An uninsured driver from Mexico is facing potential deportation after a traffic stop on U.S. 301 in Wildwood.
Ana Maria Vega Uribe, 30, who currently resides in Biloxi, Mississippi, was driving a white Nissan Sentra at about 8 a.m. Monday when a Wildwood police officer noticed the vehicle’s Mississippi license plate was actually registered to a 2011 Infiniti SUV. The officer initiated a traffic stop near the intersection of U.S. 301 and Johnson Street, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department.
When asked for her documentation, Vega Uribe handed the officer a Mexican passport and a stack of vehicle paperwork, but could not produce a valid driver’s license from Mexico, Florida or Mississippi. Among the paperwork, the officer found several old Florida vehicle registrations and an expired auto insurance card.
Vega Uribe, who told the officer she is currently working as a painter in Oxford, had previously lived in Orlando. A routine records check revealed that she had a suspended driver’s license status stemming from a May 2024 failure to appear in court in Lake County on a previous charge of driving without a valid license…