{"id":163749,"date":"2026-02-21T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163749\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T12:42:37","slug":"loaded-guns-found-during-traffic-stop-19-year-old-arrested-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163749\/","title":{"rendered":"Loaded guns found during traffic stop: 19-year-old arrested in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Orlando Police Department bike officers arrested a 19-year-old man on Feb. 9 after discovering two loaded firearms during a traffic stop. Sidney Rogers was taken into custody near South Magnolia Avenue and East Pine Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rogers was wanted on a valid Lake County warrant for vehicle burglary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers recognized him as a passenger in an SUV during a proactive patrol in downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">During the stop, officers removed a backpack that was between Rogers\u2019s legs. Inside, they found two loaded weapons, including an AR-style pistol known as a Draco and an AM-15 style pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rogers faced a new charge of carrying a concealed firearm after the weapons were found. This charge was added to his existing legal problems related to the Lake County warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rogers was extradited to Lake County to face the burglary of a conveyance warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando Police Department bike officers arrested a 19-year-old man on Feb. 9 after discovering two loaded firearms during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2174,139,141,140,8416,78257,14081],"class_list":["post-163749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-lake-county","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-police-department","tag-sidney-rogers","tag-vehicle-burglary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163749","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=163749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}