A woman with a suspended Ohio driver’s license was arrested at a busy shopping plaza in The Villages.
An officer on patrol spotted a green Chevy Tahoe with a loosely hanging tag at La Plaza Grande in The Villages around 11:40 a.m. Wednesday, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. A check of the tag revealed it was either not assigned properly or unregistered, so he stopped the driver, 35-year-old Sally Nichole Rice of Summerfield, in front of Bath & Body Works.
Rice advised that she had a license in Ohio, but she just did not have it with her, the report said. However, a record check determined her Ohio license had been suspended, and had an “ID Card Only” status. When confronted about this, she exclaimed, “Wait, I’ve been making payments on it. I must have missed a payment.”
This indicated that she knew about the suspension. A subsequent look into her wallet showed she had a Florida ID card. She then admitted that she could not get a Florida license because of her Ohio suspension, the report said…