Clermont woman charged with battery after throwing drinks at Taco Bell employee

A drive‑thru dispute at the Taco Bell at 1810 SR 50 ended with a Clermont woman arrested on a charge of simple battery after she allegedly threw three drinks through the window and hit a female employee, Leesburg-News reported. The encounter unfolded around 1:10 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, according to the arrest report cited by the local paper.

Leesburg-News said the Clermont Police Department arrest report and video footage show the customer pulled up to the drive‑thru window and “started a verbal dispute with the employee.” The article describes the sequence: Silvera first threw a cup that hit the employee in the chest, the employee closed the window, and Silvera “began yelling, partially open[ed] the window and throw another drink at her.” The arrest report cited by the story states a total of three drinks were thrown “in this manner.”

The paper identified the suspect as 30‑year‑old Sheen Loy Silvera and noted an alternate spelling, “Sheena Loy Silvera,” appears elsewhere in the same article. Leesburg-News also described Silvera as “The New York native.” The arrest report quoted in the story records Silvera telling officers that the employee had thrown cups at her during the argument, a claim the video footage reportedly does not support.

Clermont police transported Silvera to the Lake County Jail, and she was released after posting $1,000 bond, Leesburg-News reported. The charge listed in the article is simple battery; the arrest report is the primary record cited for that information.

The Taco Bell employee involved was described only as female in the arrest report summary cited by Leesburg-News; the article did not include a statement from Taco Bell management or additional detail about any injury to the worker. The incident location and the early morning timing place this alongside other drive‑thru altercations reported around the country in recent years, though those were separate cases with different outcomes and charges.

For context, a 2013 Buffalo Grove, Illinois, case at the Taco Bell at 50 W. Dundee Rd. involved a red sedan and three young adults who “threw the drinks at the employees and drove away,” with driver Martin Gutierrez later found to have a .159 BAC. In Beaverton, Oregon, authorities reported that Elianna Aguilar‑Aguilar, 23, poured alcohol into an employee’s mouth through a drive‑thru window and later registered a .12 BAC at the jail. Florida examples include Kewarren Lee Anderson, 40, who allegedly entered a restaurant through a drive‑thru window while holding a “large rock” and was tracked down by an Ocala PD K‑9, and Evan Joseph Vellano, 21, of Estero, arrested after a state trooper found him asleep at the wheel in a drive‑thru at 17460 Ben Hill Griffin Parkway with breath‑alcohol about twice the legal limit.

Leesburg-News cites the Clermont Police Department arrest report and video footage as evidence; the article uses both “Sheen Loy Silvera” and “Sheena Loy Silvera” in identifying the suspect. The Clermont Police Department or Lake County booking records can confirm the official spelling and booking details for the simple battery arrest.