Staff report
ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – John Todd Reed, 38, of Ocala, was arrested yesterday on I-75 after allegedly fleeing from Sarasota to Alachua County; an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy deployed stop sticks that caused Reed to lose control of his vehicle and crash into a guardrail, closing two lanes of northbound I-75.
At about 12:50 p.m. on February 20, the Sarasota Police Department notified the Florida Highway Patrol that a black Jeep Cherokee had fled their jurisdiction, and troopers initiated a pursuit northbound on I-75 and employed multiple PIT (Precision Immobilization Technique) attempts, all of which were unsuccessful…