ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A 21-year-old man arrested Friday in Orange County is accused of speeding away from a Florida Highway Patrol trooper’s traffic stop on the Turnpike that evening, eventually crashing and attempting to run off.
Issac King faces a list of charges including reckless driving, resisting an officer without violence, fleeing/eluding police at high speed, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, driving with a suspended license and two counts of possession of an altered driver’s license, records show.
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A trooper in the northbound entrance ramp to the Turnpike from southbound State Road 417 reported seeing an Audi traveling around 90 mph in the Turnpike’s northbound inside lane around 6 p.m., soon catching up with the vehicle and clocking it at more than 100 mph. That stretch of the Turnpike has a posted 70 mph speed limit, the trooper said.
The trooper said they then got behind the Audi, activated their emergency lights and began to conduct a traffic stop, noting it took at least one mile for the vehicle to pull over onto the right shoulder just north of State Road 528. As the trooper exited their patrol car however, they reported hearing the Audi engine rev before it accelerated away, prompting a pursuit.
The pursuit would span some 20 miles as King allegedly sped away further north along the Turnpike, then onto northbound State Road 429 where he was clocked at speeds above 120 mph before exiting to eastbound Clarcona Ocoee Road, according to an arrest affidavit. On Clarcona Ocoee Road — now at speeds ranging from 70-90 mph in a posted 45 mph zone — King was accused of driving through two solid red lights, the affidavit states.
The Audi would go on to strike a curb in the rightmost eastbound lane at Clarcona Ocoee Road’s intersection with Clarke Road before King lost control and struck the rear of a Kia, troopers said. In a statement, FHP said the crash involved two Kias total — driven by a 28-year-old Orlando woman and a 52-year-old Ocoee man, respectively, who remained on scene and were not hospitalized — leaving the Audi at rest within the inside lane of Clarcona Ocoee Road, east of the intersection.
King left the Audi and ran off westbound on eastbound Clarcona Ocoee Road, the affidavit states, prompting the trooper in pursuit to follow on foot. The trooper reported chasing King until he stopped and surrendered, adding two other occupants in the Audi were otherwise secured.
The trooper said they found two driver’s licenses on King’s person with the same picture, reporting the corresponding driver’s license numbers posted no returns when queried through the Driver and Vehicle Information Database. Further, a 9 mm Glock was located in the Audi’s driver floorboard, found to be loaded and to have no serial, the affidavit states.
King is being held on no bond at the time of this report.
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