You're You're not under arrest. You're being detained. I know that. Why? So, what happened? Why? I will if I want to. I'm a woman. I'm 52 years old. Welcome back, everybody. In today's video, we'll do something a little different because I want to talk to you guys about Catherine Welsh. Now, this woman was just sentenced to 18 years in prison for her 10th DUI. Now, unfortunately, we don't have the body cam footage, but we have a news article as well as the courtroom footage of the sentencing hearing. So, that will be extremely interesting. So, let's not get carried away, though, because I do have an appetizer for you guys. We have a psycho Karen who gets arrested after spitting on Target employees, believe it or not. But before we get into that, let me thank the sponsor of today's video, Surf Shark. Now, I travel a lot with the family. 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Female black gray shirt white shorts currently walking northbound took multiple goods and spit on the security. Hello. How you doing? Good morning. How are you? How you doing? I'm officer number police department. Just so you know I'm recording. Okay. What happened at the at the at the time? Piss off. I played this. Okay. All right. She's highly unpopular for not talking at all. Um I just want to confront that target. So I'll stay off with her here. If once you go to Target and see what you can't be done with the stuff I went for. Okay. Yeah. I'm 52 years old. I can do what I want. Don't talk to me. I didn't know you over here. It's probably you can't be throwing stuff at you. I didn't listen. I'm being very cooperative with you. I'm being very nice with you. Okay. But you come a little throwing stuff. I rolled it on the ground. Okay. Do you have anything on you? Black people can't see. Well, you spit at the lady at And there it is. There's the race card. Somehow she's managing to make this about race. Lady, if you spit on someone, you are going to get arrested. No matter what your race is and no matter what their race is, it's a crime. So, don't try to make it about race when it has nothing to do with it. I can't believe people are still trying to pull the race card in 2025. No, we're not doing a lady. We're not doing that. If you rub house me, I'm a woman. Just cuz I'm black doesn't make me not a woman. And don't don't let that come over here. She's already trying to get a black. We're not doing that. That's my purse. I bought I I know. I'm going I'm going to make sure. How many times are y'all going to arrest me? Check. Can you hold on to my friend Skip? He's a marine and he's insane. He's got that insane look. Of course. True. Because I have a life. Okay. I have no reason to be. You can let me. Listen, we Somebody said that you spit on them and you stole a bunch of stuff. That's my purse. Okay. I'm not saying that you're you're li Give it back. Okay. I will give it back to you in a second. All right. Well, on what evidence? Just black people can't talk. I talk and I have a list. Oh, you you show up with the ET truck. Yeah. What What is the evidence of white being called? Consider Did he go to Paul University? Let's walk over here. No, don't run past me. I'm a woman. Stop it. Let me go. I'm not being unop. You white man. Just just come sit in the car. Okay. Why would I want to sit here? I have a gunshit on you. Do not spit on me. Oh, so you can give me a Look, I have a list. Okay. Okay. I'm not saying that I shut the up and stop arresting me. My last job was the kindergarten teachers a I was too soft on them. You let go me. You hold your wife like this or your daughters. You're being detained right now. So yo, I'm not I'm not not cooperating. Let me the go. This is a muscle. It's called walking. Let me go. Hey, she can sit down here. I I'll work with her. How about take a seat. Take a seat. I'll work with you. But you got you got I'm not a threat. You have guns. Taser. What are you about? Black skin. Just sit down. Holy smokes. She's really stuck up on that race card. It's unbelievable. No, they're not scared of your black skin. They're just concerned that you might start spitting on them and that is a very valid concern. I don't want to. You know, but here's the thing. I'm trying to work with you. Okay. Work with me about what? Somebody call. So, it's there. You believe I can call the cops, too. And I'm going to spit. I told you I had to spit on them. My teeth are misaligned. The Invisaligners are too expensive. You You take one person's word. Can you take my side of the story? You're You're not under arrest. You're being detained. I know that. Why? So, what happened? Why? I have [ __ ] to do today. What happened today? I don't know. I plead the fifth if you don't. We want to get your side of the story. No, you don't. What happened? You didn't do that at first. Go ahead. That's someone called the police. What about me? Shut the up. Shut the up. I'll kick you in the next You got a black people. I got like a white highly cooperative. So that's all I'm saying. Please defense. Don't rough me up. I will kill you. All right. Um, actually heavy. What's that? Put a hood over me. No, I I'm eating and I have bad teeth. Okay. I wish you wouldn't put a hood on me. I I don't want They said you spit on somebody so I don't Well, they said you'll see the way I spit on him. That's how I talk. They said some white man says you put a hood on me. I oppos. You stand up. I'm going to say you put a hood on me. We're not. Stand up. Stand up. I will if I want to. I'm a woman. I'm 52 years old. I have grandchildren. I have grandchildren. Who said is the camera on? Yes, there's cameras in there. Come on. Spinning on staff is barely a disorderly. Don't rip me so hard or I will hit you. You're not going to hit me. Yes, I will. And I don't care the consequences. You're doing this about college. I educate you. Treat me like a [ __ ] Go ahead. No. Come on. Let go of me. Go ahead. What? Is this how you treat your mom? I'm 52y old grandmother. Is this how you treat your mom? Step. Thank you so much. Thank you. Don't touch me. Uhuh. She was a problem this morning. Uhuh. Don't touch my Hey, hey, hey. Do not start. I told you I've been by women officers. Don't touch my touch. You my I didn't. No, I'm fixing the bell around my neck. You from beginning to end, it was always the race card with this one. Holy [ __ ] you might want to find another form of argument because this one doesn't work. Now, she was charged with battery and theft. Let's move on to the main topic. Now, this story is incredible. I don't usually cover courtroom footage, but in this case, I wanted to make an exception because I find this case fascinating. Let's take a look at the article. Katherine Sarah Welsh, 49, of Netherland, was indicted on January 24th for driving while intoxicated, a thirdderee felony. now marking the 10th offense of charges related to driving while intoxicated within Jefferson County. At the time of her arrest, Welsh was reportedly driving her black BMW recklessly in the area of Helena Avenue and North 27th Street on November 24th, 2021, just after 2 p.m. when Netherland Police Department officer Lane Verdine made contact with the driver. I observed the black BMW to be parked at the red light. The officer reported a bystander was trying to remove the keys to stop the suspected drunk driver from further recklessness. A witness advised Welsh had swerved all over the road and drove onto oncoming traffic for an extended period of time. Maybe she thought she was in Grand Theft Auto or something. Katherine Welsh, aka Katherine Taylor, aka Katie Pope, reported to the officer that she had not consumed any alcoholic beverages that day, nor had she taken any type of narcotics, answering for the officer's instructions with slurred speech while she swayed back and forth standing in place. According to the record of indictment, Welsh's criminal history includes June 2nd, 2023, convicted of attempt to obtain a control substance by fraud. May 19th, 1997, convicted of driving while intoxicated in Jefferson County. Same charge for December 1st, 1998. Same charge for February 25th, 1999. And November 29, 1999. So, she was charged within three months of each other in 1999. Then there's June 2nd, 2003, convicted to three offenses related to driving while intoxicated. And there's October 17th, 2011, convicted of two offenses related to driving while intoxicated. So, pardon my French, but it's pretty obvious that this woman doesn't give a [ __ ] about anybody else on the road, including herself. and the judge just had enough. But first, let's listen to her defense attorney. And you won't even believe the sentence he was asking for. Judge, I I want to um I recognize this is a unique case and a unique ask that we're making here. This is not something small that we're asking for. Uh I have um sort of personally taken Katherine on over the last uh three plus years uh I guess almost four years um as a project for me if that makes any sense. And what I mean by that is I I I really wanted to put to the test could this person do everything that I asked her to do to at least get her an opportunity to be here in front of you asking what we're asking for. Um she exceeded my expectations uh by doing the 90-day inpatient rehabilitation. Um and while she was there uh she she started to explore with her counselors and her therapists there uh some of the underlying issues that went beyond just physical addiction but actually had to do with her mental health and some of the things that she's experienced in her life. I'm not going to detail them on the record but the court is aware of what those things are. uh incredibly traumatic events uh that I think she had repressed and had never really addressed and explored. And so, can we get the world's smallest violin, please? Because this is so sad. She had traumatic events happened to her. Oh my god. Free her immediately. Why don't we give her a medal while we're at it? Is this guy out of his mind? Everybody has had traumatic events that they have to deal with. That doesn't mean that they commit 10 DUIs over several decades and continuously endanger everybody's life. Give me a break. And this is why I could not be a defense attorney. I would not be able to say this with a straight face. Um those counselors recommended not just afterare but a specific outpatient program to address some of the trauma issues that she's had. She went and checked into that program. Uh stayed for basically a year. Um, and again did everything we asked her to do. Uh, when you know I told her to go get her own drug patch, I told her to go get her own um, uh, interlock device. She did all of that. Those records should be attached to the memo. She was successful, has been following the rules, doing everything we've asked her to do. uh had been going to AA, had gotten a counselor, actually reached out and befriended the director of the dream center to try to figure out what she can do next uh to sort of commit herself to her sobriety and to fixing the mental health issues that I think stem from uh the challenges uh that she faced as a young a young person. Um she uh sometimes it's easy to look at one side of the ledger uh the the wrap sheet or the or the uh criminal history and think that that defines this person. Um what I have been fortunate enough to do is to really dig down and get to understand her as a as a human and uh see that all the progress she's made, all the effort she's made um and see what she's done well and all the problems that she's been addressing well. Um she's obviously very anxious about this day, but we've been looking forward to this day as well to be able to to present that. And and I want to go down on the bottom of page to address what I was talking about in the CSI. So that I'm not saying that this wasn't the words that came out of her mouth, but uh when she was asked by one of the examiners in the probation uh report, uh she felt she needed treatment. She said she didn't feel like she needed treatment. She wasn't opposed either. I want to clarify what we mean by that. I say this here, but what she would say I think is she did 90 days of detox rehab related treatment. Um has continued afterare, has continued mental health care. Um but in terms of going to a program that is specifically targeted at people who are currently using or currently uh intoxicated, I think she thought that was wasn't the direction that that would be ideal. she will do whatever you want her to do. But that I wanted to explain what that comment means. Um and so there's a lot of times, as you know, judge, uh private rehabilitation programs will just reject you if you've been clean for 3 plus years, as she has. Um and so they they just won't even accept you at all. Uh so I think that was just a misunderstanding or a miscommunication between the probation officer and and Catherine. But nonetheless, she's willing to do whatever the court uh chooses here. Um, additionally, um, you know, her we've been in contact with her current parole officer. Um, they are willing to keep her on parole instead of revoking her. Um, so you guys heard this nonsense. Basically, her attorney is asking the court to just keep her on parole. So, there should be no consequences for a 10th DUI, which is laughable. Are we supposed to wait till she kills someone? Hell no. It's a miracle she hasn't done so yet. So, obviously, the judge wasn't having any of this and she decides to lay down the law. Take a look at this because this is a glorious moment for justice. Worked hard to get here and it's my job. um part of my job um it's several things and it's it's to to look at you know obviously defendants and giving chances and things like that but it also is about making our community safe and I have to look back this is your 10th DWI it's not your fifth it's not your eighth and while I understand the trauma that you went through that you've you've been a safe P3 times. Um you've been given opportunities on probation where they were revoked, you've had opportunities while you were on parole to do what you have done now. And while I appreciate what you've done and I think that's great and I my my goal isn't to, you know, to stop any improvement, but I I don't I can't in my opinion in good faith go home tonight, look myself in the mirror and say I gave somebody on their 10th DWI that your last sentence was for 15 years in prison. The one before that was for 10. The one before that, you've gone to another 10 year back in '09. I mean, this goes back to the '9s. You got a 15 a 10ear sentence and in 2011 while you're on parole for that one, you get another one. So, they give you 15 years and you get out and you're on parole and you do it again. The fact is, we're just lucky that you haven't killed someone in our community nine times over. being given opportunities. I just can't do it. Um, I'm going to find that you entered your plea of guilty freely and voluntarily. I'm going to find uh and your plea of true uh to the the prior offense. I'm going to find uh sufficient evidence to find you guilty and at this time find you guilty of driving while intoxicated. Going to sentence you to a term of 18 years in the institutional division of the Texas Department of Corrections. You will receive credit on that sentence for any time that you've been in custody that the law gives you the right to receive. You saw the look of defeat on her face when she heard that 18-year sentence and her head just went crashing down. She must have told herself, "Holy [ __ ] that's a lot of time." Well, you should have thought about it before you drove drunk for the 10th time. Anyways, that's it for the video. I hope you guys enjoyed this. It's a little different. I find that I really enjoyed covering this court watch. So, I might start a separate channel just for this kind of content. Let me know down below if you would enjoy that. And thank you so much to Surf Shark for sponsoring this video. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys on the next one.