{"id":50283,"date":"2025-11-17T20:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50283\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T20:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:22:08","slug":"lehigh-acres-man-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison-for-deadly-crash-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50283\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres man sentenced to 15 years in prison for deadly crash | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A Lee County man received a 15-year prison sentence for leaving the scene of a fatal crash involving a bicyclist. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/man-arrested-after-dui-hit-and-run-kills-lehigh-acres-bicyclist\/article_3f3a3cce-fec7-511b-9307-6c60e531b18a.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zenaido Martinez-Gomez<\/a> was sentenced following his conviction in September.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Assistant State Attorney Mara Marzano of the Traffic Homicide Unit prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Martinez-Gomez was also ordered to pay restitution for funeral expenses and complete 120 hours of community service. His driver&#8217;s license was revoked for five years, and he will serve five years of probation following his prison term.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Florida Highway Patrol arrested Martinez-Gomez in July 2023 after he hit a cyclist near Douglas Lane and Ichabod Avenue in Lehigh Acres. Instead of stopping, he fled the scene, and the victim later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Authorities located Martinez-Gomez&#8217;s vehicle at his home in Lehigh, leading to his arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lee County man received a 15-year prison sentence for leaving the scene of a fatal crash involving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325],"class_list":["post-50283","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-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50283","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=50283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}