Three people were injured after a Halloween night hit-and-run crash in Punta Gorda, which prompted a search.<\/p>\n
According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, a 2022 Dodge Ram 1500 collided with a parked vehicle and three pedestrians on Sandhill Boulevard, a popular spot for trick-or-treaters.<\/p>\n
The pedestrians, an adult, a teenager, and a child, were injured and taken to local hospitals.<\/p>\n
The driver fled the scene, prompting a search.<\/p>\n
State Troopers later located the driver, Eugene Mandarino, 66, of Punta Gorda, at his home. He was arrested on multiple counts of leaving the scene of a crash involving injuries.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing, and no further details are available at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were injured after a Halloween night hit-and-run crash in Punta Gorda, which prompted a search. According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,7215,14484],"class_list":["post-29236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charlotte-county-sheriff","tag-punta-gorda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29236","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=29236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}