{"id":124181,"date":"2025-08-06T17:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124181\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T17:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:45:13","slug":"driver-indicted-for-high-speed-chase-while-fleeing-phoenix-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/124181\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver indicted for high-speed chase while fleeing Phoenix officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A man has been indicted after he reportedly led police on a chase while fleeing officers in Phoenix last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Johnny Lee Castillo, 45, faces multiple felony charges stemming from the November 2024 pursuit. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">According to the Maricopa County Attorney\u2019s Office (MCAO), Castillo was being investigated for a retail store theft when he fled from police. As he ran, he reportedly struck a Phoenix officer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Police found Castillo a few days later, and again, Castillo fled from officers, MCAO said. Officers chase Castillo for an hour as he allegedly drove over 100 mph and into oncoming traffic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Castillo then rammed a police cruiser, and MCAO says he put the lives of other drivers, passengers and pedestrians at risk. The pursuit ended when officers stopped Castillo\u2019s vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">MCAO said the pursuit spanned multiple law enforcement jurisdictions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Castillo faces three counts of aggravated assault and one count of unlawful flight from law enforcement. He\u2019s being held on a $100,000 secured appearance bond. His trial is scheduled for November. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 A man has been indicted after he reportedly led police on a chase while fleeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,37779,76551,1589,7183,72817,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-124181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-high-speed-chase","13":"tag-johnny-lee-castillo","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-news","16":"tag-police-chase","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114983070904017261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}