{"id":233855,"date":"2026-04-16T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233855\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T06:04:09","slug":"florida-woman-kami-ellis-charged-with-dui-after-being-pulled-over-driving-wrong-way-handing-cop-barnes-noble-gift-card-instead-of-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233855\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman Kami Ellis charged with DUI after being pulled over driving wrong way, handing cop Barnes &#038; Noble gift card instead of license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida woman was allegedly so drunk behind the wheel that she was pulled over driving the wrong way down the road and then handed a cop a Barnes &amp; Noble gift card instead of her license.<\/p>\n<p>Kami Ellis, 52, was pulled over in Tampa by a deputy with the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Sunday at 12:30 a.m. after the officer noticed her vehicle traveling the wrong way and saw her jump a curb, body camera footage posted to the department\u2019s Facebook page shows.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou feeling okay?\u201d the officer is heard asking Ellis after pulling her over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I\u2019m good,\u201d Ellis replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t know how to shut your car off?\u201d the deputy asks her.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Ellis struggles to shut off the car, and the deputy asks if the car belongs to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After finally shutting off the vehicle, the cop tells her he pulled her over because of her erratic driving and asks her to hand over her license \u2014 but she hands over her credit card instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s your credit card,\u201d the officer tells her.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing her mistake, she tries again, but this time hands him a Barnes &amp; Noble gift card.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.75643225;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39102043\" width=\"1024\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wrong-way-dui-stop-leads-125742700.jpg\" alt=\"Kami Ellis, 52, was pulled over in Tampa by a deputy with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office on Sunday at 12:30 a.m. after the officer noticed her vehicle traveling the wrong way and saw her jump a curb.\" class=\"wp-image-39102043\"  \/>Kami Ellis, 52, was pulled over in Tampa by a deputy with the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office on Sunday at 12:30 a.m. after the officer noticed her vehicle traveling the wrong way and saw her jump a curb. Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.98242188;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39102044\" width=\"580\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/wrong-way-dui-stop-leads-125742696.jpg\" alt=\"handed a cop a Barnes &amp; Noble gift card instead of her license.\" class=\"wp-image-39102044\"  \/>After being pulled over, Ellis handed the cop a Barnes &amp; Noble gift card instead of her license. Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a Barnes &amp; Noble gift card,\u201d the officer tells her.<\/p>\n<p>The video then shows Ellis standing outside her vehicle as the officer asks her to take one step forward \u2014 and she can barely manage it. He stops her and tells her to put her glasses back on.<\/p>\n<p>He then told her to place her hands behind her back before cuffing her.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis was charged with driving under the influence, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>An<a href=\"https:\/\/webapps.hcso.tampa.fl.us\/arrestinquiry\/Home\/ViewArrest?id=2026-12172&amp;k1=8de9b4ee0f0ab01&amp;k2=Z2FQbU5QYjN0R0t6RjRETkJybnl1VnJsZjFXTDF6V3krVnJRUXd0aGdxYW9aN1Z3REVuVnNrUXNvc0dQcndHWVovMEpJRGEwaTh1dGJxZkwwMzJNejY3bUg5Tnl5RTVx#RELEASE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> arrest report <\/a>showed Ellis blew a BAC of 0.204 and 0.209 \u2014 more than twice the legal limit \u2014 after being pulled over.<\/p>\n<p>She was later released on a $1,000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida woman was allegedly so drunk behind the wheel that she was pulled over driving the wrong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[50741,35798,5695,28,30,29,27899,4278],"class_list":{"0":"post-233855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-barnes-and-noble","9":"tag-drunk-driving","10":"tag-dui","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-headlines","13":"tag-florida-news","14":"tag-police-body-cameras","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233855","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=233855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}