- We just heard dispatch do a call of an accident.
It's kind of an unknown situation,
but they say there might be intoxication
involved in the cause of the accident, possibly a DUI.
Medics were passing by.
So they flagged him down.
So I don't know if anybody's claiming injury right now.
All right, so what's going on?
- I took his keys.
He's drunk.
He--
- Which guy?
Who was the driver? - Uh, he's drunk.
He's cussing.
- He's in the car.
- And I asked if he's all right.
- They were going northbound, and he was coming southbound
on the northbound side of the--
- You were-- you witness it?
Yeah, we can get a statement.
- Not-- not this part, but--
- No, you witnessed him driving on the wrong side of the road,
yeah, if you could, please.
- How you doing?
- Good, how's everything?
- Well, all I'm getting out of him so far is his name is Doc.
- Doc?
- He's denied being kind of diabetic or anything like that,
but he says that he has had quite a bit of alcohol.
I can't really get any other information out
of him right now, denies any kind of weapons on him.
- OK.
- He doesn't have any kind of identification, he says.
Doc, you got a wallet on you?
[mumbling]
- Nothing, nothing?
You got anything in your pocket?
Nothing going to stab me, poke me, or anything like that,
right?
- It was that-- what, on the floor?
- Yeah, it was-- it was right next to his foot.
- OK.
- When I opened the door, it was just sitting right there.
- OK.
- All right, awesome, thank you.
The witnesses here observed him on the wrong side
of the roadway.
Fortunately, he didn't hit anything.
He just went off the curb, and you can see this--
the line here on the grass.
So he basically parked here, stopping just
short of this telephone pole.
You think you had a little too much to drive tonight?
You shouldn't have been behind the wheel?
[mumbling]
- I'm not understanding you.
[mumbling]
- How much would you say you had to drink tonight, huh?
[mumbling]
- With his level of intoxication,
we wouldn't be able to do the standard field sobriety test,
so with that, a Highway Patrol trooper
is going to apply for a warrant to do a blood draw.
The results will come back of his blood alcohol level.
- Let go of the wheel. - Yeah.
- Let go of the wheel.
- Is he around it, or just leaning on it?
Hold on.
Let me see.
Oh, yeah, his got his arm through it.
Come on, Thomas, take--
take your arm out of the wheel, out of the wheel.
He's like-- all right.
See if you can pull him that way.
There you go.
All right, wait, wait.
All right, there we go.
It's all right. - All right.
- All right, come on, Thomas.
We're going to get you going.
You had your arm wrapped around it like you're
hugging the steering wheel.
Come on, buddy.
We'll get you going.
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OK, we're going to sit you in here, OK?
Turn around, kind of lean back, got to sit up a little more.
Stand up a little more.
- Stand up.
- Come on, a little more.
Can you get him from here?
- Come on. Stand up.
- Up one more. - There you go.
- There you go.
Come on, there you go.
- There you go.
- A little farther back.
I'll come around on the other side.
- There you go.
There you go, buddy.
All right, hang out, Thomas.
- All right.
- So, yeah, that took some doing.
We got him in the patrol car now.
He's going off to the hospital to get his blood drawn.
Then he's going to be gone to our detention center.
And with a DUI offense, you have to do
a minimum of 12 hour hold.
It's a sobering up period.
Uh, you have to be below 0.02 before you can be released.