Officer Roskos Arrests Drunk 21-Year-Old at Nearly 3 Times the Legal Limit

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:11]Hello.

[00:00:12]>> Hello.

[00:00:13]>> You have your ID with you?

[00:00:14]>> I do.

[00:00:16]>> Where are you heading to? home.

[00:00:33]I'm sorry. I'm trying to find it real quick.

[00:01:03]Where are you coming from tonight?

[00:01:05]>> Um, I was coming from uh Side Wenders tonight.

[00:01:10]>> What's that?

[00:01:12]>> Our gay core.

[00:01:13]>> Okay. Any alcohol this evening?

[00:01:17]No, I drank two hours ago.

[00:01:19]>> Two hours ago. You drank. What did you drink two hours ago?

[00:01:23]>> Um, some wine.

[00:01:25]>> Some wine?

[00:01:26]>> Yeah.

[00:01:28]>> Tell me about this driving.

[00:01:32]>> Why is the driving so bad? You're bouncing off curbs on.

[00:01:39]I my ex I relationship right now.

[00:01:47]>> You what?

[00:01:49]>> I got broken up with >> Okay. Were you on your phone or anything?

[00:01:55]>> Yeah, that's it.

[00:02:01]>> I'm sorry. I'm trying to find my ID for you.

[00:02:13]Um, here's my.

[00:02:18]Oh, >> there it is.

[00:02:28]>> There it is up. Sorry.

[00:02:30]>> Where do you live at?

[00:02:32]>> Right up the road right there on Chacoma. Yeah.

[00:02:36]>> Okay.

[00:02:36]>> 1800 to come up.

[00:02:38]>> Okay.

[00:02:41]Look, go one and step out here. I want to make sure you haven't had too much to drink. Okay.

[00:02:45]>> I know you're pretty close to home, but driving was not too good.

[00:02:50]>> Yeah, fine. Can I roll up my window?

[00:02:52]>> Absolutely.

[00:02:55]Just don't lock your keys in the car.

[00:03:07]Okay, >> come on over here. Do you have a jacket?

[00:03:10]>> I It's fine.

[00:03:12]>> It's fine.

[00:03:13]>> Yeah.

[00:03:13]>> Okay, come on over here by the car.

[00:03:15]Maybe a motor keep you warm a little bit. Do you have any Do you have any type of physical injuries?

[00:03:22]>> Uh I twisted my ankle like a month ago. So yeah, this one.

[00:03:28]>> Okay. Do you have any type of traumatic brain injuries?

[00:03:31]>> No.

[00:03:31]>> Context in your eyes?

[00:03:33]>> No.

[00:03:34]>> Okay. Go and stand right there. Right in front of my unit right there facing me.

[00:03:38]>> Okay. Put your feet together like that.

[00:03:41]Hands down to your sides. Okay. All right. Can you see my finger?

[00:03:45]>> Mhm.

[00:03:45]>> Just follow my finger with just your eyes. Keep your head really still for me.

[00:04:08]I do have a UTI. I'm going to tell you right now.

[00:04:10]>> A what?

[00:04:12]>> UTI.

[00:04:17]This shouldn't have anything to do with that.

[00:04:58]Almost done.

[00:05:13]Okay, now we're going to go up.

[00:05:23]>> Okay. Do you have anything in your mouth? Show me. Okay. How old are you?

[00:05:28]>> 21.

[00:05:28]>> 21. Okay, you said you hurt your ankle.

[00:05:32]I'm going to ask you if I ask you to do a couple more tests. Those tests are going to consist of you walking heel to toe like this in a straight line and then standing on one leg like this for 30 seconds.

[00:05:42]>> So bad. I'm sorry. I'm done this.

[00:05:45]>> And then standing on one leg like this for 30 seconds. Could you do that or is that ankle going to affect that?

[00:05:50]>> Uh, not on this one. I could do it on this one.

[00:05:55]>> Okay. But is it going to affect it with the walking?

[00:05:58]>> The walking? No, I my injury is on this foot.

[00:06:02]>> Okay.

[00:06:02]>> So, if I ask you to do a test walking heel to toe, you're okay.

[00:06:07]>> Yeah.

[00:06:09]>> Okay.

[00:06:09]>> Mhm.

[00:06:10]>> All right. Um, would you like to put on those other flatter shoes that you have in there?

[00:06:20]>> Uh, my Uggs. Yeah.

[00:06:22]>> Yeah.

[00:06:24]>> Yeah.

[00:06:24]>> Okay. Why don't you wear my uh sweater?

[00:06:27]You can you can grab your your sweater and you can grab your Uggs.

[00:06:31]>> Okay.

[00:06:32]>> Okay. Go ahead and do that.

[00:07:05]Do you want your other shoes?

[00:07:11]>> You want to do it barefoot?

[00:07:14]>> Yeah.

[00:07:14]>> Why don't you grab the Uggs?

[00:07:17]That might be a lot better for you than to standing on cold asphalt.

[00:07:39]No, I didn't know there was a concert.

[00:07:56]I started seeing all these cars at home.

[00:07:59]No.

[00:08:11]Is that better?

[00:08:12]>> Yeah.

[00:08:13]>> Okay. Come on over here.

[00:08:16]>> Okay. Go ahead and stand right here again. Facing this way.

[00:08:20]Okay. Put your feet together. Heel to heel. Toe toe. Hands down to your sides.

[00:08:23]Again, don't don't stand on against my unit. There you go. Right there.

[00:08:26]Perfect. Okay. What I want you to do is I want you to imagine a straight line right out in front of your left foot right here. Imagine that line about the width of a piece of duct tape. Okay?

[00:08:36]>> Heel to toe.

[00:08:38]>> Leaving your left foot on that line, put your right foot in front of it, heel to toe, like I'm standing.

[00:08:43]>> Okay?

[00:08:44]>> Stay in that position. Don't move until I tell you to start. You understand that?

[00:08:48]>> When I tell you to start, I want you to take nine heel to toe steps while looking down at your feet and counting out loud. It's going to look like this.

[00:08:56]Watch as I demonstrate. One, two, three.

[00:09:00]I've taken three heel to toe steps.

[00:09:02]You're going to take nine. Once you get in your ninth step, leave your lead foot planted. Pivot around that lead foot exactly like I'm doing. Short steps. Get yourself turned back around. Come back the next direction. Exact same thing.

[00:09:14]Nine steps. Heel to toe. Looking down at your feet. Counting out loud. It's going to look like this again. Watch my feet.

[00:09:21]One, two, three. Once again, I'm taking three. You're going to take nine in both directions.

[00:09:28]>> It's important that once you start the test, you don't stop. You understand that?

[00:09:33]>> Mhm.

[00:09:33]>> You're at zero. Go ahead.

[00:10:05]Heat.

[00:10:41]Okay, feet together, heel to heel, toe toe, hands on your sides. Again, next test I want you to do is pick a foot of your choice, right or left, whatever you feel more comfortable with. When I tell you to pick up that foot approximately 6 in off the ground and point your toe, set the bottom of your foot is parallel to the ground. Can you see how my foot is?

[00:10:57]>> See how my legs are fully straight and extended? Hold on. Hold on. See how I'm standing?

[00:11:02]>> Yeah. I want you to be in this position.

[00:11:04]Look down at your toe and count out loud for me. 1,00 1,002 1,003 until I tell you to stop. During this test, important you keep your hands down on your sides again, touching the sides of your pants.

[00:11:16]Do you understand those instructions?

[00:11:18]>> Right here.

[00:11:19]>> Yes.

[00:11:20]>> Yeah.

[00:11:20]>> Which foot are you going to pick up?

[00:11:23]>> My left hand. That's >> okay. Go ahead.

[00:11:28]1001 10023 1004 1005 1006 1007 1008 1009 110 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 >> Hey, what's up?

[00:12:10]Okay, put your hands to your front like this for me.

[00:12:16]Little bit too much to drink tonight.

[00:12:17]Okay.

[00:12:18]>> Okay.

[00:12:22]>> You have a cell phone in there?

[00:12:24]>> Uh, yeah.

[00:12:25]>> Okay. You're under arrest right now for DUI. Okay.

[00:12:28]>> Okay.

[00:12:28]>> Um, anything on your person at all?

[00:12:31]>> No.

[00:12:32]>> Okay. Let me just check your pockets real quick.

[00:12:35]Okay. Nothing in your bra. Nothing like that at all. Okay. Walk back over here for me.

[00:12:41]>> You have a cell phone in the car?

[00:12:43]>> Okay.

[00:12:45]What do you live with at home?

[00:12:47]>> My mom, my dad.

[00:12:48]>> Okay.

[00:12:49]>> Right up the street.

[00:12:56]Can you plug that into your right by your left hip?

[00:13:00]>> Yeah, >> please.

[00:13:01]>> Can you grab my phone?

[00:13:03]>> I can.

[00:13:04]>> Thank you. My keys are on the car.

[00:13:15]>> I am. Ella, can you take that seat belt off and come out here, please? Yeah, I got that.

[00:13:23]>> You're at the Rear Rancho Police Department.

[00:13:26]>> Okay, >> you need to calm down. Okay, >> I know.

[00:13:29]>> Totally okay.

[00:13:31]>> All right. Nobody got hurt. You didn't crash your car. You just had a little bit too much to drink. Come on over here.

[00:13:38]>> Better uh police department.

[00:13:42]>> Um >> go to your right when you come in here.

[00:13:46]>> Rob has my rob.

[00:13:51]And then make another right right here.

[00:13:57]>> Keep going. Keep going.

[00:14:07]>> Okay. Stop right there. Okay. Who's on the phone with you?

[00:14:11]>> It's my friend Seth and Rob.

[00:14:13]>> Okay. Tell Seth and Ron that you'll call him back like in 8 minutes. I have to hang up on them.

[00:14:20]>> Yeah.

[00:14:21]>> Yeah, that's okay.

[00:14:22]>> Cuz you can't have that phone by these machines.

[00:14:24]>> Okay, that's fine.

[00:14:25]>> Not a big deal. So, just say like 7 8 minutes. You'll be you'll call them back.

[00:14:30]>> Okay, I'll call you guys back. Okay.

[00:14:32]>> Okay. I love you.

[00:14:33]>> Love you, too. Bye.

[00:14:36]>> Do me a favor and just put your phone right there somewhere.

[00:14:40]>> Okay.

[00:14:41]>> Thank you. I appreciate that. Come on over here. Go and have a seat right there for me.

[00:14:49]Okay, Ella, what I'm about to tell you is very important. So, I need you to listen to me, okay? You have any questions, just ask me. Okay, let me take those off.

[00:15:01]>> Okay, first of all, you're under arrest for DWI.

[00:15:04]>> The New Mexico Implied Consent Act requires you to submit to a breath test >> to determine the alcohol content of your blood.

[00:15:11]>> After you take our test, you have the right to choose an additional independent test. If you choose to take this additional independent test, you have the right to a reasonable opportunity to arrange for a physician, a licensed nurse, lab tech, or technologist who is employed by a hospital or a physician of your own choice to perform an additional chemical test. The cost of this additional test will be paid for by the law enforcement agency. Do you agree to take our test?

[00:15:39]Our test is going to be the breath test.

[00:15:41]>> Yeah. So, >> okay. new mouthpiece.

[00:15:49]Go and stand up for me.

[00:15:53]Work over there. Take a really deep breath and blow into that tube until I tell you to stop.

[00:16:00]Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Okay. Good. You have a seat.

[00:16:22]>> Is mom and dad expecting you home?

[00:16:26]>> Mom and dad are not >> They're not >> existent together.

[00:16:32]>> They're what?

[00:16:34]>> Mom and dad are not existent.

[00:16:37]So, no, they're not.

[00:16:40]>> So, you'll be here for about 30 or 40 minutes and then after I complete the paperwork, I'll take you down to the 7 county detention center and they'll book you in and then they'll tell you how to get out. Okay. So, like I said, you'll be here for like 30 or 40 minutes.

[00:17:02]So my um I did tell my ride to not exact me till like later, right?

[00:17:08]>> Yes. So yeah. So later they they'll let you call from down there. I can't I can't really shoot from here.

[00:17:15]>> Yeah, that's fine.

[00:17:17]Yeah. Thank you.

[00:17:20]>> Okay, go and stand up.

[00:17:23]The exact same thing. Everybody does this test twice.

[00:17:29]Really deep breath. Blow them until I tell you to stop. Blow. Blow. Blow.

[00:17:33]Blow. Blow. Blow. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Almost done. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Okay, I got it. Okay.

[00:17:41]See, >> is there a bathroom?

[00:17:49]>> There is.

[00:17:50]>> Yes.

[00:17:52]>> Do you know what the legal per se limit is in the state?

[00:17:54]>> I don't.

[00:17:56]08.

[00:17:59]>> You are a 22.

[00:18:02]So you're almost three times the legal limit.

[00:18:05]>> That's why you're here.

[00:18:07]>> But the good thing is you didn't crash.

[00:18:11]You didn't crash your car. You didn't hurt anybody. You didn't hurt yourself.

[00:18:14]So what you've been arrested for is a misdemeanor.

[00:18:18]>> Give me one second here, like 20 more seconds, and I'll let you use the bathroom. Okay.

[00:18:44]Okay, come on over here.

[00:18:48]Go ahead and grab your phone right there.

[00:18:54]put all your jewelry in that box. Hold on.

[00:19:00]That's not yours.

[00:19:09]>> Like, not that stuff. But can you take your necklaces off? Uh, >> I think so.

[00:19:25]Can you um help me with this one?

[00:19:32]>> Please.

[00:19:35]>> Yep. I can see that.

[00:19:40]>> There you go.

[00:19:41]>> Thank you.

[00:19:42]>> Oops.

[00:19:44]>> Is that it? Anything else on your person? Good.

[00:19:50]>> Okay. Um, I don't see the other sheet in here. I just have to ask you these questions. Do you feel like hurting yourself right now?

[00:20:00]>> No.

[00:20:01]>> That wasn't a very good answer.

[00:20:03]>> No, >> it's not worth it.

[00:20:06]>> No.

[00:20:07]>> Like I said, you've been arrested for a misdemeanor. It's not good, but it's not bad either.

[00:20:11]>> It's okay.

[00:20:12]>> Yeah.

[00:20:12]>> So, I just need to make sure you don't want to hurt yourself. Um, I'll put you back here. You can grab your phone. You have your phone?

[00:20:20]>> Okay. Give me like 30 minutes and then I'll get you out of here. Okay.

[00:20:24]>> Is there?

[00:20:26]>> There is.

[00:20:28]>> It's not the Hilton, but >> it'll it'll work.

[00:20:54]Ella, can you come out here, please?

[00:21:18]You okay?

[00:21:49]Okay, come on over here.

[00:21:58]Go and grab your stuff right there.

[00:22:01]>> You can put that stuff in your pocket right here cuz they're going to make you take it off here in a minute anyway.

[00:22:07]>> Okay.

[00:22:18]Let's put your hand in front again.

[00:22:20]Thank you.

[00:22:26]>> Okay. Come this way, please.

[00:22:29]Want something to blow your nose.

[00:22:47]You could throw it in there if you want.

[00:23:12]Thank you. Yep.

[00:23:15]>> Put that seat belt on again, please.

[00:23:28]Thank you.

[00:23:56]Put that phone in your pocket real quick.

[00:24:00]I need to put these cuffs to your back before I bring you in.

[00:24:05]>> If I have them in the front, they're going to yell at me. Okay.

[00:24:16]>> Okay.

[00:24:26]All right, come this way.

[00:24:48]and go to your right here. Just stand right there.

[00:25:16]Thank you.

[00:25:42]Hello.

[00:25:44]Hey. Hey.