A plumber in The Villages with a history of arrests led multiple Marion County sheriff’s deputies on a chase late Wednesday night after initially being pulled over for a broken taillight.
A deputy attempted to stop a beige four-door sedan driven by 62-year-old Robert Splaine Isherwood, who has operated a business called Isherwood Plumbing in The Villages for years, shortly before midnight on Southeast County Road 484 near Belleview. The vehicle initially pulled to the shoulder and came to a halt, but then abruptly accelerated away from the traffic stop.
The deputy activated his siren, but the Village of El Cortez resident refused to comply, prompting multiple deputies to join the westbound pursuit. Law enforcement deployed stop sticks at the intersection of Southeast 16th Avenue and Southeast Highway 484, but the sedan kept going. Deputies were eventually forced to execute multiple precision immobilization technique (PIT) maneuvers to stop the fleeing vehicle, finally surrounding and disabling it in the 2600 block of Southwest Highway 484 in Ocala…