Former NXT star Kimber Lee (Kimberly Frankele) will be appearing in court in October for pre-trial hearing in Highlands County Court.
Kimber Lee has struggled with alcoholism and was arrested in May 2023 in Sebring, Florida. She was charged with three separate offenses that emerged from a single incident. She received charges for DUI, resisting an officer with violence, and battery on a law enforcement officer.
Mike Johnson of PWInsider has reported the details of the incident. The police report noted that an officer, P.J. Roberts responded to the call of a vehicle facing the wrong way at an intersection.
When the officer arrived and tried to get the driver to move the vehicle to a safe position, the driver was later identified as Kimber Lee, who drove over the lane, onto a paved shoulder. The vehicle “almost collided with the face of the guardrail” and continued into a parking lot without stopping until the car was parked in a parking spot.
Roberts began questioning Kimber Lee and when he suspected her of DUI he detained her. However, she struck him in the chest when he tried to handcuff her. This led to him adding the charge of battery on a LEO (Law Enforcement Officer).
The report further stated that Kimber Lee kept resisting and she began attacking the officer more aggressively.
“[She] began kicking me in the chest and in my face, busting my lip and the gums in my mouth. At one point, the subject grabbed the cell phone and after I removed it from her hands and after I removed it from her hands, again I tried to place the restraints on her, and she my left hand twice hard enough to break my skin a (sic) bleed from it.”
A breathalyzer sample’s result showed that her blood alcohol level was 0.140, far above the state limit of 0.08.
Notably, a conviction for the first-time DUI in Flordia could land Lee in prison for six month and her driver’s license could be revoked. She would have to do 50 hours of community service, and a pay $1,000 fine. The other two charges are much more serious. Resisting an officer with violence and battery on a LEO are both considered third-degree felonies in Florida and conviction could lead to up five years in prison or five years’ probation, and a fine of $5,000.
