MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A convicted felon who spent nearly a decade in prison was back behind bars Thursday after state troopers said he led them on a 16-mile chase down the Palmetto Expressway with speeds reaching triple digits.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol arrest report, the high-speed chase began in Miami Gardens and ended in southwest Miami-Dade’s Westchester area.
The FHP report states that a trooper was getting on the expressway at Northwest 42nd Avenue just before 2:30 a.m. and saw Fabrizzio Aragon-Sandoval, 38, of southwest Miami-Dade, “driving at a high rate of speed” in a BMW.
The trooper paced him at “well above 125 mph,” it states.
“As I got directly behind the vehicle, I activated my emergency lights and sirens to initiate a traffic stop,” the trooper wrote. “The BMW immediately turned off its headlights and began changing lanes and accelerating, willfully refusing to stop.”
According to FHP, the chase ended at Southwest 82nd Avenue and 30th Street when the trooper used “intentional contact” to immobilize the BMW.
Aragon-Sandoval was taken into custody on charges of fleeing and eluding at high speed and excessive speeding with threat to person or property and was medically cleared at Jackson West Medical Center before being taken to jail.
State corrections records show that Aragon-Sandoval spent almost nine years locked up in state prison for a 2010 conviction out of Broward County.
According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, on Feb. 13, 2009, Aragon-Sandoval staked out a Pompano Beach business and followed a Boca Raton man in his Jeep and cut him off at a stop sign, pointing a gun at him and demanding cash.
But the newspaper reported that Aragon-Sandoval forgot to put his Jeep into park and crashed into two cars in another parking lot, catching the attention of two good Samaritans, one of whom was armed and fired at Aragon-Sandoval before the duo chased him down and detained him ahead of deputies’ arrival.
Court records show he pleaded no contest to armed robbery and served a 10-year sentence with credit for 491 days served.
He’s also been convicted of burglary in Miami-Dade County, records show.
In his latest case, Aragon-Sandoval was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as “to be set” as of Thursday afternoon.
Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com - All rights reserved.
