{"id":19117,"date":"2025-10-24T16:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19117\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T16:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T16:25:08","slug":"port-st-lucie-police-nab-auto-burglary-suspect-in-early-morning-pursuit-martin-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/19117\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie police nab auto burglary suspect in early-morning pursuit | Martin County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A Miami man who Port St. Lucie Police say was planning to break into cars was arrested before dawn on Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Germaine Samuel Mitchell, 22, of Miami, was on Southwest Deer Run in the gated community of Sawgrass Lakes in Port St. Lucie when he was spotted by a SWAT team officer at about 3:57 a.m., according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Police were responding to a 911 call from a citizen who said he saw a man, described as Black, lurking around his home and driveway in the 400 block of Southwest Deer Run, according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>The caller was able to provide a detailed description from home security cameras, which provided the officer with information which led to Mitchell\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A Skydio X10 drone helped deputies track Mitchell from the air, leading pursuing officers straight to him and allowing them to take him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>Also found on Mitchell at the time of his arrest was a wallet from a neighboring home on the 500 block of SW Deer Run, which contained the victim\u2019s drivers license, debit cards and cash, according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell was charged with auto burglary, loitering &amp; prowling and resisting without violence and is in the St. Lucie County Jail on a $3,150 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A Miami man who Port St. Lucie Police say was planning to break into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[326,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-19117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-martin","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117","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=19117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}