An ICE officer was arrested for driving under the influence after he failed field sobriety tests while telling police he was returning from a shift at the Broadview ICE facility, according to bodycam footage and police reports obtained by NBC Chicago.
According to Oak Brook police, Guillermo Diaz-Torres, a 33-year-old from New Mexico, was found asleep behind the wheel at the intersection of 35th Street and Midwest Road around 1:30 a.m. on October 26.
When an officer knocked on the window, Diaz-Torres woke up and accelerated, hitting a nearby tree line of the road, the police report said.
Another officer then responded to the scene and asked Diaz-Torres to describe what happened.
‘I got off duty. I came here. You have a checkpoint. This doesn’t look good,” Diaz-Torres responded, according to both the bodycam footage and the police report.
Diaz-Torres, who works for the Department of Homeland Security under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the Oak Book Police Department, said he was heading to his hotel in Lombard after working in Broadview earlier that evening. He also denied stopping during his ride, although officers noted he ended his shift at midnight.
Officers on the scene said Diaz-Torres showed signs of intoxication, including slurred speech, bloodshot eyes and swaying while standing, but he denied drinking alcohol that night.
At one point during his sobriety tests, officers asked Diaz-Torres to say the alphabet starting with D and ending with W. He reached the letter “N” before repeating the letters L, M and N. He also jumped from R to W, police said.
He also failed to walk in a straight line and had to be reminded to count out loud while walking, the police report showed.
Diaz-Torres refused a breathalyzer test and was arrested for drunken driving just after 2 a.m. He is expected to appear in court on December 5.
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to NBC Chicago’s requests for comment.
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