SWEETWATER, Fla. — A 35-year-old drunk driver with three girls recently crashed into a Florida Highway Patrol 2021 Dodge Charger in Miami-Dade County’s Fontainebleau area, according to a trooper’s recent arrest report.
Cesar Peña had a beer bottle in between his legs when the trooper approached the gray Kia minivan and saw him with two 9-month-old twin baby girls, a 13-year-old girl, and Diana Quintero, their mother, according to the FHP trooper’s report.
The driver of the Kia, who is also known as Cesar Eduardo Peña Romero, “had the odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his mouth as he spoke, his eyes were bloodshot, and his speech was slurred,” the trooper wrote, according to the report.
The crash was shortly after 10:40 p.m. on Sunday along the eastbound lanes of State Road 836, also known as the Dolphin Expressway, at Northwest 107 Avenue, and the FHP car had stopped because a trooper was investigating a prior crash, records show.
“While speaking with [Quintero] in the front right passenger seat, I smelled the obvious odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from her mouth. Her eyes were bloodshot, and she was incoherent,” the trooper wrote, according to the report.
FHP troopers contacted the Florida Department and Children and Families and detained Peña, who threw up in an FHP car and at the station, and failed a sobriety test, according to the report.
A breathalyzer test showed Peña, who was born in Colombia and lives in North Miami, had a breath alcohol concentration of 0.155 grams of alcohol for every 210 liters of breath, according to the FHP report. The legal limit in Florida is 0.08 grams.
“He was unsteady on his feet and had to place his left hand on the hood of my patrol car to steady himself,” a trooper wrote, according to the report.
FHP troopers arrested Peña shortly before 12:25 a.m. on Monday at the station at 1011 NW 111 Ave. in Sweatwater, and then took him to the HCA Florida Doral Emergency because he appeared ill, records show.
FHP troopers accused him of driving under the influence, DUI with damage to property, and three counts of third-degree felony child abuse without great bodily harm, according to the arrest report.
Miami-Dade County prosecutors filed a felony case against Peña on Tuesday on three counts of child abuse without harm. He appeared in bond court, and a judge set his bond at $3,000.
Miami-Dade court records show Peña bonded out of the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Wednesday. His arraignment is at 9 a.m. on Dec. 12, and Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Richard Hersch was set to preside over the case.
Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report.
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