FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) - An 18-year-old ATV driver who was taken into custody following a nearly hour-long police chase that began in Miami-Dade and ended in Broward appeared in court.
Anthony Angel Perez faces several charges, which include resisting an officer, moving traffic violation and fleeing police.
During his court appearance on Tuesday, a judge set his bond to $5,500 and ordered that he cannot drive without a court order.
“I’m ordering no driving of any vehicle, of any nature, whatsoever without a court order,” said the judge.
Perez’s attorney describe him an ambitious young man.
“2.3 GPA, advising he will be graduating, wants to go to college and study engineering,” his attorney said.
Police on Monday attempted to pull over Perez for a traffic stop.
When he refused to stop, Perez led officers on the wild hour-long cross-county chase.
“He’s traveling northbound. All those cars are traveling southbound,” said 7Skyforce Reporter Ralph Rayburn from up above. “Right, there he goes, on cue. And around those vehicles that are stopped at the intersection.”
He was eventually taken into custody in Oakland Park after his ATV ran out of gas.
“Officers getting him to stop, now they are gonna knock him to the ground and secure him and make sure he’s not carrying any weapons,” said Rayburn.
His joyride was over as FHP troopers took him to his next stop: jail.
Perez has since paid his bond and bonded out of jail.
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