{"id":224799,"date":"2026-04-09T13:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224799\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:10:09","slug":"bank-robbery-suspect-crashes-after-police-chase-through-broward-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/224799\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank robbery suspect crashes after police chase through Broward County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/08\/police-chase-kia-soul-in-broward-county\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/08\/police-chase-kia-soul-in-broward-county\/\">A red Kia crashing into a concrete wall<\/a> in Lauderhill on Northwest 31st Avenue had witnesses in the neighborhood in shock and disbelief on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cLike a \u2018boom,\u2019 like a crash,\u201d said witness Nikki Clark. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible. It\u2019s bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Plantation police identified the driver as 56-year-old Tommy Duwayne Dennis, who was wanted in connection with a bank robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say just before 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dennis went into a TD Bank on State Road 7, and gave an employee a note, demanding money. After getting the cash, he left, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With help from the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office and other agencies, Plantation police say investigators later found the suspect\u2019s getaway vehicle in Fort Lauderdale &#8212; and that\u2019s when the chase started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sky 10 was flying above the pursuit until the end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Plantation Police Department says the chase was a coordinated effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During the pursuit, an officer was seen throwing spike strips onto the road. At one point, the driver disregarded a construction area, drove through a barrier and kept going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The red Kia was also seen driving the wrong way in a school zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The chase ended after a PIT maneuver, when the Kia crashed into a wall. Officers then rushed in with guns drawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspect surrendered with his hands in the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was later taken to the hospital by paramedics for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Back at the bank, officials say the FBI responded to assist Plantation police detectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FBI will investigate the bank robbery. <\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A red Kia crashing into a concrete wall in Lauderhill on Northwest 31st Avenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-224799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224799","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=224799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}