FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 23-year-old man was at the Broward County Main Jail without bond on Friday in Fort Lauderdale after prosecutors accused him of turning a car into a weapon to hurt drivers in two separate hit-and-run crashes, court and inmate records show.
Dylan Rogers was driving the same black 2014 Nissan Sentra when he was involved in the crashes and drove towards the victims on Feb. 28 in Margate and on Aug. 30 in Coral Springs, according to the arrest reports by police officers from the Margate and Coral Springs police departments.
The victim, who was hospitalized after the Feb. 28 hit-and-run crash in Margate, said, “she was in fear for her life,” according to a Margate police officer’s arrest report.
The victim, who was hurt after the Aug. 30 hit-and-run crash in Coral Springs, “believes” Rogers intended “to kill him, and if he did not move in time, he would have been severely hurt,” according to a Coral Springs police officer’s arrest report.
The Feb. 28 crash was at North State Road Seven and West Sample Road, and after the victim got out of her car, Rogers “intentionally accelerated ... striking” her with the front bumper, according to the arrest report.
“She then rolled onto the front hood ... rolled off the hood,” Rogers’s front passenger tire ran over her foot, and she “fell to the ground and rolled out of the roadway,” according to the police officer’s report.
Police officers arrested Rogers hours later on Feb. 28. Court records show he was released on an $8,500 bond on March 3, his arraignment was on June 4, and the case was pending when he crashed again.
On Aug. 30, Rogers was driving in the parking lot of the Costco where he worked at 4621 Coral Ridge Drive, and the victim was in a Honda Accord waiting for a driver who was leaving a designated handicap parking space, according to the police officer’s arrest report.
Surveillance video shows Rogers was behind the victim for about two minutes, got out, approached the victim’s car, walked back to his car, got back in, reversed, and accelerated, according to a police officer’s report.
Witnesses said Rogers shouted racial slurs at the driver of the Honda Accord, according to police. The video shows the victim got out of the Honda, stood by the driver’s side door, and Roger collided with the door before he drove away, according to the police report.
The victim was “unsure of what part of either vehicle struck him as everything happened so fast,” a police officer wrote, according to the report, adding, the victim “sustained a sharp pain to his upper left thigh.”
A police officer arrested Rogers shortly before 7:40 p.m. on Aug. 31 at the same Costco, according to the arrest report. A judge set his bond at $60,000 and ordered house arrest with a GPS monitor.
Broward County prosecutors filed the new case against Rogers on Sept. 2 and filed a motion on Sept. 29 asking a judge to revoke Rogers’s bond on the Feb. 28 case -- since the Aug. 30 incident was a violation of his pre-trial release, records show.
On Thursday, after his arraignment on the two counts of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon for the Aug. 30 case, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Rogers at the courthouse to hold him without bond on the charges of aggravated battery and leaving the scene of a crash with personal injuries for the Feb. 28 case, records show.
Broward County Circuit Judge Thomas J. Coleman was presiding over both cases against Rogers, who was born in Fort Lauderdale and lived in Pompano Beach, court records show.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Mariana Ortiz contributed to this report.
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