He was straightforward to identify.
A Florida man bizarrely wearing a Dalmatian onesie bolted throughout a site visitors cease after being handcuffed on one wrist — and he remained on the lam for a complete day earlier than lastly being caught at his girlfriend’s residence.
Florida Freeway Patrol have been in scorching pursuit of 36-year-old Keith Devereaux for almost a day after they tried to tug him over for reckless driving simply after midnight on Jan. 27.
Devereaux had allegedly been driving erratically, stopping and pulling away at excessive speeds whereas dropping off a passenger, based on the FHP.
Whereas fleeing from police, Devereaux finally rammed his truck right into a tree.
He pulled himself from the wreckage and tried to maintain working, a video posted by the FHP reveals. He was rapidly tased by pursuing troopers, per the legal possible trigger affidavit obtained by KEPR TV.
Regardless of being shocked, Devereaux picked a combat with a trooper and commenced to push and thrash in opposition to him earlier than, as soon as once more, trying to take off.
In some way, he efficiently fled. By this level, his truck was wrecked, he had been tased by the troopers and he nonetheless had one wrist handcuffed.
And but, he went straight to his girlfriend’s residence — one place authorities have been nearly assured to examine first.
The troopers watched him flee by the forest whereas they waited for backup — a K9 unit that would choose up Devereaux’s scent. The actual canine took off after Devereaux and turned up at his girlfriend’s residence.
His girlfriend was residence on the time and advised troopers that she didn’t need anybody to go inside, together with Devereaux, as a result of they’d medicine inside and he or she didn’t need to face jail time.
Troopers turned tail and filed an arrest warrant so police might return to the house the next day.
When police arrived, they detained Devereaux and booked him for reckless driving, fleeing, assault of legislation enforcement, resisting with violence and, as his girlfriend had alluded to the evening earlier than, possession of Methamphetamine, amongst different prices.
