A Village of Duval woman was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence after stumbling out of her golf cart Thursday morning at Walgreens at Colony Plaza.
A Sumter County sheriff’s deputy responded at about 11:30 a.m. to the parking lot of Walgreens after a report was received of a suspected drunk driver. The deputy found 62-year-old Laura J. Kelly Lawson sitting in the driver’s seat of a cream-colored golf cart with the key in the ignition, according to an arrest report.
She stumbled from the golf cart while speaking to the deputy, who asked her to take part in field sobriety exercises. She told the deputy she was “too bow legged” to take part in the exercises.
The deputy attempted to conduct the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test, but Lawson was “disoriented and had droopy eyes.”
The deputy asked to use her eyes to follow his pen, but “she responded by stating it was hard not to look at me because I was too cute,” he wrote in the arrest report.
She later provided breath samples that registered .137 and .138 blood alcohol content.
She was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center and later released after posting $1,000 bond.
