This morning were hearing from one of the victims in a wild hit and run the guy behind the wheel takes off. And still hasnt been arrested by police. 10news reporter Kendra Conlon walks you through the melee. You can see this Group Fighting in the street on 7th avenue in ybor. Surrounding this car. This is the victim who well see get slammed by the car. Check out how the nissan starts to rock on the curb. Then drives right up on the sidewalk. Hitting this guy and tossing the victim onto the hood. Of the bad monkey bar. The rest of the brawlers scatter. It takes the driver just 13 seconds to decide to take off. Not thinking twice about the injured victim who crawls over the car before he collapses on the sidewalk. Michael silhol tells me he and a friend had been walking back to their car after closing time 3 30 Tuesday Morning when he says unprovoked this group jumped them. What do you think . Tampa police tell me the driver had been trying to make a u turn but got stuck on the curb. You
Stole a pickup truck and escaped. The crazy thing about this story is something similar happened about a month ago in bartow when an inmate on work detail stole a truck and kidnapped a corrections officer. Officials say the suspect locked the other inmates in a small building and used a sharp object to force the officer into a work truck before taking off. He was eventually caught in pinellas county. But as for this current case, officials are still trying to track the suspect down. So if you kn mans whereabouts, of course, you need to call police right away. Inmate escapes are always alarming because you never know what could happen while these criminals are roaming free. And coming up at 5 30, well take a look at how common these types of escapes are across the state. Back to you. Today, tampa police are searching for a driver who plowed into people and a bar in ybor city. That driver then took off. Take a look at this video its clear and its wild. The victim tells walking after clos
And im ian reitz. Right now polk county deputies needou tracking down a criminal who escaped custody thursday. He was working in Fleet Maintenance at the time. 10news reporter emerald morrow is tracking the search from the newsroom. Emerald, its pretty scary to hear about an inmate escape. Any idea how often this happens . Yeah, although we might see an occasional escape, those types of breaches are often isolated. I looked up some numbers from the Florida Department of corrections and report from shows that from 2014 to 2015, there were 73 escapes from correctional institutions statewide. With most happening while an inmate was on work release. This manjoseph flanaginwas not on work release, but was working at the countys Fleet Maintenance building when he stole a white pickup truck similar to this one and took off. Its kind of like what happened just a month ago in bartow. In that case, an inmate used a makeshift weapon to kidnap a correc officer. That inmate then escaped in a truck
This morning. This is notes first time deputies have searched for an inmate in this area. This man has been on the run for 12 hours now. How long does it usually take to track these inmates down . Reporter more th the inmates who manage to escape are caught within 24 hours. Lets hope that this man falls into that category and is back behind bars very soon. According to polk county, 45 yearold Joseph Flanagan of lakeland escaped on bob Phillips Road in bartow yesterday afternoon around 3 30. Place say flanagan was working in Fleet Maintenance and he this one. Its almost like deja vu for polk county officials. Last month an inmate led them on a manhunt after they say he made a makeshift weapon, kidnapped a corrections officer, and stole this pickup truck. Officials were able to catch the man in Pinellas County. For the current case, flanigan was in jail for stealing and violation of probation. He had a 300 day sentence and had already served a quarter of his time. If you see him, call po
Joe turn yourself in man, get this thing over with. The search is on for a polk county prisoner. How he managed to break free tonight and what we are learning about his past. A night at the bar turns violent, the sur now wanted to this outofhand brawl. My wife and i felt like we were being targeted because we have children. Its a neighborhood billed as Family Friendly but an hoa letter is making some think others. The message that has some parents there fuming. Good evening and welcome. Im mark wilson. And im kelly ring. Thanks for joining us, county. An inmate takes off work a workreplace job in bartow and steals a county truck to do it. The search is on to find him right now, and Evan Axelbank is live to tell us what is going on. This is guy considered dangerous, evan . Right now deputies have not said whether they believe he has acquired weapons since escaping or whether he is thought anything dangerous, right now deputies are on baker drive, searching house by house, yard by yard a