Staff report
ALACHUA, Fla. – Dawn Marie Burkhardt, 46, was arrested yesterday on three DUI charges, fleeing from law enforcement, battery on an officer, resisting an officer with violence, and giving false identification information to an officer.
A little after 4 p.m. on September 18, a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper responded to a call about a vehicle stopped in the roadway at Peggy Road and NW 202nd Street; the caller said the driver did not want help and refused to move the vehicle out of the roadway. The trooper reported that when he approached the Lincoln SUV, the driver seemed to be looking at her cell phone; in response to questions from the trooper, she reportedly said the vehicle was not disabled and would not explain why she was stopped in the roadway.
The trooper reported that as he explained that she needed to pull off the road, other vehicles were trying to navigate around the stopped vehicle. He reported that he smelled alcohol, and when he asked the driver for her identification, she reportedly said she was the registered owner of the vehicle but made no attempt to produce a driver’s license. The trooper reported that she did not answer a question about whether there was alcohol in the vehicle.