Martin County Sheriff William Snyder Talks Apprehending The Suspect In Trump Shooting Attempt

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The Martin County Sheriff's department put "all their resources" into locating the suspect after receiving an alert from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's department ... Sheriff Snyder confirmed Monday.

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00:00Tell us how long this chase went on, because my understanding is when you guys tracked

00:06him down, which we've seen now on the body cam footage, he was about 50 miles north of

00:14the golf course?

00:15Right at about 155, we got notification from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office that

00:21a suspect was heading our way.

00:23They gave us a vehicle description, the tag description, operating under the assumption

00:28that he had fired at the president.

00:29We picked that car up, right at about the mile marker 92 and 995, and then followed

00:36it.

00:37It came into our county, I'm sorry, and then we followed it for about two miles, and then

00:42using what we call a pit maneuver or a pinch, we forced the vehicle to a stop on 995 and

00:50made the arrest.

00:52You would expect this person maybe to put up some order of a fight, and it seems like

00:56he just went very easily with you guys.

00:58We were somewhat taken aback.

01:00I was.

01:01I got there just right after the stop.

01:03He was as casual as if he was going to a late night or an early Sunday night church service.

01:08He never asked why he was being stopped.

01:10He offered no explanation, didn't ask what were all the police doing out there.

01:15I mean, we had 30 deputies, lots of long rifles, 995 closed in both direction, helicopter overhead.

01:22Not a word out of him, like, what's going on?

01:25That's what made me think when I saw that, I said, he knows what time it is, and he knows

01:28exactly why he's being stopped.

01:31There must have been a lot of pressure on you guys to make sure it got done correctly,

01:37given what had happened two months earlier.

01:39Well, we had a lot of pressure.

01:41Certainly, he wasn't getting out of this county, that's for sure.

01:43We had a green light.

01:44We would have done anything we had to to stop him, and then, of course, the pressure on

01:49releasing information.

01:50I knew that the public was hungry for information, and so I have not tampered it down.

01:58I released it the same.

01:59We had the suspect, the person of interest, and that he was in custody.

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