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Pasco deputies say woman drove drunk with child in car

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Published: October 15, 2009

HOLIDAY - A 49-year-old woman was arrested by Pasco deputies Wednesday night, accused of driving drunk with a child in the car.

While at the scene of domestic dispute, a deputy saw Phyllis Jane Taylor, of Whitleyville, Tenn., pull into a driveway on Villa Rosa Drive and immediately smelled alcohol on her breath when she got out of a Mazda, a report states. A second deputy arrived to conduct a DUI investigation and noted that Taylor's eyes were glassy and bloodshot and she was sweating profusely and had slurred speech.

She failed the field sobriety test, according to the report, and then recorded a blood-alcohol level of .178 – more than twice the level at which state law presumes impairment.

An 8-year-old child was in the car with her, the report states.

Taylor now faces charges of DUI and child neglect. She is being held at the Land O' Lakes Jail with bail set at $10,000.

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