Two men were arrested last weekend for drag racing their father's car on the Florida Turnpike and going at excessive speeds, police said.
Luis Alejandro Lozano-Figueroa, 20, and Mario Alberto Paz-Gil, 23, were traveling 199 mph in a red 2016 Chevrolet Camaro before police caught up with them. was measured. The speed was about 130 mph above 70 mph. Speed limit on roads bordering residential areas and elementary schools.
According to an arrest affidavit from the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the two were arrested around 1 a.m. Saturday after neighbors alerted police to two cars that appeared to be racing in the street. I came to pick you up.
The responding officer parked his car behind the Camaro and another black car, waited at a traffic light, and took off when the light turned green.
“Two vehicles begin a drag race by accelerating their speeds from adjacent points in order to race each other's distances, with the purpose of comparing the relative speeds or acceleration forces of the cars over a given distance or time. ,” the report states. read.
Lozano-Figueroa was behind the wheel of the Camaro, traveling at about 200 mph, with Paz-Gill in the passenger seat.
They were charged with highway racing and booked into the Osceola County Jail, with Lozano-Figueroa being held on $5,000 bail.
A third person, a minor, was also in the car, but he was released to his parents after his arrest.
The Camaro was registered as the property of Lozano-Figueroa's father.
While searching the car, police said they found a video camera and a rear window bracket that Lozano-Figueroa had recorded and posted on his Instagram account.
“These two young men quickly learned what happens when they engage in illegal and dangerous street racing in Orange County,” police said in a post to X.
“Here in Orange County, we have zero tolerance for street racing.”
Police could not provide information on what became of the second vehicle involved in the race.
