Two men were arrested for drag racing at extreme speeds in their father’s car on a Florida road over the weekend, according to police.
Luis Alejandro Lozano-Figueroa, 20, and Mario Alberto Paz-Gil, 23, clocked 199 miles per hour — about 130 miles per hour over the 70-mph speed limit on the road bordered by a residential neighborhood and an elementary school — in a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro red before the police chase them.
The two were picked up around 1 a.m. Saturday after a nearby resident called police to report a pair of cars that appeared to be racing down the street nearby, according to an arrest affidavit from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
A responding officer stopped behind the Camaro and another black car as they waited at a stoplight, then when the light turned green, they took off.
“The two vehicles began a drag race by accelerating from an adjacent point in a competitive attempt to outdistance each other for the purpose of comparing the relative speed or acceleration power of their motor vehicles over a certain distance or time,” the report said. read
Luis Alejandro Lozano-Figueroa, 20, and Mario Alberto Paz-Gil, 23, were arrested around 1 a.m. Sunday.
Lozano-Figueroa was behind the wheel of a Camaro going nearly 200 mph, while Paz-Gil rode in the passenger seat.
They were charged with speeding on the highway and booked into the Osceola County Jail, with Lozano-Figueroa being held on $5,000 bond.
A third minor was also in the car but was released to their parents after the arrest.
The Camaro was registered to Lozano-Figueroa’s father.
During a search of the car, police found a video camera and a bracket in the back window that they say Lozano-Figueroa used to record and post videos to his Instagram account.
“These two young men quickly learned what happens when you get involved in illegal and dangerous street racing in Orange County,” police said in a post on X.
“We have ZERO TOLERANCE for street racing in Orange County.”
Police could not provide information about the second car involved in the race.
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