A college student asked an officer to “stop being a cop” for $25,000 after being accused of drunkenly driving into a light pole.
Daniel Michael Crowe, a 19-year-old Santa Fe College health sciences sophomore, crashed into a light pole near 2200 SW 38th Terrace at about 1:22 a.m., according to a Gainesville Police arrest report.
Crowe caused about $500 in damages, the report said. After the crash, two witnesses saw him drive into the Ridge at Gainesville apartment complex.
When police talked to him, they said his eyes were glassy and watery, the report said. They couldn’t understand him because his speech was mumbled and slurred.
Crowe also couldn’t maintain his balance and kept swaying, the report said. His breath smelled like alcohol and he had dried mucus in his nose and around his mouth.
He refused to give a breath sample, the report said.
While he was being taken to the police department, Crowe told the officer he was a millionaire and asked if they could “stop being a cop” and set him free for $25,000, the report said. The officer refused.
Crowe was charged with a DUI and damaging property and resisting an officer without violence and bribery, the report said.
He declined to comment.
Crowe was released from the Alachua County Jail on his own recognizance on Friday.
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