A Village of Santo Domingo man arrested after a golf cart accident, boasted to a law enforcement officer that he was a Special Forces Green Beret just before failing drunk driving field sobriety exercises.
Sumter County sheriff’s deputies were called at 7:30 p.m. Friday to a golf cart accident at Morse Boulevard and Rio Grande Avenue. A deputy found 58-year-old Roland Edward Richardson at the wheel of a golf cart. Richardson told the deputies he had been on his way home from work when a vehicle turned in front of him and his golf cart struck that vehicle in the side, according to an arrest report. Richardson fell to the ground while another deputy was completing an accident report. When a deputy asked Richardson if there were any issues that would prevent him from completing field sobriety exercises, Richardson boasted of being an Army Special Forces Green Beret. He failed field sobriety exercises. In the golf cart, the deputy found two empty bottles of cold medicine and one partially consumed bottle of Skol vodka.
A pair of breath tests showed that Richardson had a blood alcohol level of .248 and .240. Richardson also has three previous DUIs in Sumter County in 2008, 2011 and 2013.
During the booking process, Richardson told the deputy, “I have had 4 DUIs; I’m going to sit for six months; nobody will bail me out. I shouldn’t have did what I did. When I sober up and detox. I’m not a baby killer, I just drink to forget.”
He was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center on $10,000 bond.
