58.5 F
The Villages
Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Village of Glenbrook man arrested after golf cart crash at Publix at Southern Trace

Glenn Stuart Werline
Glenn Stuart Werline

A Village of Glenbrook man was arrested after a golf cart crash Sunday night at Publix at Southern Trace Plaza.

A Sumter County sheriff’s deputy was dispatched at 10:24 p.m. to the report of a single-vehicle golf cart crash in the store’s parking lot.

When the deputy arrived, he spotted a golf cart swerving erratically on the golf cart path along County Road 101 and the deputy then stopped the golf cart in the parking lot of New Covenant United Methodist Church.

The driver of the golf cart, 54-year-old Glenn Stuart Werline, acknowledged he had been involved in an accident, but said he did not want to make a report.

The deputy suspected Werline had been drinking. Werline said he had consumed a half of a beer. Werline also said he is prescribed oxycodone and methadone, which he has been taking regularly for 10 years. He said he had taken the prescriptions earlier in the day.

He failed field sobriety exercises and later provided breath samples that registered .032 and .029.

He was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence and was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center. Bond was set at $1,000.

Vietnam veterans grateful for community support

An official with Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1036 is grateful for community support. Read his Letter to the Editor.

Serious top-down management failure in The Villages

In a Letter to the Editor, a Village of Collier resident has been studying the golf course crisis in The Villages and has concluded there has been a serious top-down management failure.

Let them keep the fence!

A Village of Palo Alto resident, in a Letter to the Editor, expresses support for a couple in The Villages fighting to keep a fence to keep out elements of the outside world.

There are truly wonderful people in The Villages

In a Letter to the Editor, a Village of DeLuna resident expresses thanks for a kind couple who did him a huge favor. He does not know them, but he is very grateful.

Thank You Marsha Shearer

A Village of Piedmont resident expresses his thanks to Marsha Shearer for information in her recent Opinion piece. But we sense a little sarcasm.