{"id":44658,"date":"2025-11-13T02:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44658\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:49:07","slug":"bloody-mugshot-shows-dad-who-jumped-out-of-drivers-seat-leaving-family-behind-in-moving-car-on-florida-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/44658\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody mugshot shows dad who jumped out of driver&#8217;s seat &#8212; leaving family behind in moving car on Florida highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father allegedly jumped out of the driver\u2019s seat of his family vehicle on a Florida highway, leaving his wife and three kids behind inside the moving car in a chaotic scene sparked by an alleged domestic violence incident, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a 911 call on Tuesday from a child who said her parents, later identified as Heather and Albert Searcy, were fighting while driving down Highway 79, the Washington County Sheriff\u2019s Office<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1219907966839005&amp;set=pb.100064594393658.-2207520000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> said in a statement. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.80078125;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37651174\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/washington-county-sheriffs-office-began-115287994.jpg\" alt=\"Mugshot of Albert Searcy with blood on his face.\" class=\"wp-image-37651174\"  \/>Albert Searcy allegedly jumped out of the driver\u2019s seat of a moving car with his wife and three kids inside on a Florida highway in a chaotic scene. Washington County Sheriff<\/p>\n<p>Cops responded to the scene and located the vehicle, quickly activating emergency sirens to get Albert Searcy, who was in the driver\u2019s seat, to stop the car, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The car continued driving northbound before Albert Searcy opened the door and jumped out of the moving vehicle, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Heather Searcy then quickly crawled to the center console and stopped the vehicle with their three kids inside, police said.<\/p>\n<p>After making contact with the family, deputies saw signs that the family matriarch had been involved in a physical altercation and noted she had suffered injuries to her face. <\/p>\n<p>She said she had requested throughout the scary ride that Albert stop the vehicle and let the children exit, but he allegedly repeatedly refused, cops added.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.95047619;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37651175\" width=\"1024\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/washington-county-sheriffs-office-began-115287995.jpg\" alt=\"Washington County Sheriff's Office patrol vehicle.\" class=\"wp-image-37651175\"  \/>Heather Searcy quickly crawled to the center console and stopped the vehicle with her three kids inside. Washington County Sheriff<\/p>\n<p>Upon noticing their child had called 911, the dad also allegedly \u201cstruck\u201d the child and took the phone away, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The family had briefly moved to the area from Louisiana and was in the process of returning to the Pelican State, Heather told deputies.<\/p>\n<p>The family was cleared by medics, and Albert was taken into custody at the Washington County Jail, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The father\u2019s mugshot shows his face bloodied and dejected from his alleged antics.<\/p>\n<p>He has been hit with a slew of charges, including tampering with or harassing a witness, domestic violence battery,  fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest without violence, child abuse, false imprisonment, and driving while license suspended or revoked, authorities said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A father allegedly jumped out of the driver\u2019s seat of his family vehicle on a Florida highway, leaving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6041,11112,28,30,29,29515,4278],"class_list":["post-44658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-child-abuse","tag-domestic-abuse","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-head-injuries","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658","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=44658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}