MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A suspect was arrested Wednesday after assaulting his female passenger and then leading Miccosukee police officers on a chase, authorities said.
According to Miccosukee police, officers tried to stop the vehicle near the intersection of Krome Avenue and Southwest Eighth Street after a sergeant was flagged down by a witness about an assault occurring inside the vehicle.
But police said the driver, later identified as Isbel Alejandro Diaz-Bauta, 28, of Miami, refused to stop, striking a patrol vehicle and forcing civilian vehicles off the roadway.
“During the pursuit, an officer observed the driver continue to assault a female passenger and attempt to run a patrol unit off the road,” a spokesperson for the police department said in a news release…