{"id":71508,"date":"2025-12-04T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71508\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:27:06","slug":"cape-coral-man-accused-of-driving-119-mph-while-under-the-influence-crashes-car-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71508\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral man accused of driving 119 mph while under the influence, crashes car | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">A Cape Coral Police officer observed a speeding incident on Thursday, around 2:20 a.m. on Northeast Pine Island Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The officer clocked a silver 2012 Volkswagen Jetta at 119 mph in a 55-mph zone.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Javier Alvarez - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy Cape Coral Police Department<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The driver, identified as Javier Alvarez Alvarez, 27, lost control of the vehicle after turning onto Del Prado Boulevard North. The car crashed into a traffic sign and became stuck, allowing the officer to detain Alvarez.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alvarez admitted to losing control of the vehicle due to its manual transmission. Officers noted signs of impairment, including watery eyes and the smell of alcohol. A concealed handgun and an alcohol-filled flask were found during a search.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Alvarez was arrested for driving under the influence after failing field sobriety tests. He refused a breath test and resisted being placed into the patrol car, but was eventually transported to Lee County Jail.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A search of the vehicle revealed a cooler with alcohol and another person&#8217;s Florida Driver&#8217;s License. The investigation into this discovery is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Cape Coral Police officer observed a speeding incident on Thursday, around 2:20 a.m. on Northeast Pine Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325],"class_list":["post-71508","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71508","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=71508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}