It seems as though a couple of Pasco County, Florida sheriff’s deputies had their prisoners disappear from their patrol cars while they were being transported on the way to jail.
One hungry deputy stopped at the drive-through window of a McDonald’s to order a burger. When his prisoner jumped out of the patrol car, the deputy chased him on foot. But when he couldn’t catch him, the deputy returned to pick up his order. After all, it doesn’t make any sense to report an escape on an empty stomach.
The other deputy lost a female prisoner and didn’t even realize it until he arrived at the jail where he found only a set of handcuffs on the back seat of his patrol car. What was he doing while she disappeared? Taking a leak?
Here are excerpts from the December 23 issue of TheLedger.com:
LAND O' LAKES, Fla. -- Deputy Matthew Kadel was taking a man to jail the morning of July 19 when he decided to grab some food.
As he pulled into the McDonald's drive-through and placed his order, the man in the back seat - Richard Zukoski, arrested on auto burglary and theft charges - used his own handcuff key to free himself and run from the car.
A surveillance video from the McDonald's, released this week as the Pasco County Sheriff's Office wrapped up its investigation, shows Kadel running after Zukoski.
It also shows Kadel coming back a few seconds later, without his prisoner, to retrieve his food.
The incident was the first of two escapes from Pasco deputy patrol cars within a week.
On July 26, Amanda Driggers, 19, slipped the handcuffs off her tiny wrists and pulled back the paneling inside a different patrol car to make her escape, she told the Times.
The car was idling at State Road 52 and U.S. 41 when she slipped out. Cpl. Barry Arnew didn't realize she was gone until he reached the Land O' Lakes jail and found an empty set of handcuffs in the backseat.
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