A mayor in Florida has been arrested for a DUI after she allegedly adopted a pair dwelling, hit their mailbox and parked her automobile on the grass, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
On Aug. 28, Naples mayor, 61-year-old Teresa Heitmann, was arrested after agreeing to subject sobriety checks and finishing two breath checks on the Naples Jail Middle that confirmed her blood alcohol content material at 0.155 and 0.169, based on the Naples Police Division.
The authorized restrict in Florida is 0.08.
Based on the Naples Each day Information, police acquired a 911 name round 10 p.m. from a person stating he and his spouse had been adopted dwelling by a lady driving a silver automobile.
The caller informed the dispatcher, “I believe the mayor is drunk and she or he simply, she simply actually — oh, she simply drove over our mailbox.”
The dispatcher asks, “The mayor did?”
The caller replies, “I don’t know, she’s claiming to be the mayor. I don’t know who she is.”
The caller then asks for her identify and she or he clearly says she is “Mayor Teresa Heitmann.”
Officers arrived on the scene and Heitmann informed the officers she is “not the mayor proper now,” based on sprint digital camera footage.
Police talked with the couple, who mentioned Heitmann’s silver Porsche nearly ran the cease signal they usually needed to “slam” on the brakes.
The resident additionally informed police that they went to name police and Heitmann mentioned, “Name the police…she is the mayor, and that nothing will occur,” however Heitmann informed police she “would by no means inform them she was the mayor.”
Heitmann additionally informed officers that the couple nearly hit her in a roundabout. She informed police she didn’t observe the couple, however when the officer informed her they had been standing in entrance of the opposite folks’s dwelling, she “rolled her eyes and requested what was occurring.”
Police mentioned she had “glassy, watery eyes” and a “slowed, slurred speech in line with being intoxicated.”
After failing the sector sobriety checks, officers positioned Heitmann underneath arrest and charged her with driving underneath the affect.
She bonded out of jail on Aug. 29 after waiving her arraignment, which counts as her plea of not responsible underneath state regulation.
She is due again in courtroom on Sept. 18, officers mentioned.
In a press release, Metropolis Supervisor Jay Boodheshwar mentioned that “metropolis workers had been saddened to be taught in regards to the incident involving the Mayor” they usually “know it is a tough time for Mayor Heitmann and can give her the house she wants.”
Heitmann is at present serving her second time period as mayor of town.