Drunk Woman Smashed Into Officer's Truck, Fled, Troopers Say

TAMPA, FL — A Tampa woman is in hot water after she allegedly smashed into a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer’s marked patrol truck late Thursday night and attempted to flee the scene.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Britnee Shanta Fuentes, 25, was heading west on Hillsborough Avenue, approaching the construction zone at the Veterans Expressway around 11:15 p.m. As Fuentes neared the closed portion of Hillsborough Avenue, she drove through cones and barricades and kept on going. She ended up striking a marked Ford pickup truck owned by the conservation commission. The officer’s truck, troopers noted, had its lights flashing in the active construction zone.

Fuentes kept on driving after hitting the truck, but she didn’t make it far, an arrest report noted. She was stopped about a half-mile away by the FWC officer and witnesses.

Once out of her vehicle, officers noticed she had “an odor of alcohol emitting from her breath, slurred speech, glassy watery eyes, and could not maintain balance,” the report said.

A field sobriety test was performed, the reported noted. Fuentes failed the test, troopers said. Two breath samples were also taken. She failed those, too, with results of .252 and .260.

Fuentes now faces DUI with property damage and hit and run charges. She was being held in the Hillsborough County Jail Friday afternoon in lieu of $1,500 bond. Fuentes was also jailed in August 2014 on a burglary charge, jail records indicate.

Photo courtesy of the Florida Highway Patrol/Booking photo courtesy of the Hillsborough County Jail