- [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.
(dramatic music) - Hello everyone.
I'm sheriff Wayne Ivey,
and you're watching Hit the Streets,
our latest crime fighting initiative
that targets criminals
before they can target our citizens.
Hit the Streets is a directed patrol unit
that consists of patrol deputies,
agents from our general crimes unit
and our fugitive squad,
as well as canines and even our legal advisor
who all work together
to arrest perpetrators in various areas
throughout our county.
Areas that have been identified
by our crime analysts,
as high intensity target areas
for narcotics sales,
drug usage, burglaries, and violent crime.
Tonight we hit the streets of Merritt island
after a briefing at our East Precinct,
where we assigned our teams
and discuss the hotspots that
had been identified
by our criminal intelligence analysts.
Boy, it didn't take very long for the team
to start making arrests either.
Let's jump into our first case of the night
when deputy Taylor Dunn and agent Hannah Polito
attempt to stop a vehicle traveling eastbound
on Needle Boulevard
with illegally tinted windows.
The vehicle doesn't immediately stop.
And when it does,
it finally stops in the area of BJ Supermarket.
Things take off pretty quickly
as the occupants start moving around
in the vehicle and initially appeared
t o be reaching for something.
Our K9 alerted on the vehicle
for the presence of narcotics
and the team conducted a subsequent search
finding marijuana in the vehicle.
One of the occupants had a medical marijuana card,
so no charges were filed on the suspect,
but as a result of the traffic stop,
our team determined that Curtis Guinyard,
who was originally driving the vehicle
was knowingly driving as a habitual traffic offender
on a suspended driver's license.
What first appeared to be the vehicle occupants
reaching for something
was actually Guinyard trying to switch seats
with the female passenger
in an attempt to avoid arrest.
I can't imagine why he would try to avoid arrest
as his driver's license has only been suspended since 2013
and he had seven prior convictions
for driving while license suspended
and fleeing and attempting to elude.
Guinyard was arrested
for knowingly driving while license suspended.
And in case you're wondering,
no, we didn't let him drive
the jail transport vehicle.
Instead we gave him some nice new jewelry
and a free ride to Brevard county jail,
where he was held on a no bond status.
Alright, so while all that was taking place,
deputy Kyle Schuck and Shawn Hanigan
are busy conducting a traffic stop
over on Hill Avenue,
where they immediately smell the odor
of burnt cannabis coming from inside the vehicle.
(foreign language)
- [Deputy Schuck] Yeah, no trouble or anything.
Just face the car.
Just smells like weed man, burnt weed.
So we're just gonna make sure your on point.
- [Sheriff Wayne] So in this case,
after deputy Schuck smelled the odor of burnt cannabis,
the passenger of the vehicle,
Tymere Moore produced a bag of marijuana
and admitted that he didn't have
a medical marijuana card.
During a subsequent search of Moore
deputy Shuck discovered narcotics
in his pants that ended up being
approximately 11.2 grams of fentanyl.
- It's pure, basically pure fentanyl.
This is what's causing the majority of deaths
in our county.
we have one of the highest overdose rates
in the state of Florida, from opiates.
And this is this a significant amount,
really just a 10th of a gram of this
you can overdose on and die.
So this is significant hit for the neighborhood.
So, we have to get it.
- [Sheriff Wayne] Now I have to say,
Moore took the arrest like a man
and fully accepted his wrongdoing,
but either way,
he had to take the ride to the Brevard county jail,
where he's charged with trafficking
in more than four grams of fentanyl
and was held on a no bond status.
- [Tymere] Hey Ivey, y'all wanna see me tomorrow
I'll be on the dirt bike on the park side.
- [Sheriff Wayne] Alright.
Alright, let's hit the street
with deputy Herb Smith and agent Tyler Harrell
who were working traffic enforcement
and stopped a white and color van
near the intersection of Whaley Road
and Creole Road in Merritt island.
As a result of the traffic stop,
deputy Smith and agent Harrell arrested Ricardo Tobi,
who was knowingly driving
on a suspended driver's license
with multiple prior guilty convictions and suspensions.
Tobi was transported to Brevard county jail,
where he was charged with knowingly driving
on a suspended driver's license
with a bond of $2,000.
So, so far the team is out there
making drug arrest, traffic arrests,
and then all of a sudden,
deputy Taylor Dunn spots Zachary Mathews,
a known fugitive,
who was actually a participant
on the Wheel of Fugitive.
One of these is going to be our fugitive of the week.
Let's see who it is here in Brevard county.
(ratchet thrumming)
- [Police officer] He's up here in Colony Park now.
It's where the U-hauls parked
and the motorcycle out front.
That's where his wife is living,
but I think he's 29 so he might be there.
- [Deputy Dunn] Oh, standby.
- [Agent Polito] Is she helping?
- [Deputy Dunn] Is it a white male, skinny?
- [Police officer] He had a gut last time I seen him,
but he's a white male.
He's like skinny fat.
- [Agent Polito] Oh I see,
we're literally right here.
- [Deputy Dunn] Oh, I copy.
The U-haul van and the motorcycle,
we're passing it now.
But when we first came in, there was a,
a white male, maybe mid thirties,
short cut hair,
got out of it
and walked inside.
- [Sheriff Wayne] Now once Dunn spotted him
walking in the area,
our team made contact at the residence
where we suspect he was,
and we easily took him into custody
Without incident.
Mathews was transported to Brevard county jail,
where he was arrested on a no bond warrant
for violation of community control reference,
dealing or trafficking in stolen property,
grand theft of a motor vehicle,
grand theft over $5,000 but less than $10,000,
burglary of a conveyance
and also violation of probation on felony petit theft.
Man, what a night so far, but we're not done.
The team quickly got involved in assisting other units
after a vehicle fled from one of our agency canine units.
And then after fleeing the area,
wrecked the vehicle off of State Road 528
near Sea Ray Boulevard.
Now let me set the table for this one.
As one of our Canaveral canine units
initially attempted to stop the vehicle
that immediately fled the area
and was later seen headed westbound on 528.
Within a very short period of time,
a citizen called 9 1 1 to report
that a vehicle had crashed off of 528
near Sea Ray Boulevard.
And man, our Hit units responded quickly to the area.
- [Police officer] Do you think the driver
was thrown
or fled on foot?
- [Officer] While the cars still in drive doors wide open,
but you can see where he exited on down.
- Wanna find our man? Wanna go find our man?
Go find our man!
Let's go find our man.
Hey, I need a unit, the car to run with the dog.
- [Sheriff Wayne] Now evidence at the scene demonstrated
that two subjects had fled from the area.
So our units started using our canines
and aviation unit Star,
to search the area for the suspects.
guy said he is on the back side of the building
your pulling up to me now
but he's on the back side where I'm pointed at now.
As you can see from the video,
one of the subjects actually tried to disguise himself
as a worker at a nearby plant
by pretending to be a night shift employee
and sitting on a forklift.
The other subject wasn't as sneaky
as he ran into the woods,
obviously forgetting the motto of our aviation unit.
You know, "You can run,
but you're only going to go to jail tired."
- [Helicopter Officer] And I know you're probably
dealing with terrain down there,
but he is about 20 feet from you.
Just straight ahead.
I just don't know if you can see anything or not.
It's real thick on top.
Canine you're almost there,
you're within about 15 feet,
whatever it is it's moving so just be on guard.
- [Police officer] Canine unit, you're 10-12.
- [Canine Officer] They're addressing right now.
- [Sheriff Wayne] After repeated commands
by our team to voluntarily exit the woods,
or we would send the dog in,
the suspect still thought he had outsmarted everyone,
by hiding in a tree.
- K30 Brevard, Star, he's up in a tree.
We're trying to call him down.
- [Female Officer] 10-4 up in a tree.
- [Canine Officer] We've got a leg bite,
have BCFR standby.
- [Sheriff Wayne] Well, here's a bulletin for you.
If you're gonna climb up in a tree
to hide from the Popo,
be sure to climb high enough
that one of our dogs can't jump up in the tree
and bite you in the leg
while pulling you out of the tree for us to arrest.
- [Helicopter Officer] Star, they're taking him
into custody, great job.
- [Police officer] All right 10-4.
- [Helicopter Officer] Right, we're gonna stay
with you until you get him in a car.
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- [Police officer] Go ahead sir.
- [Helicopter Officer] Hey, do you have
your other individual secured in a vehicle?
- [Police officer] 54.
We got him secured.
- [Sheriff Wayne] Man, I love that dog.
Not as much as Junny, but I love him
and it's not like we didn't warn the guy
that the dog bites.
Man, what a way to end the night
as both subjects were transported to Brevard county jail,
where Derrico French, you know,
the guy in the tree,
was arrested for failure to report as a sex offender,
as well as on an arrest warrant
from Georgia on the same crime.
French was also charged with fleeing
with disregard to safety to persons and property,
reckless driving, driving while license suspended
and leaving the scene of an accident
with property damage.
French was held at the Brevard county jail on no bond.
His running mate, Shawndell Johnson,
was charged with burglary to an occupied structure
after he illegally entered the plant
in an attempt to avoid arrest.
Johnson was held on a $5,000 bond,
which to me doesn't seem near enough
when you take into consideration
that he's already a registered felony offender.
Well, I hope you enjoyed tonight's episode
of Hit the Streets,
and remember in Brevard County,
we're tough on crime and even tougher on criminals.
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