A Florida woman’s visit to a Taco Bell drive-through ended in a DUI arrest after an employee reported that she appeared intoxicated, was acting confused, and had attempted to pay for her food with tampons.
Boca Raton police responded to the restaurant at 1361 West Palmetto Park Road around 9:08 p.m. on October 25, 2026. There, officers encountered 37-year-old Roshelle Anderson, whose red Buick Encore GX was still running when an officer saw her get out of the driver’s seat.
Anderson appeared disoriented, with glassy, bloodshot eyes, and soon began speaking to one of the officers as though he worked at a bank. The conversation that followed would involve several attempts to establish where she was, where she was going, and what she had consumed before arriving at the restaurant.
The officers eventually arrested Anderson for DUI after a series of field sobriety exercises. Their investigation also produced two breath alcohol readings substantially above Florida’s legal threshold, although that finding came after a lengthy encounter documented in unusually specific detail in the arrest affidavit.
You Guys, the Bank
Officer Jack Thomas Lull arrived to find Officer Merice speaking with Anderson, who was pointing toward Merice and saying she was trying to pay “you guys.” When Merice asked whom she meant, Anderson gestured toward him again and answered, “you guys, the bank.”
Merice was wearing his full police uniform with his badge displayed, and his marked patrol car was parked approximately 10 feet away. Lull noted these circumstances in his report before beginning his own conversation with Anderson, who said she was near Palmetto Park Road and trying to reach her mother’s residence.
Asked where her mother lived, Anderson gestured southeast and replied, “two stones.” Lull attempted to clarify what she meant, without success, before asking what city she believed she was in. Anderson answered “Florida,” prompting the officer to remind her that Florida was a state. She then changed her answer to Palm Beach and confirmed that she meant the city.
Anderson also told Lull that she had arrived at Donald J. Trump International Airport approximately two hours earlier after her flight landed. The officer subsequently spoke privately with Merice, who relayed the Taco Bell employee’s account of the attempted tampon payment and confirmed that Anderson had been the only person observed inside the running Buick.
When Lull returned, he asked Anderson to identify the date and day of the week. She believed it was October 22 or 23 and either Thursday or Friday. The actual date was Sunday, October 25.
Brown Liquor and a Few Sobriety Exercises
Lull told Anderson he could smell alcohol on her breath. She initially denied drinking, saying she had just been with her mother, but later acknowledged consuming “a little bit.” Pressed for clarification, she described taking a shot of an alcoholic beverage about an hour earlier, said the liquor was brown, and offered to show the officer what she had consumed inside her car. She also reported taking Xanax approximately three to four hours before the encounter.
Concerned about possible impairment, Lull asked Anderson to participate in voluntary field sobriety exercises, and she agreed. During the eye examination, she had difficulty keeping her head still despite repeated reminders, while two officers independently documented involuntary eye movements consistent with impairment. She also swayed during the examination.
For the walk-and-turn exercise, Anderson declined an offer to remove her sandals and began before Lull had finished explaining the instructions. After returning to the starting position, she struggled to maintain her balance while listening. Once the exercise began, she took more than nine steps, repeatedly missed heel-to-toe contact, stepped off the line, used her arms for balance, and turned improperly. She also stopped walking at one point to ask what she was supposed to do next.
During the one-leg stand, she put her foot down twice, swayed, used her arms for balance, and had difficulty following the instructions about counting and keeping her raised foot parallel to the ground.
The finger-to-nose exercise required additional clarification. Before beginning, Anderson successfully demonstrated that she knew her left from her right, could identify her index finger, and knew where the tip of her nose was. Nevertheless, on her first attempt with her left hand, she tipped her head forward and touched her cheek instead. She also repeatedly failed to return her hands to her sides after completing each movement, even after another officer clarified the instructions.
The alphabet exercise proved particularly persistent. Lull asked whether Anderson could recite the English alphabet from A to Z without skipping letters or singing, and she said she could. She then began singing it. Officer Harrison explained the instructions again, including the required speaking tone, and Anderson confirmed that she understood before making another attempt. She sang the alphabet a second time.
The final balance exercise involved estimating the passage of 30 seconds. Anderson stood swaying and eventually indicated that the interval had elapsed after one minute and 11 seconds, more than twice the requested time.
Another Version of the Evening
Lull arrested Anderson after the exercises. During an inventory of the Buick, officers found a mostly empty 375-milliliter bottle of Hard Truth rye whiskey, containing 50% alcohol by volume, inside a box on the passenger seat. They also discovered several prescription bottles bearing Anderson’s name, including alprazolam, benzonatate, and Adderall. The benzonatate label warned that alcohol could intensify drowsiness and advised caution when driving, while the Adderall bottle carried a warning about dizziness and operating vehicles.
At the police department, Anderson agreed to provide breath samples after a 20-minute observation period. Her results were 0.222 and 0.221, approximately 2.8 times Florida’s legal DUI threshold of 0.08.
Officers then read Anderson her constitutional rights and questioned her again. She said she had been driving from her residence to her mother’s house, having started around 8 p.m. Asked about the date, she now believed it was October 28 or 29 and that the day was Friday, several days later than her earlier estimate.
Her account of her drinking changed as well. Instead of a single shot of brown liquor, Anderson said she had consumed approximately half a bottle of white wine at home, beginning around noon, and had finished drinking about two hours before police encountered her. A separate DUI interview form also records that she reported eating egg salad approximately two hours earlier and denied being under the influence of alcohol.
Anderson was charged with enhanced DUI because her breath alcohol readings exceeded the 0.15 threshold under Florida law. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office records show she was booked at 3:28 a.m. on October 26 and released at 9:39 a.m. after posting a $1,000 cash bond.
The DUI charge remains pending.
All parties are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.
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