A Villager has been sentenced in reference to a golf cart drunk driving arrest final 12 months within the Village of Linden.
Richard Durant, 63, who lives within the Cliff Villas within the Villages of Southern Oaks, will lose his driver’s license for six months and had been positioned on probation for one 12 months after pleading no contest final month to a cost of driving below the affect in Sumter County Courtroom. He was additionally ordered to carry out 50 hours of neighborhood service.
Durant had been driving an orange Yamaha golf cart shortly after 9 p.m. Might 11 when he didn’t yield for a police automotive on the Village of Linden gate, in line with an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Division. Durant’s eyes have been bloodshot, his speech was slurred and he was repeating himself, in line with the arrest report. Durant advised the police officer he had “two beers.”
Durant, who bought his house at 1730 Arnold Highway in March 2020 for $208,200, struggled by way of discipline sobriety workout routines. He offered breath samples that registered .173 and .161 blood alcohol content material
