WATERBURY, Vt. (WCAX) – Police have released video showing the moments a Vermont county prosecutor was arrested by troopers for an alleged DUI.

WCAX News obtained several hours’ worth of body camera, cruiser camera and holding cell video.

It comes more than one year after Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence.

“I’m not taking any tests,” Vekos says in the video.

She was responding to the scene of a suspicious death in Bridport last January, where officers said they could smell alcohol on her person and alleged she was slurring her words.

The video shows Vekos getting out of her car and refusing to take standard field sobriety tests. She is then placed in handcuffs and taken to the state police barracks in New Haven. Vekos was placed in a holding cell and eventually brought out by Sgt. Eden Neary for processing. There, she can be heard telling troopers she won’t be answering questions.

Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos: I’m not going to agree to photographs, no photographs. My face is not going to go out in the paper.

Vt. State Police Sgt. Eden Neary: Again, that is nothing that I’m going to decide. As far as discretion, we as a department don’t take any discretion with DUI.

Eva Vekos: There wasn’t any DUI. There was alcohol on the breath and alleged slurred speech.

Sgt. Eden Neary: OK, which are enough indicators to request an evidentiary test, which you know as the state’s attorney.

Vekos has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence. A trial date has not been set yet.

WCAX News and other media made a public records request to obtain this video when the incident happened, and was initially denied. The release of the video comes after VTDigger sued the Department of Public Safety, and a judge ordered the Department to release the video.

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