A man is facing charges after police said he struck a pedestrian while trying to flee from Miami officers on a dirt bike.<\/p>\n
Chamari Pippins, 22, was arrested Saturday night on charges of aggravated fleeing and eluding causing injury, possession of a weapon while committing an offense, resisting an officer without violence, failure to obey a police officer, and failure to have vehicle registration, jail records showed.<\/p>\n
According to an arrest report, Miami Police were working in Wynwood in the area of Northwest 2nd Avenue and Northwest 26th Street when they spotted a large group of off-road vehicles including ATVs and dirt bikes gathering and impeding traffic.<\/p>\n
Officers on foot patrol approached Pippins, who was operating a Yamaha dirt bike with no tag, and Pippins looked at the officers then accelerated the vehicle to try to flee, the report said.<\/p>\n
The tires spun out and he lost control of the dirt bike, which hit a victim on the sidewalk before it struck a parked Infiniti, the report said.<\/p>\n
The victim was hospitalized with a fractured right elbow, a laceration to her left eyelid and a laceration to her foot.<\/p>\n
When Pippins was taken into custody, he was in possession of a Glock 45 handgun with an extended magazine that was loaded with 30 rounds, the report said.<\/p>\n
A records check showed the dirt bike wasn’t registered, the report said.<\/p>\n
Pippins was arrested and booked into jail. He was expected to appear before a bond court judge on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing charges after police said he struck a pedestrian while trying to flee from Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-239080","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\/239080","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=239080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}