{"id":37643,"date":"2023-10-23T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=37643"},"modified":"2023-10-23T14:11:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T18:11:28","slug":"pinellas-county-elementary-school-teacher-arrested-in-polk-county-for-dui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/23\/pinellas-county-elementary-school-teacher-arrested-in-polk-county-for-dui\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas County Elementary School Teacher Arrested in Polk County for DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a woman for driving while impaired on Friday night, October 20, 2023; the woman told deputies she was a third-grade Pinellas County teacher at Sky View Elementary School in the city of Pinellas Park.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"439\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-10.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-37644\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3211845102505695;width:345px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-10.jpeg 580w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/image-10-300x227.jpeg 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">52-year-old Leslie Spence of Tampa was taken to the PCSO Sheriff\u2019s Processing Center, where she was charged with driving under the influence with a breath alcohol content of.15 or higher (M1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cChildren learn from adults and educators, so if you fall under both of those categories, it is imperative that you\u2019re setting a good example. Since Ms. Spence failed to do that, we\u2019re going to use this as a teaching moment\u2014don\u2019t drive drunk. It\u2019s dangerous, and you\u2019ll end up in detention at the Polk County Jail,\u201d said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At about 10:44 p.m., a good citizen saw something and said something. The witness reported a vehicle traveling east on State Road 60 at about 25mph and swerving across lanes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A PCSO deputy caught up to the silver Ford SUV and conducted a traffic stop on SR 60, just west of US 27 in Lake Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The deputy noted that Spence had slurred speech with a strong odor of alcoholic beverages, and her eyes were bloodshot and watery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a field sobriety test, Ms. Spence was arrested for DUI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At one point, deputies say Spence said to the deputy \u201cmy father is a lawyer and he will sue every single one of you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputies say Spence provided two breath samples; one measured 0.213 G\/210L and the other 0.214 G\/210L. Both samples were well over twice the legal threshold of 0.08 G\/210L.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to the DUI criminal charge, Spence was also given a citation for failing to maintain a single lane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a woman for driving while impaired on Friday night, October 20, 2023; the woman told deputies she was a third-grade Pinellas County teacher at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[6417],"class_list":["post-37643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pinellas-county-elementary-school-teacher-arrested-in-polk-county-for-dui"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37645,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37643\/revisions\/37645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}