{"id":47905,"date":"2021-03-17T12:48:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=47905"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:48:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T16:48:32","slug":"carjacking-suspect-jumps-into-pond-to-avoid-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/03\/carjacking-suspect-jumps-into-pond-to-avoid-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Carjacking suspect jumps into pond to avoid arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man who carjacked a victim before sending deputies on a chase into a pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Monforto.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47906\" width=\"271\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Monforto.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Monforto-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The carjacking initially happened in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies say the suspect Daniel Monforto, 35, approached his victim and demanded money from him, then beat him and stole his vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manforto fled but Detectives were able to locate the vehicle at a Circle K in North Fort Myers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputies pursued the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monforto refused to stop, he then ditched the vehicle and fled to a nearby pond according to deputies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monforto refused to get out of the pond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sheriffs Aviation Unit along with deputies and analysts were able to get Monforto out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monforto was charged with Carjacking without a Weapon and Aggravated Fleeing with Damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a man who carjacked a victim before sending deputies on a chase into a pond. The carjacking initially happened in Lehigh Acres. Deputies say&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":47906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}