{"id":47458,"date":"2025-11-15T05:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47458\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T05:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T05:17:07","slug":"aunt-of-18-year-old-arrested-in-broward-kidnapping-chase-vouches-for-his-release-hes-not-a-bad-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/47458\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunt of 18-year-old arrested in Broward kidnapping, chase vouches for his release: “He’s not a bad kid”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five people are in jail on Friday night, including two juveniles, after they led police on a high-speed chase<\/a>\u00a0from Fort Lauderdale all the way to Pompano Beach. Investigators said they had kidnapped and beaten a man for his cellphone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CBS News Miami spoke with one of the suspect’s aunts, who stood up in court and vouched for his release.<\/p>\n

The three adult suspects are being held at the jail in Fort Lauderdale, including 18-year-old Lamar Perry. His aunt told CBS News Miami that her nephew is not a bad kid but just following the wrong crowd.<\/p>\n

A shocking FaceTime call from her nephew<\/p>\n

Vicki Perry is in disbelief.<\/p>\n

“I’m upset, but I’m worried,” said Vicki Perry, Lamar Perry’s aunt. “And I thank God, but it could have been worse.”<\/p>\n

Her 18-year-old nephew was allegedly one of five people inside a white SUV that led police on a chase from Fort Lauderdale into Pompano Beach.<\/p>\n

She describes the terrifying moment he called her in the middle of it all.<\/p>\n

“The Facetime in and he was like, ‘Auntie, we’re literally on a high-speed chase,” Vicki Perry said.<\/p>\n

Davie Police say Lamar Perry, along with 30-year-old Tracy Ross, 18-year-old Timothy Brown, and two teens, kidnapped the 21-year-old victim at a McDonald’s in Davie off State Road 84 on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Investigators said they forced the victim into a car, then eventually threw him out in the 700 block of Northwest 9th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale and beat him.<\/p>\n

According to the arrest report, the victim said he “did not want to get in the car, but they would not give his phone back”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The arrest affidavit also said the GPS from the victim’s cellphone was used to track the suspects in Fort Lauderdale. And that’s when they took off, trying to evade police.<\/p>\n

“He turned the camera around and I instantly see a bunch of police behind him,” Vicki Perry said. “And I said, ‘Stop! Stop!'”<\/p>\n

The chase ended in Pompano Beach, where they crashed their SUV into a light pole outside of a Snapper’s Fish and Chicken restaurant.<\/p>\n

Not a bad kid, just following the wrong crowd<\/p>\n

Lamar Perry’s aunt told CBS News Miami she will be at every court date to support him.<\/p>\n

“Please, he’s not a bad kid \u2014 he’s not,” Vicki Perry said. “He’s very kind-hearted. Anything you ask, he’s going to do. He’s peer pressured and that’s what it is.” <\/p>\n

All three of the adults are being held without bond. As for the teens, they’re in custody at the juvenile assessment center in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five people are in jail on Friday night, including two juveniles, after they led police on a high-speed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,30562,249,251,250,23421,8928],"class_list":["post-47458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-davie-police","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-police-chase","tag-pompano-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47458","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=47458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}