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Mario Portillo<\/p>\n
CCSO<\/p>\n
PUNTA GORDA \u2014 A car chase of more than 30 miles started in Sarasota County and ended in Charlotte County wound up with an arrest, according to court records released Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The chase happened Monday.<\/p>\n
Charlotte County Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies became involved when the vehicle, a silver Toyota, was driven into Charlotte County on Interstate 75, reports show.<\/p>\n
Marco Portillo, 30, of Cape Coral, \u201cwas actively fleeing\u201d from the Venice Police Department and Sarasota County Sheriffs Office, the report states.<\/p>\n
A Sarasota County Sheriff\u2019s helicopter followed the car.<\/p>\n
The helicopter pilot notified CCSO deputies that officers had probable cause to stop Portillo for fleeing officers, the report states.<\/p>\n
CCSO Deputy Zachary Storie was on patrol in Punta Gorda at about 5 p.m. Monday when he spotted Portillo in the Toyota.<\/p>\n
Storie executed a \u201cfelony traffic stop,\u201d pulling the car over near Taylor Road and Education Avenue.<\/p>\n
He charged Portillo with driving with a suspended license and booked him into the Charlotte County Jail, reports show.<\/p>\n
Deputies later charged Portillo with a warrant from Sarasota County for violation of probation. Portillo remained in the jail Wednesday without bond.<\/p>\n
Portillo has been arrested before, facing charges in Charlotte County earlier this year for driving with a suspended license.<\/p>\n
In Sarasota County, he was charged with and found guilty of DUI following an arrest in June, court records show.<\/p>\n
Sarasota County officials had no information Wednesday about how the chase began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mario Portillo CCSO PUNTA GORDA \u2014 A car chase of more than 30 miles started in Sarasota County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,168395],"class_list":["post-428355","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-marco-portillo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428355","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=428355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}