FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A scooter rider faces multiple felony charges after leading Florida Highway Patrol troopers on a high-speed chase through Fort Myers that ended with the discovery of a stolen handgun.<\/p>\n
A state trooper spotted the scooter traveling 59 mph in a 40 mph zone on State Road 82 near Ford Street on Sept. 23 at 10:03 p.m., according to FHP. When the trooper attempted a traffic stop near Ortiz Avenue, the rider accelerated to 65 mph instead of pulling over.<\/p>\n
The scooter operator split lanes between other vehicles, ran a red light and blew through a stop sign before fleeing into a neighborhood off West End Court, troopers said.<\/p>\n
Troopers found the abandoned scooter and a stolen Ruger handgun on a nearby golf course near Putte Lane and Jordan Avenue at approximately 10:27 p.m. The operator had fled on foot.<\/p>\n
Authorities located the suspect shortly after and identified him as Gregory Michael Griffin. Troopers arrested Griffin and booked him into the Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n
Griffin faces four felony charges: fleeing to elude, habitual traffic offender, possession of a stolen gun and possession of a firearm during a felony. He also had three outstanding Lee County felony warrants.<\/p>\n
Additional charges include reckless driving, no motorcycle endorsement, driving under the influence, DUI refusal and drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A scooter rider faces multiple felony charges after leading Florida Highway Patrol troopers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,618,897,356,20730],"class_list":["post-409610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-fort-myers","tag-lee-county","tag-scooter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409610","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=409610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}