{"id":209075,"date":"2026-03-28T00:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209075\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T00:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T00:33:06","slug":"driver-faces-33-charges-after-fatal-broward-county-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/209075\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver faces 33 charges after fatal Broward County chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774306025_232_handcuffs_approved.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"Sean Holder now faces 33 charges including murder, grand theft and aggravated fleeing after a Feb. 16 BSO chase in Margate that left a driver dead.\" alt=\"Sean Holder now faces 33 charges including murder, grand theft and aggravated fleeing after a Feb. 16 BSO chase in Margate that left a driver dead.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Sean Holder now faces 33 charges including murder, grand theft and aggravated fleeing after a Feb. 16 BSO chase in Margate that left a driver dead.<\/p>\n<p>            Miami Herald File<\/p>\n<p>Sean Holder has sat in the Broward County Main Jail for more than a month on murder, grand theft and battery charges after he allegedly stole an SUV, leading to a pursuit that ended with an innocent motorist dying in a crash with a BSO deputy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Broward State Attorney\u2019s Office has tacked on more than a dozen more criminal charges Thursday for actions Holder, 30, took during the fatal Feb. 16 incident.<\/p>\n<p>Holder is facing 33 charges, up from the original five he was given when he was arrested. They include 16 counts of aggravated fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer; one count of leaving the scene of a crash involving a death, and three counts of reckless driving causing property damage.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/broward\/article315141868.html\">READ MORE: BSO scrutinized after innocent driver dies in deputies\u2019 chase of stolen car<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Feb. 16 chase began minutes before midnight. Margate police officers were on the lookout for a stolen gray Jeep Cherokee. A BSO deputy spotted it, being driven by Holder, and followed it to a Flanigan\u2019s, an arrest report read.<\/p>\n<p>Holder sped up and crashed through a closed gate in the restaurant\u2019s parking lot. The chase began with a BSO helicopter overhead.<\/p>\n<p>Holder would eventually reverse and crash into BSO Deputy Robert Acosta\u2019s cruiser. This would trigger dozens of deputies to swarm the area and join the chase.<\/p>\n<p>During the pursuit, a deputy\u2019s patrol car and a vehicle not involved in the chase crashed into each other. Paramedics took the deputy, the driver of the other car and a passenger to a hospital, BSO said. Ronald Wilbert Wilson, the driver, later died, six days before his 74th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/232859752\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774657986_450_image1 (1) Cropped (2).jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Devoun Cetoute\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/232859752\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devoun Cetoute<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Miami Herald Cops and Breaking News Reporter Devoun Cetoute covers a plethora of Florida topics, from breaking news to crime patterns. He was on the breaking news team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2022. He\u2019s a graduate of the University of Florida, born and raised in Miami-Dade. Theme parks, movies and cars are on his mind in and out of the office.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sean Holder now faces 33 charges including murder, grand theft and aggravated fleeing after a Feb. 16 BSO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,95671,249,251,250,28453,95670,95672],"class_list":["post-209075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-bso-chase","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-margate","tag-sean-holder","tag-stolen-suv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209075","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=209075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}