Suspect flees Home Depot with unpaid goods and is caught, Clearwater FL
TheftA suspect left Home Depot with unpaid merchandise in a shopping cart. The suspect abandoned the cart and fled on foot into a nearby trailer park west of Home Depot. The suspect was later found hiding near Meineke and apprehended by officers.
Audio|Source: Clearwater Police - East
03:16
Transcript:
00:00
Heading the Home Depot, two units heading to Home Depot, please be advised that the subject is now walking into the parking lot, pushing a cart.
00:12
He does have unpaid for merch in the shopping cart with him.
00:20
Are you going to be Code 5[1] out of multiple agencies?
00:28
Subject is walking up to a white truck with a trailer in the back of the parking lot.
00:46
He appears as though he walked past the truck. He's on the sidewalk walking westbound with the Home Depot shopping cart and heading westbound towards Gulf-to-Bay Blvd.
00:56
Joey, Tim, he's ditched the cart and out of foot.
01:00
Tenforth, he was on foot walking with the cart.
01:04
No, he's ditched the foot and running for me.
01:06
He just jumps the park.
01:08
Our jump a fence is in the mobile home park just west of Home Depot.
01:16
Say, let's get a parameter started.
01:20
Happy, would you like code one?
01:24
Yeah, code one.
01:25
Code 1[3].
01:26
Code 1[3] at 1257.
01:29
Can somebody on golf debate now with that cart? I'm trying to get down to the back side of the trailer.
01:40
He's either in this trailer park or in the street adjacent. He just hopped over the fence.
01:50
Let's get somebody on Druid as well. I don't know if this one gets all the way out. Druid.
02:01
If we have a canine as well.
02:06
Copy.
02:08
Sorry, we're going to take 19 to Druid.
02:12
X-ray 915 to Starz. What was his description again? I'm going on Eatonville.
02:18
Black male, bald, he's got the hat, white shirt, and shorts on. Red shorts, blue hat, white shirt.
02:30
Yeah, as soon as you saw me, he just ditched the cart and took off running.
02:33
Last I saw him, he jumped over the fence into the parking lot.
02:40
Somebody's waving me down. He might be hiding behind Mineke.
02:46
Unit coming up, they're waving me down over at Mineke. He's hiding at Mineke.
02:51
Sixthair, copy.
02:57
All right, looks like they're going 10-15[2] at Meineke.
03:04
Copy. Copy.
03:08
I'm 1012. They're code 4-1015.
03:12
All units are 10, 15, clear code 1 at 1,300.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Code 5: Surveillance/stakeout
[2]
10-15: Prisoner in custody
[3]
Code 1: Routine, non-emergency response without lights or sirens.
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Location mentioned:
Near Gulf to Bay Blvd, Clearwater, FL 33765
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