Swimming for Cardio = Newsworthy Results!

[240 is Back]

FMPD: Driver jumped into river after crash on Caloosahatchee Bridge

FORT MYERS, FL -
Fort Myers Police are investigating a crash in which the driver left the scene and jumped into the river to avoid getting arrested.

The crash happened on the northbound span of the Caloosahatchee Bridge around 3 p.m.

Police say the driver of the vehicle left the scene before authorities arrived.

Officers searched the area and found the driver walking on the north side of the Caloosahatchee Bridge.  That's when the suspect jumped into the river to avoid getting arrested.

FMPD's Marine Unit was activated and caught the suspect -- who was hanging onto a bridge support.  The suspect was taken into custody.

The investigation remains active.

[Royalty]

The name of the bridge is racist

[calfzilla]

I guess that answers the question "where has shizzo been?"

[LurkerNoMore]

11/13/2007 11:26 PM    ID: 66473    Permalink   
Alligator Kills Robbery Suspect Trying to Hide From Police in a Pond
     

A 9-foot alligator has ended the life of a man police say was breaking into cars at a Florida casino, and fled into a nearby pond where he sustained multiple bites to the head. He was found at the pond's bottom a day or so later.

Poncho, as the gator was known, was well-known. "Some alligators just have a nasty disposition and he was just a nasty gator. He seemed to have no fear of people," said one. A trapper said Poncho will be stored for medical examiners.

"Anytime an alligator digests or even kills a person, it is a state law through the Florida Fish and Game that the gator be destroyed," said the owner of All American Gator, a local alligator processing company who has Poncho.

[240 is Back]

ugh, florida in the news again.

[oldtimer1]

I can't believe they are going to kill the alligator for doing alligator things. Just release it in the swamps.

[SquidVicious]

I can't believe they are going to kill the alligator for doing alligator things. Just release it in the swamps.

It's like when they kill a police officer's career just because some thug provoked him into doing police things. #AlligatorLivesMatter