Prosecutors drop charges against Orlando police officer who fled traffic stop in Seminole County

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orlando police officer will have his record expunged after prosecutors dropped charges against him related to a traffic stop in his police car.

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Orlando police Officer Alexander Shaouni was driving 82 mph in an area where the speed limit is 45 mph with no lights or sirens activated.

A Seminole County deputy happened to see him while on patrol on Florida Avenue in Oviedo.

When the deputy tried to pull over Shaouni, he kept going, evading the deputy until he finally stopped at the intersection of State Road 434 and Hammock Lane.

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VIDEO: Orlando officer who fled Seminole County traffic stop in cruiser approved for pretrial diversion An Orlando police officer appeared in court Tuesday for the first time since he was speeding away from a Seminole County deputy during a traffic stop. (WFTV)

Body camera footage shows Shaouni becoming irritated when questioned.

“What? I am going into work, my man,” he said to the deputy. “Why are you trying to pull me over as I’m going into work?”

In the footage, when asked for his driver’s license, the officer says no, gets back in his cruiser and drives away.

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Shaouni was charged with third degree felonies of fleeing and eluding law enforcement and misdemeanors of resisting an officer without violence and reckless driving.

But his attorney fought the case and got him admitted into a pretrial diversion program, which he completed in December. So in exchange for that, prosecutors dropped the charges against related to this incident.

During that traffic stop, Shaouni not only refused to show the deputy his license, but he got back into his patrol car and took off again.

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Now the process has started to have the case expunged from his record while Orlando police determine if he violated any internal policies and procedures.

The Orlando Police Department told Channel 9 on Thursday that Shaouni is back on duty working the evening shift in the North Patrol division.

The investigation is still in the review stage with the agency’s Internal Affairs division.

Shaouni’s attorney told Channel 9 that he is not receiving special treatment and that the court did the right thing because he had no prior criminal history.

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Video: Orlando police officer accused of reckless driving, fleeing traffic stop in patrol cruiser An Orlando police officer is off the job after Seminole County deputies said he was clocked driving 82 in a 45 mph zone in his police cruiser. (Jeff Levkulich, WFTV.com)

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