At 1:13 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, two Longboat Key, Florida, police officers heading north on Gulf of Mexico Drive turned around to stop a car that was running its high beams. According to the police report, as summarized in Your Observer’s weekly Cops Corner column, the man driving got out of the driver’s seat and into the back seat as the car came to a stop, and the woman riding in the front passenger seat moved behind the wheel and told the officers she had been driving.
It didn’t hold up. The report says officers asked the man to step out, noticed the smell of alcohol and slurred speech, and asked whether he had been drinking. He said he’d had a beer, then said it was a glass of wine. The woman then took back her claim and said she had not been driving. The man refused field sobriety tests and was arrested in the 5000 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive.
Your Observer’s account does not name him or list the charges, and The Auto Wire could not confirm from court records what he has been charged with or where the case stands. Until a prosecutor files charges and a court rules on them, what the report describes is an accusation…