A Marion County Sheriff’s Office sergeant arrested an Ocala habitual traffic offender early Monday morning after discovering her car had the wrong license tag attached to it.
The sergeant stopped 44-year-old Shelley Hunley Weatherington’s gray Monte Carlo in the 6800 block of SE Maricamp Road. When he asked Weatherington about the license plate, she told him the vehicle wasn’t registered and she was using the tag from her father’s car until she could get her car registered.
A computer check of Weatherington’s driving record showed that on Dec. 27, 2016, her was license was suspended for five years for being a habitual traffic offender.
Weatherington was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail – the fifth time she’s been held in the facility since Aug. 14, 2016. She was charged with driving while her license is suspended (habitual offender), attaching a license plate not assigned to the vehicle and failing to register a motor vehicle. Weatherington was released late Monday night on $3,000 bond.
