NC woman in Florida asks deputy for directions, gets charged with DUI, sheriff says
A North Carolina woman suspected of drunk driving in the Florida Keys delivered herself to deputies when she stopped at a sheriff’s office substation for directions, according to investigators in South Florida.
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It happened Tuesday on Cudjoe Key, and the 34-year-old suspect lives in Thomasville, about a 70-mile drive north from uptown Charlotte, officials said.
“Heidy Jazmin Aleman … pulled a BMW sedan into the Sheriff’s Office Cudjoe Key substation at approximately 11:10 p.m. and requested directions from a sheriff’s office sergeant. An 11-year-old juvenile was in the vehicle,” the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said in a July 15 news release.
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“The same BMW was previously observed driving recklessly on U.S. 1. Aleman appeared intoxicated and failed field sobriety exercises. She was taken to jail.”
Aleman was charged with DUI and child neglect, officials said.
The child was taken to children’s shelter and a family member was “en route to take custody,” officials said.
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Cudjoe Key is about 20 miles northeast of Key West.
