A Port Richey councilmember was arrested on a drunk driving charge on Aug. 22 stemming from a crash in April, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) said.

Councilmember Lisa Burke, 63, surrendered on Aug. 22 to troopers at the Pasco County Jail just before 7 p.m. and was arrested and charged with DUI property damage.

According to an FHP report, a trooper responded to the Bay Care Morton Plant Hospital on April 24 and talked with Burke who was lying on a gurney.

When the trooper asked if she had been in a single-car crash, she confirmed that she had been. When the trooper had asked what had happened, Burke said she could not remember.

The trooper said that she had exhibited impairment such as slurred speech, bloodshot watery eyes, disoriented and had a strong odor of alcohol from her breath w

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