A woman who was recently spared prosecution in a brawl with her boyfriend in The Villages has landed behind bars on a drunk driving charge.
Susan Kendra Walker, 49, of Fruitland Park, had been driving a blue 2016 KIA Niro at 12:50 a.m. Saturday traveling at about 5 miles per hour on U.S. 301 at County Road 472 in Oxford, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
During a traffic stop, a deputy determined Walker appeared to have been drinking. She admitted she had “about two beers” and “had not had anything to eat,” the deputy wrote in the arrest report.
“(Walker) stated she only wanted to get home to sleep and asked if I was able to give her a ride home,” the deputy wrote.
When asked for her driver’s license, registration and insurance, Walker first handed the deputy her credit card and then her ID card for her passport. She said she could not find her driver’s license and did not have an insurance card.
Walker struggled through field sobriety exercises and at one point complained, “I wouldn’t be able to do this on a good day.” She provided breath samples that registered .165 and .162 blood alcohol content.
She was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence and booked at the Sumter County Detention Center. She was released after posting $1,000 bond.
Walker had been arrested following a July 18 brawl with a Villages couple’s adult son which began while drinking at Brownwood Paddock Square. The prosecutor’s office later announced it would not pursue the case against Walker.