A Village of Glenbrook man has been sentenced in connection with an Oct. 15 golf cart crash at Publix at Southern Trace Plaza.
A Sumter County sheriff’s deputy was dispatched at 10:24 p.m. to the report of a single-vehicle golf cart crash in the store’s parking lot. When the deputy arrived, he spotted a golf cart swerving erratically on the golf cart path along County Road 101 and the deputy then stopped the golf cart in the parking lot of New Covenant United Methodist Church.
The driver of the golf cart, 54-year-old Glenn Stuart Werline, acknowledged he had been involved in an accident, but said he did not want to make a report.
The deputy suspected Werline had been drinking. Werline said he had consumed a half of a beer. Werline also said he is prescribed oxycodone and methadone, which he has been taking regularly for 10 years. He said he had taken the prescriptions earlier in the day.
He failed field sobriety exercises and later provided breath samples that registered .032 and .029.
He was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence.
Last week in Sumter County Court, Werline entered a plea of no contest to the charge.
He will lose his driver’s license for six months and has been placed on probation for one year. He was also ordered to perform 50 hours of community service.
