A 76-year-old man was arrested while driving to the Wildwood Soup Kitchen.
Roger William Merrill was driving a green 2008 Saturn SUV at 10:28 a.m. Saturday when he was spotted by a Wildwood police officer who had worked two recent hit-and-run accidents in which Merrill had been involved.
“The defendant has been told three times now not to drive due to having his license revoked, almost every time he drives he gets into a crash. I feel that if I did not take this course of action the defendant is going to hurt himself or someone else in a crash,” the officer wrote in the arrest report.
The officer has told Merrill, who is homeless, that he could be provided a ride to the soup kitchen so he can eat.
Merrill was arrested on a charge of driving while license suspended. He was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center. Bond was set at $500.