{"id":288584,"date":"2026-05-29T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288584\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:19:09","slug":"florida-man-allegedly-drove-102-mph-with-unrestrained-3-year-old-charged-with-dui-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288584\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man allegedly drove 102 mph with unrestrained 3-year-old, charged with DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (TMX) &#8211; A Florida father is facing charges for allegedly driving at speeds over 100 mph while intoxicated, and while his 3-year-old child was improperly restrained in the backseat, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/3000659976804347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/3000659976804347\">said<\/a> deputies clocked a motorist traveling at 102 mph in a 55 mph zone on State Road 82 at around 6:30 p.m. on May 23 and initiated a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Body-worn camera video of the encounter released this week shows a deputy telling the driver to step out of the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMy daughter\u2019s back there,\u201d the driver said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Jorge Garcia allegedly told deputies he was on his way home from a pool party where he had...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780035549_154_33M6K2VEFNCVZMYR3JMBFY2UXM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Jorge Garcia allegedly told deputies he was on his way home from a pool party where he had consumed a few drinks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYeah, that\u2019s even worse,\u201d the deputy responded. \u201cOne-hundred-and-two miles an hour in a 55 with a 3-year-old in the back of your car who\u2019s not seat belted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver, identified as Jorge Garcia, of Lehigh Acres, told deputies he was on his way home from a pool party where he had consumed a few drinks. His 3-year-old child was in the backseat and was allegedly not properly restrained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cYou\u2019re worried about her being good now but you weren\u2019t worried when you were doing 102, were you?\u201d the deputy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Garcia was arrested and charged with operating a vehicle over 100 mph, refusal to submit to DUI testing and DUI with a person under 18 in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 TMX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (TMX) &#8211; A Florida father is facing charges for allegedly driving at speeds over 100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122158,7903,28,30,29,325,74244,2391,132,1164,1045],"class_list":["post-288584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-acres","tag-county","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lee","tag-lehigh","tag-man","tag-police","tag-speeding","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288584","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=288584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}