Two men are behind bars after a traffic stop turned into a wild pursuit in Port St. Lucie, according to police. <\/p>\n
On July 24, officers with the Port St. Lucie Police Department said they attempted to pull over a white SUV after observing multiple traffic violations being committed on the road. <\/p>\n
Police said they flashed their lights at a white Acura swerving on Southwest Becker Road, but instead of pulling over, the driver, 42-year-old Joseph Harris, sped up. Authorities said he was going 80 mph on a 45-mph street with his passenger Bryan Baker present.<\/p>\n
Officers reported seeing the vehicle weaving in and out of ongoing traffic before Harris and Baker ultimately abandoned the SUV in a residential driveway on the 900 block of Southwest Idol Avenue.<\/p>\n
The two suspects made their escape on foot, and law enforcement brought out their K-9 units and drone team to track the men down, according to police.<\/p>\n
Before both men could be taken into custody, one of them climbed onto a resident’s roof hoping to escape capture, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Video footage showed officers safely retrieving him from the roof and detaining him on the ground. <\/p>\n
Joseph Harris has been charged with fleeing and eluding law enforcement, burglary of an occupied dwelling, resisting an officer without violence, and loitering\/prowling. Bryan Baker has been charged with resisting an officer without violence and loitering\/prowling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men are behind bars after a traffic stop turned into a wild pursuit in Port St. Lucie,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1219,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-355207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355207","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=355207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}