{"id":48979,"date":"2024-08-20T15:59:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T19:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=48979"},"modified":"2024-08-20T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T20:12:16","slug":"irresponsible-2-dcf-employees-arrested-for-dui-suspended-license-in-polk-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/08\/20\/irresponsible-2-dcf-employees-arrested-for-dui-suspended-license-in-polk-county\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Irresponsible\u2019: 2 DCF employees arrested for DUI, suspended license in Polk County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two employees with the Florida Department of Children and Families were arrested just a day apart, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 2 a.m. on Sunday, deputies responded to a single-vehicle crash on Saddle Creek Road in Lakeland, after the driver crashed into a utility pole.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The driver, Evelyn Ross, 47, of Auburndale, told the deputy she \u201cmade a bad choice and had had a lot to drink,\u201d according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross had bloodshot eyes, a strong odor of alcohol, and failed her sobriety tests. Her blood alcohol content levels were 0.197 and 0.190.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross was arrested and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, before being transferred to the Polk County Processing Center. She was charged with DUI over 0.15 and DUI with property damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday afternoon around 1 p.m., another Polk County deputy pulled over a vehicle on Highway 17 in Bartow after learning the owner of the vehicle had a suspended license.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jayla Rae Robinson, 22, of Lakeland, handed her license over to the deputy, admitting she had been pulled over two days before and had been issued a citation. She also had a 15-year-old in her car who she was \u201ctransporting to court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robinson was arrested for knowingly driving with a suspended or revoked license. The teenage passenger was picked up by another DCF employee to take them to court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe take DUI and DWLSR offenses very seriously, especially when the suspects are people in a position of trust in the community,\u201d Sheriff Grady Judd said. \u201cDriving children around for work after already being cited for driving with a suspended license is irresponsible. And driving and crashing a car under the influence of alcohol sets a very poor example.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two employees with the Florida Department of Children and Families were arrested just a day apart, according to the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Around 2 a.m. on Sunday, deputies responded… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[12,14],"tags":[9541,9542],"class_list":["post-48979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-irresponsible-2-dcf-employees-arrested-for-dui","tag-suspended-license-in-polk-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48986,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48979\/revisions\/48986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}