POLK COUNTY, FL \u2014 A Tampa man was arrested after police said he led authorities on a high-speed chase, during which he crashed into multiple cars before he was eventually taken into custody. <\/p>\n
The 35-year-old man, whom the Florida Highway Patrol did not identify, was stopped by authorities shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Friday for traveling 61 mph in a 45 mph zone in Lakeland.<\/p>\n
Police said the man initially stopped, but fled when the trooper exited their patrol car. <\/p>\n
According to police, the man reached speeds in excess of 100 mph and eventually wrecked into six vehicles at the intersection of CR-540A and Carter Road in Lakeland. <\/p>\n
With the assistance of the Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office, police said the man was taken into custody, admitting he was “going back to jail for a long time because there were drugs in the car.”<\/p>\n
While searching the man’s vehicle, authorities found 52.6 grams of cocaine, 135.2 grams of cannabis and 20.2 grams of fentanyl. <\/p>\n
It’s unclear if the man will face charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"POLK COUNTY, FL \u2014 A Tampa man was arrested after police said he led authorities on a high-speed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-122374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}