{"id":39860,"date":"2025-11-09T15:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39860\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T15:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T15:47:09","slug":"teen-faces-felony-after-hitting-patrol-car-in-port-st-lucie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39860\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen faces felony after hitting patrol car in Port St. Lucie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA 15-year-old girl is facing a felony charge after allegedly damaging a Port St. Lucie Police Department patrol vehicle with a shovel during a disturbance last week.According to police, officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of Bartell Avenue following reports of a domestic disturbance involving the teen. When officers arrived on scene, they found her standing in the middle of the roadway holding a shovel.Authorities say the teen approached the arriving patrol car and struck the hood with the shovel, causing more than $1,200 in damage.Officers took her into custody without incident. She is now facing a felony charge of criminal mischief.\u201cRegardless of age, resorting to intentional damage of people or property in our city will result in an arrest,\u201d the department said in a statement. \u201cThanks to the exceptional training of our officers, she was safely taken into custody.\u201dNo injuries were reported during the incident.https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1GWcYMQS45\/Follow us on social: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old girl is facing a felony charge after allegedly damaging a Port St. Lucie Police Department patrol vehicle with a shovel during a disturbance last week.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers were dispatched to the 1400 block of Bartell Avenue following reports of a domestic disturbance involving the teen. When officers arrived on scene, they found her standing in the middle of the roadway holding a shovel.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the teen approached the arriving patrol car and struck the hood with the shovel, causing more than $1,200 in damage.<\/p>\n<p>Officers took her into custody without incident. She is now facing a felony charge of criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of age, resorting to intentional damage of people or property in our city will result in an arrest,\u201d the department said in a statement. \u201cThanks to the exceptional training of our officers, she was safely taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/v\/1GWcYMQS45\/<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on social: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpbf25news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPBF25News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wpbf25news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@wpbf25news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCeD5NwvPbEZKcu02_v8tUZQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old girl is facing a felony charge after allegedly damaging a Port St. Lucie Police Department patrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4204,26830,1282,3979,1178,7550,658,1224,15618,992,22664,171,173,172,481,26829,1953],"class_list":{"0":"post-39860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-authority","9":"tag-bartell-avenue","10":"tag-chance","11":"tag-custody","12":"tag-damage","13":"tag-felony","14":"tag-incident","15":"tag-officer","16":"tag-patrol-car","17":"tag-people","18":"tag-police-cruiser","19":"tag-port-st-lucie","20":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","21":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","22":"tag-property","23":"tag-shovel","24":"tag-teen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860","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=39860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}