Genise Taylor, a 24-year-old Florida woman charged with DUI manslaughter, admitted in a jail phone call that a sheriff's deputy had pulled her over hours before she drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 and killed 96-year-old Arthur Gilbert. Prosecutors revealed the detail at a bond hearing, prompting an internal investigation of the deputy. A judge denied Taylor bond, and she remains in jail.
The crash happened shortly after 4 a.m. on March 18 on southbound Interstate 75 near mile marker 109 outside Naples. Taylor drove her Nissan Rogue north in the southbound lanes, colliding head-on with Gilbert's Volvo XC60. Paramedics took Gilbert, a retired geologist from Vermont, to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He had just dropped his wife, Pamela, at the airport.
