Do not drink and lead.
A Florida man casually offered the deputies a Vodka Spritzer in the middle of a car persecution after he allegedly stole several articles from a convenience store, authorities said.
The deputies of the Highlands County Sheriff’s office responded to Spring Lake Market on Saturday after Richard Christopher Smith, 39, supposedly toks of a market, including several alcoholic beverages, and left.
When the deputies arrived, Smith fled in a vehicle, which caused a search, said the Sheriff’s office.
“It was a duration of this persecution when Smith Hero, a can of Ketel One, Vodka Spritz through the window while driving for a deputy trying to stop, tell the deputy ‘, I was just going to give you a drink, which is’ when passing,” he said, “he said.
“We don’t know if I hope we say” Health! “And let it go, or what.”
The persecution ended a few minutes later in the parking lot of a business at the Regional Airport of Sebring.
After his toast, Smith, a resident of Miami, tried two patrol vehicles, since his four tires were crushed by spike strips, police said.
He did not flinch as he tried calmly away from the scene, which was surrounded by deputies, while swelling a cigarette, authorities said.
“You had fun, he thought, right?” Hey asked them.
It was possible to prove in the midst of his smoke and arrested break.
Smith is accused of two positions of aggravated assault on an agent of the law, aggression against an agent of the law, two charges of resisting the trial, Diz, the refusal to submit to a Douse test and theft of Petit.
His bonus was set at $ 120,000.
