North Carolina fugitive captured after 9-hour manhunt, Flagler deputies say

PALM COAST, Fla. – A North Carolina fugitive was arrested in Palm Coast Tuesday morning after fleeing from deputies and prompting a nine-hour manhunt, in line with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Workplace.

Deputies mentioned 22-year-old Taylor West, a person from Manteo, North Carolina, was needed in his dwelling state for violating his probation on drug trafficking costs, together with opium and heroin trafficking, resisting arrest, and giving a false title to regulation enforcement. West was additionally needed in Virginia for violation of probation on costs of fentanyl possession and managed drug paraphernalia, deputies mentioned.

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In keeping with the sheriff’s workplace, deputies have been pulling over a automobile simply earlier than midnight Monday night close to Seminole Woods Boulevard and Squash Blossom Path, during which West was a passenger. Through the cease, West took off on foot into the woods close to the Integra Woods Residences, deputies mentioned.

The incident kicked off the nine-hour manhunt for West, whom regulation enforcement finally caught at about 9 a.m., deputies mentioned.

Deputies mentioned that West was noticed a number of instances through the hunt each within the woods and the close by Integra Woods condominium advanced, although he was in a position to evade deputies because of the thick vegetation within the space.

“I’m pleased with how our deputies dealt with the search,” Flagler Sheriff Rick Staly mentioned. “It could actually get troublesome and harmful to enter closely wooded areas or into an condominium advanced at night time to seize one individual, however catching this poison peddler was definitely worth the effort and time.”

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West is held on no bond on the Sheriff Perry Corridor Inmate Detention Facility based mostly on the North Carolina warrant and is anticipated to be extradited again to his dwelling state, Staly mentioned.

In keeping with deputies, the sheriff’s workplace additionally booked West for resisting arrest, and fleeing and eluding.

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