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Thursday, March 28, 2024

Attorney for bikini-clad DUI suspect wants evidence ruled inadmissible

Carrie Head

An attorney for a bikini-clad drunk driving suspect has filed a motion asking that evidence against his client be ruled inadmissible.

Carrie Lee Head, 33, who lives in Bison Valley in Oxford, was arrested on the night of Feb. 28 after fleeing a traffic crash at Southern Trace Plaza in The Villages.

Head’s Honda van struck another vehicle and she admitted to the other driver she did not have insurance. She offered to provide him “services” as payment for the damage to his vehicle, according to an arrest report. She fled the scene when he called law enforcement. He said the woman driving the van appeared to be intoxicated and was wearing only a bikini. Head, still wearing the bikini, was arrested at her home on charges of hit-and-run and driving under the influence. She also was ticketed on charges of having no proof of insurance and careless driving.

Head, who remains free on $2,500 bond, has retained the services of attorney J. Scott Herman. Last month, he filed a motion in Sumter County Court seeking to suppress evidence in the case.

Herman claimed in the motion that a deputy failed to inform Head of her Miranda Rights. He said the deputy also asked Head to perform field sobriety exercises but the deputy did not inform her of any adverse consequences if she refused.

This is not the first time Herman has represented a DUI suspect apprehended in a bathing suit in The Villages.

Herman last year defended a Villages couple’s daughter after she was arrested on a drunk driving charge at Carrabba’s Italian Grill at Rolling Acres Plaza. She had been wearing only a one-piece blue bathing suit at the time of her arrest. He was successful in getting that woman’s driving under the influence charge bargained down to reckless driving.

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