Last night, Lobbyist Ron Book (and father of State Senator Lauren Book) was arrested and charged with DUI after crashing his Lamborghini in Plantation, Florida.
Ron Book ARRESTED in DUI!
Feb 25, 2019 | 134 comments
Feb 25, 2019 | 134 comments
Last night, Lobbyist Ron Book (and father of State Senator Lauren Book) was arrested and charged with DUI after crashing his Lamborghini in Plantation, Florida.
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On Halloween, more children are harmed by drunk drivers than by sex offenders.
According to local10.com, book said he has cancer and is taking several medications. So he is taking meds and adding alcohol to them and then drives his vehicle in which he smashes into another vehicle and roles is car. How is this a misdemeanor . If I’m not mistaken, taking prescription meds while driving is considered driving while under the influence of a controlled substance, I believe. He should be hit hard with the book, help make an example for DUI’s
Well guys take solace in the fact that we can do something Ron Book cant for a while…… DRIVE!!! Lol lol lol lol lol. I love it!!
I told you guys this will happen. Gods Word is true. “God will not be mocked. Whatsoever a man seth, that shall he reap.” This was a “warning shot” from God. Change your ways Ron or something much worse will befall you or your daughter!!
I thought DUI meant your license is suspended for a year and you have to take all these classes? Would love seeing Ron on a bicycle headed to the Capitol!! LOL!! Guess little miss precious will have to be his chauffeur for a while!!!
Thank you Lord for your justice!! “Vengeance is mine. I will repay sayeth the Lord.”
Is there a link to a news article about this??!!
Come on people, I’m against registry of any kind! As much as I dislike Ron Book registering anybody is unconstitutional.
He should have been more careful. I guess he thought he was infallible, but looks a bit in shock in the photo. So hope this is not swept under the rug as I am thinking it probably will be.
looks in shock in the photo ?? He looks like he has no emotions. Unconcerned or indifferent by his arrest. I wouldn’t be surprised if he is diagnosed with psychopathy.
Yup, now watch his psycho ass make us pay the price for this arrest. He vents anything that happens to him or his daughter towards us. This man is so insane he probably blames his crash on registered citizens. Imagine in court, It wasn’t alcohol your honor, it was the sex offenders and we need to stop them. pfff…
Maybe Lauren book should stop focusing so much on Post convicted sex offenders and start focusing on Preventive DUI measures and laws. Maybe that’s why Ron hates himself so much. He probably hired the nanny while he was drunk. I bet all the legislators are laughing their
a** es off at her and him for their 2 facedness….God’s Plan!
Damn it ! I saw this quickly and thought he was caught in that prostitution ring scandal with Robert Kraft. But I’ll take any arrest of him so he can see how it feels. Someone should do a meme of that mugshot and post it on social media or better yet, print out his mugshot and write in big red letters (DUI criminal ) and post it all over Tallahassee the next time Lauren does her ridiculous save the children parade march to the capital. Idiots !
POETIC JUSTICE !!!!!!!!!!!
HE WAS CHARGED AS A MISDEMEANOR. This case, like the case of Stacy Honowitz shoplifting will be dropped and ron will say something to the effect of “Its those damned sex offenders who made me drink, MADE ME get into that car and drive drunk>
Isnt drunk driving (with accident) a FELONY????
I’m not sure about Florida but in a lot of states if you refuse the breathalyzer and are later found to be drunk it’s an automatic felony
What goes around comes around !
People charged with DUI’s have a high reoffense rate and drivers under the influence kill many children and innocent people each year.
Alcohol addicts have a higher re- offense rate than sex offenders. LET’S REGISTER THEM!
“I do believe in redemption,” Gimenez said. “Everybody can make a mistake, and people should learn from their mistakes.”
Ron Book apparently doesn’t believe in redemption nor in people learning from their mistakes. He should be judged by his own standard.
We need a DUI registry immediately so that we can put posters all around his neighborhood and put a big sign in his front yard. Also residency restrictions stating that he cannot live within 2500 feet of any bar, club or any store that sells alcohol, for life!!! Also he will attend DUI classes every week and pay for them and the state will stamp “Drunk Driver”on his license if he ever gets it back! Drunk drivers have a frightening recidivism rate of 80%! We have to protect the children on the street!
Best news and FAC post thus far. If only Lauren was following him in her own car and intoxicated as well….and I don’t care whoever calls me on it, but those two deserve a taste of karma for the damage they are doing to registrants and their families for so many years while filling their pockets with millions. Next time he calls us criminals or monsters, I will flash that mugshot back at him.
Well well well. It was only a matter of time until this jerk gets his. Now I really want them to make a DUI registry in Florida. I’ll be glad to pass out his flyers all over traffic intersections and DUI check points. Jerk!
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article226755894.html
printed out his mugshot and keeping one in my wallet and going to frame one on my wall.
To bad no registered person lives near by and prints about 3 dozen of his mugshot and charges. Then goes house to house to pass them out, they would be doing a public service to inform the neighborhood of a person who could bring harm to there loved ones.
i wonder if he was with that dunk Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz
that the police loved after his arrest
from google:
“After a DUI arrest, Miami-Dade commissioner embraced by police …
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami…/article37405209.html
Oct 4, 2015 – A swing vote on the 13-member commission and a labor ally, Diaz, 55, has not lacked for support after the arrest that charged him with racing …”
Dear FAC Family,
We need to be careful and not judege untill all of the facts come out and he is found guilty in a court. We must extend the same rights to him as want extended to us. We need not glout in his suffering but welcome him into our world with open arms. The compassion that we show him will be seen by him and this will turn his heart. Like many of us he made a bad choice. I know I will suffer back lash for this but we can not meet those who chastise us with chastisment. I does not help our cause.
I absolutely agree with you Tearful Eagle but this guy is relentless towards us and our families. He has devastated my family and I.
Tearful, you have all the right to your opinion here. But as a registered citizen who has been dealing with Ron Book for 20 years and yes I was living on the street for a short time ( literally, my residence was a side walk on a corner in a bad neighborhood – no roof or anything )
F**k him ! You think he cares for your sympathy and understanding ?? You show that guy just a bit of sympathy and extend your hand to help him and he will still call you a sex monster and tell you to go live under a bridge while slapping your face with hundred dollar bills he made at the expense of the suffering of registrants and their families. Miami commissioner Pepe Diaz got arrested as well for DUI and just shortly after, he made sure that his name was included on the orders for the eviction of registered citizens the last time they had to move sending in the police force with threats of arrests if they don’t. These people can be arrested 100 times for 100 crimes and they will still come after you.
PJ,
Your plight nor the plight if those things in Miami Dade is not lost on me. For a human to treat another human in that way is horible. My only two thoughts are: let him have his day in court and if found guilty his punishment should fit his crime. But to pile on him does nothing to help us. The fight is shine our star the brightest, fund FAC and fight the laws together with logical arguments born from the constitution not out of anger or self righteousness.
In my opening line it was supposed to read “those in Miami dade….”
Its a shame he didn’t hit Rick Scott head on. That would have been an even better story.
Lolololololololol
We must all follow this case! When it comes time for sentencing if that happens), all members of the public are given an opportunity to address the court. This can be done in writing. So all of us should write letters to the judge bring the maximum sentence possible given Mr
. Book’s position that all sex offenders should get the maximum sentence possible.
Great idea…Fac is this doable? Keep us posted
So following the same line of reasoning in the SO laws he wants, he should be precluded from being within 2500 feet from:
Any vehicle, parking lot, or any place where vehicles congregate;
Any commercial or residential building where alcoholic beverages are or may be present, to include but not limited to grocery stores, gas stations, houses with refrigerators, and homeless encampments;
Any media in which the sale of alcoholic beverages is advertised, to include but not limited to television, magazines, all movies that depict alcohol consumption (regardless of extent), and the Internet.
Any and all other persons convicted for any alcohol-related offenses.
In addition, Book would be subject to an undisclosed number of months/years of “treatment”, after which the above restrictions remain in place.
And finally, the words “DUI OFFENDER” will be stamped on his driver’s licence.
I can not believe how fast this comment section lit up! The shear number of us that loath this man is unbelievable. I may have made a few enemies from my tiny little 6 deleted CP conviction years ago but at least I don’t have over 900,000 people hating me. All but 1 of us had nothing to do with harming his daughter. When he gets to the pearly gates it is really going to go bad for him.
Part of me is thinking nothing will happen to him but with a recent high billionaire that got a plea bargain (i think his investigators found dirt on high profile people or their family members) that did 13 months work release where he just basically slept at the jail and has had been the topic of several Miami news articles where they are doing awesome investigative reporting on the Epstein case that Mr. Book may actually be somewhat prosecuted!
I wonder how many letters that the State Attorney’s office and the Judge will receive reminding them that drunks have injured and killed many more children and adults then sex offenders and unlike Sex Offenders Drunks have a very high recidivism rate, and remind them what Mr Crook himself would most likely say if it was anyone else. Once a Drunk Driver always a drunk and these drunks will never stop! They are Monsters!!!!!!
I wonder if Mr Crook himself stopped somewhere and took a piss in public! Wish i had the funds to higher an investigator to find the route he took and look at any and all video cameras! and let Mr. Crook end up being a member of the Hit List opps i meant price club!!
Ha Ha.This little 5ft 8 inch dirtbag needs to pay! Looks like he lives in a 7000 sq ft, $2.3milion house, nice digs if you can afford them. Seems like plenty of room to house a few homeless registrants. Don’t ya think? Now we know where he lives. How about and anti DUI rally on his cul de sac?
$2.3milion? That’s an old shack in the San Francisco Bay Area.
This could be the strat to a Great thing !!! Ron Book has Pushed so hard for Harsher punishment for all kinda of offenders !! Now, If he uses his “Power” to get outta this charge, It will smear his name with everyone that matters !!. And hopefully it will cause things to change for the Better !! Especially for all “Ex Sex Offenders” !!!. Ron Book actually did everyone a HUGE FAVOR !!. He had opened doors that he can’t close without hurting his (And his Daughters) name !!. Karma really is a Bit__ !!!!!. Now it’s time for Ron Book to spend some time with Karma !!!!!!. Hurray for him !!!! All I can do is Thank him !!! Just glad nobody (I hope) was hurt by him !!. What a Monster he is !! Drinking And Driving and putting all those children in serious LIFE THREATENING Harm !! Hope he pays dearly !!!!.
The comments here are PRICELESS. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out. I hope they throw the BOOK at him.
His defense: he was trying to get over the demons of Lauren’s abuse and it made him hit the bottle too hard bcuz of flashbacks of her being abused
The only surprise here is that Ron was actually arrested, and we know he will get off with a slap on the wrist. But this is still great news so see this red nosed drunk takes over the coals.
He will probably release a statement admitting to being an alcoholic or enter rehab while blaming his drinking problems on sex offenders and that it is because of what happened to his daughter.
I agree with Derek. Let us not forget about that shoplifting States’Attorney who some how walked! However, I am so glad he smear his own name and that of his daughters. I guess it was not time yet to be judged for his actions. I was happy that he was actually arrested,booked so I guess there is some hope in the Justice system then …….but unless the right Judge comes along Justice would be manipulated by fame,wealth and status.
I just wrote him a heartfelt letter on FB and requested his friendship. Maybe it put him over the edge. He realizes he’s been living a lie.
@kenneth
If you are an SO he will most likely report you to FB and have you kicked off FB and verify with FDLE you informed them of your FB account!
yes indeed concerned. That is so Ron Book.
U make me upset to even go there. U don’t think I know that sir? And no u don’t need to answer back. Are YOU that scared to do something like that?
Yea lets see what happens next registery classes things on licenses so he can’t buy booze that be violation drinking and driving is worse then anything nail him be time
I normally don’t wish I’ll of people but I’m this instance……
👍👍👍
Wow. He is really developing a rap sheet, isn’t he? Is he a career criminal yet?
The case information is now available from the Broward County Clerk of Courts website (www.browardclerk.org).
The case number is 19-002107MM10A.
The charging document is not yet available. This is public information (just like the sex offender registry) and anyone who wishes to access it may do so, for free. The information will be updated periodically by the Clerk of the Court (just as FDLE updates information on the sex offender registry), for those who wish to follow the progress of the case.
Look at that: his personal info available online for all to see…. wonder if he even realizes….. his picture, offense, personal info and home address….. look familiar?
“Live by the sword, die by the sword.” Aeschylus “But Jesus said, ‘Put your sword in it’s place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.'” Matthew 25:52
Lots of white privilege college kids love to party in Florida during Spring Break. All eyes will be on the outcome of this case.
With the likely outcome this will assure parents that enough money will buy their son out of even a DUI charge he gets while partying it up in Florida during Spring Break! Parents can feel secure of financing the Spring Break trip with all the booze and the rental car! Why not rent your son the Escalade so at least he and his friends are safe when they plow into someone’s Grandma in the Kia Rio.
It would have been great if that wreck would have stopped him from being a lobbyist any more. And more thoughts along those same lines.
A lobbyist driving a Lamborghini lol. Wow what an absolute shocker !!!! (Not) of course there is no corruption in state or county government, we should be ashamed at ourselves for implying that there is (haha).
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Now is the time for a public DUI offender registry. As is commonly known, DUI offenders are far more likely to actually kill their victims than sex offenders. A registry of DUI offenders would protect the public, including children, from those brazen enough to get behind the wheel of a car while intoxicated.
Such individuals pose a grave and continuing threat to public safety. Prohibiting such offenders from residing or loitering with 1000 feet of any gas station, car dealership or automobile rental company would provide further protections against reoffending, since it would be more difficult for them to purchase gasoline and obtain a vehicle, both of which is a necessary precondition to the offense of DUI.
Surely the courts would agree that such restrictions bear a rational relationship to the compelling government interest of protecting the public from drunk drivers–a group that is actually likely to kill people as a result of their offending behavior.
In 2017, 10,874 people died in drunk driving crashes – one every 48 minutes – and more than 300,000 were injured in drunk driving crashes.
Actually, people who have DUI, following logic of RSO rules, should be required also to not live near schools or playgrounds, since they could harm children. Should people who are drunk and use drunk judgement to drive ever supervise other people’s children? Should a law protect Lauren Book’s children? Shouldn’t Lauren’s children be protected making it illegal for the drunk grandfather to be around children alone since he could use bad judgement and decide to drive children around drunk?
If a DUI registry were ever implemented, then cars should be repossessed, in addition, to other restrictions.
Heck, RSO’s lose their parental rights of the child(ren) if they’re on the registry, right!!!!!
No details on the crash? No one hurt I hope.
IMO, drunk drivers certainly pose a MUCH GREATER risk to children (and others) than registered citizens. I mean, how many kids and others have been killed and/or maimed in Florida by drunk drivers vs Florida registered citizens?
Time for a pink vehicle tag for Ron? You know, just to give everyone on the roads fair warning of the danger he represents to all decent folk! OTOH, that would be forced speech and therefore unconstitutional! So, as good constitution-loving citizens (unlike some others we could name), we’ll have to forego that one!
Not a lick of sympathy for this dirtbag.
Makes 2 of us. Guy gives all scumbags a bad name.
Three……do I hear a four?
4 here 🙂
5 in and for Phoenix AZ!
Please follow this story so he does not get a free ride
I am putting that mugshot on the cover of my blog – Ron never looked better!
Glad to see he’s making enough money to afford a “nice car” … we all know where that money comes from – the backs of those he demonizes and persecutes – so called “sex offenders!”
He endangered lives with his reckless operation of a powerful car while drunk (I am certain it’s not the first time either – just the first time he was caught) … kinda puts everyone in his path in life-threatening danger including CHILDREN.
Hey Lauren…this sex offender gig is totally played out and your “victim card” has been played 1 too many times. People are waking up and see that a sex offender registry does nothing BUT a DUI registry…there you go!
You will always have a steady flow of new registrants to publicly shame and punish endlessly and it save a hell of a lot more children than the proven USELESS sex offender registry that has been you and your daddies meal ticket for so long!
Very well said.
What an idiot. A Lamborghini? Nice, maybe he visits the massage parlors and visits hookers too.
Would have been nice if he was part of the raid that got Robert Kraft in trouble. They could be cell mates
Wow! He owns a Lamborghini? Wonder if any of his money comes at the expense of the downtrodden that he lobbies against. Hard to work up any sympathy for his situation. Does he drive it on his visits to the homeless camps?
Oh how I love Karma!
Instant Karma’s gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead…
John L. wrote just for Ron.
like he will even get a slap on the wrist ! small fine and see ya buddy
I wonder what all the parents of children killed by drunk drivers will think of mister all high and mighty? Maybe he needs to be on a drunk driving registry
Yes, I totally agree with your thoughts. There needs to be a registry for people like Ron Book as well. People who drink and drive can harm and even kill children and even adults. I feel the public needs to know who to look for when taking out their trash to avoid a hit and run from people like Ron Book.
Isn’t karma a bi***. I hope they throw the book at him.
Couldnt have happened to a nicer person. Unfortunately he will have charges reduced, if not dropped.
NOW is the time for a “REGISTRY” for convicted felons for drunk drivers
Perhaps a bill to establish a drunk driver registry might be in order to keep public motorists safe.
Dislike the man immensely but i wouldn’t wish bad things on anyone. Karma is a bitch
Maybe he should be on a DUI registry. You know, in the interest of public safety and all.
There is a God in heaven!!!
Actually if there were a God Ron would not have walked away from the crash.
No…he sold his soul to Satan long ago. About the time he hired that nanny for Lauren!