A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk and killing a 96-year-old geologist in a wrong-way crash, with the incident taking place shortly after a police officer stopped her but let her off with a warning.
Genise Taylor has been accused of DUI manslaughter in connection to the death of Arthur Gilbert. The crash took place near Naples just after 4 a.m. on March 18 on the southbound side of Interstate 75 near mile marker 109.
Taylor, 24, was allegedly driving a Nissan Rogue north in the southbound lanes when she crashed into Gilbert’s Volvo XC60, according to a probable cause arrest affidavit viewed by Law & Crime.
Paramedics reported to the scene of the crash and rushed Gilbert to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Medical staff also took a blood sample from Taylor and learned she had a blood alcohol content level of .213, which was twice the legal limit of 0.08.
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After she was read her Miranda rights, Taylor told police she had put her daughter to bed around 9:30 p.m. on the night before the crash. She then met a friend at a bar before she went to a Waffle House to meet up with a guy. Taylor claimed that she only had one glass of wine to drink on the night in question, per the affidavit.
However, police said that she allegedly “smirked” when she was asked about drinking more than one alcoholic beverage.
During a bond hearing on Monday, March 23, prosecutors revealed they learned new details about the night of the crash through a phone call Taylor made to a relative while in jail. Taylor allegedly told the family member that a Collier County Sheriff’s deputy pulled her over just hours before the fatal crash.
“She says, yes, she was stopped, and that she knew the officer,” assistant state attorney Mara Marzano said, according to a courtroom report from WINK.
Two friends then reportedly took Taylor and her vehicle to a Waffle House.
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Taylor was back on the road again by 3:30 a.m. when traffic cameras picked up her vehicle at Golden Gate Parkway and I-75.
“She’s asleep at an intersection for half an hour or more and then proceeds to somehow get on the interstate going the wrong way,” Marzano claimed.
Taylor’s attorneys said that she had “no intent for this to happen,” though admitted that she was involved in a “series of events that spiraled out of control and unfortunately ended in someone’s death.”
In light of the claim that Taylor was pulled over by a police officer during an earlier traffic stop, Collier County Sheriff’s Office told WINK that the deputy involved, Eric Pellegrino, is now a subject of an internal investigation.
Taylor has been denied bond and is currently still in custody at the Collier County Jail. It is not currently clear if she has entered a plea.
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Gilbert, who was a retired geologist, was driving home after he dropped his wife off at the airport before the crash.
The Collier County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Us Weekly’s request for comment.
His widow, Pamela Gilbert, told WBBH that it is up to the court to decide Taylor’s fate. “This woman will live with this for the rest of her life,” she said. “The law will take care of whatever needs to happen, and I couldn’t put my energy into that anger.”
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