ahead and begin 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 all right you going to continue the exercise or you think you're done if you feel like just let me know if you feel like you're done the exercise I call L sir are you done with the exercise no I call n I'm asking you a question are you done with the exercise yes or no question I've all right go ahead and stand back in front of my squad car thank you all right come back over here Wayne stand right there no take a step back I want you off the cracks right there all right arms to your side feet together heels and Toes together okay this is called the one leg stand when I tell you to I want you to raise a foot of your choice off the ground approximately 6 in with your toe pointed out it's going to look kind of like this okay very well all right during this exer wait don't start until I tell you to okay hands out of your pockets for me please off to your just down to your side keep your hands out of your pockets during this exercise I want you to look at the foot you've raised and count out loud like this 1,1 1 2 1003 until I tell you to stop okay again during this exercise arms to your side look down at the foot you've raised count out loud 1001 1002 1003 until I inst you to stop I didn't tell you to begin yet you got to wait until I tell you to begin do you have any questions about what I've asked you to do no sir okay give me one second go ahead and me again 1,1 1002 1,00 3 1004 1005 1,6 1, all right we're just going to we're going to call this done all right go ahead and just put your butt up against the front of my squad car for me no just put your butt up against there put your butt up against there thank 106 hands out of your pocket for me I'll come all right when I ask you to I want you take a big deep breath put your lips around the tube and blow it like you're blowing a balloon okay okay right big deep breath and blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow blow perfect thank you welome based on my observations in your field variety exercises all right you're underr wer motor vehicle intoxicated okay so you to do is turn around place your hands behind your back my vehle my well your passengers going to have to hey nope hands go on your back don't walk away from me my passeng your passengers going to have to find the right home do you have anything on your Pur that's going to poke me stab me any any weapons any knives not even all right go ahead and turn away from me I'm going check your pockets real quick everything is my wallet we're going to walk on the side of my squad car hold on hold on let me get this out of here go and have a seat inside the squad car watch your legs on your shoulder to that door over here all right once we get in here and we get back into a spot where they're going to do the Low Dry we'll get those handcuffs off for a little bit okay thank you very much cuz it kind of hurt my no I bet they are I'm yes you are I have policies I have to follow though so I know you got to do your job youone through this door right here hello blood one second here all right number say that again phone number what's your name way birthday 58 58 oh okay perfect thank you stand here all right Officer I straight ahead Straight Ahead in here thank you all right all right are we just for leave the blood draw today yep no medical clearance needed or shouldn't no okay uh you don't have a kit out yeah do I do not I need one please that kind of hurt my wrist no and they're not made for Comfort I know put some go ahead and have a seat right there on that chair right there okay yeah all right Officer I like you I try to be fair I know you are you are I appreciate you being I did wrong I know that I should have did what I did I was hoping you weren't but but it's the choices we decide to make right [Music] so what's going to happen here they're going to bring me the blood kit I got to fill a little bit of paperwork with it they're going to come in they're going to take a little bit a couple vials of blood out of you and then I'll get that all packaged up and then yeah you might as well just take your uh take your jacket off right now I no blood it take out from all right oh you can just just relax just lay back a little bit it's going to be a hot minute before they're in here right all right all right now we just got to wait for the nurse orici to get in here to do the blood dry oh yeah I'll so we you give information show my car got told how much it cost to get it out I won't know how much it'll cost but I'll have I'll fill out something at the jail that'll tell you which company has your your vehicle though okay thank you very much yeah I won't I don't know what their rate is that's all they have that all set you'd have to find that out from them some charges by the day there right so I want to know immediately how much it costs no understandable understandable and how long I'll stay in jail well I you will be overnight until tomorrow okay you'll have to go in front of a judge tomorrow cuz this is a felony felony offense ow so you'll have to wait until Court appearances for jail appearances tomorrow yeah thank you very much and then once it's uh once you're in front of the judge they'll probably set your your bond and then depending on what that is if you can get released and you can release tomorrow if not then it's I said once I get you there and I turn you over to the jail staff all my stuff all my stuff gets sent to the DA's office and then it'll be all ready for uh jail appearances tomorrow so thank you officer no absolutely I shouldn't never picked her up like I said I offered you that ride I know you did thank you for that you seem like you understood what what the consequences were going to be yes I did and I'm accepting the consequences no I know you are there's any can proceed faster than we we're at the mercy of the hospital staff right now way I mean I can admit to to you no I understand that but I have to we have to wait for them to come here for the blood drop so that's part of my procedures at this point well like I said we're at the mercy I don't have no arguments no I know you did your job you did a good we're at we're at the mercy of the hospital staff so he did good job he did good how I get out and sleep I can understand in that well as soon as we can get this portion done I'll transport you up to balam Lake you'll have a couple things to do with jail staff there before they get you placed and then all that yep get you through that process and and you'll be able to go get your sleep I thought I'll be out tomorrow all yeah like I said I don't know what the courts will do as far as the bondle go so that'll get set tomorrow at jail appearance time hello I'll be the one who's drawing your blood here's a vampire you got it well let's do this all right so anytime you come into the ER we offer you to be seen by the doctor do you have any reason you want to be seen by the doctor yeah the first one I seen in half hour yeah we got kind of busy real quick so that's understandable do you have anything you want to medically be seen by the doctor for okay I'll have you a sign right here on this line saying you don't want to be seen thank you I just let be cooperated perfect and can you tell me your name and your birthday take just going to put this rubber band on your arm clean your arm Mom hope you f In Vein I hope so there it is there it is yep you can just relax you don't have to than last time you had a hard time finding it you must have been more dehydrated that's possibility alcohol does that sure does you can just relax your arm down perfect do you have a uh it is 2007 207 okay I'm going to put that down for collection time here got to fix this Amry I don't think we met Brian Brian but no I don't think so either I'll see him again yeah you're good on my where's the bathroom for can uh I wonder if someone's in it there's a bathroom right there but I think someone's in it that's fine we can wait oh that bathroom's still usable down there right y all right want to grab your jacket trouble yeah I see you sitting yeah you saw me I did and I was like oops just cut the cloth all right go use this bathroom real quick down here all right you go Ahad and go use the restroom oh thank you [Music] thank you you ready yep let's go over this way thank you we'll go in the front this time C thank you very much all right thanks guys have a good night come back in no condition all right we're back over here looks like she's still raining pretty good yeah safety reasons yep absolutely You' been Cooperative with me well thank you very much try to make it a little bit easier on you okay oh yeah I know that I know it's not it's not a good night anymore for you but in the back yeah you got I have no room for you in the front and it's policy to go in the back you want have a seat okay thank you very much I got you I just got lost my foot in trying to get up here okay Officer thank you all right we got to buckle you in again all right you want don't you lift your hands up a little bit there we go all right T us underneath your arm all right watch out watch your knees watch your elbows all right the suspect was arrested and charged with operating while intoxicated seventh offense the charge was later dismissed in court