PLANT CITY, Fla. (WFLA) — A Wimauma father spent a night in jail after the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said he was double the legal limit when he fell asleep with his 5-year-old son in the back seat.
Deputies responded to a gas station in Plant City just before 8 p.m. on Thursday after getting a “person-down” call about a man in the parking lot.
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Upon arrival, deputies found 26-year-old Patrick Voegtly asleep in the driver’s seat of his truck, parked next to a gas pump.
In the back seat was the man’s 5-year-old son, HCSO said, who told deputies that his dad was just sleeping…