An Indiana man in a golf cart was arrested early Tuesday morning after straying from Brownwood onto a busy roadway.
Justin Robert Berg, 39, of Marion, Ind. had been at the wheel of a tan Yamaha golf cart at 2:10 a.m. on Powell Road when he made a U-turn and was spotted by a Wildwood police officer. When the officer turned on his lights and initiated a traffic stop at Powell Road and Brownwood Boulevard, Berg jumped from the golf cart and approached the squad car. Berg was “argumentative and had a difficult time verbalizing what he was doing,” the officer wrote in the report. The officer was trying to determine where Berg was attempting to go.
“I could smell the aroma of alcohol coming off Berg’s person, I requested to perform a field sobriety test multiple times, Berg refused each time,” the officer said.
When Berg was taken to the Sumter County Detention Center, he agreed to provide a breath sample. The readings registered .151 and .140 blood alcohol content.
He was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence and booked at the jail. Bond was set at $1,500.
