Volusia Bank Robbers Flee To Seminole County
VOLUSIA COUNTY and SEMINOLE COUNTY, Florida -- Three men were arrested
after a busy Wednesday afternoon during which they allegedly stole a car during a DeBary
home invasion and then used the car to escape a bank robbery in Orange City.
The stolen car was abandoned nearby and the trio used another car to flee south
into Seminole County. However, the Volusia County
Sheriff’s Office, Orange City Police Department and DeLand Police
Department tracked the suspects down to where they wrecked their getaway car on
U.S.
17-92 near an Interstate 4 on ramp. The men then fled on foot but were captured
within half an hour of the crash.
The crime spree started
when a resident at 328 Colomba
Road, DeBary called the Sheriff’s Office at
12:47 p.m. to report that two men had barged into his garage and stole his
white 1995 Lincoln Town Car at gunpoint. They tied the man up using an
electrical cord from a fan, shut him inside the garage and sped away. The man
was not injured.
Then at 1:05 p.m.
employees at TD Bank at 2240 S.
Volusia Avenue, Orange
City called 911 to report that they had just been robbed. (For more information
about the bank robbery, please contact the Orange City Police Department.) The
getaway vehicle the robbers used was a white Lincoln Town Car. Deputies and
police officers quickly made the connection between the home invasion and the
bank robbery and canvassed the area for the stolen car. It was found abandoned
behind the Bravo Supermarket at 2413
Enterprise Road, Orange
City. The suspects had switched cars in the hopes of thwarting their pursuit.
Nonetheless, law
enforcement caught up to the suspects as they drove southbound on U.S. 17-92 into Seminole County.
But the suspects then wrecked alongside the highway near an Interstate 4 on
ramp at about 1:17 p.m. They fled on foot into the nearby woods, but law
enforcement flooded the area and the three men were quickly captured. One was
bitten by a police K-9 and was later transported to Central
Florida Regional
Hospital in Sanford for treatment. No one else –
neither the suspects nor any of the victims – were injured. The Florida
Highway Patrol is investigating the car accident.