OVIEDO, Fla. — A night of drinking ended with a 27-year-old Seminole County man in the backseat of a stranger's car, a woman told Channel 9's Jeff Levkulich.
A Seminole County woman told Oviedo police that she was terrified for her life after a stranger popped up from behind her in the backseat of her SUV when she got in.
It happened June 27 at Kings BBQ on Alafaya Trail in Oviedo.
Donna Eaves told Eyewitness News that the man, later identified as Brently Mohler, wouldn’t get out of her car and even grabbed her at one point.
Police decided against recommending charges for Mohler. They said Mohler was drunk and meant to sleep it off in his girlfriend’s SUV in the parking lot, but accidentally got into the wrong car.
“I don’t even know how he got in my car,” said Eaves who was captured on body camera talking to police.
Police said the man got into a car that looked similar to his girlfriend’s.
“She noticed he was in the backseat of the car. She immediately told him to get out,” said Deputy Chief Mike Beavers with the Oviedo Police Department.
When Mohler didn't get out of the car, she pulled into the nearby RaceTrac gas station where two police officers were sitting.
Police said with the advice from the state attorney’s office, they did not arrest or charge Mohler.
"Looking at the totality it was just a bad decision on his part based on his inebriation,” Beavers said. "We may have been able to charge him with trespassing, but when you look at the trespassing charge and the instructions that the jury would receive, he also would have had to intend to trespass on the property."
Eaves told police she thought her doors were locked, but police said there was no forced entry into the vehicle.