Handcuffed Suspect Flees Patrol Car

A suspected, arrested for active warrants, fled deputy custody after he was handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol unit.

Jimarie Travis Whitehead was eventually apprehended and has a bond for $23,130. Charges include resisting arrest, failure to register as a sex offender, escaping from law enforcement custody and petit larceny. 

According to a Dorchester County Sheriff's Office incident report, on Sept. 21, deputies went to arrest Whitehead for active warrants and were aware that he "would run and usually runs through the woods" at Cedars Apartments.

But as deputies attempted to apprehend Whitehead, he allegedly evaded them and jumped a privacy fence, damaging it, according to the report. A deputy was able to apprehend him. 

Handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol car, deputies left the suspect alone to talk to the owner of the fence about the damage. It was then that Whitehead allegedly opened the backdoor to the cruiser and ran, handcuffed, to the woods. Deputies pursued, but lost him. A K-9 was deployed but the track was lost behind Willow Trace Apartments. 

Whitehead was booked three days later.

According to the report, only the patrol unit's rear passenger door was unlocked.