{"id":18109,"date":"2021-12-11T13:25:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=18109"},"modified":"2021-12-11T13:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T18:26:31","slug":"not-again-polk-deputy-shoots-suspect-as-he-tries-to-flee-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/12\/11\/not-again-polk-deputy-shoots-suspect-as-he-tries-to-flee-traffic-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Again: Polk deputy shoots suspect as he tries to flee traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Polk County sheriff&#8217;s lieutenant shot a man who attempted to overpower her and flee during a traffic stop regarding stolen heavy equipment Friday morning in Mulberry, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Lakeland police had reported a stolen trailer and Bobcat tractor, and Lt. Laura Rhodes pulled over a Ford F350 Super Duty truck pulling what appeared to be the stolen equipment near 1st Avenue Northwest and 7th Street Northwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ford-f350.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ford-f350.jpg 660w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Ford-f350-300x200.jpg 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As Rhodes was talking to the driver, Michael Jeremy Hatfield, 47, of Bradenton, Hatfield tried to overpower Rhodes and accelerate the truck, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office said. Rhodes shot Hatfield once in the left hip as he fled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shortly after, Hatfield was found sitting in his truck two blocks away near Third Street Northwest and Phosphate Boulevard, where he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hatfield was taken to a local hospital to be treated for a non-life-threatening injury, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rhodes has worked with the Sheriff&#8217;s Office for 20 years and is the supervisor of the Mulberry Sheriff&#8217;s Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sheriff&#8217;s office officials said more details, including Hatfield&#8217;s charges, would be released soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Polk County sheriff&#8217;s lieutenant shot a man who attempted to overpower her and flee during a traffic stop regarding stolen heavy equipment Friday morning in Mulberry, the Sheriff&#8217;s Office&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[1938],"class_list":["post-18109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sheriffs-corner","tag-not-again-polk-deputy-shoots-suspect-as-he-tries-to-flee-traffic-stop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}