He also never bothered to get a motorcycle endorsement. On the afternoon of 15 February 2026, he took a yellow Suzuki out onto Interstate 95 with its number plate tilted upward to obscure it, which is the specific combination of choices that brings this story to its inevitable conclusion.
A Florida Highway Patrol trooper spotted the tilted plate and the lane splitting near Lake Worth Beach. Lane splitting is not legal in Florida. The trooper activated his lights and sirens. Gaviria Munoz glanced back at the patrol car twice, then accelerated. What followed was a pursuit southbound through Palm Beach County in which the Suzuki was tracked weaving through traffic at speeds above 150mph, more than double the posted limit on that stretch of I-95.
The chase ended at the Glades Road exit in Boca Raton when Gaviria Munoz lost control, struck a kerb and was thrown from the motorcycle. He was transported to JFK Hospital for treatment, then booked into Palm Beach County Jail. Investigators subsequently established that his licence had been suspended eight separate times and that he had no motorcycle endorsement, which is a legal requirement in Florida to operate any motorcycle above 50cc. As a Colombian national, he was also placed on an ICE detainer following the arrest.
On 18 May 2026, at a Palm Beach County court, Gaviria Munoz pleaded guilty to two counts of reckless driving. The judge sentenced him to 240 days in Palm Beach County Jail, with 99 days already served credited against the total. The remaining time will be served consecutively with the ICE detainer proceedings.
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The tilted number plate detail is worth pausing on. A plate deliberately angled to avoid being read by cameras or patrol officers is not a small administrative oversight. It is a considered step taken before the ride began, alongside the decision to ride without a valid endorsement on a licence that had already been suspended eight times. The 150mph figure, striking as it is, is the visible part of a pattern of deliberate choices that stretched back well before the February afternoon on I-95.
Nobody was killed. Gaviria Munoz was thrown from the bike at the Glades Road exit and survived. The vehicles he passed at double the speed limit, whose drivers had no warning he was coming, were luckier still.
Sources
- CBS12 News (primary source) — Motorcyclist sentenced after troopers say he reached 150 mph on I-95
- CW34 — Colombian national jailed, held on ICE detainer after I-95 chase hit 150 mph
- Jalopnik — Florida Man Sentenced After Hitting 150 MPH On His Motorcycle During A High Speed Chase
- News Directory 3 — Greenacres Driver Leads Florida Highway Patrol on 150 MPH I-95 Chase
