The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said a Lehigh Acres man armed with a machete chased his girlfriend to a Lee County Sheriff’s Precinct and then nearly hit deputies as he tried to take off.
Sheriff Carmine Marceno said Leodan Gallo got into a fight with his girlfriend on Friday and chased after her.
“He follows our victim’s car. He’s driving erratically. You know, whatever he can do to keep up with that victim. She stops at an intersection, he gets out with a machete, and he’s swinging it,” said Marceno.
Deputies say Gallo smashed her windshield when she stopped at an intersection.
Out of fear, she drove straight to the precinct on Homestead Road for help. Deputies tried to arrest Gallo outside when it took a turn.
“He gets in his vehicle and attempts to leave. Well, during that verbal altercation, he almost runs our deputies over, striking them with the door of their vehicle,” said Marceno.
Gallo was taken into custody for multiple charges.
“That’s crazy and scary. Yeah, because he literally hit, according to what I saw on the news, he hit the patrol car,” said Lehigh Acres resident Iris Perez.
Thankfully, the deputies and the girlfriend weren’t hurt. The sheriff said deputies found two machetes in his car.