Public Information Officer Debra Johnson told local St. Johns County reporters with Historic City News that deputies in Flagler County have a Bunnell man in custody in connection with the burglary of Palm Coast home yesterday.
Deputies responded to an alarm at 149 Rae Drive around 8:25 a.m. Neighbors were able to provide a brief description of a suspicious man in the area.
Deputies first located the suspect, Jeremiah Harris in Ralph Carter Park on Rymfire Dirve. He fled the scene and was arrested around 10:25 a.m. near a canal after a foot chase and search in the area of Rymfire and Reynolds Drive.
Rymfire Elementary School on Rymfire Drive went into lockdown for less than an hour while deputies and Flagler County’s FireFlight, conducted the search.
“The lock down was purely precautionary. We want to assure parents that their children and the school staff were safe during this incident,” said Flagler County Sheriff Donald W. Fleming.
Sheriff’s Deputy Jonathan Welker and K-9 Blu tracked the suspect and apprehended him on the side of the canal near Reynolds Place.
The suspect was treated at Florida Hospital Flagler for a bite wound suffered when K-9 Blu made the apprehension.