{"id":199500,"date":"2026-03-20T18:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199500\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T18:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T18:35:09","slug":"north-miami-woman-slips-cuffs-escapes-police-cruiser-%e2%80%95-but-terrain-was-her-downfall-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199500\/","title":{"rendered":"North Miami woman slips cuffs, escapes police cruiser \u2015 but terrain was her downfall, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 20, 2026 at 2:18 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6FTCDJ4U55AZZAIGFGE3JXIGVA.jpg\"  width=\"1698\" height=\"955\"\/>Photo Lantana Chasser (MDCR\/Pixabay) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 Police say a North Miami woman turned a misdemeanor arrest into a second-degree felony on Thursday when she managed to slip out of her handcuffs in the back of a patrol car and escape the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But they said 30-year-old Lantana Chasser didn\u2019t get too far; elevation proved to be her kryptonite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report, North Miami police responded to Chasser\u2019s apartment in the 13200 block of Memorial Highway at around 5:30 p.m. after she scratched her boyfriend\u2019s ear during a dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that an officer cuffed Chasser on a misdemeanor battery charge and put her in the back of a cruiser.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She didn\u2019t stay put, cops say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhile secured in the prisoner compartment of my marked patrol vehicle, (Chasser) was able to free herself from the hand restraints,\u201c the officer wrote in the report. \u201d(She) then manipulated her arm through the partition bars and opened the unlocked rear door of my marked patrol vehicle from the outside. (She) then exited my mark(ed) patrol vehicle and fled on foot toward the rear of the apartment complex with the hand restraints still attached to her wrist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, the officer chased Chasser. Police said she \u201cattempted to climb over a hill but failed,\u201d falling and causing a minor injury to her knee. Police said she then resisted arrest while being taken into custody for the second time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Facing charges of escape, domestic battery and resisting without violence, records show Chasser appeared in Miami-Dade court Friday afternoon, where a judge gave her a $3,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday afternoon, she remained locked up in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 20, 2026 at 2:18 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPhoto Lantana Chasser (MDCR\/Pixabay) NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 Police say a North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-199500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199500","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=199500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}