North Miami Beach police officer Duhamel Jeanite, left, and Ray DeJesus Jr. The footage ends with Jentsch asking Burke to put his hands behind his back. 'No sir, just take me to jail,' Burke replied.

'Well, can we just give me a ticket and be done with that?' Burke told Jentsch, who asked again if Burke wished to do the field sobriety exercises. Jentsch informed Burke he was operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and driving down the middle of the highway. Burke admitted to Jentsch he did not have a driver's license, and offered to instead give Jentsch his ID, saying he was 'trying to be a nicest guy as I can.'īurke then insisted that he was unable to do the field sobriety exercises, telling Jentsch again that he had 'been drinking too much' and couldn't walk. 'There's no sense in it…cause I've been drinking,' Burke responded.īurke initially attempted to do the field sobriety exercises, but had trouble walking and standing still, the video shows. 'Are you going to take me to jail or not?' Burke asked Jentsch, who told Burke he would conduct some field sobriety exercises. Jentsch pulled Burke over and asked how much Burke had had to drink that night, to which Burke replied 'a couple.' Burke said he wasn't going to lie after the deputy pressed him, adding that he was on his way home. Burke has had three prior DUI convictions, according to a post on the sheriff's office Facebook page.įootage from the incident, which occurred August 5, shows Deputy Richard Jentsch driving behind Burke, who was riding his lawnmower down Highway 316 in Fort McCoy, located about 100 miles north of Orlando. Body camera footage captured an inebriated Florida man asking a sheriff's deputy to take him to jail after being caught driving his lawnmower in the middle of a highway.Ī Marion County sheriff's deputy arrested the man, Paul Burke, on a DUI charge.

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