A 26-year-old driver was arrested early Friday after Hillsborough County deputies said they clocked him going 156 mph on U.S. 41 South near Anna Avenue in Gibsonton — nearly three times the posted 55 mph limit. When a deputy asked if he had an emergency that justified the speed, the driver had a one-word answer: no.
Deputies Say Speed Was Nearly Triple the Limit
According to WFLA, deputies said Juan Camacho Pachon was traveling 156 mph in the 55 mph zone when they pulled him over. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office shared video of the stop near U.S. 41 South and Anna Avenue. The stop put Pachon 101 mph over the posted limit. Body camera footage of the encounter shows a deputy confronting Pachon about his speed before asking the key question.
“Do you have an emergency?” the deputy asked, according to WFLA's report. “No,” Pachon said. The exchange is central to the case against him: WFLA reported that Pachon was arrested on a super-speeder violation and charged with operating a vehicle in excess of the speed limit by 50 mph or more.
What the Law Actually Requires
Under Florida Statute 316.1926, a driver who exceeds the speed limit by more than 50 mph in violation of the relevant statutes must be cited for a moving violation punishable under Chapter 318.
A Year of Super-Speeder Stops Across Florida
Pachon's arrest comes amid fresh scrutiny of Florida's super-speeder law statewide. Florida Highway Patrol alone cited or arrested 1,079 people under the law, according to News4JAX. The outlet's I-TEAM compiled stop data from five Northeast Florida agencies covering July 2025 through July 2026 and found more than 350 super-speeder stops region-wide. Most of those regional stops happened on I-95 and I-10, though some occurred on slower local roads.
Statewide figures from other outlets paint a similarly busy picture, though the numbers cover different time windows and categories. FOX 13 Tampa Bay reported that Florida Highway Patrol had arrested more than 4,800 drivers statewide under the law. ClickOrlando, citing a narrower stretch from July 1, 2025, through June 15, 2026, reported 967 Florida Highway Patrol arrests for dangerous excessive speeding, split between 390 under one statute subsection and 583 under another. By late August, ClickOrlando reported that 4,964 citations, including arrests, had been issued under the law as of Aug. 24.
Other Extreme Speeds Caught Under the Law
Pachon's 156 mph reading is far from the only extreme case to surface under the new law. FOX 13 reported that two Clearwater drivers were arrested after troopers said they were caught traveling 120 mph and 107 mph, and that DeSoto County deputies clocked a man going 110 mph in a 60 mph zone. The outlet also reported that troopers arrested eight drivers during a single Jacksonville enforcement operation, with alleged speeds reaching up to 120 mph.
How Pachon's case will proceed through Hillsborough County's court system remains unclear; deputies described the stop as occurring “early Friday.”
