Driver suspected of DUI reveals he has 3 kids in trunk

Police in a Denver suburb found three children in the trunk of a car after pulling over the driver and arresting him on suspicion of drunken driving, officials said.

The Jan. 23 incident was captured in a video from a Westminster Police Department officer’s body-worn camera, the agency said on social media.

Police pulled over the 41-year-old man in a Chevrolet sedan after allegedly seeing him driving recklessly in the early evening.

The video shows the man admitting he was “acting like an idiot” before he was pulled over but he denies drinking any alcohol. When the officer observes that the car smells like alcohol, the man says it’s his nicotine pouches.

The man got out of the car but then refused to do the roadside maneuvers to test sobriety, which is when police arrested him.

After he was handcuffed, the man told officers his children were in the trunk, Westminster police said.

The video shows one officer opening the trunk to find the children lying inside. As he helps the kids out of the trunk, the second officer asks the father, “You didn’t think that it would’ve been a good idea to say something before?”

The children, all under age 12, were not injured, Westminster police said.

Westminster police contacted child protective services and the three children were released to family, agency officials said.

The man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence and three counts of child abuse, all misdemeanors, and reckless driving and failing to provide insurance, which are traffic infractions. He was released from the Adams County Jail on a $2,500 cash or surety bail, according to court records.