A Villager will lose his driver’s license after flipping his golf cart following a night out at Brownwood Paddock Square.
Paul Mancuso, 61, of the Village of Dabney, pleaded no contest this past week to a charge of driving under the influence in Sumter County Court. He will lose his driver’s license for six months, has been placed on probation for one year and must perform 50 hours of community service.
Mancuso was driving a golf cart at about 10:20 p.m. May 20 when he crashed in a roundabout at St. Catherine Circle and Meggison Road in the Village of Citrus Grove, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. The crash caused the golf cart to flip over.
When a Wildwood police officer arrived at the scene in Florida’s Friendliest Hometown, Mancuso was allegedly standing near the wreckage and swaying from side to side. The officer spotted a smashed alcohol container and a Dos Equis bottle cap on the ground behind the golf cart. There was also an open, cold alcoholic beverage inside the cart within arm’s reach of the driver’s seat…