Lying to the cops isn’t a bright idea, but some teenagers try to do it anyway. A 19-year-old man in Washington is facing multiple charges including a DUI after deputies found a white SUV in the middle of the woods. The cops traced the vehicle back to the address of the owner where the teen told them that his friend was the one who was driving the car. But it didn’t take long for the truth to come out.
Teenager later admitted to police that he was lying
On September 18 before midnight, deputies responded to a report of a white SUV that was stuck in the woods down an embankment near the 6000 block of Tractyon Blvd. NW, according to a post by the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office on its official Facebook page.
There was no one in the vehicle when police arrived on the scene, but a witness said that they saw a man walking out of the woods. The deputies then took down the vehicle’s license plate and found the address of the registered owner, which later turned out to be the mother of the teen driver.
Deputies then contacted the driver, who first tried to deny any wrongdoing. The unnamed 19-year-old claimed that his friend was driving the SUV at the time and had lost control after hitting a mailbox. But upon further interrogation, he came clean and “admitted he had been driving his mother’s vehicle without permission at the time of the collision.”
The teenager was then asked to perform standard field sobriety tests and a breathalyzer examination. Police say that he showed “evidence of impairment” and had a blood alcohol concentration of “nearly twice the legal limit.” However, the post does not clarify whether this is twice the standard BAC limit for adults 21 and over (0.08%) or for those under 21 (0.02%) in the state, per the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board.
The 19-year-old has been charged with driving under the influence, hit-and-run, and driving with a suspended license.
