Man arrested for DUI with 3 kids in trunk in Westminster
A man was arrested in Westminster in late January for driving under the influence with three children in his trunk.
Body camera footage captured by a Westminster police officer with the time stamped just after 5 p.m. Jan. 23 and published on social media Tuesday evening shows a man getting pulled over while driving a dark-colored sedan in the area of City Center Drive and 93rd Avenue.
“Any idea why I’m stopping you today?,” the officer asked him on the footage.
“Because I was acting like an idiot,” the man replied.
“You’re lucky you didn’t hit somebody,” the officer said.
After a few more moments, the officer followed up with the man about whether he was under the influence of alcohol.
“Are you sure you haven’t drank any alcohol? Because I got a smell of alcohol coming from the vehicle right now,” the officer asked him.
“No, sir. It’s my Zyns,” the man replied.
“Your Zyns? So they smell like alcohol? OK, that’s interesting,” the officer said in response.
Police then asked the man to step out of the vehicle and do roadside maneuvers, which he initially agreed to but quickly changed his mind before beginning, according to the video. While officers were placing him in handcuffs, he said to them “my kids are in the trunk.”
Another officer opened the sedan’s trunk and said “what are you guys doing?” to the children inside, according to the video. One of the children appears to be wearing an orange Denver Broncos Courtland Sutton jersey.
“You didn’t think that’d have been a good idea to say something before?,” the officer asks the man at the end of the clip.
The Denver Gazette has requested more information about the incident from Westminster police.




