{"id":381758,"date":"2026-08-26T16:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381758\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:48:07","slug":"3-suspects-arrested-after-grappler-stops-fleeing-vehicle-in-fort-lauderdale-idd-police-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381758\/","title":{"rendered":"3 suspects arrested after grappler stops fleeing vehicle in Fort Lauderdale ID\u2019d, police say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspects, including the driver of a vehicle that was stopped when a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/3-arrested-after-grappler-stops-fleeing-vehicle-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say\/3850407\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/3-arrested-after-grappler-stops-fleeing-vehicle-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say\/3850407\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> grappler was used during a chase in Fort Lauderdale,<\/a> were identified on Wednesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Dewontres McCray, 42, is facing several charges, including grand theft, fleeing and eluding law enforcement and burglary of an occupied dwelling.<\/p>\n<p>The two other suspects were identified as 4-year-old Claudin Butler and 35-year-old Antonio Retcho.<\/p>\n<p>Butler and Retcho&#8217;s charges were not released. <\/p>\n<p>According to Fort Lauderdale Police, on Tuesday, at around 11:30 a.m., an officer found a vehicle that was involved in a felony in Pompano Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the vehicle had previously fled from Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office deputies.<\/p>\n<p>When the officer tried to do a traffic stop, the vehicle didn&#8217;t stop, and the pursuit ensued.<\/p>\n<p>During the pursuit, BSO assisted FLPD from the ground and the air, and a police grappler was used on the vehicle, ending the chase in the 1600 block of West Sunrise Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>After the vehicle was stopped, three suspects got out of the car but were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Police started using what is known as a police grappler bumper last year.<\/p>\n<p>The device releases a net from the front of the police cruiser and wraps around the back tire of a fleeing car.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the goal is to potentially stop a suspect whose trying to flee without endangering the public.<\/p>\n<p>NBC6 has reached out to BSO for information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three suspects, including the driver of a vehicle that was stopped when a grappler was used during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-381758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381758","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=381758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}