{"id":7100,"date":"2020-04-19T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T18:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2020-04-19T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T18:27:59","slug":"state-correctional-officer-arrested-and-charged-with-bui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2020\/04\/19\/state-correctional-officer-arrested-and-charged-with-bui\/","title":{"rendered":"State Correctional Officer arrested and charged with BUI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday, April 18, 2020, while doing proactive marine patrol in Winter Haven, PCSO Marine Unit deputies and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officers observed a pontoon boat approaching a dock and a PCSO marked vessel at the canal between Lakes Shipp and Lulu, on a plane and violating Polk County Ordinance 93-37, which states vessels must operate at idle speed within 150 feet of shore and canal, 100 feet of another vessel, and 75 feet of a dock.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-17.jpg?resize=264%2C327&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7101\" width=\"264\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-17.jpg?w=414&amp;ssl=1 414w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-17.jpg?resize=243%2C300&amp;ssl=1 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Christopher Lee Lightsey<\/strong> booking Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They conducted a boating safety stop and observed the driver,\u00a0<strong>43-year-old Christopher Lee Lightsey of Bowling Green,\u00a0<\/strong>to have bloodshot and glassy eyes, slurred speech, and an odor of alcoholic beverages on his breath. He told the officers he had one rum runner.\u00a0Lightsey agreed to a field sobriety test, which he failed. He was taken into custody for BUI (boating under the influence) and taken to the county jail where a breathalyzer test showed 0.102 BAL (blood alcohol level) on the first sample, and 0.105 BAL on the second sample.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lightsey told deputies he is a Lieutenant at the state Department of Corrections facility in Hardee County. He was booked into jail and released on Sunday, April 19, 2020, after posting a $500.00 bond. He was also issued a civil citation for violation of the boating ordinance listed above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, April 18, 2020, while doing proactive marine patrol in Winter Haven, PCSO Marine Unit deputies and Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) officers observed a pontoon boat&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7101,"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":"0","_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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","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=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}