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Deputies: Ruskin Woman Logs 0.359, 0.341 On DUI Tests

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By JOSH POLTILOVE | The Tampa Tribune
and DANIELA VELÁZQUEZ | TBO.com

Published: June 23, 2008

Updated: 06/23/2008 03:49 pm

Roberta Lea Conley

TAMPA - Deputies arrested a 50-year-old woman on Sunday driving with a blood-alcohol reading almost five times the level at which Florida law presumes a driver is impaired, according to an arrest report.

Roberta Lea Conley of 1220 U.S. 41 S., Ruskin, was stopped by deputies at U.S. 301 South and Janes Drive after authorities saw her 1990 Chevrolet van weave across the centerline several times, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokesman J.D. Callaway said.

Callaway said Conley's performance on a sobriety test was "unsatisfactory." Deputies asked her to take breath tests, which revealed blood-alcohol levels of 0.359 and 0.341, according to an arrest report. Florida law presumes a driver is impaired at 0.08.

She was arrested and charged with driving with a blood-alcohol level exceeding 0.20.

This is Conley's third DUI arrest.

"I don't know about a record, but that is up there," Callaway said of Conley's blood-alcohol level.

Conley was taken to Tampa General Hospital to be medically cleared, as per sheriff's office policy for a person with such a high blood-alcohol level, Callaway said.

She was then taken to Orient Road Jail, Callaway said.

She was freed after posting $2,000 bail.

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