Wife Calls Police on Husband for Drinking Twisted Teas While Driving

Niagara Falls Police were dispatched to the 180 block of 61st Street around 9:30pm on June 26th after reports of driving while intoxicated.

While talking to the caller, she told officers that her husband constantly drives around intoxicated in his pickup truck.

She stated he goes to the store and gets two Twisted Teas and drives around drinking them.

While talking with the wife, officers observed a pickup truck matching her description turn onto 61st Street from Buffalo Avenue.

Officers pointed to the truck and asked the wife to confirm that it was her husband’s, which she did.

The husband pulled up to the house and officers approached the passenger-side window.

Officers then made contact with the driver and observed an open container of Twisted Tea in the center console cup holder.

Officers then asked the male to pull over so they could talk to him.

When the husband parked and officers approached the vehicle again, the Twisted Tea container disappeared. It was no longer in the cup holder.

Officers advised the husband that they had seen the open container of Twisted Tea and asked him if he had been drinking today. He stated, “yes.”

Officers then asked how many drinks he had today, to which he answered, “two.”

They opened up the driver-side door and asked him to exit the vehicle.

As he did, officers picked up a 24 fl. oz. Twisted Tea on the floor and observed it to be open and cold.

It was a little more than halfway full.

The husband then asked, “why are we doing this?”

The officer then advised him that he can’t be drinking and driving.

While exiting the vehicle, he advised officers that he “can’t do that stuff.”

Upon being asked what stuff, the husband said the field sobriety tests.

Officers asked him why he would not be able to do the field sobriety tests and the male responded he had two hip surgeries.

They then asked if he felt he was under the influence, to which he said, “not intoxicated, just a buzz but not enough where I can’t drive.”

He consent to the horizontal gaze nystagmus test. Officers moved the pen from left to right in front of the husband and observed his eyes following the pen.

While doing so, they observed lack of smooth pursuit.

His eyes jerked up multiple times during the test.

Due to officers observing an open can of alcoholic beverage in the cup holder and the husband admitting he had a couple drinks and felt a “buzz,” officers placed him under arrest.

The husband was transported to police headquarters for booking and processing.

He refused a chemical breath test.

Wife Calls Police on Husband for Drinking Twisted Teas While Driving