A Villager who admitted he had taken hydrocodone for back pain was arrested after he was driving dangerously near an entry gate.
Paul Joseph Barcomb, 60, who lives with his father in the Village of Santo Domingo, was driving a gray Ford pickup at about 2 p.m. Monday when he made a wide turn and drove up onto a median, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicle went onto to make another wide turn near the guard shack at the El Camino Real entrance to the Village of Santo Domingo. The truck’s driver’s side mirror hit the entry pad at the gate.
A deputy feared Barcomb was suffering a medical episode and initiated a traffic stop. The deputy noticed the truck’s front driver’s side tire was “shredded.”…