{"id":39794,"date":"2025-11-09T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39794\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:47:07","slug":"teen-charged-with-felony-after-striking-port-st-lucie-police-car-with-shovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39794\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged with felony after striking Port St. Lucie police car with shovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A 15-year-old girl is facing a felony charge after police say she damaged a patrol car with a shovel during a disturbance last week.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Port St. Lucie Police Department were dispatched to the 1400 block of Bartell Avenue following reports of a disturbance inside a home involving the teen, identified as Amy Chance.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, police say Chance was standing in the middle of the roadway holding a shovel. As an officer approached in a marked patrol vehicle, Chance allegedly struck the hood of the car with the shovel, causing more than $1,200 in damage.<\/p>\n<p>Officers took Chance into custody without incident. She now faces a felony criminal mischief charge.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement that \u201cregardless of age, resorting to intentional damage of people or property in our city will result in an arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 A 15-year-old girl is facing a felony charge after police say she damaged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-39794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39794","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=39794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}