For the third time in two weeks, Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies and their crisis negotiation team talked an armed, suicidal man down from self-harm. (FCSO)
Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies were in a standoff with a 28-year-old man on U.S. 1 starting at midafternoon today, in the area of Cemetery Road nerar the county line. Traffic on U.S. 1 in both direction was shut down for 90 minutes, when the man was taken into custody.
“We have the suspect in custody. He was a fugitive,” a sheriff’s spokesperson said just before 5 p.m. “They attempted to do traffic stop on him. He stopped in the middle of the road and took himself hostage.”
4 hours ago Share Sheriff Staly assists in multi-county pursuit that ends with felony charges and recovery of over 35 grams of narcotics. by: Shannon Martin Public Affairs Officer, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office
On May 3, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office deputies observed a silver sedan traveling on State Road 100 West in Bunnell at a speed of 95 miles per hour.
Serone Bell
Deputies initiated a traffic stop and observed multiple baggies being thrown out of the passenger window before the car came to a stop. The deputy collected information from the driver and passenger, later identified as Serone Bell.
While attempting to verify Bell’s identity, deputies observed Bell point a rifle at the driver and force him out of the vehicle. Bell then climbed into the driver’s seat and took off toward south Bunnell. Flagler County Fireflight was called for assistance.
The suspect after his arrest, with Sheriff Staly to the right. (FCSO)
The armed carjacking suspect appears to have made one good decision amid a long series of bad ones today, among them crossing paths with Sheriff Rick Staly: when the man jumped out of his Lexus in an attempt to evade cops one last time, he left his rifle with an extended magazine in his car. Moments later when Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies closed in, they Tased him, took him down and arrested him. Had he been armed, the outcome might have been different.
“Fortunately he did not take the weapon with him when he fled,” Staly, who was coming around a corner when the deputies Tased the man, said. “I hate to speculate because we do a good job with de-escalation, but our concern had that occurred, he’s in a heavily congested area with a lot of people.” By then Jones was in the parking lot of Rooms To Go near Cracker Barrell, the area around him teeming with foot and car traffic at high noon, with the l
A Flagler County Fire Rescue paramedic tows the two men, stranded in a john boat for over six hours, back to shore at Bing’s Landing Friday night. (FCSO)
Two men who’d gone fishing Friday afternoon in a john boat spent seven hours stranded after the john boat’s engine died and they proved unable to summon a tow, finally resulting in a late night rescue by public safety agencies. At one point the efforts had involved the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, Flagler County Fire Rescue, Volusia County’s emergency helicopter and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
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