‘Combative’ Pines man faces DUI, battery charges after fighting officers, cops say
A Pembroke Pines man was arrested after officers found him drunk and asleep at the wheel of a moving car, police say.
He then fought officers — kicking and scratching, according to Davie Police — before they used a Taser and pepper spray to subdue him.
Dorenzo Olivier, 24, was found unconscious in his silver Honda Civic around 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 4, in the westbound thru lane of the 6100 block of SW 45th Street in Davie, according to his arrest report.
Olivier’s car was still in drive, his foot on the brake keeping it from moving. Police parked a patrol car in front of the Honda and banged on the driver’s window to wake him. That’s when the car began rolling forward, police said, and officers started yelling at Olivier to put it in park and exit the vehicle.
Instead of opening the door or stopping the car, Olivier “reached up several times to turn on his front windshield wipers,” the report says.
Davie police broke the driver’s side window to put the car in park. Olivier then “became combative,” hitting officers’ hands, tensing his limbs and pulling away as they tried to remove him, the report says.
After several attempts to get him to comply with verbal commands, police tased the 24-year-old. It took two tries before he rolled out of the Honda and officers were able to handcuff him, cops say.
Moments later, as police placed him in the patrol vehicle’s backseat, Olivier became aggressive again, “tensing his body and ... kicking officers.”
One officer was kicked “multiple times in his upper body, resulting in scratches,” the arrest report says. They got him to comply after using pepper spray, police say.
Several empty beer cans and a still-chilled open can were found in the Honda when officers surveyed it, according to police. The open can still had foam when poured, “indicating it had recently been opened,” police said.
Olivier agreed to a breathalyzer, which showed a blood-alcohol level of 0.12 — 50% higher than Florida’s legal limit of 0.08 for adults.
He was booked into Broward Main Jail on April 4 and released on a $4,500 bond two days later.
Olivier faces two felony charges for battery on an officer and resisting an officer without violence as well as a misdemeanor charge for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
