{"id":39919,"date":"2025-11-09T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39919\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T16:47:08","slug":"teen-arrested-in-psl-after-hitting-police-car-with-shovel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/39919\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen arrested in PSL after hitting police car with shovel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 15-year-old girl was arrested in Port St. Lucie on Monday after police say she bashed a patrol car with a shovel, causing $1,200 in damage.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) say they were dispatched to the 1400 block of Bartell Ave. on Monday for reports of a disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, police say they met 15-year-old Amy Chance armed with a shovel in the middle of the street.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/four-killed-eleven-injured-after-speeding-driver-plows-into-ybor-city-crowd-tampa-police-department-doyle-carlton-drive-florida-highway-patrol-november-8-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Four killed, eleven injured after speeding driver plows into Ybor City crowd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before officers could exit their patrol car, Chance began repeatedly striking the top of the hood with the shovel, causing $1,200 in damage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you kidding me?&#8221; one officer said in disbelief during the incident, which was captured on bodycam.<\/p>\n<p>Chance was taken into custody and booked for a felony count of criminal mischief, per PSLPD.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regardless of age, resorting to intentional damage of people or property in our city will result in an arrest,&#8221; PSLPD wrote in a post to Facebook. &#8220;With the exceptional training of our officers, the suspect was taken into custody without incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day&#8217;s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBS12NewsWPEC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can&#8217;t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 15-year-old girl was arrested in Port St. Lucie on Monday after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-39919","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\/39919","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=39919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}