A Marion County deputy arrested a Fruitland Park woman early Tuesday morning after seeing a truck come out from behind a business that was closed in the area of Hwy. 25 and County Road 42.
As the deputy was checking the vehicle’s license tag, 32-year-old Sheena Lynn Woolever pulled to the shoulder of Hwy. 25, got out and raised the hood of the vehicle, a sheriff’s office report states, adding that earlier the deputy had seen the vehicle at a nearby convenience store with the hood up and someone working on it.
When asked for her driver’s license, Woolever told the deputy it was suspended. When asked why, she would just say “it was bad.”
A short time later, the deputy was told that the vehicle Woolever was driving had been reported stolen in Sumter County. The deputy detained Woolever and her 28-year-old passenger, Magdalis Milagdros Morel, so he could determine what crimes might have been committed and confirm a second time that the vehicle was listed as stolen.
While checking Morel’s pockets, the deputy found a small white baggy containing a white crystal substance that later tested positive for amphetamine, a Marion County Sheriff’s report states.
Woolever, who also was arrested in September 2015 on a probation violation charge, told the deputy that she and Morel, who both live at 114 S. Iona Ave. in Fruitland Park, had purchased the truck for “just a couple of hundred dollars” on July 9. She also reminded the deputy that she had told him her license was suspended earlier.
The deputy spoke with a Sumter County Sheriff’s deputy and found out that the vehicle was reported stolen July 12. He also ran a check on Woolever’s license that showed it was suspended as a habitual offender on Jan. 30.
Morel initially told the deputy she would talk to him about the vehicle, but when talking about the baggie found in her pocket, she requested a lawyer and no further questions were asked about the drugs, the report states.
Woolever was taken into custody, transported to the Marion County Jail and charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and driving while her license was suspended (habitual offender). She was being held on $10,000 bond.
Morel also was transported to the Marion County Jail, where she was charged with possession of methamphetamine and two probation violations from Orange County cases for fraud and grand theft. She was being held on $2,000 bond on the possession of methamphetamine charge and no bond on the two probation violations.