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 lunch crowd in the restaurant. “So we would have had to use the force necessary to protect the community, whatever that would be.” As it turned out, since his hands appeared free of weapons to the deputies, tasing him proved sufficient to stop him.