Jakob Kite, 22, resigned from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office after the chase on Sunday.
LAKELAND, Florida — A Florida sheriff’s deputy has lost his job after he fled from a traffic stop early Sunday morning, taking other deputies on a chase that hit speeds of 130 mph and also trying to hit a patrol car, all while driving drunk, authorities say.
from the sheriff’s office. He now faces charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting without violence, resisting with violence, fleeing to elude, leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, reckless driving, and DUI.The chase started after Kite’s vehicle, a Subaru Impreza, first was clocked on radar traveling at 105 mph in a 60 mph zone, then moments later clocked by another deputy going between 114 and 117 mph, the news release says.
The vehicle reportedly went through a stop sign and hit a concrete median, then at one point swerved toward a patrol car in an “aggressive manner,” but did not make contact. “This kind of driving and reckless behavior is unacceptable for any responsible citizen, let alone a deputy sheriff,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement. “It is hard to describe how disappointed and angry I am toward Kite’s dangerously stupid behavior. Had he not resigned, he would have been fired.Kite is being held in the Polk County Jail on an $8,500 bond.
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