LEE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A man from Cape Coral was arrested early Friday morning after he allegedly broke into a home, escaped from deputies, and choked a police K-9 during his arrest.<\/p>\n
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) said that at around 9 a.m., deputies responded to a report of a burglary in progress at an apartment in the Whiskey Creek area. <\/p>\n
The resident reported that the suspect, later identified as Xzavier Jefferson, had entered their home while they were sleeping and was found sitting on their couch.<\/p>\n
As Jefferson fled the scene, one of the victims allegedly followed him and provided deputies with real-time updates on his location.<\/p>\n
See also: Toddler drowns after dad falls in hot tub, Florida deputies say<\/a><\/p>\n LCSO said that deputies found Jefferson near Whiskey Creek Drive and College Parkway, where he refused to obey their commands.<\/p>\n To help apprehend him, K-9 Vader was deployed. LCSO said that when contact was made, Jefferson placed K-9 Vader in a headlock, choking the dog.<\/p>\n Fortunately, K-9 Vader was evaluated afterward and did not sustain any injuries, per LCSO.<\/p>\n Jefferson was ultimately subdued with a taser, taken into custody, and is now facing multiple criminal counts, including trespassing, resisting an officer without violence, and animal cruelty.<\/p>\n Find more ways to stay up to date with your latest local news. Sign up for our newsletter<\/a> to get the day’s top headlines delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> for the biggest stories and can’t miss video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A man from Cape Coral was arrested early Friday morning after he allegedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":{"0":"post-86177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86177","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=86177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}