A Fresno woman says her dream trip to Arizona to get married turned into a nightmare.<\/p>\n
She was pulled over and arrested for driving under the influence, despite a test later showing zero alcohol and no drugs in her system.<\/p>\n
There is shocking officer body camera footage that her attorneys from Sud & Pierce Law Firm provided to FOX26 as part of the case. <\/p>\n
According to footage provided by attorneys, the incident began as a routine traffic stop. An officer told Brianna Longoria she had run a red light and that the rear lights on her rental vehicle were not on.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou did run a red but also your lights in the back aren\u2019t on,\u201d an officer said in the video.<\/p>\n
Longoria appeared confused, responding that she thought the stop was only about her vehicle lights.<\/p>\n
The situation escalated quickly. Officers asked Longoria to perform field sobriety tests and later administered a portable breathalyzer.<\/p>\n
Body camera footage shows an officer preparing Longoria for the breath test, saying, \u201cI\u2019m not expecting any alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moments later, the result confirmed that expectation.<\/p>\n
\u201cTriple zeros. That\u2019s what I thought,\u201d the officer is heard saying.<\/p>\n
Within minutes of the breathalyzer test, Longoria was arrested.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do believe that you\u2019re impaired I\u2019m placing you under arrest for DUI,\u201d an officer said.<\/p>\n
Longoria was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car.<\/p>\n
Before arrest, the same officer that took the breathalyzer was heard telling another officer, “I\u2019m not expecting it to be alcohol. That\u2019s why I asked her about marijuana.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the 0.00 reading, the officer had pointed to other factors such as red eyes and pupil size. <\/p>\n
A key moment in the footage, captured after Longoria was taken into custody, is now central to her legal case.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re gonna kick me off the squad if I don\u2019t get a DUI,\u201d another officer said.<\/p>\n
Longoria\u2019s attorneys say the exchange suggests potential pressure on officers to make DUI arrests.<\/p>\n
In interviews, Longoria\u2019s legal team John Sud and Benjamin Pierce, described the body camera footage as deeply troubling.<\/p>\n
Fresno woman arrested before wedding in Arizona for DUI despite negative tests. (<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were talking about conjuring up DUIs worrying about getting kicked off the DUI squad,\u201d Sud said. <\/p>\n
They found it shocking. <\/p>\n
They argue the comments raise broader concerns about enforcement practices and whether implicit quotas may exist.<\/p>\n
After her arrest, Longoria underwent additional testing. <\/p>\n
According to her attorneys, they came back negative for both alcohol and drugs. <\/p>\n
Despite those findings, officers initially proceeded to go through with their case. <\/p>\n
Although the charges were ultimately dropped, Longoria says the arrest had lasting effects.<\/p>\n
She was detained for hours, her driver\u2019s license was suspended, and the arrest remained on her record. Her attorney says that record has impacted her ability to work in nursing.<\/p>\n
Longoria has now filed a lawsuit against the city and the officers involved, seeking to clear her record and hold them accountable.<\/p>\n
FOX26 News reached out to the Phoenix Police Department. <\/p>\n
It denied having DUI quotas. The department said officers are assigned to DUI enforcement based on operational needs and are required to base enforcement decisions on observed driving behavior, signs of impairment, and the totality of the circumstances.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit remains in its early stages, and no trial date has been set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno woman says her dream trip to Arizona to get married turned into a nightmare. She was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-285084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}