POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Palm Bay teenager found out the hard way that a fresh face won’t keep you out of handcuffs in Polk County. Rolando Juliuz Pichardo Jr., 19, was arrested Wednesday afternoon after being pulled over twice in a matter of minutes on Interstate 4 near Davenport.
The sequence began around 4 p.m. on April 15 when a Polk County Sheriff’s deputy stopped a white Toyota SUV. During the encounter, the deputy discovered Pichardo was operating the vehicle with a suspended license.
Records indicated the suspension took effect on March 30, 2026, following a failure to pay a speeding fine in Brevard County.
Following standard procedure, the deputy issued Pichardo a Notice to Appear for Driving While License Suspended/Revoked. The deputy explicitly instructed the teen that he could no longer drive and needed to call a friend for a ride before concluding the stop.
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The freedom didn’t last long. Approximately ten minutes later and just two miles down the highway, a different deputy spotted the SUV and pulled it over again. The first deputy, hearing the vehicle description over the radio, arrived at the second scene to find Pichardo back behind the wheel.
Faced with a second violation in under a quarter-hour, the deputy informed Pichardo he was being placed under arrest. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, the teenager offered a unique protest to the handcuffs, telling the arresting officer he was “too pretty to go to jail.”
The argument failed to sway the deputies. Pichardo was transported to the Sheriff’s Processing Center, where he was booked and photographed for his official mugshot.
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