PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A man was jailed after police say he used his car to strike another during a \u201croad rage\u201d incident near Crosstown Parkway east of I-95.<\/p>\n
Jeffrey Henry, 45, of the 1900 block of Southwest Day Street, Port St. Lucie was arrested on two felony counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and three misdemeanor charges of reckless driving, criminal mischief and hit-and-run, according to a Port St. Lucie Police arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
A man told police that he and a passenger were approaching a traffic signal at Crosstown Parkway and I-95 on June 10 at about 9:10 p.m., when another car approached from behind and swerved into the man\u2019s lane.<\/p>\n
The driver said he got out of his car to see whether the man who approached from behind had struck the driver\u2019s car, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
The man identified as the suspect exited his vehicle and was quoted as saying, \u201cWhat the (expletive)? What\u2019s up? What\u2019s up?,\u201d according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
The first man said, \u201cNothing, bro,\u201d got back in his car and drove away as the traffic signal turned green.<\/p>\n
According to the driver of the other car, the alleged assailant, who also repeatedly tried to \u201cbrake-check the man, attempted to use his vehicle to strike the other man\u2019s, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
The suspect then ran a red light, made a U-turn to wait for the driver of the other car at Southeast Sandia Drive and Southeast Crosstown Parkway. The suspect then got out of his car and approached the other car \u201cin a threatening manner,\u201d the driver told police.<\/p>\n
The suspect then returned to his car and \u201cintentionally\u201d hit the other man\u2019s vehicle as the man was on the phone with 911, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
The woman passenger in the man\u2019s car had video of the incident on her phone and told police that she was afraid that the suspect might be armed.<\/p>\n
She said the alleged assailant also threw a number of items at their vehicle, damaging the hood and a side mirror, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n
The showed the suspect\u2019s car \u2014 a Honda Pilot \u2014 and its license plate.<\/p>\n
Henry was identified as the owner, and investigators found him at his listed address in Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n
Henry was released June 13 from St. Lucie County jail on $130,000 bond, according to jail records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 A man was jailed after police say he used his car to strike another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-311891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311891","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=311891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}