CRIME

CCSO: Drunk Pensacola man backs into patrol car

Patrick Riley
patrick.riley@naplesnews.com; 239-263-4825

An intoxicated Pensacola driver backed his truck into the front of a patrol car after being pulled over for speeding and driving erratically, according to the Collier County Sheriff's Office.

Dwight McCoy

Dwight McCoy, 38, was arrested Monday and faces two misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence (first offense) and reckless driving (first offense).

A deputy stopped McCoy's yellow truck Monday night on Interstate 75 North near mile marker 109 after a caller told deputies about a truck "driving erratically" in and out of traffic lanes, according to an arrest report.

After pulling over McCoy's truck, the deputy was looking for his flashlight and acknowledging the call on his computer when he noticed the truck had moved and was so close to his patrol car that he didn't have time to move his car.

"The yellow truck rear end crashed into the front of my patrol car," the deputy wrote.

The truck then accelerated and "jerked" the patrol car once again, the report stated.

At that point, the deputy got out, held the driver at gun point and asked for back-up units. McCoy then was handcuffed and placed in the back of the patrol car. In the truck deputies found "several empty bottles of apple cider beer and several closed ones," the report stated.

While McCoy was in the back of the patrol car deputies "could smell an overwhelming odor of alcoholic beverages emitting from the back" of the car, according to the report. When they interviewed him, they noticed the same odor and that he spoke with a heavy tongue and had watery red blood-shot eyes.

He was taken to the Naples Jail Center on $6,500 bond.