Suspect flees from rec center near C St in Clearwater, Clearwater FL
Other CrimesPolice are searching for a suspect who fled the recreation center near C St in Clearwater. The suspect abandoned a bicycle and jumped a fence. The last sightings were near the public library and playground. A police dog is tracking the suspect, and officers are reviewing surveillance footage.
Audio|Source: Clearwater Police - East
06:35
Transcript:
00:00
All right, we're back on the east side, tracking around, towards the southeast side.
00:19
Perimeter units have 10 on your in-car.
00:28
How soon do we have MLP lockdown guys?
00:39
Like I said, probably like two, three minutes after it was called out.
00:45
I was at Palmetto within 20 seconds.
00:56
Is MLK the furthest east spot we have?
01:02
Right now, yes.
01:09
All right, I'm pretty confident he made it out of the rec center.
01:15
He either went south or east.
01:21
All right, we're heading eastbound crossing an MOK right now, towards the Yacht Library.
01:39
All right, we're heading on the east side of the library right now.
01:53
426K1, do you think he might have ran through there? I have the cameras just the library.
01:56
I'm trying to look back.
01:58
Check an error.
02:03
We're still trying to work out where the actual turn is from the fence jump out.
02:22
All right, we found some transients over here.
02:27
Could have been what he was pulling to.
02:29
I'm going to bring him back to the fence jump where the hat was.
02:38
You go to K-9, we're coming on Stain.
02:40
Which direction do you think he was traveling? He's through westward where you guys are?
02:46
So he dished his bike on the west side of the rec center here.
02:52
I think it's like 900 M.K.
02:54
He ran through the rec center, hopped the fence right where we're at now.
02:59
We found a hat here and then he either went south or east from here, I believe he probably went south.
03:11
All right, we're on scene, we have you inside.
03:13
We'll start looking.
03:22
We're on the north side now east off of Palm Meadow by the playground.
03:31
Eagle, can you just scan the rec center real quick just to make sure he didn't try and jump the fence and then not able to make it over?
03:43
Yeah, we're here looking down.
03:47
My dog was real frantic in there, but he did pull me to an article where he jumped the fence, so that could have been what he was smelling to get over here.
03:59
One looks like we found on camera at 340, black male wearing all black M.B library entrance camera.
04:06
There's a screenshot for anybody at their computer.
04:11
Okay.
04:13
Did it look like he was running or?
04:19
Strolling and kind of looking around.
04:24
That's a floor.
04:27
Was he going eastbound?
04:33
We can't tell from the camera, sir.
04:46
Well, it looks like he was walking away from the camera if you can, if you get into camera view, we'll be able to direct you from there.
04:53
One time, does it look like he's wearing dark color clothing? Are you sure it's all black? Because we had a guy on the left side of the building who was just kind of hungered down looking a transient and all green.
05:08
Okay, one looks like it was a black male, taller, wearing all black clothing.
05:14
Kind of scruff here, we can send a picture here, so he's helping it.
05:19
That's not hard.
05:24
We're at the front of the library now.
05:31
He said call figures looking at it, says turn the other way.
05:34
You're going to go the opposite direction you were.
05:39
Okay, if it's outweigh, that's westbound and that's where that...
05:43
The transient is sitting on the side of the building.
05:48
Roger.
06:00
All right, K-1, we're going to bring the dog back over the rec center and push south a little bit.
06:13
Which way was this guy headed before you made contact with him, kind of give us an idea of where he was going to?
06:22
On 10, he was originally heading eastbound on Palmetto and then I lit him up and then he did a quick U-turn on me, headed westbound on Palmetto and then south on Pennsylvania.
06:32
That's where I saw the bike get ditched just on the west side of the building.
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Location mentioned:
C St, Clearwater, FL 33756
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