A 39-year-old counselor at Lifestream Behavioral Center was arrested on her second driving under the influence charge early Saturday morning after leaving Margarita Republic in The Villages.
An automobile driven at 1:30 a.m. Saturday on U.S. Hwy. 27/441 near Rolling Acres Road was pulled over by a Lady Lake police officer after the driver of the automobile was drifting out of her lane.
Vanessa Luann Cumber of Lady Lake told the police officer she had left Margarita Republic. The officer asked her if she had been drinking, to which she replied, “I was coming from Margarita Republic and they do serve alcoholic beverages there.”
She was “evasive” when the officer asked her to perform field sobriety exercises, according to the arrest report. After she was handcuffed, Cumber would not cooperate with officers. She made suicidal statements and asked if the officer was going to “Baker Act” her and take her to Lifestreams. She allegedly spit several times in the back of the patrol car and when she was being booked at the Lake County Jail, she called corrections staff names and made reference to the size of their sexual organs, according to the report.
She had previously been arrested on a DUI charge on Feb. 13, 2013 by Fruitland Park police.
