{"id":381646,"date":"2026-08-26T14:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381646\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:10:09","slug":"man-charged-with-dui-after-crashing-suv-into-church-in-martin-county-deputies-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381646\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with DUI after crashing SUV into church in Martin County, deputies say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Body camera footage captured the moment when a driver accused of crashing into a church while he was intoxicated was arrested in Martin County.<\/p>\n<p>Geremias Pascual, 28, was charged with DUI and damage to property.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, deputies on Monday tried to stop Pascual after they saw his vehicle swerving onto the grass while he was traveling through a residential neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies said that when Pascual refused to stop, they performed a PIT maneuver on his SUV, but he kept going and sped up.<\/p>\n<p>Pascual then crashed into a tree, a power pole and the side of a church, which destroyed the air-conditioning unit.<\/p>\n<p>In the body camera video, Pascual was seen getting out of the crashed SUV as an officer ordered him to put his hands up while a gun was pointed at him.<\/p>\n<p>The officers then directed Pascual to come toward him and he was placed in handcuffs.<\/p>\n<p>Pascual was then arrested and taken to the Martin County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Body camera footage captured the moment when a driver accused of crashing into a church while he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1009,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-381646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-caught-on-camera","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\/381646","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=381646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}