A woman fled to the safety of a supermarket to call 911 after a “strange” Villager invaded her golf cart.
The woman said the man, later identified as 60-year-old Roland Edward Richardson of the Village of Santo Domingo, at about 8 p.m. Tuesday unzipped the side curtain of her golf cart and sat down on the passenger seat, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. The man was “strange” and “drunk,” she told police.
Three times she ordered him out of her golf cart and he would not leave. She took the key out of the ignition and ran inside the liquor department at Winn-Dixie on Bichara Boulevard in The Villages. Once inside the store, she called 911. While keeping an eye on her golf cart, she saw Richardson rummaging through it. He then rummaged through a second golf cart.
Richardson was found sitting on a curb and was taken into custody on a charge of disorderly intoxication. He was booked at the Lake County Jail on $500 bond.
In 2016, Richardson was sentenced to 21 months in state prison after his fourth driving under the influence conviction. He had been arrested on a golf cart DUI earlier that year and claimed he was a Green Beret.
