Fort Myers man facing felony charges after Cape Coral drug sting operation<\/a><\/p>\nAs the vehicle approached the intersection of Orange Grove Boulevard and Pondella Road, the driver, later identified as Zachary Murray, drove around a parked vehicle, through the red light and nearly struck a truck, according to Sheriff Carmine Marceno.<\/p>\n
When deputies attempted a traffic stop, Murray accelerated, lost traction and nearly struck another vehicle. Murray continued to drive over the median and into oncoming traffic, LCSO said.<\/p>\n
According to the sheriff’s office, deputies safely conducted a PIT maneuver to prevent Murray from continuing to drive recklessly and potentially cause a deadly crash.<\/p>\n
See the full video of the arrest below:<\/p>\n
Deputies made contact with Murray and said they located trafficking amounts of cocaine, in addition to other drugs inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Murray was charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, trafficking in cocaine, possession of drug paraphernalia, fleeing and eluding and reckless driving.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office says Murray has an extensive criminal history, including drug charges, resisting an officer, grand theft and battery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0A driver who tried to outrun deputies ended up stopped in his tracks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,6239,2675,5558,897,16399,9303,1224,2631],"class_list":["post-434772","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-cocaine","tag-driver","tag-drugs","tag-fort-myers","tag-fort-myers-police-department","tag-north-fort-myers","tag-officer","tag-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434772","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=434772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}