A Villager who claimed he was late for a meeting at The Villages Regional Hospital was arrested after violating the Move Over Law on El Camino Real.
A Sumter County sheriff’s deputy was completing a traffic stop and returning to his vehicle at about 9:15 a.m. Thursday when 76-year-old Robert Leon Bourbon of the Village of Calumet Grove drove past the deputy in a brown Honda CRV. He did not move over for the deputy and there was no other traffic preventing him from doing so, according to the arrest report.
The deputy pulled over Bourbon’s vehicle at El Camino Real and Buenos Aires Boulevard.
The deputy found that Bourbon did not have proof of his insurance and began to write him a citation.
Bourbon began waving his arms at the deputy and claimed he was late for a meeting with co-workers at the hospital. Bourbon said he was “in a hurry.”
Bourbon made vulgar statements toward the deputy and drove away, the report indicated.
The deputy activated his lights and sirens and attempted to pull Bourbon’s vehicle over for a second time.
Bourbon kept going and drove into the hospital parking lot. He got out of his car and began yelling at the deputy.
Bourbon was placed in handcuffs.
“The defendant apologized to me for his behavior and stated multiple times he was out of character and that he wished to put the incident behind him,” the deputy wrote in the arrest report.
Bourbon was arrested on a charge of resisting arrest. He was also ticketed on charges of failure to move over and no proof of insurance.
He was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center on $1,000 bond.
