READINGTON TWP. - A rookie Scotch Plains police officer repeated the phrase "Are you serious?" several times during the night she was arrested and charged with DWI and eluding.

A dash-cam video recorded the night Stephanie Roggina of Flemington was arrested has been released following a lawsuit.

The video, posted on youtube by The Trentonian, starts with a black Ford Edge driven by Roggina sitting at a stop sign at Route 629 and Hillcrest Road on the night of Aug. 26. A police cruiser is behind her.

The Trentonian reported her vehicle did not move for 90 seconds until the officer turned his cruiser's emergency lights on, at which point she drove off.

During the minute-long pursuit, Roggina swerves to the right, striking a guard rail. She signals for a right turn before turning left on Locust Road, stopping at the edge of a driveway at 11:36 p.m.

Roggina, in her rookie year in the Scotch Plains Police Department, was charged with third-degree eluding and driving while intoxicated.

After she stops, Lt. Scott Crater calls out "Let me see your hands," adding, "Get out of the car."

After being told she was under arrest, Roggina asks at the 3 minute mark in the video, "Are you serious?" It's a question she repeats several times. "Are you serious right now? Are you kidding me?"

Roggina is handcuffed, has difficulty walking and slurs her words as Crater brings her to his police cruiser.

"You don't take off from a cop," Crater says. "Are you out of your mind?"

While sitting in the backseat of Crater's cruiser, Roggina claims she did not try to elude him. "I didn't take off from a f**king cop," Roggina says. "I was not running from you."

Crater responds, "You took off," telling her the crash was recorded on his dash-cam and taking her to the Ford to show her the damage.

Roggina asks, "Where did I crash my car?" Crater responds, "Right here."

As Roggina asks "Are you serious?" again, Crater says, "I'm not joking."

At this point Roggina asks Crater is he wants to see her badge, saying she works in Scotch Plains. "Well, you're drunk," Crater says. Later, after being read her Miranda rights, she repeats that she is a "cop" and provides her badge number.

"Well, then you should know better, right?" Crater says.

"Obviously," Roggina says. "Please don't, seriously."

Two additional officers who responded to the accident still can't locate her identification or wallet. Roggina tells police her badge is inside her wallet. One officer notes "She's a recruit" as her purse is recovered. An officer says Roggina should be asked if there's a handgun in the vehicle.

The Trentonian reported Roggina asks, "Do you know Brian?," a possible reference to retired Scotch Plains Police Chief Brian T. Mahoney, who was charged with a DUI following an accident that happened just weeks after Roggina's arrest.

NJ.com's OPRA request to get a copy of the dash-cam recording of Roggina's arrest was denied. The Trentonian sued to obtain the recording.

Roggina was also ticketed for reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to yield to an emergency vehicle and obstructing passage of other vehicles, it was previously reported.

A Hunterdon County grand jury indicted Roggina on resisting arrest in October, but the charge was downgraded to a disorderly person's offense. She plead guilty on March 17 to disorderly conduct for improper behavior.

State Superior Court Judge Angela F. Borkowski handed down a non-custodial sentence and ordered her to pay a $125 fine. The remaining charges were heard in municipal court, and no information on the outcome of those was available.

Roggina, who joined the department in June of 2016, had been suspended without pay. No information on her status was available.

Before joining the department, she worked at Kean University first as a security guard and then as a police officer.