A man accused of stealing a BMW, crashing into a trooper’s cruisers, and running away was arrested in Plantation, authorities said.<\/p>\n
According to Plantation Police, on Monday, officers found a BMW that was driving northbound in the 600 block of North State Road 7, which was earlier reported stolen by Hollywood Police.<\/p>\n
Police said that the Broward Sheriff’s Office aviation unit assisted with monitoring the BMW.<\/p>\n
At one point, the driver tried to enter the northbound Florida Turnpike entrance ramp. The BMW then maneuvered around a construction barricade and crashed into a parked Florida Highway Patrol cruiser.<\/p>\n
After the crash, the suspect, identified as 27-year-old Leduan Herrera Morales, fled on foot, and Plantation Police pursued him.<\/p>\n
During the pursuit, Morales tried to jump a nearby fence, but he surrendered and was arrested.<\/p>\n
He faces several charges, including grand theft of a motor vehicle, possession and leaving the scene of a crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man accused of stealing a BMW, crashing into a trooper’s cruisers, and running away was arrested in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,5074],"class_list":["post-444064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-plantation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444064","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=444064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}