State troopers took a man sought in a St. Petersburg homicide into custody following a standoff on I-75 that shut the highway down in Fort Myers Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The takedown operation began at approximately 12:30 p.m. after Florida Highway Patrol received a Be On The Lookout alert from the FHP Regional Communications Center regarding a suspect believed to be suicidal and involved in a homicide. <\/p>\n
Troopers located the suspect in Lee County and attempted a traffic stop, but the suspect fled.<\/p>\n
A Precision Immobilization Technique, or PIT, maneuver was successfully executed near southbound Exit 128 at Alico Road on I-75. <\/p>\n
\u201cDespite this, the suspect refused to comply with lawful commands and barricaded himself inside his vehicle,\u201d FHP said in a release.<\/p>\n
State Troopers, along with Lee County Sheriff\u2019s deputies who were also on scene, established contact with the suspect who was ultimately taken into custody.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect has been transported to the hospital with serious injuries. No law enforcement was injured on scene. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is on scene and will further investigate the Use of Control,\u201d FPH said in the early evening release.<\/p>\n
\u201cState Troopers and law enforcement officers put themselves in harm\u2019s way every day to protect the people of this great state,\u201d said FLHSMV Executive Director Dave Kerner. \u201cAs this is an active criminal investigation, we will have no further comment, except to say how thankful I am for the heroism State Troopers display each and every day, including this very challenging and dangerous incident today. The entire Florida Highway Patrol is deeply thankful for the heroism and support Lee County Deputies provided in responding, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State troopers took a man sought in a St. Petersburg homicide into custody following a standoff on I-75…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-349274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349274","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=349274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}