FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Fort Myers police are investigating after a person ran from officers during an attempted traffic stop and may have entered a preschool.<\/p>\n
The incident happened at the 5200 block of Ramsey Way in Fort Myers, near Wellington Academy by Sam’s Club off U.S. 41. Officers surrounded the area and searched the property.<\/p>\n
Police say the situation began when a person ran from officers during an attempted traffic stop. Investigators believed the person may have entered the childcare facility, prompting staff to evacuate the building while officers searched inside.<\/p>\n
Everyone inside the childcare facility is safe. Police say no one was found in the facility.<\/p>\n
The experience left parents shaken.<\/p>\n
“He’s like, yeah, we had to go to the bathroom, but you know, a little too young to understand what’s going on,” Courtney Devlin, a parent, said. “But scary to even hear your kids say something like that. You don’t expect something like that to happen.”<\/p>\n
The investigation remains active as police continue working to identify and locate the person who ran from officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Fort Myers police are investigating after a person ran from officers during an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-365111","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-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365111","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=365111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}