{"id":43971,"date":"2025-11-12T17:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43971\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:39:07","slug":"florida-teen-arrested-for-allegedly-attacking-police-car-with-shovel-newsradio-wfla-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43971\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Teen Arrested for Allegedly Attacking Police Car With Shovel | Newsradio WFLA Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"

Port St. Lucie, FL – A 15-year-old girl from Port St. Lucie was arrested after she allegedly attacked a police patrol car with a metal shovel while an officer sat inside. <\/p>\n

Police say the incident happened on November 3rd in a residential neighborhood after officers were called to a disturbance at the teen\u2019s family home.<\/p>\n

According to the Port St. Lucie Police Department, the girl, identified as Amy Chance, was seen standing in the street holding a shovel when the officer arrived. <\/p>\n

Ryan Gorman and Dana McKay cover this story and more on The Ryan Gorman Show<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Body camera footage shows her walking toward the police cruiser and striking the hood several times without any apparent provocation.<\/p>\n

The officer, who was inside the vehicle, reacted in disbelief, exited the car, and ordered the teen to drop the shovel while aiming his Taser at her.<\/p>\n

Video footage shows Chance lowering the shovel, making an obscene gesture toward the officer, and attempting to walk away.<\/p>\n

The officer then commanded her to the ground, placed her in handcuffs, and took her into custody without further resistance.<\/p>\n

Police said the damage to the patrol car exceeded $1,200.<\/p>\n

Chance was charged with felony criminal mischief for allegedly causing intentional damage to city property.<\/p>\n

Authorities noted that no one was injured during the incident.<\/p>\n

The Port St. Lucie Police Department stated that acts of intentional property damage, regardless of age, will result in arrest.<\/p>\n

The reason for the disturbance that led to the officer\u2019s response remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie, FL – A 15-year-old girl from Port St. Lucie was arrested after she allegedly attacked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[10427,47,7737,658,1224,28900,171,173,172,26829,1953],"class_list":{"0":"post-43971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-disturbance","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-girl","11":"tag-incident","12":"tag-officer","13":"tag-police-patrol-car","14":"tag-port-st-lucie","15":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","16":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","17":"tag-shovel","18":"tag-teen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43971","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=43971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}