{"id":342585,"date":"2026-07-16T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342585\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:12:07","slug":"lehigh-acres-chase-ends-with-suspect-caught-in-car-stuck-in-ditch-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342585\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres chase ends with suspect caught in car stuck in ditch | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0 A wanted suspect barricaded themselves inside a vehicle after crashing into a ditch in a wooded area near Ridgemont Drive and Welby Lane in Lehigh Acres, according to the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said this incident is connected to a scene in the 400 block of Willowbrook Drive on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect allegedly barricaded themselves inside the vehicle before being safely taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"LCSO Ditch Scene\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1320\" height=\"759\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p>The LCSO Dive Team assisted in getting the car out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>No further details about the suspect&#8217;s identity or the charges they face have been released.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to <a href=\"http:\/\/WINKNews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on-air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0 A wanted suspect barricaded themselves inside a vehicle after crashing into a ditch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-342585","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342585","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=342585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}