{"id":357837,"date":"2026-07-30T18:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:07:07","slug":"two-arrested-after-fleeing-port-st-lucie-police-in-high-speed-chase-st-lucie-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/357837\/","title":{"rendered":"Two arrested after fleeing Port St. Lucie Police in high-speed chase | St. Lucie County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Two men fleeing from Port St. Lucie Police at a high rate of speed on Southwest Becker Road, Port St. Lucie were apprehended soon after abandoning the vehicle on July 23, according to a Port St. Lucie Police Facebook posting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers tried to stop a white Acura after officers saw multiple traffic violations and signs of impaired driving, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of pulling over, the driver accelerated to nearly 80 mph in a 45 mph zone on Southwest Becker Road, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n<p>A caller to 911 reported seeing the men, later identified as Joseph Gary Harris, 42, and Bryan Shawn Baker, 46, who left the car in a driveway on the 900 block of Southwest Idol Avenue, Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n<p>Using the department\u2019s K9 and drone teams, police were able to locate the two men \u2014 one found on the roof of an occupied home, according to the Facebook posting.<\/p>\n<p>They were then taken into custody without incident.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was charged with fleeing and eluding an officer; burglary of an occupied dwelling; resisting an officer without violence; loitering or prowling. He is being held on a $27,000 bond as of July 30 on those charges, according to the jail web site.<\/p>\n<p>Baker was charged with resisting an officer without violence; loitering or prowling. He is being held without bond as of July 30 on those charges, according to the jail web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2013 Two men fleeing from Port St. Lucie Police at a high rate of speed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-357837","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\/357837","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=357837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}