{"id":335795,"date":"2026-07-10T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335795\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:01:09","slug":"florida-rideshare-driver-takes-nitrous-oxide-huffing-passenger-straight-to-police-department-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335795\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida rideshare driver takes nitrous oxide-huffing passenger straight to police department for help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A rideshare driver in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida<\/a> was forced to take a detour to a local police station on Wednesday when their passenger became unruly after huffing nitrous oxide, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cbsmiami-fl-rideshare-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-fl-rideshare-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pamela Molina, 37, was arrested and charged with inhaling nitrous oxide to induce intoxication and resisting an officer without violence.<\/p>\n<p>                Port St. Lucie Police Department\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/port-st-lucie\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port St. Lucie Police Department<\/a>, officers responded to a call for help from an unidentified rideshare driver who said he had an unruly passenger inside his car who had been actively inhaling nitrous oxide from a large canister and wouldn&#8217;t get out.<\/p>\n<p>Seeking help, the driver drove right to the Port St. Lucie Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/psl3.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"psl3.jpg \" height=\"509\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Pamela Molina<\/p>\n<p>                Port St. Lucie Police Department\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Police sad that when officers approached the vehicle to investigate, Pamela Molina, 37, was actively inhaling or &#8220;huffing&#8221; the nitrous, refused lawful commands and resisted efforts to be removed from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/psl2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"psl2.jpg \" height=\"827\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police said Pamela Molina was actively inhaling, or &#8220;huffing&#8221; the nitrous oxide when they approached the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>                Port St. Lucie Police Department\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Molina was eventually removed from the vehicle and taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we can appreciate the irony of where this happened, substance abuse is a serious matter,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PortStLuciePolice\/posts\/pfbid0oH6HbFK98XhiMFfaDWoyNCTLcykqRykF2GHq4B7NFxidsZvndKnEdLGqTpAtXWnel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police said in a Facebook post<\/a>. &#8220;Our officers are committed to enforcing the law and keeping our community safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Molina was arrested and charged with inhaling nitrous oxide to induce intoxication and resisting an officer without violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rideshare driver in Florida was forced to take a detour to a local police station on Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-335795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-florida","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}