A Democratic State Senator got busted last week for getting behind the wheel of a car after allegedly having a little too much to drink in the latest instance of the party’s officials misbehaving.
On Tuesday, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department (LVMPD) released footage of Nevada State Senator Edgar Flores falling asleep inside his vehicle at a red light.
In the video, officers discovered an unresponsive Flores with his keys in the ignition of his Jeep Wrangler.
Even more alarmingly, the vehicle was still in drive, though thankfully, his foot was on the brake.
The 39-year-old Flores is so sound asleep that one officer has to knock on the car’s window to startle him awake. This came after police tried to open the door and flash him with lights.
Officers ordered Flores to park his car and step out of the vehicle. Then, they started asking him questions, including why he was asleep and how much he had been drinking.
“Why are you sleeping in your vehicle?” one officer inquired.
“Sorry, I think I must have fallen asleep,” Flores answered.
“How much have you had to drink tonight? Be honest with me,” the skeptical officer demanded.
Flores claims he only had one beer. Then, officers subjected him to a field sobriety test after discovering he was a state senator.
The bodycam footage shows Flores stumbling during the test. After several minutes, officers decided to arrest Flores on suspicion of DUI.
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Documents obtained by KLAS show that officers revealed Flores stopped “in the roadway” and “in a travel lane,” and “displayed droopy eyes, slow speech, delayed responses, and confusion.”
Flores was later booked into the Clark County Detention Center and charged with a DUI misdemeanor.
Following the incident, Flores released a statement obtained by KLAS saying he was just “way too tired.”
“I am not suggesting that anybody should be driving that tired. It was 100% my fault,” Flores said. “I was just way too tired. Driving tired is dangerous, and I should not have been in that position. Luckily, it was just me sleeping, but still, in another scenario, you could be swerving or hit a car, so there are other scenarios where this could have been bad.”
Flore’s team also released a statement on X which claimed their boss was stopped “after a long day of work, community events, evening exercise, and a late dinner.” They also insisted he was telling the truth and that the breathalyzer returned clean.
However, KLAS notes that the LVMPD claimed Flores refused a “preliminary breath test” at the scene. Moreover, his toxicology report will take about 90 days to be processed.
Here is the full video of the incident:
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