A Villager who went drinking at the town square was arrested in a vehicle discovered at a postal station.
A member of Sumter County EMS at about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday was at the postal station on Morse Boulevard north of County Road 466 where the man had been found in a Mazda, slumped over the steering wheel. The EMS crew member shook the car and knocked on a window to wake up the man. When the driver was roused, he tried to pull away. The EMS crew member seized the keys.
A Sumter County sheriff’s deputy arrived on the scene and identified the driver as 70-year-old Geoffrey Thomas Squire of the Village of De La Vista South. It appeared he had been drinking. Squire indicated he had been at “the square,” according to the arrest report. He said he must have fallen asleep in the postal station parking lot.
He failed field sobriety exercises and provided breath samples that registered .163 and .155 blood alcohol content.
He was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center and released after posting $500 bond.
