A 48-year-old man from St. Marys, Georgia, learned the hard way on Saturday morning that a change of scenery—and a different state’s plastic—doesn’t exactly wipe the slate clean in Florida. Torrence Joyner was taken into custody after a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputy realized his valid Georgia license was essentially a band-aid on a much larger legal headache.
The encounter began around 11 a.m. when an FCSO Traffic Enforcement Unit member received an alert about a silver Chevrolet SUV cruising down Interstate 95.
The system flagged the registered owner as having a suspended Florida license. The deputy pulled the vehicle over near mile marker 280 to investigate.
Upon being approached, Joyner handed over a valid Georgia driver’s license. While the document itself was legitimate, a quick background check revealed that Joyner’s Florida driving privileges had been suspended back in December 2025 for failing to pay court-ordered fees.
The deeper the deputies dug, the more the “joyride” stalled. Records showed Joyner was a wanted man, carrying three active warrants out of Leon County for probation violations. Those original charges included disorderly conduct and driving while his license was suspended—specifically as a habitual traffic offender.
The search of the SUV didn’t help matters, turning up marijuana and a vaping device loaded with hashish. Joyner’s resume of road-related drama is extensive; he holds seven prior convictions across three different Florida counties for driving with a suspended license.
“This is a guy that can’t be trusted to be behind the wheel of a car and follow the law, as he has numerous traffic suspensions on his Florida license and then thought he could just move to Georgia and get a new driver’s license and just keep driving,” Sheriff Staly noted. “Well, he found out the hard way that he should have bypassed Flagler County as we ended his joyride!”
Joyner was booked into the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility on his warrants, as well as new charges for operating under a foreign license during suspension and drug possession. He has since been released on a $4,650 bond.
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