{"id":423855,"date":"2026-10-10T01:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423855\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:42:10","slug":"man-found-guilty-of-robbery-fleeing-charges-after-2024-cape-coral-arcade-robbery-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/423855\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found guilty of robbery, fleeing charges after 2024 Cape Coral arcade robbery arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791596530_419_60bf8acd-f16c-4cd7-9b45-f2b974c5197e_1768274767.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Layza Pinero Resto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A man was found guilty of fleeing and eluding and robbery charges after a 2024 arrest for his involvement in a Cape Coral arcade robbery, according to the State Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The SAO says that Mikael Alejandro Blanc Stewart was initially arrested after evidence showed that he was the getaway driver following an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/cape-coral-armed-robbery-arrest-police-chase\/62172481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">armed robbery<\/a> of an arcade. It adds that he drove around the business three times before letting his co-defendant out of the car to rob it.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Cape Coral police responded, and Stewart drove off. Records say that he veered off the road multiple times, drove into oncoming traffic, ran stop signs and reached speeds of 100+ miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Eventually, the vehicle crashed and Stewart was arrested. He was found guilty as charged of two counts of fleeing to elude a law enforcement officer and two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A man was found guilty of fleeing and eluding and robbery charges after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1185,209,211,210,1330,7740,6868,2344,104,2339,213,2391,2340,14040,6146,197,43190,221],"class_list":["post-423855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-alert","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-charge","tag-count","tag-deadly-weapon","tag-download","tag-entertainment","tag-hour","tag-late-news","tag-man","tag-mile","tag-robbery","tag-speed","tag-sport","tag-stewart","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423855","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=423855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}