An Ocala man who was driving his black GMC Sierra pickup without a license found himself behind bars Thursday night.
A Marion County sheriff’s deputy ran the pickup’s license plate and discovered that it belonged to 58-year-old Dwight Stuart Taylor, who had a suspended license. The deputy stopped the truck in the 8000 block of SW Hwy. 200 and spoke with Taylor, who said he was coming back from a basketball game. He said he knew his license was suspended “but he had no one else to drive to the game,” the report says.
The deputy ran a computer check on Taylor’s license, which revealed nine revocations, suspensions or cancellations since August 1992. It also showed three guilty convictions for driving with license suspended or revoked – Jan. 20, 2006 in Levy County; June 6, 2007 in Marion County and November 2, 2015 in Citrus County, the report says.
Taylor, who lives at 1093 N Bearmount Terr. in Ocala, was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where he was charged with driving while license suspended (third or subsequent offense). He was released late Friday morning on $10,000 bond and his next court date hasn’t yet been set, jail records show.