A 19-year-old girl in Okaloosa County was arrested for popping open a Steel Reserve beer in the back of an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s cruiser. The teenager was getting a ride to her Fort Walton Beach home after her friend was arrested for a DUI when she decided she wasn’t done drinking for the night.
According to a report on the website TheSmokingGun.com, Tasha Lee Cantrell was the passenger in the car belonging to the person arrested for drunk driving. While her friend’s car was being impounded, Cantrell asked Sheriff’s Deputy Mitchell Landis for a ride home. He agreed. During the trip to her Fort Walton home he heard the teen open a can and then saw her drinking from it. He investigated and found that the can was Steel Reserve and then headed to the sheriff’s office to charge the girl with underage drinking.