Teen Mom Jenelle Evans has a long and storied history of trouble with the law. She’s combative, she’s arguably crazy, and she’s a drug addict. So that’s why I was surprised to see a dash cam video of her during her boyfriend Nathan Grifin’s DUI arrest on Saturday in South Carolina. (That video is below, via Radar) Jenelle was much more cooperative and friendly with police than I expected. She wasn’t argumentative, she didn’t pull a Reese Witherspoon or mention her reality show fame, and when the cop recognized her she was low-key about it. She only said “yeah, unfortunately” when the officer asked her if she was on MTV. Jenelle also gave consent to search her car before the police even asked. (I’ve heard that you probably shouldn’t do that.)
While we don’t hear Jenelle’s boyfriend Nathan in the video, he was not as friendly with the cops. He was arrested for resisting arrest and DUI after leading police on a high speed chase. Jenelle bailed him out afterwards.
In the video, Jenelle admitted to the cop that she’d had two shots and two or three drinks that night. When asked why her boyfriend was driving erratically she said “we were trying to have sex.” The officer asked if Jenelle’s boyfriend was touching her, and she said “no” and then agreed that they were rushing home to have sex. The cop suggested that to her though, I got the impression that she was messing around with her boyfriend while he was driving. She also denied doing drugs at all or having any drugs in the car.
Later in the video, another officer asked Jenelle if she knew that her boyfriend didn’t have a driver’s license and she said “uh, no. He told me he got it… restated.” The cops found some kind of pills in the car, and she slurred that they were Nathan’s and that she didn’t know what they were.
Radar reports that Jenelle’s boyfriend later puked in the back of the police cruiser. Classy.
So these idiots were either drunk and rushing home to screw or drunk and messing around while trying to operate a moving vehicle. They’re lucky they didn’t hurt themselves or anyone else. Jenelle is on probation for multiple other offenses, including assault, drug possession and violation of probation. I doubt that this will violate her probation since she wasn’t driving. In August, she was ordered to spend 48 hours in jail for failing a drug test while on probation. The mugshot above is for that charge. She usually smiles for her mugshots, judging from the large collection at Starcasm.
Following her boyfriend’s arrest, Jenelle joked around on Twitter with such witticisms as “Fantastic way to end the night! [fist and explosion emojis] #POW @GroundLevelUp” and “don’t drink and drive! lol”
Do you blame MTV for this? Jenelle would probably be just as messed up if we weren’t paying attention, she just wouldn’t have the money or the fame.
I think this is the place to put this meme I saw recently.
Update: This story gets weirder. Apparently Nathan didn’t stop for police until he pulled into Jenelle’s driveway. He then attempted to get out and run away . The cops tasered him, which explains why Nathan later puked in the back of the cruiser. Also, Jenelle says she’s going to move again because she’s being “harassed” by the police. She just moved three months ago.
Here’s the dashcam video:
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