New video shows Florida deputies arrest a fleeing hit-and-run suspect during an intense manhunt in a gator-infested swamp.<\/p>\n
Martin County Sheriff’s Office officials said the suspect had been involved in a head-on hit-and-run crash before he bailed on foot and left an injured motorist behind on Aug. 26.<\/p>\n
The suspect, later identified as 39-year-old Likenson Daceus, tried to hide in a large gator-infested swamp along the Martin-St. Lucie County line, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Body camera and aerial footage released by the sheriff’s office showed Daceus wading through the swamp waters as deputies pursued him.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office said they worked with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and others in the search, and after over two hours were able to capture Daceus.<\/p>\n
Daceus faces charges including failure to remain at the scene of a crash causing serious bodily injury, leaving the scene of a crash involving damage to property and fleeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New video shows Florida deputies arrest a fleeing hit-and-run suspect during an intense manhunt in a gator-infested swamp.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1009,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-387319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-caught-on-camera","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387319","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=387319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}