{"id":948897,"date":"2021-11-01T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T14:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=948897"},"modified":"2021-11-01T10:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T14:13:47","slug":"police-social-media-star-arrested-after-triggering-high-speed-chase-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-social-media-star-arrested-after-triggering-high-speed-chase-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Social Media Star Arrested After Triggering High-Speed Chase for Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-social-media-star-arrested-after-triggering-high-speed-chase-for-fun%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=948897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/imgonline-com-ua-FrameBlurred-juAR5NXv5mJH-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Social media star Damaury Mikula, 18, was arrested Friday for allegedly running a stop light and leading Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) troopers on a chase of over 100 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p>He began performing a \u201cburnout\u201d in a Dodge Challenger while next to a patrol car in the intersection of State Road 54 at Sunlake Boulevard in Pasco County at approximately 10:30 a.m., FHP said, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/florida-social-media-star-defiant-arrest-high-speed-chase-arrest\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTroopers say Mikula then ran a red light and sped off,\u201d the outlet noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.9144385026738\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Florida social media star arrested; Tells troopers he\u2019s &#8216;young, makes a lot of money and can do what he wants&#8217;  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FEQvmwqqCd\">https:\/\/t.co\/FEQvmwqqCd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX 13 Tampa Bay (@FOX13News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOX13News\/status\/1454768895697502209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the agency, the young man, who claims to make $400,000 to $500,000 through social media, did not pull over when the trooper turned on his lights and siren and kept speeding as he drove into a residential area off Ballantrae Boulevard.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Video footage&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uBSbZA1zlc0\">posted<\/a> on Saturday appeared to show the incident:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PASCO NEWS:Florida Highway Patrol arrests  Damaury Mikula on Traffic Charges\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uBSbZA1zlc0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>The trooper identified Mikula as the driver and went to his home where the young man answered the door and was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMikula told troopers the Dodge Challenger was parked in the garage and gave permission for the vehicle to be towed, according to FHP,\u201d the Fox report continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>While en route to jail, and after being read his Miranda rights, troopers say Mikula told them he was the only person in the car and knew the trooper was trying to pull him over but thought it would be okay to speed away if he got away with it.<br \/>Mikula told troopers in his mind he is young, makes a lot of money, has a fast car and he can do whatever he wants. Troopers say he later admitted that was a foolish way of thinking and not a good way to live. Mikula added that he wanted to do something fun for three seconds and it cost him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The young man was transported to the Pasco County Jail with no incident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\" readability=\"36\">\n<p>\u201cBooking records show Mikula was charged with fleeing\/eluding police with disregard of safety to persons or property, reckless driving and racing on a highway. He bonded out and was released Saturday morning,\u201d the Fox report said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mikula has 4.1 million <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@damaurymikula?lang=en\">followers<\/a> on what appeared to be his TikTok account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media star Damaury Mikula, 18, was arrested Friday for allegedly running a stop light and leading Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) troopers on a chase of over 100 miles per &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}