FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – A man and a woman driving a U-Haul were arrested Monday after an “intense” standoff with Flagler County deputies, according to sheriff’s officials.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said it received a report of a suspicious vehicle in the area of North Ocean Shore Boulevard and Camino Del Mar Parkway in Flagler Beach.
Video released by the sheriff’s office shows a deputy approaching a U-Haul parked under a bridge with the driver’s door open.
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“Sheriff’s office. Hello?” the deputy says before the driver’s door slams and the U-Haul begins to take off.
The sheriff’s office said the deputy overheard a woman’s voice yelling about money when he was approaching the vehicle. Deputies were later able to conduct a traffic stop near North Ocean Shore Boulevard and Island Estates Parkway before the driver fled south on State Road A1A.
Flagler Beach police used stop sticks to successfully disable the car, deputies said, but the two occupants in the vehicle — identified as 48-year-old May Ling Ip and 40-year-old Jamie Allen Mays — refused to exit the vehicle for over an hour.
At one point in the video, Ip is seen brushing her teeth while she and Mays refused to get out of the vehicle.
The sheriff’s office then deployed distraction devices to get the two out of the vehicle.
“When the suspects refused, they utilized less-lethal devices to break the side mirrors and a Shatterball (a thrown spiked ball device) to break the driver’s-side window. The SWAT Team then deployed aerosol spray through the broken window, after which Ip exited the truck and ran toward the beach,” the sheriff’s office said.
Video shows the two suspects hiding underneath clothing or blankets in the front of the U-Haul while deputies deployed those devices.
Ip tried running away toward the beach before she was taken down by a K-9. Mays was taken into custody after exiting the U-Haul.
Ip faces charges of fleeing and eluding with lights and sirens activated, resisting arrest without violence, battery on a law enforcement officer, attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of marijuana (less than 20 grams).
Mays faces charges of resisting arrest without violence.
The sheriff’s office said the two are “no strangers to law enforcement;” Ip’s criminal history includes drug possession and Mays is a registered sex offender for lewd and lascivious battery ages 12-15 and has a history of drug possession and battery, according to deputies.
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