- February 6, 2025
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6:12 p.m. — intersection of S. Yonge Street and W. Granada Boulevard
DUI. A habitual traffic offender was once again arrested for drinking and driving after falling asleep at the wheel of his vehicle at a red light.
A police officer officer happened to pull up besides him at the stoplight to see his head tilted back on the seat and continue to doze as the light turned green, forcing the cars behind the man to swerve around him. The officer positioned himself behind the sleeping driver and began a traffic stop, to which the man jolted awake and began to "frantically move around inside the vehicle."
At first glance, the officer noted the man's slurred speech and strong smell of alcohol on his breath. When asked to do the field sobriety exercises, the man told the officer that he had broken his left leg in eight places in the past, but that he should be able to do the exercises.
Based on the results of those exercises, the man was arrested for his fourth DUI.
1:23 a.m. — Sanchez Park
Possession of hash oil. A 37-year-old woman was arrested after police found her sleeping in her car with her foot on the brake in the back of Sanchez Park and searched her car, finding hash oil in her belongings.
First and foremost, police woke the woman up and instructed her to put her vehicle in park. They told her the park was closed after dark and asked her why she was there, and the woman replied that she was trying to get to her home in St. Augustine. She could not remember how she got to the park and why.
While waiting to be picked up by a friend, she gave police permission to search her car, where they found hash oil inside a cointainer on the backseat floorboard. A vial of brown liquid was also found in her purse. In addition, police collected $389 in cash and a ledger containing "code words."
