{"id":374246,"date":"2026-08-18T02:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374246\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T02:32:11","slug":"bodycam-dui-suspect-takes-off-twice-after-hit-and-run-but-deputies-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374246\/","title":{"rendered":"BODYCAM: DUI suspect takes off twice after hit-and-run, but deputies catch up"},"content":{"rendered":"

MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A DUI suspect’s getaway came to a crashing halt early Saturday after Martin County deputies say he fled a hit-and-run \u2014 twice.<\/p>\n

27-year-old Ariel Simon Bamaca Camey is accused of crashing into a vehicle along SE Dixie Highway before taking off and leaving a startled woman behind in a totalled vehicle.<\/p>\n

The driver called for help, prompting deputies with the Martin County Sheriff’s Office<\/a> to search for a white pickup truck with heavy damage to its front end.<\/p>\n

Deputies say they soon spotted a vehicle matching the description. But when Bamaca Camey realized deputies were onto him, investigators say he took off again.<\/p>\n

This time, he didn’t get far.<\/p>\n

Deputies pursued the battered pickup for less than a mile before stopping it and taking Bamaca Camey into custody.<\/p>\n

See also: West Palm Beach man arrested after police say he faked coma to cover up $190K embezzlement<\/a><\/p>\n

According to deputies, Bamaca Camey appeared to be intoxicated.<\/p>\n

Bamaca Camey, who is from Guatemala, was charged with leaving the scene of a crash involving damage, fleeing and eluding, driving without a valid license after never having been issued a Florida driver’s license, and DUI.<\/p>\n

He was booked into the Martin County Jail, where he remains on an ICE detainer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MARTIN COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A DUI suspect’s getaway came to a crashing halt early Saturday after Martin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-374246","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374246","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=374246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}