JENSEN BEACH, Fla. (WFLA) — A Florida choose will seem on the opposite aspect of the courtroom after a site visitors cease led to his arrest earlier this week.
Brett Waronicki, a circuit choose for Florida’s nineteenth Judicial Circuit in Fort Pierce, was arrested Wednesday on costs of DUI and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Deputies with the Martin County Sheriff’s Workplace noticed a Ford F-150 swerving in a lane, hanging the fog line and a motorcycle lane a number of occasions and going by way of a roundabout with none lights on round 10:41 p.m. on NW Jensen Seashore Blvd.
When Waronicki was pulled over, authorities famous a powerful alcoholic scent on his breath, bloodshot, watery eyes, slurred “thick tongue” speech, physique tremors and bother sitting nonetheless, the affidavit mentioned.
The choose informed deputies he was going to select up two associates and head again to his residence, earlier than admitting he had had two vodka drinks, having his final drink at 6:30 that night time.
Court docket paperwork present Waronicki didn’t wish to do discipline sobriety workouts as a result of he “did nothing unsuitable,” and refused an alcohol breath take a look at.
A Okay-9 searched Waronicki’s car, discovering cocaine residue in Waronicki’s pockets. The circuit choose was taken to the Martin County Jail, together with the 2 passengers in his car, who had been additionally cited for possession of cocaine.
An announcement from the nineteenth Judicial Circuit, obtained by NBC affiliate WPTV, learn partly:
All circumstances presently assigned to Circuit Decide Brett M. Waronicki will probably be re-noticed for listening to earlier than a brief responsibility choose, when accessible, according to the chief choose’s authority underneath court docket guidelines. The chief choose will take steps to make sure the speedy, environment friendly, and correct administration of pending and filed circumstances inside the circuit. Litigants with questions concerning any schedule adjustments to imminent hearings could go to the St. Lucie Clerk of Court docket web site to find up-to-date info.
In keeping with WPTV, two individuals got here ahead about Waronicki’s drug use. For a number of weeks, narcotics investigators with the sheriff’s workplace have been wanting into the choose.
Waronicki is scheduled to look in court docket on Could 22.
