{"id":11815,"date":"2023-05-17T04:18:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11815"},"modified":"2023-05-17T04:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:18:39","slug":"florida-police-arrest-homeless-man-after-he-allegedlydrove-off-in-squad-car-with-k-9-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11815","title":{"rendered":"Florida police arrest homeless man after he allegedlydrove off in squad car with K-9, crashed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Police in Winter Haven, Florida,<\/a> arrested a homeless man on Saturday after he allegedly stole a squad vehicle with a K-9 inside, crashed the vehicle and attempted to flee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Winter Haven Police Department<\/a> said officers responded to a cash advance\/payday loan business called Amscot at about 9:20 p.m. on Saturday for reports of a man throwing a rock through the glass front door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of the incident, there were three employees inside the building, which 20-year-old Menyelek Jarrett walked into after throwing the rock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After walking inside the building, Jarrett allegedly threw another rock at the glass separating the tellers from the public, but it didn’t break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jarrett then allegedly attempted to walk through the door to the teller area. He was unable to open the door, employees told police, and left the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As officers were walking into Amscot, Jarrett allegedly smashed the driver\u2019s side window of a locked patrol vehicle. Police said a K-9 named Logan was in the back seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jarrett then fled the scene in the patrol vehicle, eventually crashing into several vehicles at the intersection of 8th Street and Havendale Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The squad car became disabled at the time of the crash, police said. Jarrett took off on foot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding officers chased the suspect until he was ultimately apprehended with the use of an electric stun gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to police, one person involved in the crash was taken to an area hospital for head pain. No other injuries were reported, and Logan is “safe and well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jarrett was also taken to an area hospital for treatment before being book He was ultimately charged with business burglary, grand theft-motor vehicle<\/a>, attempted burglary of conveyance, tampering with a police K-9, resisting arrest without violence, leaving the scene of a crash with injuries and reckless driving.ed into the Polk County Jail, where he was held without bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in Winter Haven, Florida, arrested a homeless man on Saturday after he allegedly stole a squad vehicle with a K-9 inside, crashed the vehicle and attempted to flee. The Winter Haven Police Department said officers responded to a cash advance\/payday loan business called Amscot at about 9:20 p.m. on Saturday for reports of a man throwing a rock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[2450,1437,1491,1350,1237],"class_list":["post-11815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-arrest","tag-florida","tag-homeless","tag-man","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11817,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11815\/revisions\/11817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}