OCALA, Fla. (WFLA) — A sheriff’s corporal who was in the precise place on the proper time helped apprehend a suspected gasoline station thief in Ocala on Saturday.
Round 9:45 p.m., Corporal Michael Stringer stopped at a 7-Eleven within the 9400 block of SE Baseline Highway to refuel his patrol automobile. As he was doing so, a retailer clerk approached him on the pump to report that somebody had stolen circumstances of beer from inside.
The sprint digicam on his automobile recorded the incident, and Corporal Stringer was capable of comply with the suspect’s automobile because it left the car parking zone.
Video posted to social media by the Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace exhibits Corporal Stringer trying to conduct a visitors cease, to which the automobile didn’t comply.
After a brief pursuit, the video exhibits Corporal Stringer stopping the automobile by executing a PIT maneuver. The corporal then arrested the motive force, Jaitai Williams, 31, who may be heard repeatedly asking the officer, “What is going on?”
Throughout this time, the front-seat passenger within the automobile, Raymond Myrick, 48, allegedly threw a number of gadgets out of the automobile. The Marion County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned {that a} area check of the medicine revealed they contained THC, cocaine, and fentanyl.
The back-seat passenger, Steven Hogan, 19, was accused of stealing from the shop. Three circumstances of Modelo have been situated close to the place he was sitting within the automobile.
All three have been taken and booked into the Marion County Jail.
