CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A Fort Myers man is facing multiple charges after police say he was driving drunk and later threatening officers.
On Saturday, March 15 just after 1:00 a.m., officers with the Cape Coral Police Department found a driver swerving all over the road on Del Prado Boulevard South, just north of downtown Cape Coral.
The officer believed the driver may be having a medical episode, severe mechanical failure, or was impaired.
The driver was later identified as 30-year-old Claude Gose Jr.
WATCH TO SEE WHAT GOSE JR. SAID TO OFFICERS:
From approximately around the 4400 block of Del Prado Boulevard, police say Gose Jr. swerved multiple times and traveled between all three lanes. The officer turned on their lights in the 3900 block of Del Prado Boulevard, but say Gose Jr. did not pull over.
The officer turned on their sirens, but they say Gose Jr. passed several driveways and parking lots in which it would’ve been safe to stop. Eventually, police say Gose Jr. turned into a parking lot, accelerated abruptly, and came to a hard stop in a spot.
On the officer's body camera, you can see Gose Jr. did not roll down the window at first. Music was blasting and officers asked him to shut the truck off.
When he did, the officer said his eyes were bloodshot and glassy, and his pupils were dilated. The officer said they smelled alcohol and saw a beer bottle in the center console.
There was also a spilled clear plastic cup on the passenger floorboard that contained an alcoholic beverage, police say.
Gose started to take a Standard Field Sobriety test.
"Yeah, let's go. Hurry up," Gose Jr. said as officers tried to give the test. "Hurry up, bro."
Gose Jr. said he was not drunk and called the test "ridiculous."
Minutes later, police say Gose became uncooperative, yelling at officers and arguing. He was arrested for suspicion of DUI and then charged with threatening a police officer.
"Wait till I find where you [expletive] live," Gose Jr. is caught on camera saying in the back of the patrol car. "You're a copper now, but just wait. Take your [expletive] uniform off."
Police say Gose Jr. continued to threaten the officer, saying he has four nationalities and can "know everything in 15 minutes, where you live, everything."
As he was being booked into jail, the officer's body-camera caught Gose Jr. saying he was going to find the officer.
Police spokesperson Lisa Greenberg says this arrest was directly related to the DUI operation the department had over the weekend. At least nine people were arrested for DUI and they will be out in full force on Monday, too.
"We are going to have officers patrolling our roads, making sure that people are safe, making sure that anyone who maybe impaired is not on the roadway," she explained.
Gose Jr. is out on bond.
