Around 12:30 AM on April 30, 2024, Officer Anthony D’Angelo with the Hanover Township Police Department was conducting traffic patrol on Route 10 Westbound near their police station. He observed a white 2024 Toyota Corolla enter the parking lot of their station, and he advised Dispatch that he would make contact with the occupant of the vehicle. The driver pulled into parking space 78. He made contact with the driver of the Corolla, who was later identified as April Garcia. April said that she was coming from Syracuse, before later claiming that she was headed to Newark Airport and that her husband was a police officer in Houston. She eventually admitted that she was a flight attendant, and that she was headed to Newark Airport. As he was speaking with April, he detected the odor of alcohol and observed other indicators of impairment. She denied consuming any alcohol earlier that evening, but there was an open box of Franzia Chardonnay wine on the passenger floorboard. Based on the officers’ suspicion of impairment, April was asked to perform field sobriety exercises. Sergeant Paul Gundersdorf started with the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test. Following the HGN test, April refused to perform any additional field sobriety exercises. Based on her indicators of impairment, the open container inside her vehicle, and her inability to satisfactorily complete the field sobriety exercises, April was placed under arrest for DWI. The rental car was impounded for a 12-hour hold according to John’s Law. The Standard Statement for Motor Vehicle Operators was read to her in the parking lot, but she refused to submit breath samples. Officer D’Angelo then walked April through the nearby sally port into the Hanover Township Police Department for further processing. After they processed her, April was placed in cell #2 and later released at 12:30 PM on August 4, 2026 pending her court appearance. Officer D’Angelo issued April the following traffic tickets: -Operating under the influence (39:4-50) -Refusal to submit to chemical test (39:4-50.4A) -Consent to take samples of breath (39:4-50.2) -Reckless driving (39:4-96) -Careless driving (39:4-97) -Open container (39:4-51B) -Consumption of an alcoholic beverage inside a motor vehicle (39:4-51A) On March 14, 2025, April pleaded guilty to operating under the influence. As a result of her conviction, April had to spend 12 hours at an intoxicated driver resource center and pay a total of $640 in fines. The other 6 citations were dismissed as part of a plea agreement. ---------------------------------------------- Please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and consider supporting this channel (email us for more information). Our content is shared for educational and news gathering purposes. We are in compliance with YouTube's Fair Use Policy because we edit several long clips into a concise story. This is similar to other law enforcement channels on YouTube. All videos and case documents were obtained pursuant to the New Jersey Open Public Records Act, N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1 et seq. (P.L. 2001, c. 404). Defendants are considered innocent until proven guilty. The New Jersey Supreme Court has previously affirmed in Salzano v. North Jersey Media Group, 993 A.2d 778 (2010) that “The fair-report privilege reflects the judgment that the need, in a self-governing society, for free-flowing information about matters of public interest outweighs concerns over the uncompensated injury to a person's reputation.” This video advances a compelling public interest. The summary of events was based on records that are “open to public view through open access to public records” as defined in the Salzano case. In Ramos v. Flowers, 429 N.J. Super. 13, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court has also affirmed the right to film law enforcement interactions.

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