{"id":354047,"date":"2026-07-27T19:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354047\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T19:43:08","slug":"bodycam-man-fails-dui-test-after-driving-into-active-crime-scene-asks-for-a-do-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354047\/","title":{"rendered":"BODYCAM: Man fails DUI test after driving into active crime scene, asks for a do over"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNIVERSITY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Bodycam video shows a Florida driver caught in a deadly crash scene asking to redo his failed DUI test after driving on a sidewalk.<\/p>\n

What was supposed to be a secured, active fatal crash scene early Sunday morning turned into a DUI arrest in Hillsborough County<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>, deputies were investigating a traffic fatality around 3 a.m. on Sunday near Bruce B. Downs Boulevard and North 43rd Street. Marked patrol cars with emergency lights blazing were explicitly blocking the road.<\/p>\n

That didn’t stop a blue Kia Sportage with 29-year-old Leela Padileti behind the wheel.<\/p>\n

Deputies say Padileti casually mounted the sidewalk to bypass the barricade, cruising straight into the middle of the active crime scene before deputies managed to box him in.<\/p>\n

See also: South Florida Secret Service employee among 3 arrested in alleged violent hazing case<\/a><\/p>\n

When questioned on camera, Padileti\u2019s story unravelled quickly. He initially told deputies he was coming back from seeing a friend in St. Petersburg and insisted he hadn’t been drinking. Moments later, he corrected himself: “No, we went to the club… we had some drinks.”<\/p>\n

Things escalated during the field sobriety exercises.<\/p>\n

After Padileti struggled through the test, deputies moved in to slap on the handcuffs. That\u2019s when a bewildered Padileti expressed genuine shock.<\/p>\n

“Oh… I thought I completed it,” Padileti said, before asking, “Can I try it again?”<\/p>\n

“No,” a deputy responded flatly.<\/p>\n

Padileti was hauled off to jail and is now facing a count of driving under the influence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNIVERSITY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 Bodycam video shows a Florida driver caught in a deadly crash scene asking to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-354047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354047","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=354047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}