- 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.
- [Announcer] 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-9s
who all go after bad people, so we can protect good people.
Tonight's episode takes place in our West precinct
where after a quick briefing
to discuss the high intensity target areas
that had been identified
by our criminal intelligence analysts,
we assigned our teams and then HIT the Streets.
Now as usual, our fugitive agents had started the day off
for our HIT Units by grabbing Rosemarie Anne Ferraro
in the Viera area on active felony warrants
for forgery or altering a public record certificate,
use and possession of ID of another without consent,
and grand theft.
Ferraro was taken into custody without incident
and was transported to the Brevard County Jail
on a $130,000 bond.
The fugitive unit also grabbed for us
one of our "Wheel of Fugitive" contestants,
Bradley Everett Gordon who was arrested without incident
and even admitted that he knew he was a contestant
on the "Wheel of Fugitive."
Gordon was taken to the Brevard County Jail
on a no bond warrant for violation of probation
reference possession of methamphetamine.
Now that the fugitive unit had done their job,
as usual, it didn't take long for the HIT Units
to get our first arrest as Agents Adam Weimer
and Mitch Matthias attempted to conduct a traffic stop
on a red Toyota at the intersection of Bristol
and North Varr in the Cocoa area.
(police siren wails)
Car took off.
We couldn't ID him.
(car tires screeching)
- [Policeman] Red Toyota, blacked out windows.
One black male driver.
- [Man Over Radio] He never made it to school.
We don't have an eye on him.
He bailed at a house over here on Bellview.
He was wearing blue jeans and maybe a blue top.
Hold on I might have something here in the woods
sitting down.
- [Wayne] As you can see from the video,
what started as a traffic stop by our agents
quickly escalated into a vehicle pursuit
and foot chase with various units responding to the area
and the suspect, Cleon Dunn being captured in the woods
after he fled from the vehicle.
As I always tell everyone,
if you run from the Brevard County Sheriff's office,
you are only going to go to jail tired.
And as you can see from the video,
that's exactly what happened to Dunn
who was found to be in possession
of a small amount of narcotics
and was also knowingly driving
while his license was suspended.
After being checked out and released
by Brevard County Fire Rescue
because he was whining and complaining,
Dunn was transported to the Brevard County Jail
on charges of fleeing and attempting to elude,
driving while license suspended with knowledge,
and resisting arrest without violence.
Dunn, who is also a listed career criminal
with multiple arrests from our agency,
was held in our beautiful county jail on a $3,000 bond.
Okay, our next case happened when Deputy Kyle Schuck
and Agent Shawn Hanigan attempted to stop a reckless driver
on US 1 in Cocoa, who refused to stop immediately
and eventually pulled over off of Dixon
where our team members observed the passenger
attempting to conceal something under the front seat.
Sirens on?
(police siren wailing)
He's turning on West Dixon has not stopped yet.
Slow.
Driver step out.
- Step on out buddy.
Step back here bro, step back here.
Go ahead and detain him.
- Open the door, lower the window.
- passenger Step out.
Possessions under his seat.
Yeah and we saw him making frantic movements
under the seat when you were walking up.
- Four Percocets and a bunch of weed,
and the driver didn't pull over for like half a mile
until blue lights came on.
So he's been charged with
fleeing and eluding.
- The driver of the vehicle, Adrian Manning
was subsequently arrested for fleeing
and attempting to elude,
and was transported to the Brevard County Jail
where he was held on a bond of $5,000.
While Manning took the ride for fleeing,
his partner, Jahmari Parker was charged
for possession of a controlled substance
and possession of drug paraphernalia
after he was found to be in possession of 4 oxycodone pills.
Parker was also transported to the Brevard County Jail
with a total bond of $2,500.
While Schuck and Hanigan were getting it done
with the traffic stop, Deputy Irizary and Agent Polito
were making an additional traffic stop on a pickup truck
with illegal window tint near Camp Road at US 1.
After K-9 Deputy Andrew Johnson's dog gave a positive alert
during a free air sniff of the vehicle,
Izzy and Hannah located a backpack inside the vehicle
with approximately 2 pounds of marijuana inside it
and also $6,500 in cash
that was consistent with narcotics transactions.
While the suspect tried to convince our agents
that the two pounds of pot was for personal use,
our agents at the direction of our legal advisor
seized the currency
and will meet with the state attorney's office
to discuss the potential for future charges
of felony drug possession.
Now as if fugitive arrests, vehicle and foot pursuits,
drug cases, and even cash seizures, were not enough,
our HIT Units responded to a domestic disturbance
off of Brophy Road in West Cocoa
that as Sgt. Chris Ferrante of our K-9 Unit
quickly learned, had plenty of excitement to give.
- 10-4 I'm on Brophy now.
- Well Here we go.
Brevard I got a vehicle signal 12 across Brophy
just crashed while parking.
I'm in the 3500 block.
(crowd chattering)
- Yeah I'm gonna need some help over here.
(policemen chattering over radio)
- Hold on, what's going on?
- I've got kids in there.
- All right buddy.
- I've got kids in there man.
- Okay, what's going on with you?
- I just wanna go prison for the rest of my life.
- All right, what's up?
- Hey guys, hey guys, just relax, just relax.
- Come over to my car.
That woman down the road,
(indistinct) across the road about 150
backwards into that house.
- Who's driving it?
- This right here.
- Yeah I saw it come across the road.
Hey ma'am, over here.
Right here, put your butt against this car,
hey, put your butt against this car.
- Sgt. Ferrante's dash cam did a great job
of capturing at the very start of the video,
the suspect Magnolia Staton as she crashed her car
during a domestic disturbance into the victim
and the victim's car and then backed her car
at a high rate of speed across the roadway,
crashing into a house that was occupied by several citizens.
Staton admitted after being advised
of her constitutional rights,
that she rammed her car into the victim on purpose
because of the argument and dispute they were having.
Staton was subsequently charged with aggravated battery
with a deadly weapon and also criminal mischief,
and was transported to the Brevard County Jail
on a bond totaling $17,000.
Well there you have it folks,
another exciting night with out HIT Unit
and another night of bad and dangerous people
being taken off our streets and straight to jail
where they can't victimize anyone else.
As I always say, crime will rise to the level
a community will tolerate,
and in Brevard County, we have zero tolerance for crime.
We'll see you next time on H.I.T. The Streets.
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