ORLANDO, Fla — 9-Investigates has learned that Mount Dora Police are now investigating how its officers handled a drunk driving investigation involving a Maitland Police officer.
In the body camera videos we obtained and first showed you on Tuesday, you can hear Mount Dora Officer Brandon Buzard stating just before the field sobriety exercise, “I don’t have a line, really. You’re going to put your left foot on the line and put your right foot in front of it,” Officer Buzard state, while reading a script on a small card.
It’s clear Officer Buzard wasn’t quite sure how to conduct the field sobriety exercises required to help get a D-U-I conviction. ”I’m sorry man, I’m going to mess this up. This is the first time doing these,” Buzard states to Maitland Officer Joshua Rotarius who had been out drinking around the county in the hours before he crashed into a car parked at a stop light, according to the report…