Amy Chesser is the Swamp Queen.
She’s won plenty of Swamp Buggy races.
But get this:
This week, she was sentenced to three years in a state prison and must serve two years of probation once she’s released, reports the Naples Daily News.
Turns out Chesser is quite the scraper.
She got into physical blows with another woman and landed in legal trouble.
In court, Chesser testified that Eliza Masco threatened her so she defended herself on Aug. 15, 2007, when they fought outside Masco’s gated community in North Naples.
They’d driven there because Masco’s boyfriend, Robbie Daffin Jr., wanted to fight with Masco’s ex-husband, Brian Langford, who was dating Chesser.
Already you can see we’re dealing with some interesting folks here.
The men each got black eyes, but neither pressed charges.
The women, however, got down and dirty.
Masco suffered a fractured right eye socket, a broken nose, a concussion, a detached retina, broken teeth, cuts, bruises and neurological damage.
The trial had some lowlights.
Courtney Jolly, a beauty queen and Monster Truck driver, testified she’d been threatened by Chesser, who made a similar profane threat to beat her.
During cross-examination, however, Defense Attorney Donald Day told her she’d been in trouble with the Swamp Buggy Racing Board before Masco’s beating.
“I had?” Jolly asked in confusion. “That would be?”
Defense attorney Donald Day said there were photos of her on the Internet doing “belly shots” of liquor with underage girls.
“The Swamp Board felt that wasn’t a good image and removed her from the organization,” Day explained to the judge.
Guess Swamp enthusiasts have their standards.
“It’s a long ways from over,” Chesser’s father, Leonard, said as friends, family, racers and Chesser’s boyfriend gathered in the hallway.
“Thirty-six months? A football player who just ran over a guy and killed him just got 30 days. Do you think that’s justice?”
Photo: Queen of the Swamp: Amy Chesser, Naples Daily News
