FLORIDA MAN SURRENDERS TO POLICE A YEAR AFTER TROOPER ACCIDENT

A suspect has bonded out of jail after he surrendered to face charges for a crash that nearly killed a state trooper. Police officially charged 23-year-old Robert Dimmie Jr. with five counts of DUI on Wednesday. Dimmie does not deny that he crashed his pickup truck into state trooper Darryl Haywood, 20, as he sat in his police cruiser on the Florida Turnpike at Sunrise Boulevard in the early morning of Jan. 22, 2006. Dimmie neglected to observe the Move-over Law when he nearly killed Haywood while the trooper made a routine traffic stop.An arrest warrant was issued for Dimmie, and, authorities say, he was supposed to turn himself in two weeks ago. "In responding to various addresses that we've obtained on his possible whereabouts, he was not there. Upon speaking to him we have not been able to get him to turn himself in or contact us," said Lt. Roger Reyes of the Florida Highway Patrol.