EAGLE LAKE, Fla. — In what might be Polk County’s least strategic game of hide-and-seek this year, a 37-year-old Winter Haven man learned that leaving your wallet in a wrecked truck is generally a bad way to execute a clean getaway.
It all started around 1 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of U.S. 17 and State Road 540, where a gray 2020 Ford F-150 apparently decided a massive concrete construction barrier looked like a fine place to park.
When a deputy arrived, the truck was there, but the driver was not. Unfortunately for the fleeing wheelman, he left behind two crucial clues: a crowd of amused construction workers who watched him sprint away into the night, and his wallet, sitting there on the scene like a formal RSVP…