ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – A newly released video showed the moments a fugitive took off from a traffic stop, leading St. Johns County deputies on a high-speed chase before ditching the vehicle and starting a foot pursuit.
Tomal Bowe, 33, a fugitive out of the Bahamas, was accused of taking off after a deputy pulled him over on Thursday, Dec. 4.
The video began with Bowe inside a car when the deputy asked him for identification. The video does not show Bowe present any identification before it skips to the deputy saying, “You can come back here with me, my man. I’m just going to get all of your information while you’re back here with me, okay?”
Bowe does not respond and speeds off, immediately driving the wrong way on Interstate 95 near International Golf Parkway.
Deputies performed a PIT maneuver to stop the runaway vehicle, causing it to crash into the median barricade.
Bowe, then, jumped out of the crashed car and ran into the woods.
The video showed deputies following him. Eventually, he was spotted in a stolen white van, headed north on US-1, until he turned off the road, riding alongside train tracks.
Deputies catch up with the Bowe, who ditches the vehicle and runs into the woods again, the video showed.
Multiple air and K-9 units were called to track Bowe through the heavily wooded and marshy area.
Bowe was arrested a couple of hours later.
He is charged with felony fleeing and eluding, grand theft auto, resisting without violence, possession of marijuana and multiple out-of-county warrants.