HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — A man was accused of driving a stolen car while drunk and crashing it into a concrete pole.
On Sunday at about 1:10 a.m., a Guam Police Department officer walked out of the Tumon-Tamuning precinct to see a Toyota Venza “jerking forward, straddling a lane, and jerking suddenly trying to correct its course.” The officer followed the car and identified the driver as Jake Ceasar, 18, according to a magistrate’s complaint filed in the Superior Court of Guam.
“The officer then turned on his blue lights and sirens and the vehicle continued to motor westbound. The officer observed both the front passenger and driver’s windows were completely down and that the operator, later identified as Jake Ceasar, looked into his driver-side view mirror multiple times in the officer’s direction,” the complaint stated.
As he followed Ceasar’s vehicle, the officer used different tones on his siren, but Ceasar did not pull over and continued to drive onto Route 14A on the hill toward Kmart in Tamuning. While driving, Ceasar allegedly made an unsafe left turn and cut off a vehicle, before cutting off another car and nearly causing a collision.
According to the complaint, Ceasar also ran a red traffic light when he lost control of the car and collided with a concrete pole between the Mobil gas station and Kmart parking lot off Marine Corps Drive.
“The officer then approached the defendant and asked if the defendant was OK. The defendant responded, ‘I’m good. I’m just blitzed.’ Blitzed meaning ‘really drunk,'” the complaint stated.
An individual was also found to be in the front passenger seat and complained of pain in his legs and needing help to walk while the car caught fire and “became completely engulfed in flames,” the complaint said.
Ceasar allegedly told police he knew the car was stolen and that he received it from a man named “Jefferson” after he was drinking at the Ypao Beach parking lot with a group of men earlier that night.
“After they ran out of alcohol, everyone pitched in and gave the defendant … money to go to the store to buy more. Jefferson offered his car, and the defendant and (the passenger) agreed. The defendant told the officer that he drank ‘liquor’ and ‘Natural Ice’ prior to driving the car,” the complaint stated.
Police noted Ceasar smelled of alcohol and had bloodshot, watery eyes and heavily slurred speech. Ceasar also sustained lacerations to his forehead and abrasions to his right knee and leg.
About 30 minutes after the officer encountered the vehicle, a woman reported her vehicle, which was the car allegedly driven by Ceasar, was stolen outside a residence in Dededo earlier that night, the document states.
Ceasar was charged with theft by receiving stolen property as a second-degree felony and misdemeanor charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, driving while impaired, eluding a police officer and reckless driving.
Guam Police Department vehicles parked outside the Sgt. Frankie E. Smith Police Station in Tumon on March 1, 2024.
