FORT PIERCE — A St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office deputy was arrested Sunday on a DUI charge after she reportedly was seen weaving in traffic and stumbling when she exited her sport utility vehicle, according to an affidavit released Monday.

Two breath tests measured 49-year-old Consuela Hall Curtis’s blood-alcohol level as 0.144 and 0.153 percent — greater than the legal limit of 0.08 percent. Curtis is a court security deputy who joined the Sheriff’s Office in 2003, according to the Sheriff’s Office. She was off duty in her personal vehicle at the time.

An off-duty sheriff’s sergeant saw Curtis driving west Sunday afternoon on Okeechobee Road from Interstate 95, noting her GMC SUV was weaving and cutting across all lanes of traffic.

Curtis, a Port St. Lucie resident, allegedly tried to back into a parking space at the Sleep In hotel in the 2700 block of Crossroads Parkway four times, and she ended up partially on the grass.

She allegedly stumbled out of the vehicle and said she’d had two beers while at the beach. Her speech was slurred and she smelled strongly of alcohol.

Curtis, who was arrested by a sheriff’s deputy, was placed on paid administrative leave pending further investigation.

By Will Greenlee

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