In bodycam footage posted by Midwest Safety on YouTube, Lee County Sheriff’s deputies spotted a vehicle going 109 mph in a 50 mph zone. The driver allegedly swerved into oncoming traffic, narrowly avoiding a head-on crash, before pulling over. The traffic stop, which occurred in Florida’s Fort Myers Beach, however, quickly spiraled into chaos as the driver’s girlfriend refused to cooperate with officers.
While questioning the driver, identified as Alejandro, after asking whether he’d been drinking, Deputy Welvis realized he had been driving under the influence.
While Alejandro listened to officers’ instructions and obliged, his girlfriend, identified as Kayla, did not. She refused to show any identification and stepped outside the vehicle despite an officer asking her to stay close by.
Kayla claimed that the car was hers. However, officers later determined that the vehicle was registered to her father.
Realizing she had no way out of the situation, she began shifting the blame onto her boyfriend. She claimed that she insisted on him multiple times to slow down, but he didn’t listen.
“Stupid as he was doing it, I was like, ‘What the (expletive) are you doing in my car?’ I just don’t want him to get in trouble, a ticket..to get arrested. I work Monday through Friday. I don’t have time for any of this. I’m begging you,” Kayla pleaded in front of the female officer.
“I’m fine to drive. Like, on everything, I’m fine to drive. I just chose not to drive… Not even for the impairment or anything. I just didn’t want anything to do with it. I don’t know if you have any say in it, but I really just kind of just want kind of like a warning for him. Me driving my car back home, not going to happen.”
However, the officer could see through her manipulative tactics. “You’re begging the wrong person, and you’re not going to talk to them right now. So, it’s not going to happen. They’re going to do their investigation…I can guarantee you’re not driving this car away from here. I don’t know what’s going on with their investigation, but I can guarantee you 100% that you will not drive it.”
The passenger grew increasingly agitated. “I’ve been calm as (expletive), and I don’t know what you guys are going to do in my car and I’m stressed the (expletive) out.”
Alejandro ended up being arrested following a field sobriety test. His girlfriend became more distressed by the outcome. “Let me knock him out once. He doesn’t need to go 30 days in jail. please, please,” she pleaded at one point.
Kayla continued to cause a scene, pleading with officers not to take the vehicle away. When an officer suggested calling her mother to pick her up, she grew more upset. “I don’t have the money to pick up the…I’m the next kid. I’m the only one who has the authority over the car. Let me take the car with me home. Let me take the car with me home.”
When her screaming and crying didn’t faze officers, she charged at them, according to the footage. As a result, she was tackled to the ground and taken into custody for committing a felony.
Despite the chaos, both suspects avoided prison time through plea deals.
Alejandro, who originally faced DUI and speeding charges, saw the DUI charges dropped as part of the plea deal, and he pleaded no contest to speeding. He was released after being ordered to pay $276.
Kayla was charged with felony battery on an officer and disorderly intoxication. She pleaded guilty to both charges, but the judge withheld formal adjudication, meaning she avoided a conviction. She was sentenced to 36 months of probation and released.
Viewers in the comments section were largely unsympathetic toward the girlfriend’s behavior.
“This girl is gonna flip when she sees this video and realizes he apologized to the cop for her behavior,” one commentator wrote.
“She is a keeper. Keep her as far as possible,” joked another.
“Good lord I’ve paused it & she is still talking,’ read a separate comment.
A fourth user added, “He was speeding back to her house to drop her off because she wouldn’t shut up.”
Disclaimer: The Inquisitr could not independently confirm all facts of this incident and is reporting based on the information available within the public video record.
