\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA teacher at Winter Park High School was arrested at his residence on Tuesday on a warrant for his arrest regarding his involvement in a crash that occurred in December 2025, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.Benjamin Fottler, 50, had a warrant out for his arrest after he was accused of fleeing the scene of a crash without rendering aid. BackgroundThe Casselberry Police Department responded to 3206 Parkside Ct. in reference to a hit-and-run in December 2025.A woman told police that her son was the victim of the crash and that he had sustained a broken back. The mother told police she wanted to press charges.At this time, a suspect had not yet been identified.A driver earlier the same day reported striking a pole in the same area, and claimed he did not stop to check and see what he had hit. Investigators then spoke to Fottler, the driver who claimed he struck a pole, damaging his vehicle. Where is Fottler now?After further investigation, Fottler was charged with failing to stop at the scene of a crash, failing to render aid and failing to report the traffic crash. Fottler was transported to the John E. Polk Correctional Facility and is being held on a $20,000 bond.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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A teacher at Winter Park High School was arrested at his residence on Tuesday on a warrant for his arrest regarding his involvement in a crash that occurred in December 2025, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Benjamin Fottler, 50, had a warrant out for his arrest after he was accused of fleeing the scene of a crash without rendering aid. <\/p>\n
Background<\/p>\n
The Casselberry Police Department responded to 3206 Parkside Ct. in reference to a hit-and-run in December 2025.<\/p>\n
A woman told police that her son was the victim of the crash and that he had sustained a broken back. The mother told police she wanted to press charges.<\/p>\n
At this time, a suspect had not yet been identified.<\/p>\n
A driver earlier the same day reported striking a pole in the same area, and claimed he did not stop to check and see what he had hit. Investigators then spoke to Fottler, the driver who claimed he struck a pole, damaging his vehicle. <\/p>\n
Where is Fottler now?<\/p>\n
After further investigation, Fottler was charged with failing to stop at the scene of a crash, failing to render aid and failing to report the traffic crash. <\/p>\n
Fottler was transported to the John E. Polk Correctional Facility and is being held on a $20,000 bond. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher at Winter Park High School was arrested at his residence on Tuesday on a warrant for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6422,692,88166,88163,88165,1776,17441,2675,28,30,29,5154,88164,132,725,1960,16056,192],"class_list":["post-187974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-aid","tag-arrest","tag-backgroundthe-casselberry-police-department","tag-benjamin-fottler","tag-central-florida-teacher","tag-crash","tag-december","tag-driver","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hit-and-run","tag-pole","tag-police","tag-scene","tag-son","tag-warrant","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187974","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=187974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}