Seminole County assistant principal arrested on DUI charges after e-bike stop
Deputies say Kenneth Bevan was stopped after riding an e-bike from a Sanford-area bar, then refused sobriety tests and was booked on DUI charges.
Deputies arrested Seminole County assistant principal Kenneth Bevan after he left a Sanford-area bar on an e-bike, bought more beer nearby and rode away without a front light late at night.
Deputies were called just after midnight on Tuesday, June 30, to Mulligan’s at 165 Wekiva Springs in the Sanford and Longwood area. When they arrived, a bartender asked a deputy to have Bevan leave. Bevan complied, and investigators later learned he had arrived on an e-bike.
Once the deputy believed Bevan was impaired, he was told he could not ride home. He was offered a courtesy ride to his residence, but he refused and said he would walk the bicycle home. Deputies then saw him walk to a nearby 7-Eleven, buy a 12-pack of beer, place it on the front of the bicycle and ride away. The bicycle did not have the required front light at night.
When the deputy stopped Bevan again, he was uncooperative and declined to answer impairment questions or perform field sobriety tests. He was arrested on DUI and refusal to submit to DUI testing charges. A booking listing identifies the DUI charge as unlawful blood alcohol, 0.08 or more per 100 ml, and lists a $500 bond.
Seminole County Public Schools said Bevan was outside his contract over summer break and described the matter as personal, not a district issue.
Florida law treats electric bicycles differently from motor vehicles for licensing, registration and financial-responsibility rules, but the state’s DUI statute still applies when a person is driving or in actual physical control of a vehicle while impaired.
In a 2013 Seminole newspaper profile, Mr. Kenny Bevan was the new Health Academy assistant principal at Seminole High School, and later school and public-records listings tied Kenneth V. Bevan Jr. to Seminole County Public Schools and Winter Springs High School. Nine citations were issued near Jackson Heights Middle School in Oviedo during an enforcement effort in January, and Orange County had 41 e-bike and scooter injury incidents since Dec. 1 after a Lake Nona teen died in an e-bike crash.
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