Source: CBS News Miami
The Broward Sheriff’s Office said Interstate 95 south will be closed until further notice in Pompano Beach after a police chase ended in a crash on Friday morning.
Few details have been released, but the BSO said deputies responded to reports of a theft at a local business near the 300 block of West Hillsboro Boulevard in Deerfield Beach around 11 a.m.
According to investigators, while deputies were at the scene, the suspect — later identified as Avonta Bailey — attacked a deputy and then fled the scene in a vehicle.
A pursuit then began but ended in a crash on I-95 south just north of Atlantic Boulevard, BSO said.
Bailey was taken into custody and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries when his car flipped during the crash. CBS News Miami is still working to learn how it turned over.
Baile is facing a list of charges, including theft, resisting with and without violence, fleeing and eluding, aggravated fleeing, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a law officer.
Officials said that I-95 south at Atlantic Boulevard would be shut down until further notice, and motorists are being asked to avoid the area and seek an alternate route.
The interstate turned into a parking lot, frustrating several drivers who spoke with CBS News Miami.
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