Cop Accused Of Shooting At Woman In Off-Duty Road Rage Incident, Tampering With Evidence

WSVN
Jan. 16, 2015

WEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A Miami-Dade Police officer has bonded out after being held behind bars on charges connected to his alleged display of road rage toward another officer.

Jonathan Lang was released early Wednesday morning, at 2 a.m., after being held on a $17,500 bond. He is charged with aggravated assault, shooting a gun from a car and tampering with evidence.

[...]According to Illa, she was driving to the county jail where she works when Lang shot at her car. Illa was on the Florida Turnpike in Southwest Miami-Dade when, she said, a car cut her off. She responded by flashing her high beams, then switched into another lane. But then someone from the other car shot at her. "Next thing I see, the guy's pointing a gun at me. I didn't know I was hit. All I heard was the gun go off," Illa said.

Illa was not injured, but the shooter hit her car with a bullet that shattered her tail lights.

Police later stopped the vehicle in question, where it was discovered the shooter was off-duty officer Lang, who was a passenger in the vehicle while his wife was the driver.

Officials never found the gun, but according to the arrest warrant, an officer found there was "probable cause to believe and does believe that a firearm was hidden within the dashboard behind the glove box by the subject."

The tow yard claims to have surveillance video evidence of Lang sneaking into the tow yard and taking evidence from the vehicle. It was handed over to the Florida Highway Patrol.

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