Bill Haggerty rushed outside to see what had happened while his wife called 911. He found a maroon sport utility vehicle with its back end submerged in his swimming pool. It was about 11:30 on Wednesday night.
The driver, who appeared unharmed, opened her door and promptly fell into the water.
Haggerty helped the woman out and asked if she was okay. She stank of alcohol, he said, and had a glazed look in her eyes. And after just a moment, she said she wanted to leave.
"I said, 'Ma'am, you can't leave, your truck is in my pool,'" Haggerty, 39, said. "She said, 'I can get it out!'" But then she got up and bolted through the sliding glass doors into Haggerty's house on Water Oak Drive in Timber Oaks, he said.
The Florida Highway Patrol arrested Nicole Renee Carlin, 36, after she was spotted trying to enter another house on a nearby street. Carlin, of 7525 Fox Bloom Drive, was charged with trespassing, DUI, leaving the scene of an accident and DUI with property damage. She was being held in the Pasco County jail in Land O'Lakes in lieu of $1,500 bail.
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