Florida Mayor Arrested for Drunk Driving; BAC Was Reportly Twice Legal Limit

A Florida mayor was arrested last month with a DUI after she allegedly followed a couple home, hit their mailbox, and parked her car on the grass.

Naples police said Teresa Heitmann, mayor of Naples, was arrested on Wednesday after agreeing to field sobriety tests and completed two breath tests at the Naples Jail Center that gave her a blood alcohol content of 0.155 and 0.169. The legal limit in Florida is 0.08.

According to WTVJ, police received a 911 call just before 10 p.m. from a man who said he and his wife were followed home by a woman driving a silver car.

“I think the mayor is drunk and she just, she just literally — oh, she just drove over our mailbox,” the caller tells a dispatcher.

“The mayor did?” the dispatcher asks.

“I don’t know, she’s claiming to be the mayor. I don’t know who she is,” he replies.

When the caller asks for her name, she says clearly she is “Mayor Teresa Heitmann.”

When police arrived, however, she told officers she is “not the mayor right now,” according to dash camera footage.

She reportedly told police she followed the couple home because they cut her off in traffic and that she’d only had one glass of wine.

Heitmann bonded out of jail on Thursday. City manager Jay Boodheshwar released a statement saying that “city employees were saddened to learn about the incident involveing the Mayor.”

Teresa Heitmann/Collier County Sheriff’s Office

“We know this is a difficult time for Mayor Heitman and will give her the space she needs,” he said.

According to the Naples Daily News, Heitmann, 61, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Heitmann is serving her second term as mayor of the city.

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[Featured image: Teresa Heitmann/City of Naples]