A high-ranking Miami-Dade County jail official found himself behind bars over the weekend after causing a two-car wreck while nearly three times over the legal alcohol limit, troopers said.
Around 8:50 p.m., when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper arrived at the site of the car crash, they found Omar Fernandez, 50, sleeping in the passenger seat of a white Toyota Camry at the intersection of Southwest 88th Street and Mills Drive, an arrest report read.
Janette Perez told the trooper that she was driving her 2020 Hyundai Palisade with her 14-year-old son when Fernandez crashed into her in the Camry, which belonged to Miami-Dade County. Hearing this, the trooper woke up a sleeping Fernandez; and after a brief talk, he could smell the ”obvious odor” of alcohol on his breath…