Miami Police Officer Fausto Lopez is charged with reckless driving . Officer Fausto Lopez , 35 , of Miami was handcuffed at gunpoint earlier this month and charged with second-degree reckless driving , a misdemeanor , according to the highway patrol 's offense report . Lopez , 35 , was in uniform and driving a marked Miami police car in pre-dawn darkness . A camera inside a Florida Highway Patrol car tapes the seven-minute , 12-mile chase . The footage shows that Lopez did not slow down as he approached his target, but instead sped up to nearly 100 mph before crashing into an SUV carrying two women who were asleep at the time of the crash
Miami Police Officer Fausto Lopez is charged with reckless driving . Lopez , 35 , was in uniform and driving a marked Miami police car in pre-dawn darkness . A camera inside a Florida Highway Patrol car tapes the seven-minute , 12-mile chase . The footage shows that Lopez did not slow down as he approached his target, but instead sped up to nearly 100 mph before crashing into an SUV carrying two women who were asleep at the time of the crash