{"id":152106,"date":"2026-02-11T21:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152106\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:52:06","slug":"man-arrested-for-armed-robbery-following-chase-with-deputy-drone-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152106\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for armed robbery following chase with deputy drone | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla.\u2014The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has announced the arrest of a man connected to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/deputies-actively-investigate-robbery-on-stella-st-in-fort-myers-one-detained\/article_093a87a2-65f3-4186-850d-d4d4243df583.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">armed robbery investigation conducted on Stella Street.<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Deputies arrested Angel Manuel Perez Jr. on Wednesday after responding to the armed robbery report at a home located on Rose Street in North Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to the sheriff\u2019s office, the victim invited Perez Jr. into their home, where he then proceeded to brandish a firearm and demand the victim&#8217;s phone to transfer money to himself before running away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The sheriff\u2019s office launched its aviation unit, surveying the area for the fleeing Perez Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">With the assistance of surrounding law enforcement, deputies located Perez Jr. on Stella Street in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Law enforcement then said that the suspect exited his vehicle, barricaded himself inside a home for an unknown amount of time. Perez Jr. eventually complied with deputies, exiting the home and surrendering himself to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Man arrested for Stella St. armed robbery following chase with deputy drone - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit:\u00a0 Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He was arrested and charged with robbery with a firearm, felon in possession of a firearm, fleeing and eluding, and obstruction without violence. In addition to these charges, the sheriff\u2019s office\u2019s narcotics unit charged Perez with trafficking in cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office provided aerial footage of their chase with Perez Jr. on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1235928421370026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their Facebook account.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla.\u2014The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office has announced the arrest of a man connected to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-152106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152106","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=152106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}