A 47-year-old Villager has been sentenced to a month in jail and three years probation following her third driving under the influence conviction in 10 years.
Debra Marie Bellodi of the Village of Duval pleaded no contest to the charge and will receive credit for jail time already served. Bellodi was sentenced Tuesday in Sumter County Court by Judge William H. Hallman III.
She had been arrested in June by a Sumter County sheriff’s deputy who had been flagged down by a motorist at about 11 p.m. near Lowe’s on U.S. Hwy. 27/441. The motorist alerted the deputy there was a blue SUV driving erratically in the parking lot. The deputy saw the vehicle and Bellodi was repeatedly honking the horn, according to the arrest report. The deputy made contact with Bellodi in the Cracker Barrel parking lot where her SUV was parked across several spaces.
Bellodi told the deputy she was coming from Spanish Springs Town Square where she had been trying to find a date, the arrest report indicated. She denied she had been drinking. She failed field sobriety exercises, the report noted.
She was transported to the Sumter County Detention Center where she took a breath test which measured readings of .247 and .246.
A computer check showed she had two prior DUI convictions in Pennsylvania.
