When A Suspect Doesn't Realize Her Life Is Over

you don't I don't go to tomorrow this is Stephanie melgoza an Illinois woman who had been driving Under the Influence has just killed two innocent people and still doesn't realize the damage she's done Stephanie melgoza is a student at the private university Bradley who was was involved in a deadly DUI crash on April 10th 2022 that led to the tragic death of two people East Peoria officers were quick to arrive on the scene of the crime without any idea of the kind of criminal they were about to encounter come over here with me man called

as soon as this happened I this doesn't happen to me I understand I go to Bradley like why would this happen to me okay so here's I'm going to have you do if you can uh maybe help pyrro doing CPR on that one right now you tell me I'm right here here okay just hang TI right here has anybody gotten all your information no no one um someone your friend took my license do you have a driver's license your friend took my license okay I'm I'm just going to write it down here just let you

know I got body cameras okay cont information Stephanie was the one that called the police and not long after the police officer saw the aftermath of the crash he took all of her personal details and asked if she's under the influence of anything can you take your purse off and just set that on here we got to yep do you have anything illegal on you yes I have marijuana in in your purse okay have you had any marijuana tonight no okay do you set those on the car for me for my vapeo yep yep set

that down there and my phone in your phone yes ma'am all right just come over here put your hands on my car he's got a path search before I put you in my car okay okay that's no pockets or anything okay all right a few minutes later the police officer puts Stephanie in the back seat of the car and reads the Miranda writes to her then we can see how Stephanie explains the situation to the officer explain detail just what happened prior to the accident I was coming to Full Throttle and I was almost here

as you can see were you were you driving this way or that coming down that side here this way okay and suddenly one person walked out in front of me okay and my car got hit I called you as soon as they got hit you called 911 yes I called 911 as soon as something happened and then someone said oh someone else is hit I'm just like oh my God how did that happen okay what happened when you hit the one person what happened I just called you that's all I know I called you did

did they fall down right away or did you get out and help them or what happened I got out I called you and then everyone else came out so I like kind of just let them come and take over the situation okay um but I promise you like I only know one person got hit and I'm just like they came out of nowhere because I am a safe driver I get it after saying that she is a safe driver the officer then proceeds to question Stephanie further on the details of the accident if you had

to ask me how fast were you going when you hit the person exted stat I would say I was going at least at least 40 at least 40 maybe 40 to 45 but at least 40 okay all right um do you think you were going too fast for this area at the time with the darkness I honestly don't think I was going too fast because I try to be precautionary about where I'm at um but I just know that someone one person came out of nowhere did you have your headlights on yes sir brights on

or just regular headlights regular okay okay so obviously you saw them it was no time to react no time to stop no time that's the word okay Stephanie tells the cop that she did not see the car as it came out of nowhere when she hit it she then proceeds to show blatant unawareness of the whole situation mixed with a bit of entitlement as she says that she can decide whether or not to take a DUI test over the course of the night how much have you had to drink I probably had about three drinks

what's what's what is three drinks you like are we talking what type of drinks V just vodka vodka straight vodka or mixed drinks uh vodka and water so I was staying hydrated you know and drinking mhm on it like right now if you had me do a test I think I would pass just like not don't test me but I think I would pass okay I'm going to be honest we we are going to do those tests here in a little bit because of circumstances obviously we have to okay uh how long ago was your

last drink would you say uh my last drink I would say about 40 minutes 40 minutes ago were you drank anything while you're in the vehicle or was the last drink at the bar at the bar okay on a scale of 1 to 10 one being the least drunk you've ever been 10 being the most drunk you've ever been where would you say you put yourself at right now five because I've been very drunk and right now like I see you I see everyone I know the situation you know what I mean like I know

I'm aware of everything having run her ID and license plate the officer then starts performing the DUI tests on Stephanie the only thing however is that he never expected Stephanie to laugh the whole time all right touch the tip of my pen just so I know where you're there you do all right that's what I want you to follow Noe keep your head still for me oh head yes ma' just your eyes we're going try we're going to try that again it's hard all right just okay okay okay keep their head still for me it's

so hard keeping my head SL the best you can can just follow with your eyes are you able to hold your head still without your hands okay all right just follow with your eyes keep F keep looking at to the side there you go this is called a PBT test you ever blown one of these before no okay you know what the legal limit is to drive in Illinois I do not sir okay 08 okay want to have you do is take a deep breath a long steady blowing into the Stoll just like you're blowing

up a balloon keep blowing till you hear the machine click okay all right blowing up a what yes ma'am take a deep breath long hard steady blow little bit harder for me a little bit harder keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going okay go to Bradley you're a Bradley student I grate in four weeks you're a 264 okay all right okay go ahe and turn around for me and place your hands behind your back you are under arrest for DUI okay the cop then makes her take a blow test which Stephanie fails

along with the walkin eye test showing her blood alcohol level is two times over the allowed limit she is finally arrested on DUI charges as she's being arrested Stephany Laughs Again which shows that she is too drunk to perceive the seriousness of the situation after having killed two people she even refuses to believe she has killed them just so we're clear I'm going to UND your seat Bel okay oh sorry yeah you're good there we go okay so you understand what we're going to do first off I'm going to let you know the two PE

you did hit two people total it did I didn't okay I'm just okay however you want to word it to yourself that's fine okay I'm just telling you there's two people struck by your vehicle and both both are dead I didn't not I can you right okay well I'm just telling you the two people that hit your car call ma'am listen if I two people struck your vehicles I'm telling you and they're both deceased on scene I'm just telling you that information okay we're going to go in here we're going to do the thing I

appreciate you being cooperative so far I'm just tell I got to tell you what's going on you understand yes okay come all right come on out here this way as she's being taken to the hospital for a checkup Stephanie surprisingly claims to know what she did but not feeling any remorse about it if it was too I'd be crying you know what I mean I'd be like oh my God I did this I'd be like wow this way to mark but I know what I did okay if that wasn't enough disrespect and in disregard over

the people she had just killed what follows will make this idea a lot more clear to anyone who still has doubts and then want to go to Vegas I'm to takeing me to Vegas it's going to be so fun I'm going to spend at least $500 and I'm going to start off with two Long Islands and you had enough of drinking already we're talking about Vegas there still women at Vegas right have you been there I swear to God if you're Snapchatting right now and I'm not I'm going to be mad Stephanie has the nerve

to ask the officer for more drinks and even starts to sing and laugh not being bothered in the least bit about her arrest or the people she killed ooh e by the be [Music] Stephanie then proceeds to actually show some concern however it's for the fact that she might not get her car back which she needs to drive to school tomorrow oh hey you never answered me about my car like I have school tomorrow so how do I get my car here tomorrow well your car is total it's what your car is total to to

Total wrecked okay so how do I get it you don't so I don't to SCH tomorrow what you me no ma'am you want me to be honest with you you're going to jail you don't have a bond you killed two people tonight I don't think you understand that you do not have a bond you are not getting out of jail your car is property of East P Police Department because it's a crime scene it killed two people tonight you are clueless with that clearly I've already explain this to you you're going to jail for reckless

homicide tonight you're going to jail for aggravated DUI for killing two people that's what's going on so no you're not going to school tomorrow you're not getting your car out of inbound can I a Tuesday my did you just hear what I just told you you said I'm not going tomorrow I'm talking about Tuesday did you hear when I said that I'm going to jail tomorrow did you're going to jail when we're down here yes did you understand what I told that you killed two people tonight yeah so I'm just wondering when I can go

to school okay we're done you're all on body care being completely careless about killing two people tonight you could care less that's sad and pathetic and horrible all the same time can you say that as a c yes may I care okay so can I ask when I can go back to school at this point the officer has had enough of Stephanie fooling around Stephanie melgoza was arrested and she pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated DUI death and two counts of aggravated reckless driving she was finally sentenced to 14 years in prison a sentence

that a lot of you guys would probably think is way too little if you like this video watch this one goodbye