A drunk driving suspect was found pulling up her shorts during a late-night stop in The Villages.
A Sumter County sheriff’s deputy noticed a white Jeep Cherokee parked at the entrance to the Village of Bridgeport at Lake Sumter and halfway onto Buena Vista Boulevard shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday, according to an arrest report. The vehicle was running and had its lights on.
The deputy spotted “a white female standing up, pulling up and buttoning her shorts,” the report said. She was alone and was determined to be the sole occupant of the vehicle.
The woman was identified by her driver’s license as 64-year-old Karen Annette Crook of The Villages. She had to “lean on her vehicle to maintain balance” and would “sway and stagger when not leaning on the vehicle,” the deputy observed, according to the report.
The Kalamazoo, Mich. native agreed to take part in field sobriety exercises, but she “almost fell multiple times.” She provided breath samples that registered .142 and .146 blood alcohol content.
A computer check revealed that Crook had been convicted of driving under the influence in 2007 in Collier County and in 2022 in Broward County.
She was arrested on a charge of DUI and booked at the Sumter County Detention Center. She was released after posting $2,000 bond.