POLK COUNTY, Fla. – What started as a traffic violation just before midnight on Tuesday, October 21st, quickly escalated into a foot chase that ended abruptly—and painfully—with a suspect meeting a chain-link fence.
A white Ford F-150 failed to obey a stop sign at the intersection of 4th Street East and Rifle Range Road in Wahneta, prompting a traffic stop by a patrolling deputy. During the initial interaction, the deputy’s attention was drawn to a passenger behaving in a suspiciously nervous manner.
That nervousness soon turned into a sprint…