A man rammed a deputy’s car and two other cars as he attempted to get away from St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office deputies who were questioning him in a parking lot at the Durbin Park shopping plaza.
It was all captured on SJSO body and dash cam video during the October 21 arrest of 33-year-old Devon Spencer, which SJSO released Friday in a Facebook post.
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Deputies were first called there that day about possible shoplifting at Ulta on Durbin Pavilion Drive.
They were told that a person in a green Dodge Charger was asked to leave the Ulta.
Video shows Spencer denying that he was there, and that he had been waiting for his girlfriend, who he said was shopping in Burlington.
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Deputies asked Spencer to get out of the car and he refused, pulling forward and hitting an SJSO car, then backed up and scraped against two other cars before leaving the parking lot.
SJSO pursued Spencer’s Dodge Charger and was able to stop it with a PIT (precision immobilization technique) maneuver.
“Deputies witnessed Spencer throw two firearms from the vehicle,” the Facebook post said. “Both firearms were loaded, and one was reported stolen out of Clay County.”
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Inside the car, investigators found “small plastic baggies containing presumably fentanyl, marijuana, cocaine, and meth inside the vehicle,” the post said.
While he was being handcuffed, Spencer could be heard saying on the video, “What I did?”
Spencer was taken into custody on the following charges:
- Fleeing and eluding
- Tampering with evidence
- Felony criminal mischief
- Possession of meth
- Criminal mischief
- Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon
- Possession of a controlled substance without a prescription
- Possession of cocaine
- Possession of fentanyl
- Possession of marijuana
- Driving with a suspended license
Spencer is due in court again on Dec. 3.
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