{"id":18245,"date":"2021-12-16T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=18245"},"modified":"2021-12-16T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T17:45:32","slug":"polk-county-pursuit-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2021\/12\/16\/polk-county-pursuit-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County Pursuit &#038; Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On December 16th&nbsp;at 9:59 AM, FHP Troopers located a stolen 2010 Hyundai Accent traveling eastbound on SR-400 near US-27.&nbsp; Following an attempted traffic stop the driver, Raul Mata, 28, of Seffner, failed to stop and fled from the Troopers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"272\" height=\"338\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MATA-RAUL.png?resize=272%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MATA-RAUL.png?w=272&amp;ssl=1 272w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/MATA-RAUL.png?resize=241%2C300&amp;ssl=1 241w\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mata continued to Champions Gate Boulevard where he exited the interstate, reversed course and began to travel westbound on SR-400.&nbsp; Mata continued westbound during which time Troopers attempted a rolling roadblock which was unsuccessful as Mata attempted to ram the Troopers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pursuit continued until Mata exited at SR-33, traveled southbound, and collided with another motorist at the intersection of Memorial Boulevard.&nbsp; Mata then fled the scene of the crash and began traveling westbound on Memorial Boulevard where Troopers performed a PIT maneuver near Marion Avenue and ended the pursuit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polk-Pursuit-Dec-16-1.jpg?w=1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"18246\" data-link=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?attachment_id=18246\" class=\"wp-image-18246\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polk-Pursuit-Dec-16-2.jpg?w=1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"18247\" data-link=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?attachment_id=18247\" class=\"wp-image-18247\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Polk-Pursuit-Dec-16-3.jpg?w=1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"18248\" data-link=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?attachment_id=18248\" class=\"wp-image-18248\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mata was arrested and charged with Aggravated Fleeing &amp; Eluding, Aggravated Assault of a Law Enforcement Officer, Leaving the Scene of a Crash with Property Damage, Grand Theft of a Motor Vehicle, Reckless Driving, and Driving without a License.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 16th&nbsp;at 9:59 AM, FHP Troopers located a stolen 2010 Hyundai Accent traveling eastbound on SR-400 near US-27.&nbsp; Following an attempted traffic stop the driver, Raul Mata, 28, of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","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":[12,14],"tags":[1972],"class_list":["post-18245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-county-pursuit-arrest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245","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=18245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}