{"id":299398,"date":"2026-06-07T20:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299398\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:19:10","slug":"roof-escape-fails-longtime-florida-fugitive-captured-after-chase-through-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299398\/","title":{"rendered":"Roof escape fails: Longtime Florida fugitive captured after chase through neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A fugitive who has been on the run since 2019 was captured in West Palm Beach on Wednesday after scrambling across a neighbor’s roof during a manhunt.<\/p>\n

According to an arrest affidavit, agents with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office’s Fugitive Warrants Division<\/a> went to a home on Christine Lane around 11:00 a.m. to arrest 39-year-old Yusley Chavez Barreto. He was wanted on an active warrant out of Polk County for failure to appear on a marijuana trafficking charge.<\/p>\n

Investigators say people inside the home initially lied to deputies, claiming they didn’t know him. At one point, a woman inside released a large black dog into the backyard to scare deputies away, forcing an agent to flee into the front yard to avoid using force on the animal.<\/p>\n

See also: Suspect held without bond in Boca Raton parking lot murder of insurance whistleblower<\/a><\/p>\n

Chavez Barreto then bolted from the home and jumped a fence onto Gun Club Road. Deputies say he climbed onto the roof of an outbuilding being used as a residence, busting through two sections of the roof as he ran.<\/p>\n

Following a containment search, deputies found Chavez Barreto hidden in an easement between two fences.<\/p>\n

Records show Chavez Barreto has been off the grid since 2019, when he gave law enforcement a false name during a stop and fled. <\/p>\n

Deputies say he was subsequently booked into Palm Beach County Jail for counts of burglary of an occupied dwelling, criminal mischief damage to property, and resisting without violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A fugitive who has been on the run since 2019 was captured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-299398","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\/299398","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=299398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}