"99 Bananas"

On February 1, 2021 around 11:15 p.m., Mesa Police Officers responded to a collision involving a vehicle vs. pedestrian at Gilbert/ Southern Mesa, AZ. 

Witnesses told officers that they watched a white suburban traveling northbound on Gilbert Rd strike a pedestrian in the crosswalk at Southern Ave. After the driver saw the witness he turned around.  The driver, later identified as 40yo Jimmy Maxwell Jr, went over to the pedestrian and told him that police were not needed and that he was okay. 

A DUI investigation was started after officers noticed an odor of alcohol coming from Jimmy.  Jimmy admitted to taking 3 shots of “99 Bananas” prior to police contact, but stated he was not driving the vehicle.

Jimmy told officers that an unknown subject was driving the vehicle and that he was asleep in the passenger side. After the collision occurred and Jimmy was awoken, he said he switched seats with the driver and stopped the vehicle. 

Officers put Jimmy through a series of Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, to which they noted several validated clues.  They also found that Jimmy had a revoked driver’s license out of Tennessee.

In Arizona, if any person is driving or in actual physical control of a vehicle while intoxicated and their driver license or privilege to drive is suspended, canceled, revoked, or refused they may be charged with Aggravated DUI.

Jimmy was booked into jail for 1ct Aggravated DUI- ARS 13-1383A1, a class 4 Felony.