FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two weeks before a teen was involved in a 151 mph crash that killed six people in West Delray, he was going even faster in his luxury car on Interstate 95 — reaching speeds of 182 mph, authorities say in newly released court documents.
The teen, Noah Galle, posted a video of himself in his BMW M5 driving 182 mph on I-95 earlier in the month before the deadly Jan. 28 crash, according to a sheriff’s criminal probable cause affidavit.
The new court documents portray Galle as a driver who tends to drive more than 100 mph beyond the speed limit and who boasts about it on social media. Galle, who was arrested on April 6, faces six counts of vehicular homicide in the West Delray crash.
During the investigation into the crash, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said it received a tip from a person who had recorded Galle’s videos on Instagram and TikTok in which “he recorded himself driving at an extremely high rate of speed.”
A search warrant for Galle’s Instagram account revealed Galle had filmed himself driving 182 mph on Interstate 95 past the Gateway Beach Boulevard overpass two weeks before the crash, the probable cause affidavit said. Investigators confirmed it was the same BMW driven in the crash due to the dashboard and instrument panel configuration shown in the video.
The affidavit also noted it was the “same vehicle being operated by Galle in additional videos.”
In the same video, Galle posted in the comments section that “the first person to guess the MPH gets 25 cashapp,” referring to the mobile payment service, Cash App.
Following the crash, investigators noted Galle’s Instagram handle was posted on his BMW’s driver and passenger-side rear windows, according to court documents.
A standard 2019 BMW M5 is electronically limited to 155 mph, but the competition model allows the vehicle to reach 189 mph, according to a BMW dealer website. The BMW M5 competition model is priced at just under $111,000.
The sheriff’s report doesn’t specify which type of BMW Galle had.
The Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office officially charged Galle, 18, on Monday with six counts of vehicular homicide in the Jan. 28 crash that killed six workers who were leaving their jobs at Pero Family Farms. Each count is a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
Galle, 17 at the time of the crash, was speeding 151 mph in a 2019 BMW M5 on State Road 7 when he smashed into the back of the workers’ Nissan Rogue, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.
Galle was granted a $300,000 bond on Tuesday. He is set to be arraigned on Apr. 28. Attempts to reach Galle’s attorneys late Tuesday afternoon were unsuccessful.
Prosecutors argued that Galle be required to remain in jail until the trial since he “poses the threat of harm to the community” because of his prior history, but the judge denied the motion, allowing Galle to receive in-house arrest.
State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in a news release they plan on “vigorously prosecuting this case.”
During the Jan. 28 crash, Galle was speeding north in the inside lane on State Road 7 when he ran into the rear of a northbound Nissan driven in the inside lane by Mirlaine Julceus, 44, of West Palm Beach, according to the crash report.
The impact caused the Nissan to rotate clockwise off the road and into the center median, where it flipped and rolled over, landing upside down.
Five people in the Nissan were pronounced dead at the scene, while Julceus was pronounced dead at Delray Medical Center.
Two separate lawsuits have been filed by relatives of the deceased against Galle’s parents, Craig and Helena, alleging the parents are liable for their minor son’s negligent driving, the lawsuit complaints say.
Attorneys Elizabeth Parker and Douglas Duncan represented Noah Galle in court during Tuesday’s bond hearing.
Parker and Duncan previously served on the defense team in the high-profile DUI manslaughter case of Wellington Polo executive John Goodman.
