A 22-year-old man was taken into custody by Fort Worth police and charged with reckless driving and evading arrest for the Friday night incident, officials said.<\/p>\n
FORT WORTH, Texas \u2014 The Fort Worth Police Department arrested a 22-year-old late Friday after he reportedly led FWPD officers on a high-speed chase that ended with the suspect crashing into a tree, authorities say.<\/p>\n
Just after 9 p.m. Friday, Fort Worth police say they observed a silver Pontiac GTO traveling Eastbound in the 2800 block of West 7th Street. doing a burnout and then accelerating, which caused the rear of the vehicle to fishtail across multiple lanes of traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to police, an attempted traffic stop was met with the driver speeding away to evade officers.<\/p>\n
The suspect avoided police until he crashed into a tree near West 5th Street, police say. An arrest was made at that scene without incident, and the suspect, Anthony Hernandez, was charged with Reckless Driving and Evading Arrest\/Detention with a Vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Hernandez is currently in the Fort Worth city jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old man was taken into custody by Fort Worth police and charged with reckless driving and evading…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-346771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}