A Fort Lauderdale woman was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly stealing a marked Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office patrol car and abandoning it on Interstate 95 in St. Lucie County.<\/p>\n
The incident began at 9:30 p.m. when authorities issued a BOLO alert for the stolen Dodge Charger, which was traveling northbound on I-95.<\/p>\n
At around 9:40 p.m., deputies with the St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office Patrol Operations Bureau, along with officers from the Port St. Lucie Police Department and troopers from the Florida Highway Patrol, responded to I-95 after receiving information about the stolen patrol vehicle near Gatlin Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Within minutes, FHP located the abandoned patrol vehicle on the I-95 northbound exit ramp to SW Gatlin Boulevard at mile marker 118.<\/p>\n
During the response, St. Lucie County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies found Shannon Marie Dillon, 42, in the area wearing an outer ballistic vest displaying Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office insignia.<\/p>\n
Dillon now faces charges in St. Lucie County including grand theft of law enforcement equipment, unlawful use of a police badge or law enforcement vehicle, unlawful possession of four or fewer identification items, possession or use of drug paraphernalia, possession of a weapon or ammunition by a convicted felon, driving while license suspended and resisting an officer without violence. <\/p>\n
She also faces charges out of Broward County for grand theft of law enforcement equipment from an authorized emergency vehicle and grand theft.<\/p>\n
The northbound I-95 exit ramp to SW Gatlin Boulevard was temporarily closed while crime scene investigators processed the scene. The ramp reopened at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Lauderdale woman was arrested Tuesday night after allegedly stealing a marked Broward County Sheriff\u2019s Office patrol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-408668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","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\/408668","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=408668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}