Will Greenlee

will.greenlee@tcpalm.com

STUART — After being pulled over by Stuart police, a 41-year-old woman started dancing and apparently singing lyrics by the rapper Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em, an arrest affidavit states.

Laura Vass also asked an officer during the Dec. 18 traffic stop whether he was Santa Claus, calling him “sexy.”

In the end, Vass was arrested on a DUI charge.

The case began as police stopped a four-door Buick about 8 p.m. in the area of Southeast Dixie Highway and Southeast Christie Way after noticing driving behavior that suggested the driver was intoxicated.

The driver, identified as Vass, smelled of booze, and police asked her to get out of her vehicle for a DUI investigation. She told police she had nothing to drink “whatsoever,” but did have a metal plate in her foot.

During one field sobriety test Vass started dancing and singing lyrics of Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em. Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em gained popularity with the 2007 single “Crank That (Soulja Boy),” which featured a quirky dance in a video.

Vass said the officer was “sexy” and asked whether he was Colombian.

Further, she talked about her dead brother and called the officer “an Israeli.”

Police put her in handcuffs and as an officer searched her she queried, “Are you Santa Claus, (expletive)?”

It was Officer Z. Pecci, as opposed to Santa Claus.

At the jail, Vass called the officer an Arab and a terrorist.

“In total, the defendant had referred to me as a terrorist, an Arab, a Hispanic, a Colombian, an Israeli, and as an Italian,” the affidavit states.

She declined to take a breath test and said she would “kick the (expletive)” out of a deputy at the jail.