Driver arrested after crash with BSO deputy has history of dangerous driving
A Sunrise man said to have crashed into a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy Friday, sending him to a hospital, was caught following a multi-agency manhunt. Court records reveal he has a lengthy history of criminal, dangerous driving.
Sean Peter Alexis, 40, is facing charges of failing to remain at a crash involving serious bodily injury, leaving the scene of a crash and driving while license suspended.
Around 6:15 p.m., Alexis collided with the deputy near the intersection of West Broward Boulevard and Northwest 11th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale police said. What exactly caused or happened during the crash has still not been said by authorities.
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Alexis ran away. The deputy suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Broward Health Medical Center.
Later that night, Fort Lauderdale and Plantation police officers arrested Alexis and took him to the Broward County Main Jail, where he still is Saturday.
A witness to the crash said Alexis’ black SUV ran a red light and hit the deputy’s cruiser on the driver side, he told Miami Herald news partner CBS News Miami.
“The black vehicle ran through the red light, caught the sheriff car on the side. The sheriff car spun all the way down Broward Boulevard till it made a stop,” the witness said.
From 2007 to this year, Alexis has been convicted in at least a dozen traffic cases for varying criminal and dangerous driving behavior in Broward, according to court records. He was ticketed in four cases for speeding, some of which he was driving two times the speed limit, and for running red lights in two others.
Alexis was sentenced to six months of probation for driving under the influence in 2021. He has paid over $2,000 in fines, been required to take driving school several times and had his license suspended, records show.
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