A Villager with several drunk driving convictions in New Jersey has been sentenced in connection with a golf cart drunk driving arrest on Easter Sunday at a Winn-Dixie store in The Villages.
Janine Renee Rapka, 45, who lives in the Village of Santo Domingo, has been placed on 24 months probation following a sentencing hearing earlier this month in Lake County Court. She had also served 57 days in jail.
Rapka had been stopped at a stop sign at the store when a man walked in front of Rapka’s golf cart at the Winn-Dixie at La Plaza Grande, according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. Rapka yelled profanities at the man and then walked toward his silver Ford and used a key to scratch the right front passenger door, causing about $1,000 in damage. The man’s mother was sitting in the Ford when Rapka keyed the door, prompting the mother to call 911…