A man experiencing homelessness in the United States has been taken into custody after a sequence of violent and reckless actions that ended with a patrol car crashing and a service dog involved. Reports indicate the incident received media attention from Fox News.
Authorities say the service dog, named Logan, remained unharmed as the suspect, a 20-year-old individual living on the streets, allegedly stole a company vehicle and attempted to flee the scene after the crash.
The events began on Saturday evening, May 13, when officers were alerted to an unidentified person throwing a stone at the front door of the Amscot financial location in Winter Haven, Florida. Inside the building were three employees. After the glass on the door shattered, the suspect entered the lobby and hurled another stone at the glass partition that separates tellers from customers, an act that caused damage but did not immediately compromise the secure area. He then allegedly tried to gain entry to the bank’s safe, but the door withstood the attempt and the intruder departed.
When police arrived at the bank, the man escalated his attack by hurling stones a third time and smashing the driver’s side window of a locked patrol vehicle. He then climbed into the vehicle, began operating it, and struck several other cars while attempting to flee the area.
Law enforcement officers pursued the suspect and eventually detained him using a conducted electrical weapon. The individual was subsequently charged with multiple offenses, including theft, motor vehicle theft, attempting to hijack a vehicle, attempting to interfere with police operations, resisting arrest without violence, leaving the scene of an accident with injuries, and reckless driving.
Earlier, reports indicated that the suspect had been in the Leningrad region. A separate incident described elsewhere involved a masked thief detaining a charity cashier and obtaining a substantial cash amount, though those details appear unrelated to the present case and are noted for completeness of context.