{"id":361494,"date":"2026-08-03T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361494\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:47:10","slug":"100-car-florida-street-takeover-sparks-140-mph-pursuit-ending-in-4-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/361494\/","title":{"rendered":"100-car Florida street takeover sparks 140-mph pursuit ending in 4 arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"

THONOTOSASSA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A massive, 100-car street takeover on I-75 in Florida spiraled into a chaotic 140-mph police pursuit early Saturday, ending with four joyriders in cuffs.<\/p>\n

A trooper with the Florida Highway Patrol<\/a> says he was doing traffic control when an alert broadcast that 100 cars were blocking all northbound lanes near Mile Marker 266 in Thonotosassa to “perform burnouts.”<\/p>\n

When law enforcement arrived around 1:30 a.m. to disperse the crowd, the motorists reportedly began fleeing.<\/p>\n

See also: West Palm man accused of DUI, striking deputy\u2019s motorcycle, making death threats in Keys<\/a><\/p>\n

One trooper spotted a lime green BMW escaping at a high rate of speed and initiated a pursuit as the car wove through traffic with hazard lights on and reached speeds of 140 mph in a 70 mph zone, per FHP.<\/p>\n

Troopers say the vehicle exited onto Bruce B. Downs Boulevard, ran a red light at the Dona Michelle Drive intersection, and finally pulled into a parking lot where officers conducted a traffic stop.<\/p>\n

The driver, 25-year-old Yulian Torres Lugo, was arrested and charged with aggravated fleeing to elude and participating in a coordinated street takeover. The three passengers\u201418-year-old Mason Anthony Salois, 18-year-old Julia Lynn Paxton, and 24-year-old Madison Marie Rudeck, who is the registered owner of the vehicle\u2014were all charged as passengers in an active street takeover under Florida law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THONOTOSASSA, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A massive, 100-car street takeover on I-75 in Florida spiraled into a chaotic 140-mph…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-361494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361494","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=361494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}