A 29-year-old Fruitland Park woman who lost her driver’s license in part due to unpaid tickets, was arrested Tuesday by a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy on a drug charge.
Michelle Leigh Kennedy was pulled over on State Road 44 shortly after 9 a.m. Tuesday after the deputy noticed the tag on her Honda Accord actually belonged on a homemade trailer. A computer check revealed a long list of unpaid traffic tickets which had resulted in the suspension of her driver’s license.
When the deputy was placing her in the back seat of his patrol car, she told the deputy she had a “meth pipe” in her purse. The substance in the pipe tested positive for methamphetamine, according to the arrest report.
Kennedy was transported to the Sumter County Detention Center where bond was set at $2,000.
