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Officer arrested for driving drunk in police car blew triple the legal limit, records show

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Monday, October 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM · 1 min read
Officer arrested for driving drunk in police car blew triple the legal limit, records show — ClickOrlando Local, Windermere Business news
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An off-duty Haines City police officer arrested on suspicion of driving drunk in his marked patrol car had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit, records obtained by News 6 show.Joseph Everett, 29, was arrested Saturday afternoon after the Orlando Police Department received multiple calls about a marked Haines City police vehicle driving recklessly downtown and travelling the wrong way down one-way streets, court records indicate.Video posted on social media shows the police car driving into oncoming traffic near City Hall and the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts before officers with the Orlando Police Department stopped it.An open container of Four Loko, an alcoholic beverage, was in plain view in the passenger compartment, an arresting officer wrote in a report.Investigators said Everett, who was not wearing his Haines City police uniform or insignia, smelled strongly of alcohol and had bloodshot, watery eyes. He allegedly stumbled and lost his footing while tr

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