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SPRING HILL, Fla. – An accused hit-and-run driver has been charged with DUI after troopers said the driver had white residue around his mouth and an empty can of electronic duster inside his vehicle.<\/p>\n
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A trooper with the Florida<\/a> Highway Patrol said as he was traveling northbound on California Street, approaching Sandusky Street in Spring Hill shortly after 3 p.m. on Friday, he saw a black Ford F-150 driving recklessly and passing in a no-passing zone.<\/p>\n According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the driver lost control of the Ford F-150 and hit a vehicle that had just pulled into a private driveway.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n The trooper said the driver took off and crashed into the metal handrail at a public transportation bus stop, then drove into a ditch.<\/p>\n When the driver, who has since been identified as Dennis Donald Johnson, tried to leave again, the trooper arrested him, according to FHP.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n The trooper stated that Johnson showed signs of impairment and had white residue around his mouth.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n While taking an inventory of the vehicle, troopers reported finding two cans of electronic duster in the front passenger seat, along with a Walmart receipt.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol <\/p>\n According to FHP, the receipt showed that Johnson bought the cans moments before the crash.<\/p>\n One of the cans, according to troopers, was empty and appeared to have saliva around the opening.<\/p>\n Johnson was arrested for hit-and-run and DUI.<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information in press release from the Florida Highway Patrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hernando County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Florida Highway Patrol SPRING HILL, Fla. – An accused hit-and-run driver has been charged with DUI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[630,47,28,30,29,8705,115,628],"class_list":["post-202529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hernando","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dennis-johnson-crash-3.jpg\")
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