{"id":208045,"date":"2026-03-27T08:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208045\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:27:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T08:27:19","slug":"alleged-drunk-driver-plows-vehicle-into-locked-gate-at-florida-airport-tries-to-board-occupied-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/208045\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged drunk driver plows vehicle into locked gate at Florida airport, tries to board occupied plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man acused of being a drunk driver plowed his car through a gate at a Florida airport Wednesday and briefly boarded a plane before he was detained. <\/p>\n

Body camera video<\/a> released by the Volusia Sheriff\u2019s Office showed deputies speaking with the man, identified as Bryan J. Parker, at Daytona Beach International Airport. <\/p>\n

“What’s the deal, man?” the deputy asked. <\/p>\n

“I don’t remember,” Parker replied, handcuffed and seated on the ground. <\/p>\n

In the video, Parker told the deputies that he had been at home before he attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. He also admitted drinking alcohol and using drugs before the incident.<\/p>\n

“I crashed my car,” he said. <\/p>\n

\"BryanBryan J. Parker was arrested Wednesday, March 25, 2026, after he crashed through a locked perimeter gate at Daytona Beach International Airport in Florida while highly intoxicated.Volusia Sheriff<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office said on X<\/a> that it was notified around 4:23 p.m. Wednesday that a blue Ford Mustang had crashed through a locked gate at the airport. <\/p>\n

Airport personnel said the car drove toward the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University section of the airport, the sheriff’s office said. Witnesses said the car entered the taxiway and nearly struck a plane that was taxiing. <\/p>\n

The airport said in a statement that the driver drove onto the secondary runway, not the main runway. Embry\u2013Riddle said that it was aware of the incident and that its safety officers “responded immediately.” <\/p>\n

According to the sheriff’s office, Parker got out of his car and tried to enter an occupied plane but was unsuccessful. He is then alleged to have approached two other unoccupied airplanes and briefly gotten inside. <\/p>\n

“As Parker ran to other aircraft in the area, an airport operations technician chased him down, pulled him out of a plane and sat him on his truck\u2019s tailgate,” the sheriff’s office said. “However, Parker jumped off the tailgate and ran toward another plane before he was once again apprehended and placed in handcuffs.”<\/p>\n

Airport operations were not affected, the airport said. <\/p>\n

Parker, 58, of Holly Hill, was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on charges of attempted aircraft piracy, burglary of a conveyance, felony trespass, indecent exposure, criminal mischief, DUI with damage and refusal to submit to DUI testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man acused of being a drunk driver plowed his car through a gate at a Florida airport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-208045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}