on August 18th 2024 a Flagler County Sheriff's deputy on patrol noticed a vehicle with a cracked windshield in bunnel Florida and initiated a traffic stop the driver didn't immediately stop but instead drove to the back of a property before exiting the vehicle visibly [Music] nervous friend Laur dri we going to driveway in Laurel new channel stop stop Drive toop come here I live right here sir going to be in Laurel just out the walnut in the channel what's the address here I got this knife on me right all right put it down what's the address here um 2020 um one Laur my brother's inside what's the address 2027 or 2021 my brother lives inside sir relax calm down this is a traffic stop okay you're detained for that all right I'm just asking where we're at it's my brother's house that's fine just relax is my girlfriend's car she inside relax dude I don't know why you're so excited right now this is a traffic stop all right I was trying to pull you over on Walnut obviously you ducked into here this my brother's house that's fine I'm not call him no you don't need your brother you need to relax dude take the other knife off and drive on the floor don't go nowhere don't go nowhere sir just have a seat against the car dude cuz now now you're weaking me out man my my brother my brother's inside there okay I I don't need your brother dude I don't know what this has to do with your brother the reason why I'm stopping you is because you're cracked windsh so driv down Road you don't have a license okay now explain Turn Around Back turn around head behind your back not going to ask you again dude fcking t stop [Applause] only1 stop now stop stop now we're warut we're East warut it's Stu in the woods back to the property property hold on he's back to the property he's going 1031 with the vehicle he's going to his car he ran around the home got back into his car and sped away dispatch has been updated he's right through his vehicle he's going 1031 in his car stop stop it's north everybody watered this vehicle in Laur 74 Fusion cracked window North Laurel white mail brown shirt fill Mas [Music] dispatch has been updated deputies tracked his vehicle to a local junkyard a perimeter was set up drones were deployed and ak9 was called in to assist you have him all where's our next closest thing that the car can't get out of here okay but he can get out on foot at the front what three more behind them I need containment on lard Hayes's house you see the tire he's the corner he's the corner of uh Holly and mahogany across from the park the junkyard fler do you have a a px for uh 13 to the incoming units I'm going to need one unit to go to the front just to the east of Holly in front of the park there's Woods that run through in case he goes on foot and need somebody else to to holing and mahogany for perimeter points and that seem to get a drone you can clearly see the turn over the over correction and driving down and coming directly on yeah cuz he went up Laurel upur you can see fire K shiff off surrender now we won't release the door he will find you he will bite you surrender now fire County Sheriff's Office surrender now we will release the dog he will find you he will Bight you I mean I got no Prince coming out of this ditch so I mean he still may be in these Woods this is a lot of work for suspend license fleo oh yeah cuz he ran back into his car got back in it we both H him a gunpoint tell him to stop the car and he just he ducked down behind the steering wheel and mashed [Music] it he probably made the first right which I think it's like ash or something and then you know almond and then he went down there and dumped it some place down there you know you know that clear that you know just to dump you know that cleared lot that they're doing over there by um uh Haley Foster's mom's house in the probation officer's house off like Bayberry he might have put it in there cuz that puts him right in this area dumps it in that vacant lot goes on foot I mean he might have just crashed it dude I mean he was running that thing eventually they located the vehicle abandoned in a pond but the suspect was nowhere to be found all right you ready come on puppy watch out no there we go here it's coming out though [Music] copy yours un occupied [Music] ready yeah stand up on the do it's going to fight you e hey we're exposed let's push up to these trees right here a better angle with it [Music] [Music] right Do's open on the driver side I don't see any movement sh himself is Kanan with your hands up he will release the dog and he will bite [Music] you don't [Music] push push it up that a boy looks [Music] clear moving down the side a little bit clear back seat clear front seat vehicle's clear best we can vehicle's clear crashing the ditch the rear of the property truck you start 1081 to our location I know it's in a pond than just let him know it's in a pond [Music] hey uh Serge would you mind having Fireflight just go over the fields one more time to see if they can have any movement or pick anything up yeah I just yeah uh we're pretty confident that it was him that crossed the road over canal and got into the ditch and went into those Farms now for sure during the search deputies found discarded boots and socks in a ditch but still no suspect a witness later contacted the Sheriff's Office reporting a man running through her yard near the crash site did you check under the bridge yeah yeah we' we've checked under the bridge I know he went right we've been we've been in these in this field we went like at least 100 yards in uh we found across this way yeah so you you you don't have any cameras or anything like that do you no I wish we did well I wish my freaking yard was he did he move from behind your house over here he came between them two bushes yeah is there's an open patch back there come running up beside the chicken CP and I'd seen him my do I had my door open yeah I seen him right about here yeah [ __ ] running I'm like what the hell yeah cuz my dog started going off yeah what was he wearing ma'am he had a white cat shorts like a cat like a baseball hat yeah and he ran from back there up here and I was kid I don't like everybody in my yard but he was running and and he went over there he sat down and started sliding in yeah and I was going to go over and say what the you cutting through my yard for yeah because I'm really yeah what shirt was he wearing I think it was a white one I can't all I know is I seen him and he had shorts on he had a white baseball cap and then I said to my husband somebody just cut through our yard can you tell if he was wearing any shoes like pair of boots or anything you boots on yes and and and my husband goes well the cops are coming around here he because maybe you ought to call 911 and let him know that you see him whiskey Mike she's confirming that he came from the these bushes over here ran across White Cap had uh possibly a white T-shirt on did have boots on shorts and slick down that embankment he sat down and went that I couldn't see him no more did you see him climb back over no I stood there for a while and I didn't see anything I'm saying you didn't see him climb up over that way no I didn't see any disturbance and so I walked back and told my husband he goes well maybe you ought to call 911 because I seen a couple cops out here so I called him and told told him I said look I don't know if some got to go um I back through there I didn't see if he threw anything or deputies continued their search discovering traces of the suspect but were unable to locate him directly all right so so he went through this first that we were at originally the sock where he was B down slow down thinking he cross cross this ditch this next field right there he [ __ ] cross here one more field after just so you guys are aware right here possibly yeah I'm yeah I'm tring that when we went and checked the barn CR he didn't the road there's no footprints in the road so he crossed he used the [Applause] [Music] ditch other point that's what I'm saying yeah you can e we check that we check that the dog I want the dog to go okay anywhere along this way it won't be from us that's distur we think he crossed right here I don't think well I feel like either Fireflight or um Air1 would have caught him if he was just walking alongside this might still be back in there yeah 1328 later that night at around 11:00 p.m. another witness reported a shirtless Barefoot man running through his yard deputies quickly responded set up a perimeter and finally apprehended the exhausted suspect without further incident how you doing I'm all right you doing okay you hurt are you hurt from what going through the woods man go up on your side sit up are you hurt no sir yeah I'll get you some water why didn't you text me back why didn't you text me back what do you mean I texted you did you yeah don't don't play that I called YouTube no I mean I ain't got no call or no text I don't know who I called her text then what's your phone number I ain't got no phone sir what' you just throw over here in the woods or in the grass water bottle oh all right what's up how's the ride what do you mean the Run 33 can you start Med just to check him out he's pretty dehydrated and [Applause] bations we always win 3 it looks like the Run since this morning sir since this morning I don't know you're talking about you don't how you get all those cuts on your back and stuff cuz I was higher I was in the woods oh okay that's what I meant the Run you're running from me from us right no I'm I'm liter I'm always running from y'all you know what I'm saying oh you is okay no I'm just talking [ __ ] that's all you found your boots though who yeah yep we got them and your socks a going to give up and your knives what knives your knives they okay all we got you hey y'all think somebody gave me some water no yeah we got Med cominging for you godam we got we got Med coming though probably have something with them it's quite a ride you took no no injuries from the car crash what CR I come on all right man you got a a plethora of charges okay what is that you got a whole bunch of charges from what running from the cops he claimed he had no idea what happened and hinted that he may have been on bad drugs I I came out you know what I'm saying I mean look at dude look at your legs look at your back look at your arms you didn't just go through this drugs I'm not going to refute that actually that might actually I'm just being honest with you you know what I'm saying I need help what kind of drugs I'm not even running I'm running from my goddamn demons I ain't running I'm say is this what you toss in the woods or in the grass yeah it was a water bottle only thing I got on a goddamn W card where's your phone you just going look at me or stare at me or you man I just need some [ __ ] water that's I need well they be the on maybe you I don't know I'm not a medic so what's your name I don't even know my name sir Brendan Brendon yeah yeah you just going to play dumb sir I think I'm being honest with you I think I got some bad drugs was so for 3 days and I got hiding in [ __ ] I don't know what's going on well Mr bringen you do have the right to remain silent anything you say going to be used against you a court of law you have the right to have an attorney present during before after any questioning if you cannot a for an attorney one may be appointed to represent you and at any time you decide not to answer any questions or make any statements do you understand that I need a yes for now if you don't understand that I'll just assume you don't okay what what it tell you have the right to remain sign and can you say it can be used against unic cor law you have the right to have an attorney present during before or after any question if you cannot afford attorney may be appointed to represent you at any time you decide not to answer any questions or make any statements do you understand that okay you don't for somebody that doesn't know that they're being looked for by the cops you sure just dropped on your knees and gave up with your hands behind your back and your legs up what else somebody going do well if I didn't do anything wrong and I needed help from the cops I wouldn't thr out in the middle of the street and kick my legs and cross them I don't know you going to ask a me ask meth that you know what I'm saying that was but had control of me you know what I'm saying other than that Fu you you know what I'm saying I don't know what else you want me to say like I keep telling you I guess somebody gave me some bading drugs and iing wigged the out I mean godamn you know what I'm saying other than that goddamn medic going to tell you that but everybody just staring at me and [ __ ] you know what I'm saying yeah we're waiting for the ambulance we're kind of in the middle of nowhere where the ambulance at a y 10 miles away 10 10 I well I'd like to welcome you to Flagger County okay yeah hi we want on what 11 yeah going on about a 12-hour Escapade through the woods I on meth okay got a car crash earlier okay just want some water just some water it doesn't feel good all right can you explain to me how you feel right now empty empty well our protocol says we can't give him anything by mouth and he comes one of our patients now we can go over there and give you hand bottle of water and hand them to you and our protocol says we can't give him anything by mouth yeah we can't get man and we have to turn over to fire department do it we'll start an IV and he'll get transported to the hospital that's what you guys need we can't has to go get checked out because he's in a crash so they're not going to accept him out the jail everything checks out for him okay Bott off to the hospital we go BR you able to walk come over this one right here I can imagine dude why' you take the boots off that didn't make any sense to me were they heavy that's probably why that's the only thing I can think since they so where you going oh okay I hey I forb whoever's car I got to ride in book I'm ly right now yeah no different than anybody else in it you said the charges are in gab box believe the charges are in gabes box if they are I'll go and get going I'll all right this should be a puff five pages oh I got pocket I'll roll the window down before you have to seat over here oh hold yeah I know you had knives earlier did you get rid of those hey know you know what's crazy those time say something about somebody running yeah yeah it was you dude you act like we didn't talk to you like we weren't face to face with video cameras of you it happen that way I have plenty of video to refresh your memory [Applause] he was charged with Grand Theft of a motor vehicle fleeing with disregard for safety obstruction without violence driving with a suspended license and being a fugitive from Justice he was also wanded for drug possession in Georgia he was checked by medical services and after being cleared by Hospital staff was transported to the local jail also known as The Green Roof in so you think when am I going to be able to get something to eat and drink man I'm starving man you probably might they might be able to get you something to get to the hospital I don't know yes sir [Music]