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Deputy Sheriff Samuel Kimmel – Martin County Sheriffs Office Deputy Kimmel attempts to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle that missed a stop sign. The vehicle slows down, but decides to pick it back up while turning into a nearby neighborhood. Kimmel stays with the alluding suspect following it through a neighborhood on to a main road until the pursuit is called off. K9, alongside a backing deputy, spot the suspect’s vehicle cutting through a shopping center. Another attempt to stop the vehicle fails as the suspect drives away while deputies were exiting their vehicles. The tag comes back to an address nearby so deputies are able to get in the area, anticipating the suspect’s arrival home. Upon approaching the suspect’s last know address, yelling and screaming coming from the address can be heard from the outside. Kimmel strategically ducks behind bushes and waits for the suspect to walk out. As the suspect eventually does, he walks with keys in hand to the vehicle that had just fled. Deputy Kimmel and K9 Albauer are able to ID and detain the alluding suspect. The man is shocked and claims to have been missing his car for a few days and that he has been home with his nana all night. He admits to be out on bond for a previous traffic infraction. The man sticks to his story that doesn’t add up and is charged with aggravated fleeing and alluding