Police responding to a shouting match outside a grocery store were told the person responsible for the disturbance 'was trying to leave in a silver golf cart.'
Janine Renee Rapka has a history of DUI convictions in New Jersey and she was arrested in Florida for the same crime, from left, in 2023 and 2024. Police responding to a shouting match outside a grocery store were told the person responsible for the disturbance “was trying to leave in a silver golf cart .”
“The witness reported that the vehicle did not belong to her, but to her son, who was not present when the incident happened. First, an officer ordered her “not to put anything in her mouth, which she refused by eating a piece of gum.Then, the officer reported smelling "an alcoholic beverage coming from the defendant's breath.“The defendant was then detained and placed in my patrol vehicle.”A background check found Rapka had been convicted of DUI four times: in 1997, 2003, and 2008 in New Jersey, and on Feb. 21, 2023, right there in Lake County.
They read her Miranda rights, but “the defendant kept interrupting me by stating, ‘I want my lawyer.’
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