Most people leave 7-Eleven with a Slurpee and some empty calories. One Florida man came away with seven charges.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers were near State Road 82 and Sunshine Boulevard in Lee County shortly before midnight Sept. 12 when they spotted a car doing repeated doughnuts in the convenience store parking lot.
When troopers tried to stop the driver, he fled around the lot. After getting out of the car, he threw his wallet beneath a tree.
Troopers recovered it and found a Florida ID identifying him as 30-year-old Lehigh Acres resident Robins Wilky Alexandre. The search turned up something else: FHP says cocaine was concealed inside his boot.
Off the Road
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Florida’s street-racing and stunt-driving law specifically reaches parking lots as well as highways and roadways.
It even defines a “doughnut” as rotating the front or rear of a vehicle around the opposite set of wheels in continuous motion, potentially producing circular skid marks, tire smoke, or both.
The same law allows authorities to impound a qualifying vehicle immediately for 30 business days. FHP says Alexandre’s car got the full term. Its Southwest Florida account called it “car jail.”
Thirty business days is roughly six workweeks without the vehicle.
A Longer Tab
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office booking record shows Alexandre was booked at 2:55 a.m. Sept. 13 on fleeing or eluding, resisting without violence, street racing or stunt driving, possession of a controlled substance, tampering with evidence, driving while his license was suspended as a habitual offender, and reckless driving.
In August 2025, Alexandre was booked on another charge of driving while his license was suspended as a habitual offender, along with controlled-substance possession.
A December 2022 booking lists DUI, giving false identification to law enforcement, and a third-or-subsequent suspended or revoked-license violation.
All parties are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.