A man with an active Marion County warrant related to driving without a valid driver’s license was arrested Friday night in Orlando after a foot pursuit and physical altercation with a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper.
The trooper stopped 41-year-old Andre Toley Fairley, of Orlando, at 8:30 p.m. Friday for multiple traffic violations. Fairley, who was traveling west on Colonial Drive at Pine Hills Road in a 1993 Toyota Camry, pulled into a parking lot and provided the trooper with fraudulent information about himself, a FHP report states.
Fairley then fled on foot and eventually got into a physical altercation with the trooper who was chasing him. The trooper used a Taser on him but Fairley continued to flee, the report states.
A short time later, other troopers and an Orange County Sheriff’s Office K-9 unit joined in the foot pursuit. Fairley eventually was located and subsequently bitten by the police dog.
Fairley was taken to Health Central Hospital for treatment before being transported to the Orange County Jail, where he was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, resisting an officer without violence, driving without a valid license, attaching a license tag to an unassigned vehicle and failure to appear on a previous charge of operating a motor vehicle without a valid driver’s license.
Records show that Fairley’s case was heard in a Marion County courtroom four times between Jan. 11 and June 28. His license was suspended on April 9 for failure to pay fines. And a June 28 entry on his court record shows that Fairley failed to comply with the “non-confinement” conditions of his sentence and still must serve 18 days in the Marion County Jail.