{"id":5620,"date":"2025-10-15T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5620\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:45:10","slug":"broward-man-rammed-car-with-his-pt-cruiser-several-times-after-punching-driver-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5620\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward man rammed car \u2018with his PT Cruiser several times\u2019 after punching driver, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM<\/p>\n<p>Expand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/PKHREBLHDJCMNO466WPKN5ZY6Y.jpg\"  width=\"1707\" height=\"960\"\/>Kevin Grimsley (BSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A 62-year-old Pembroke Pines man is facing felony charges after authorities said he was involved in an incident with another driver in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, officers responded to the area of Interstate 95 and Sunrise Boulevard just after 6:30 p.m. regarding \u201ca white (Chrysler) PT Cruiser ramming into a grey (Hyundai) Sonata on the top of the bridge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said a school security officer witnessing the incident saw the PT Cruiser driver, later identified as Kevin Grimsley, getting out of the hatchback and punching the Sonata driver through an open window.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said Grimsley then \u201cstarted ramming the (sedan) with his PT Cruiser several times,\u201d before fleeing the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Grimsley didn\u2019t get far: officers found him stopped along I-95 with a deflated tire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The other driver was hurt from both the punches and the ramming, according to the FLPD report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report provides no details about what allegedly led up to the incident, including whether the two drivers knew each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Grimsley, facing charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, burglary with assault or battery and leaving the scene of a crash involving property damage, was being held in the Broward Main Jail on a $35,500 bond as of Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM ExpandKevin Grimsley (BSO) FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A 62-year-old Pembroke Pines man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-5620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620","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=5620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}