DaniLeigh apparently thought being well-known might get her out of bother — a minimum of, that’s what it appears to be like like in newly launched bodycam footage from her DUI hit-and-run arrest again in Might 2023.
The video is a shocker — you possibly can hear DaniLeigh attempt to inform Miami cops they can not arrest her ‘trigger she’s an artist, particularly an R&B singer — all this after authorities say she struck a teen on a moped along with her automotive … and left him with a kidney laceration and a spinal fracture.
She tells one officer she’s with Quavo, who’s seen off to the facet early within the video, together with a few his safety guys. The cop tells them to again up after they ask what is going on on.
It additionally feels like she’s laughing and slurring her phrases whereas telling the cops she’s completely sober, and insisting she nailed all their sobriety checks … which — spoiler alert — would not seem like true.
“Quavo was right here, helping me out,” DaniLeigh says after the officers look her up.
Officers say she blew a 0.145 and 0.148 on the Breathalyzer, practically double the authorized restrict. Within the video, she continues to insist she hadn’t hit anybody.
Nevertheless, there’s police footage exhibiting a fowl’s-eye view of Dani hitting the sufferer and sparks flying as his scooter’s steel drags alongside the bottom.
Additionally, as we reported on the time, the police report says a number of witnesses noticed her hit the teenager on a motorized scooter and drag him for a couple of block earlier than somebody flagged down a close-by cop.
Dani was finally cuffed and brought to jail, the place she was booked on 3 felony fees … driving below the affect, leaving the scene of a crash with severe bodily harm, and DUI injury to property. She was convicted in February after pleading no contest to misdemeanor and felony fees, and sentenced to 5 years’ probation.
