A Key Largo man stays behind bars after he allegedly attacked a lady, charged a deputy who responded to the incident, fled in a sheriff’s patrol automotive and stole a lady’s automotive in Key Largo on Dec. 23.
Armando Lopez, 52, faces a litany of expenses, together with tried homicide, battery by strangulation, resisting an officer, grand theft auto and fleeing and eluding.
The sheriff’s workplace responded to the report on a home incident in progress at a house on Palm Drive simply earlier than 4:30 p.m. The report said that Lopez was beating a lady on the home. A sheriff’s sergeant who responded to the incident was reportedly attacked by Lopez. A tussle ensued as Lopez punched the sergeant and tried to take a service weapon from the sergeant’s holster.
Lopez left the home and drove away within the sergeant’s patrol automotive. The sergeant’s try and Tase Lopez failed as he took off. Deputies say Lopez drove to the tip of the street the place he stopped a Kia SUV within the patrol automotive. He reportedly compelled the feminine driver out of the automotive, jumped inside and drove north. Lopez rear-ended one other automobile close to MM104, inflicting the Kia to flip.
Lopez was taken to Mariners Hospital in Tavernier after which to jail.
“I’m relieved there have been no life-threatening accidents attributable to this incident and the suspect is at the moment the place he must be — sitting in jail,” stated Sheriff Rick Ramsay. “It’s a reminder of the hazards legislation enforcement officers routinely face whereas merely doing their jobs.”
An arraignment listening to is about for Tuesday, Jan. 7 in entrance of Choose James Morgan on the Plantation Key Courthouse.