{"id":63781,"date":"2025-11-28T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63781\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T19:50:07","slug":"suspected-drunk-driver-causes-chaos-in-fort-myers-troopers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/63781\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected drunk driver causes chaos in Fort Myers, troopers say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">FORT MYERS, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; A 21-year-old man is facing jail time and hefty fines after leading state troopers on a high-speed chase Thanksgiving Day, the Florida Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At about 3:30 a.m. Thursday, troopers attempted to stop a reckless driver on eastbound Daniels Parkway, near Treeline Avenue, in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Toyota Camry accelerated, clocked at speeds of 107 mph in a posted 45 mph zone, investigators said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The car was allegedly weaving across travel lanes, traveling the wrong way and caused damage to three patrol cars. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Toyota was finally stopped when troopers hit his car with their vehicles, called a \u201cPIT maneuver,\u201d to cause the Camry to crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The driver was identified as Baldimir Domingo Lopez of Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators say Lopez had a blood alcohol content of .135 and had an alcoholic container inside the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lopez was booked into the Lee County Jail on multiple charges:<\/p>\n<p>Fleeing and Eluding at High SpeedsDUIDUI with Property Damage (three counts)Reckless Driving with Property Damage (three counts)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lopez was also issued a $2,500 citation for a second offense of being a \u201csuper speeder\u201d under Florida law for going 50 mph or more over the speed limit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"A 21-year-old man is facing jail time and hefty fines after leading state troopers on a...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6UAHFCZIWRFIDNPKBVLOUBF66M.JPG\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>A 21-year-old man is facing jail time and hefty fines after leading state troopers on a high-speed chase Thanksgiving Day, the Florida Highway Patrol said.(David Blake II | Florida Highway Patrol)<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A 21-year-old man is facing jail time and hefty fines after leading state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,1776,17011,6146,1189],"class_list":["post-63781","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-crash","tag-myers","tag-speed","tag-thanksgiving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63781","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=63781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}