A native of Guatemala who has been living in Florida for five years was arrested after he was caught driving without a license in the Village of Edenfield.
Gabriel Santos Ramirez Jacinto, 29, of Lady Lake, was driving a vehicle at 7:43 a.m. Tuesday near 6600 Caudill Trail in the southern area of The Villages when he was pulled over by a Wildwood police officer.
The officer initiated the traffic stop after a check of the vehicle’s license plate revealed that the registered owner did not have a valid Florida driver’s license and several individuals associated with the tag had outstanding warrants, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department.
Communicating through a translator app and broken English, Ramirez Jacinto admitted to police that he did not have a driver’s license and knew he should not be driving. He told officers he has been living and working in Florida for the past five years and had been employed by a local company for the past year. He is originally from Huehuetenango, Guatemala…