MIAMI — A man from Lee County turned himself in at the Miami Police Department on Tuesday after authorities said he was identified as the suspect in a February hit-and-run that sent a city police officer to the hospital.
Trevor McIntosh, 33, of Alva, is accused of seriously injuring Officer Daniel Cantero, an MPD motorcycle officer, in a crash on Interstate 195 on Feb. 12.
According to an MPD arrest report, Cantero and another driver had “sideswiped each other” just after 11 p.m. near a westbound offramp to Interstate 95.
Police said as both parties stopped after the wreck and Cantero went to speak with the other driver, McIntosh, driving a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter work van for aircraft maintenance company Southern AOG, sideswiped a guardrail and then hit Cantero, vaulting him 30 feet.
The report states that McIntosh kept on driving. Cantero would be taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, sustaining multiple injuries, at least one of which will require surgery.
According to police, a plumbing company worker who stopped to help captured everything on his vehicle’s dash camera, leading investigators to contact Southern AOG and McIntosh, a regional maintenance manager.
“I asked him if he had records that would show who was driving the offending vehicle in Miami at the time of the crash,” MPD Detective Wendy Chadwell wrote in the report. “He stated that the company only had one van and that it is a 24/7 van and a number of people could have been driving that van. He stated he would look at his records since he just got into the office and would call me later with the information.”
Chadwell said he didn’t return her phone call.
According to the report, Chadwell had the Lee County Sheriff’s Office check both McIntosh’s home and the vehicle’s registered address.
Authorities said a deputy spoke with McIntosh, who said he retained a lawyer, and told her the van was parked at the Page Field airport near Fort Myers. That’s where they said another deputy found the vehicle and sent photos to MPD showing damage “consistent with the hit-and-run.”
McIntosh’s attorney emailed Chadwell on Feb. 16 to state that his client “was, in fact, the driver” and that he “swerved to avoid multiple stranded vehicles on the road without any emergency and/or hazard lights which resulted in him hitting the guardrail,” according to the report.
Police said cellphone data obtained through a warrant additionally placed McIntosh at the scene. They eventually arranged for McIntosh to surrender at MPD.
Judge: ‘He is a danger’
Facing a charge of leaving the scene of a crash causing serious bodily injury, a second-degree felony, the Missouri-born McIntosh appeared in front of Judge Mindy Glazer at Miami-Dade bond court on Wednesday. So too did Chadwell and McIntosh’s Miami-based attorney, Brett Schwartz.
Both Miami-Dade prosecutor Nessa Eth and Chadwell asked for a higher-than-normal bond.
“He wasn’t forthcoming that he was the one that was driving the vehicle at the time,” Eth said, seeking a $25,000 bond.
Schwartz retorted that McIntosh had “no obligation to be forthcoming and incriminate himself.”
“I think that’s all unfortunate, specifically with the officer’s severe injuries ― and we certainly sympathize,” he said. “But at the end of the day, he’s not a flight risk and he’s certainly not a danger to the community.”
Glazer wasn’t having it.
“He is a danger,” she said. “If he won’t stop to help somebody after a car accident, that’s a criminal offense.”
After Schwartz raised doubts over whether McIntosh was aware of the crash, Glazer told him, “You hear the metal crunching after you hit ― especially a guardrail."
Schwartz called the $25,000 proposed bond “excessive,” seeking a $15,000 bond “at most.”
“I don’t think it’s excessive,” Glazer said, settling on a $20,000 bond. She told McIntosh, “If you’re involved in an accident, you should have the kindness to stop and help somebody.”
Local 10 News contacted Scott Richard Aircraft Maintenance LLC, the parent company of Southern AOG, seeking comment on McIntosh’s arrest on Wednesday morning. We hadn’t received a response as of around 11:30 a.m.
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