MORE EGRIGIOUS CONDUCT BY UNACCOUNTABLE POLICE - Total Abuse Of Power causing serious bodily injury - but all cops are heroes Back the Blue Until It Happens To You
Flagler County Sheriff
Address: 1769 E Moody Blvd Building 1, Bunnell, FL 32110
Phone: …
MORE EGRIGIOUS CONDUCT BY UNACCOUNTABLE POLICE - Total Abuse Of Power causing serious bodily injury - but all cops are heroes Back the Blue Until It Happens To You
Flagler County Sheriff
Address: 1769 E Moody Blvd Building 1, Bunnell, FL 32110
Phone: (386) 437-4116
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Palm Coast, Florida — A 27-year-old Palm Coast resident faces charges of kidnapping and using a minor as a human shield after he abducted a small child while armed with a gun and led deputies on a chase which ended in a standoff at a fast food restaurant’s parking lot. At approximately 6:08 p.m. Tuesday (September 27, 2022), the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office (FCSO) responded to a home on Bunker Lane in Palm Coast after receiving a report of a possible child abduction involving a 1-year- old. FCSO discovered that the boyfriend of that child’s mother – since identified as 27-year-old Brandon Matthew Douglas Leohner – had abducted the child while armed with a handgun and was driving with the child in his lap as he left the residence.
Deputies located the male a short time later driving recklessly through medians while speeding south on Belle Terre Parkway. When deputies attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the vehicle, Leohner fled traveling east onto State Road 100, driving over the median and through oncoming traffic before turning into the Target shopping center in Town Center. Leohner then drove into the nearby McDonald’s parking lot and exited the vehicle near the drive-thru with the child in his arms, using the child as a human shield and refusing to obey law enforcement commands to put the child down. After a brief standoff, deputies deployed a taser, rescued the child and began immediately comforting the child while other deputies worked to control Leohner.
Leohner attempted to flee and continued to resist deputies until a K-9 and a taser were able to control him. He was then placed in handcuf..
