- Hello everyone, I'm Sheriff Wayne Ivey
and you're watching "H.I.T. The Streets,"
our latest crime fighting initiative
that targets criminals before they can target our citizens.
- [Narrator] They say that crime will rise
to the level a community will tolerate.
In Brevard County, we have zero tolerance for crime.
These are the stories.
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- So by now everyone knows that "H.I.T. The Streets"
is a "High Intensity Target Directed Patrol Unit"
that works to take bad people off our streets
and lock them behind bars
so they can't victimize anyone else!
The team consists of Patrol Deputies, Agents,
Fugitive Agents and our K-9's,
who all go after bad people so we can protect good people!
Tonight's episode takes place in our North Precinct
where after a quick team briefing
to discuss the High Intensity Target areas
identified by our Criminal Intelligence Analysts,
we assigned our teams and then we HIT the Streets!
To get things started off, our Fugitive Unit got information
from a confidential source on the whereabouts
of Steve Marshall Gould who had been actively evading
law enforcement since March of 2021.
Gould was taken into custody without incident
on two active felony warrants.
The first one was for one count of possession of cocaine,
one count resisting an officer without violence,
and two counts use or possession of drug paraphernalia.
The second warrant was in reference
to violation of drug offender probation,
reference possession methamphetamine
and possession of a controlled substance.
Gould was transported to the Brevard County Jail
where he was held on a No Bond Status.
Man, I love our Fugitive Unit.
Those wolves, man they hunt prey every day!
Our next case of the day happened
when Agents Mathias and Groski stopped a vehicle
after the driver was observed not wearing a seatbelt.
Once the stop took place,
Agent Groski approached Jeffrey Jenkins
who was driving the vehicle
and still wasn't wearing his seatbelt.
While Groski was speaking to the driver,
Agent Mathias made contact with the passenger,
Joseph Raymond Osteen Jr.
As the traffic stop continued,
K-9 Deputy Tyler Habart and his dog Colt arrived on scene
and conducted a free air sniff,
resulting in a positive alert and man,
things took off from there.
As you can see from the video, a search of the vehicle
revealed a clear plastic container in a compartment
directly next to the steering wheel of the vehicle.
The container had a clear plastic bag
with less than a gram of
a transparent crystal like substance
that later field tested positive for meth.
Also located in the vehicle was a cigarette pack
containing a folded $20 bill that was located
on the passenger seat of the vehicle,
which also held what appeared to be less than a gram
of a transparent crystal substance
that also field test positive for the presence of meth.
As both subjects were being searched, O'steen was man enough
to admit that the meth inside the cigarette pack was his
and also volunteered to Agents
that he had two halves inside his sock.
Agents subsequently located in O'steen's socks two bags
that contained a substance
that field tested positive for fentanyl.
Folks, fentanyl is some nasty stuff and is taking lives
in communities every day across the country.
Both Jenkins and O'steen were placed under arrest
for possession of methamphetamine
and possession of drug paraphernalia,
with O'steen also being charged with possession of fentanyl.
Both subjects were transported to the Brevard County Jail
by our Prisoner Transport Team
with Jenkins having a total bond of $2,500
and O'steen a total bond of $4,500.
Okay, our next case involves a traffic stop on a bicyclist
who was stopped by our team in an effort
to educate the operator on Florida's traffic laws
as Brevard County ranks extremely high in the nation
for Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic deaths.
What started out as a traffic stop by Deputy Ashley Jennings
and Agent Hannah Polito who stopped Anthony Wayne Lyons
quickly turned into a drug arrest for heroin
when Lyons was found during a consensual search
to be in possession of a small amount
of heroin and drug paraphernalia.
Lyons was subsequently arrested for possession of Heroin
and three counts of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Lyons was transported to the Brevard County Jail
on a total bond of $3,500 and will hopefully work
with our team at the jail and our courts to get himself
some drug treatment and get his life back on track.
Alright, lets get to our next case that starts
when Deputy Kyle Schuck and Agent Shawn Hannigan
attempt to stop a vehicle that is being driven
by Lcedric Rhynes, who is very well known to our Deputies,
after numerous law enforcement encounters.
The incident starts after Deputy Schuck and Agent Hannigan
are patrolling one of our hotspot areas that were identified
by our Criminal Intelligence Analysts
and observed a black in color BMW with a paper tag
that is being operated by Rhynes.
Now keep in mind that our team is well aware that Ryhnes
has zero chance of ever getting a driver's license again
since his license has been suspended repeatedly,
and here he is still operating a motor vehicle
out on our streets.
(radio dings)
Slow rolling.
- [Deputy] Zulu 3, we've got a K-9 close by?
- [Lady] K12, are you in the cocoa area?
(sirens blaring)
- [Deputy] Get him, get him.
(radio chatter)
He just tried to back into us.
He just tried to back into us
it looked like. Give us the channel for a second.
You have the channel.
- [Deputy] 704, do we try to initiate?
- [Deputy] We did, the marked car backed off.
We're not in pursuit, the marked car is not in pursuit.
- [Deputy] I'm thinking he must have went back eastbound
on (speaks quickly), on the dirt road north of there.
- Yeah, he lives up north.
The whole Rhynes family lives up north.
We ID him, right?
So we can write a warrant at least.
- [Deputy] I saw him at the cashier.
Can I be advised of their charges?
- [Deputy] Fleeing and alluding,
We have him identified.
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- [Sheriff Wayne] Now as you can see from the video,
Rhynes was driving like a madman
and actually almost slammed into our patrol units
in his effort to elude arrest.
While he may have gotten away initially,
he didn't get away for good because he apparently
didn't think we knew where he lived
and our Deputies and Agents immediately located his car
in a vacant lot next to his residence.
- Yeah, this is who we saw, just the hair is different.
He had like, a poofy fro.
So right there and right there,
pieces of crack so he will get charged with that also.
- [Deputy] Did he drop both his phones?
- [Deputy] Just the one was in there blowing up.
That's his dope phone there for sure.
- Pursuant to the investigation, a warrant was obtained
for Rhynes arrest for Fleeing and Attempting To Elude,
Knowingly Driving While License suspended
on a third or subsequent offense,
Possession of a Controlled Substance and Reckless Driving.
At the time this episode of HIT was recorded,
the warrant for Ryhnes was still active
and we need your help in getting his butt locked up.
The warrant has a bond of $10,500
so if you know where we can find Rhynes,
please go to Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS,
send us an email at wheeloffugitive@bcso.us,
send us a tip on our smartphone app,
or just send us a personal message on our Facebook page
and our Fugitive Wolves, well they'll do the rest.
Okay, our last case of the evening was a doozy
as Agent Brandon Sellers attempted to stop a pickup truck
for a traffic violation and the driver of the vehicle
attempted to flee, but instead crashed into a wall
at an apartment complex where a black male driver
and a black male passenger fled on foot.
While our team was unable to capture the two suspects
who fled on foot, we did get a call a short time later
from the registered owner of the vehicle, Michael Guillory,
who wanted to meet us to make arrangements
to get his truck back.
What Guillory didn't know was that we knew he had
an active warrant for his arrest out of Volusia County,
so we were more than happy to meet him
to discuss his concerns.
Once we met him, yep you guessed it,
we loaded him for the out of county warrant
for Possession of Cocaine and gave him a free ride
in one of our vehicles to the Brevard County Jail.
Well there you have it folks,
another great night out on the streets with our HIT Team
and another Prisoner Transport Vehicle
full of people that just can't seem to obey the law!
As I always say, crime will rise to the level
a community will tolerate and in Brevard County,
we have zero tolerance for crime.
See you next time on H.I.T. The Streets!
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