Baker County car chase leads to 5 arrests

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Car pursuit ends successful apprehension successful Baker County. (Baker County Sheriff's Office)

Deputies and detectives connected Friday pursued a stolen conveyance and arrested 5 radical aft the car crashed connected U.S. Highway 90, eastbound of downtown Macclenny, the Baker County Sheriff’s Office said.

A high-speed pursuit began successful the parking batch of Christian’s Country Store connected State Road 121 aft deputies accidental William Flowers astir ran implicit a detective. The pursuit continued for 8 miles earlier deputies disabled the conveyance by mounting up a roadblock and utilizing a precision immobilization method (PIT) maneuver.

One week prior, according to the Sheriff’s Office, Flowers ran from deputies successful a antithetic stolen conveyance with the pursuit ending successful Baldwin owed to information concerns. BCSO said it had actively been searching for Flowers since the erstwhile pursuit.

On Friday afternoon, helium was located by detectives. According to deputies, Flowers tried to evade arrest, but helium and his 4 accomplices were arrested. Flowers present faces much than a twelve felony and misdemeanor charges.

Four others were arrested successful narration to the incident. Both a loaded firearm and narcotics were recovered from the car.

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