9 Investigations: FHP -Trooper under an internal examination according to DUI arrest

Orange County, Florida – Body Camera Video shows one of your own highway patrol on the other side of the law. The Orlando police officers put soldiers Wilfredo Febo in handcuffs and arrested him because he had driven under the influence. Febo was not on duty at that time.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, an internal examination of Feo continues, although the charges of the soldier suddenly decreased last year.

Body Camera Video shows the officials who try to explain FO that he caused a crash on the colonial drive.

“I have no idea how I blamed when I crash. I'm sorry. I have no idea how I'm to blame when crashing, ”said Febo.

“Well, I tell you that you have ended a vehicle in traffic,” said an official.

“How?” Asked Febo.

“How? You drove your truck in your back,” the officer replied.

When the officials began their criminal investigations, Febo told the officials that he would not cooperate.

“I reject everything,” said Febo.

“You reject everything?” Asked an officer.

“Yes,” replied Febo.

“Stand up,” said an officer as he put FO in handcuffs.

“What? I don't go wrong,” said Febo.

Only after Febo had been put in handcuffs did he say OPD officers that he had worked as a soldier for FHP. Personnel records show that FO stood on the other side of these DUI investigations for years. At a time he was the highest number of DUI arrests in his team in 2004.

He has worked with the agency for more than 20 years.

“We have put together a few DUI arrests and supported it a few times,” said former Trooper Jeff Lotter, who is now a Dui defender who worked with Febo in Orlando.

“So it is certainly to say that he arrested hundreds of Dui,” asked the investigative reporter Ashlyn Webb.

“I would say it is sure to say that it is definitely hundreds of investigations, hundreds and hundreds of investigations. And I would say it is probably a few hundred DUI arrests under his belt, ”replied Lotter.

According to Lotter, the soldiers are trained in the implementation of a DUI examination as much evidence of the scene, and these evidence includes drivers who go through the sobriety of field soberness.

“So he knew what he was doing in the answer,” asked Webb.

“Sure,” said Lotter.

Arrivals show that an officer has noticed that Febo “react slowly” and “Language was blurred”.

Another officer reported that FO had a “lack of balance and bloodshot eyes”. The same officer said: “I could smell the pronounced smell of alcohol florets that out of his breath.”

Officers even found receipts from drinks that were ordered in Fo's bag that night.

However, this was not sufficient to convince a judge in Orange County that civil servants had “probable reason” to arrest Fbo for impaired driving.

Prosecutors state that the judge has excluded almost all evidence after two OPD officers had given statements that the judge considered not “credible”.

Judge Amy Carter said that the official didn't have enough to arrest soldier FO that the officers never really questioned him or had carried out a real examination.

“He just said, get up, you are arrested. What, well, that's not enough for Dui. You must actually have carried out a thorough examination. Someone says I don't lend it to arrest someone, ”said lawyer Richard Hornsby.

He says it is rarely to see that a judge makes these statements, but there is a reason.

“They had an officer who carried out the accident investigation, and he seems to be the person who would have smelled the alcohol. But then they had another person who carried out the criminal investigation, ”said Hornsby. “The person who ultimately makes the arrest must have first hand first -hand, the proof of the information that is necessary to make this arrest … But this civil servant did not have all this information when he made the arrest. He only made a few assumptions. “

The Orlando police tell us that they have completed the investigation in accordance with the state and local laws and that the officials followed the departmental procedures.

They found that their civil servant said in court that he smelled alcohol at Trooper Febo, but the prosecutors show that this was not determined in the report of the individual representative. This became the deal break.

So, is soldier Febo still in the workplace? The Florida Highway Patrol would not tell us much other than an internal examination.

We have received FOS personnel records that show that he has at least briefly put himself on the administrative obligation.

9 Investigates turned to Trooper Febo to interview, but refused to comment.

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