However, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office deputy who arrested Ana wrote in his report that he and his supervisor gave her fair warning before seizing her license earlier in the morning, instructing her not to drive.
Deputy Bryan Cross wrote in his report that he was doing a security check of the Key Largo Community Park around 3:40 AM when he saw Quincoces drive by the park in her Subaru sport utility vehicle. He wrote that he recognized the SUV and Quincoces because of a “previous disturbance call.” During that call, “Quincoces was informed by me and Sgt. [Sydney] Whitehouse that her Florida drivers license had been suspended indefinitely” on Feb. 9 and “she was not to drive.” They seized her license then.
“The police down there are overzealous,” Quincoces said Monday. “It was an administrative glitch.”
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Cross pulled Ana over Sunday and “began to ask Quincoces why she was driving the vehicle after being told not to drive … she was unable to provide a valid answer.”
He told her several more times she had received “several warnings and chances … given during our previous encounter,” and “even explained to Quincoces the reasons why” they took her license earlier.
She was taken to the Plantation Key jail on the misdemeanor charge and released on her own recognizance Sunday at 5:14 AM.
Quincoces claimed that she wanted to get home because the house where she was staying was infested with cockroaches and she couldn’t take it. She said she fears cockroaches. “I just wanted to get home,” she said, adding that “I didn’t realize I had a suspended license” even though police say she received repeated warnings a short time earlier.
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