Shocking Moment a Suspect LEAPS Off Bridge to Escape Police

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When officers tried to detain a man matching the description of a recent armed robbery suspect, he made a shocking decision — leaping off a bridge into the water to escape. This dramatic bodycam footage shows the intense search, marine unit response, and eventual water rescue and arrest.  Authorities say the man was wanted for allegedly robbing someone at knifepoint for a scooter earlier that morning. During the encounter, the suspect admitted to being on the run, using drugs, and attempting to evade capture due to an outstanding warrant.  Watch the full sequence of events as officers coordinate a multi-unit response, recover the suspect safely, and uncover the truth behind the robbery. Viewer discretion is advised.  🕵️‍♂️ Charges:  Armed Robbery  Resisting Arrest  Outstanding Warrant  👮‍♂️ Credits: All footage is used for educational and awareness purposes. All rights belong to the original content creators.   🔔 Subscribe for more real incidents and police bodycam footage.  Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@policecamjustice Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policecamjustice Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/policecamjustice Dailymotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/policecamjustice

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00:00Am I being detained?

00:02Have a seat. Yes, you're being detained.

00:04Have a seat.

00:12Hello sir, how are you?

00:14Mind if we holler at you for a few minutes?

00:18Where are you coming from?

00:22Can you have a seat for me?

00:24Have a seat. Yes, you're being detained.

00:26He's in the water. This is going to be him on the bridge.

00:33Ocean unit, are you able to respond over here?

00:39While officers may be stunned at the moment,

00:41they're about to initiate a manhunt for this suspect as that same morning,

00:45a male matching his description robbed someone for their scooter at knife point.

00:49We're under the east side of the bridge.

00:52He can't go far, so we'll just need somebody at the eastbound side of the bridge.

00:59All right, so you confirm that's going to be our guy?

01:01Yeah, he has the matching ear tattoo and everything.

01:03As soon as we told him he was detained, he hopped over to the side.

01:06I have access to the boat if you want me to put it in.

01:09Are you sure you still have eyes on him?

01:11No, he's underneath the bridge.

01:14Are you sure he didn't train him?

01:16I don't think so.

01:17I might take the county guy with me.

01:19Dex, you want to get on our boat with us?

01:22Sure.

01:23You got your trunks on?

01:25Goddammit.

01:26That's his hat floating in the water right there, so he's still got to be right here.

01:32I'm going to get Dex to come with me since he's one of the ocean units.

01:36Somebody get on the PA and keep giving him...

01:39Get on the PA and tell him to go to the east side, the suspect.

01:44Where did he jump in the water at?

01:45Right here.

01:46All right, he ain't going to be able to swim all the way over there.

01:48Are you aware of that?

01:49Are you going to try to walk out this way?

01:51Oh, no, I'm going to get the boat.

01:53Is he walking already?

01:54Yeah, that's about where the light pole is.

01:56He's got to be deep in the water.

01:58Oh, that's Carmen.

02:00Carmen, be careful.

02:01Carmen and him, the bike units are underneath a bridge.

02:04Hop in your car.

02:06Dax, if you want to follow me.

02:07Yeah, go see that.

02:08Roger Smith.

02:09Has anybody required eyes on him yet?

02:12Still working on it.

02:14We might see him over here on the east side.

02:16We're still walking towards him.

02:17I believe it was confirmed robbery.

02:19All right, and also they weren't.

02:21We're still working.

02:22What's going on up there?

02:23Why is the bridge closed?

02:24Oh, it was an armed robbery.

02:25You got to jump in the water.

02:26Yeah.

02:27Yeah.

02:28Get in this compartment.

02:29There's life jackets in there.

02:30Right here.

02:31Yeah.

02:32Right here, sir.

02:33I'm just going to tell it to me.

02:34I'm just going to tell it to me.

02:35Oh, it was an armed robbery.

02:36You got to jump in the water.

02:37Of course.

02:38Yeah.

02:39Get in this compartment.

02:54There's life jackets in there.

02:55I just, uh, I was just yelling to me.

02:57I know it's women's self now.

03:11Life jacket on for you.

03:12Alright, when he comes on the boat, you have to put him in handcuffs and then that orange

03:32life jacket's got to go on him.

03:35There's a ladder on the back of this boat, so Dex, if you want to go to the back of the

03:41boat with him.

03:42Hey, put your hands in the air!

03:43Put them both up!

03:44We're in the coast stand, we're going to go ahead and drop that ladder.

03:57Come here.

03:58Help me behind you.

03:59Hey, come here.

04:00You got anything on you?

04:02You got a knife or anything?

04:04Come here.

04:05I think she didn't look cool.

04:10It's in my right pocket, sir.

04:11Where?

04:12In my right pocket, sir.

04:13How much money does this cost?

04:14Got anything else on you?

04:15Something illegal, sir.

04:16Any other weapons?

04:17I don't think so.

04:18He's breathing fine.

04:19I'm good.

04:20I'm good.

04:21I'm good.

04:22Roll up on your right side.

04:23Sit up on your butt.

04:24Put a life jacket on so you're nice and safe.

04:25Alright, watch your head.

04:26It's coming over.

04:27Looks like a babe.

04:28That's what I thought it was too.

04:29It is a babe.

04:30It is.

04:31It's around his neck.

04:32Yeah, yeah.

04:33Take it off.

04:34Hey, what were you thinking?

04:35That wasn't smart.

04:36Thank you for not making me get in the water after you.

04:37Well, I made a couple of, yeah, a couple other officers might not feel the same way.

04:51Yeah, that's our mistake.

04:52That was silly.

04:53It did a little crazy.

04:54I didn't get to see you jump.

04:55I'll watch the camera on that.

04:56It was just like the most action you get, dude.

04:57I mean, definitely this water.

04:58Yeah.

04:59All right, you ready?

05:00Yep.

05:01You ready?

05:02Yep.

05:03You ready?

05:04Yep.

05:05You ready?

05:06Yep.

05:07You ready?

05:08Yep.

05:09You ready?

05:10Yep.

05:11Yep.

05:12You ready?

05:13Yep.

05:14Yep.

05:15Yep.

05:16Yep.

05:17Yep.

05:18Yep.

05:19Yep.

05:20Yep.

05:21Just get up.

05:26Over.

05:29All right, step up.

05:30We're gonna walk right up there.

05:32Once you get up there, we'll take your lights jacket on.

05:34Hello, sir.

05:35How you doing?

05:36Good.

05:37Over there.

05:38All right.

05:39Let me read you something real quick.

05:41You have the right to remain silent.

05:43Anything you say may be used as evidence against you.

05:45Do you understand these rights?

05:46Yes sir.

05:47Do you wish to talk to us right now?

05:48Put these rights in life?

05:49I can't incriminate me any more than I'm already incriminated.

05:53Anybody got any drugs?

05:55Cigarette?

05:57Officers have the robbery victim with them in a nearby squad car.

06:00Now that they've recovered the suspect's knife, they ask the victim if it was the same knife the suspect used to rob him.

06:06The blade? Is it exactly the one, like the blade?

06:10I can definitely say for sure.

06:12Can you pull it, like, open it up?

06:15Yeah.

06:16Yeah?

06:17So, are you positive identified that knife?

06:19Yeah.

06:20Okay.

06:21Hey, did he agree to speak?

06:22Yeah.

06:23Hey, buddy.

06:24What's that, sir?

06:25Did he say anything about...

06:26We didn't talk anything, we just met him right there.

06:28He just woke up and said something.

06:29So, you know what we're talking about?

06:31See?

06:32So, what's going on, my friend?

06:34I'm just fucking drug the fuck out.

06:37Oh, drug the fuck out?

06:38Right?

06:39I mean, who the fuck down?

06:40Did you steal the scooter?

06:43I didn't steal nothing.

06:45You didn't steal nothing.

06:46I stole some drugs.

06:47Why did you run, then?

06:48Because I'm on the run.

06:49I got a warrant, sir.

06:50Oh, you got a warrant?

06:51But listen, what fucked me up was, I went on the bridge.

06:55Y'all kept passing, and normally, normally I can slide past a couple of y'all.

06:59Wait, I'm fucking homeless.

07:00I'm out here walking the streets and shit.

07:02Eventually, I'm gonna get picked up.

07:03I'm surprised it lasted this fucking long.

07:05Okay.

07:06But no, no, no, I'm stealing nothing.

07:07So, what did you do, like, approximately, pop in the morning?

07:09What were you doing?

07:10Uh, drugs.

07:11You were doing drugs?

07:12I don't know.

07:13Five o'clock in the morning.

07:14Yeah.

07:15When the sun comes up?

07:16Yeah, before.

07:17It was dark.

07:18Oh, I was at Holly Hill.

07:20You were at Holly Hill?

07:21Yeah.

07:22What were you doing at Holly Hill, my friend?

07:23Drugs, man.

07:24Drugs.

07:25So, the reason that we're making contact with you, my friend, is...

07:29Because there was an incident, Baloo, B-Suite...

07:32Oh, to the T, my friend, to the T.

07:34A stolen scooter with a knife.

07:38And I got a knife.

07:40Oh, fuck, boy.

07:41Yeah.

07:42So, let me answer this question, and be honest with me, man.

07:45Honestly, nah, no steal.

07:46No steal nothing.

07:47You didn't steal anything?

07:48No, no sir.

07:49Okay.

07:50So, you didn't steal anything?

07:51You didn't grab a scooter?

07:52If I did anything wrong, it was, I didn't get enough money for drugs from me and my girlfriend,

07:58dog.

07:59And I apologize.

08:00So, you said that you didn't take anything?

08:03You didn't take...

08:04Listen.

08:05If I was out this morning, I was shooting up drugs with my girlfriend.

08:09Where?

08:10He sucks dick.

08:11Where?

08:12I got in a fight with a dude on a scooter, but I didn't take nobody's scooter, bro.

08:15I didn't deprive him anything.

08:16Okay.

08:17Talk to me about that fight in the scooter.

08:18Man, he...

08:19My girl was like tricking with him or something, bro.

08:21I don't know.

08:22This is embarrassing, bro.

08:23I don't want to talk about it, man.

08:24Okay.

08:25But now I'm getting...

08:26I robbed him at knife point for a scooter, but I don't want a scooter, bro.

08:30I don't...

08:31I just didn't want my girls tricking with him, dog.

08:33Be honest with me, man, Richard.

08:35Be honest with me, man.

08:36I'm trying to be as honest as I can, man.

08:38You...

08:39Did you take the scooter?

08:40I didn't take nothing from the man.

08:42Sure.

08:43It doesn't matter what I say, because...

08:46Guilty until proven innocent.

08:48It is actually the reverse.

08:50Innocent until proven guilty.

08:52That's my fault.

08:53So...

08:54Okay, so listen.

08:55I didn't take nothing from this man.

08:57Okay.

08:58This man...

08:59So you're telling me...

09:00Because we have video.

09:02Can't have video of me taking anything from this man.

09:05Okay.

09:06Alrighty.

09:07So right now, you know that you're under arrest for the warrant.

09:09Yes, sir.

09:10Okay.

09:11You're under arrest for persisting.

09:12And...

09:13You are under arrest for armed robbery.

09:16Okay?

09:17Definitely.

09:18Okay.

09:19Thank you so much.

09:20Can I get a cigarette?

09:21I'll see.

09:22Uh...

09:23Give me a couple of minutes.

09:24Let me see if I can find one.

09:25Alright.

09:26He...

09:27Denies the scooter.

09:28The scooter.

09:29Denies armed robbery.

09:30But...

09:31But he had an iPhone.

09:32He had an iPhone.

09:33And the victim I did deny.

09:34And the victim I did him.

09:35And his girlfriend put him on scene with the victim prior to robbery happened.

09:39We have PC all over the place.

09:42Uh-huh.

09:43And we don't have the scooter.

09:44We don't have the scooter.

09:45The scooter's gonna be in the water.

09:46Probably.

09:47If he was in the water, that scooter's gonna be in the water.

09:49Um...

09:50Let me go over there and ask him.

09:51A couple of minutes, man.

09:52Just gotta get the scooter.

09:54Is it in the water?

09:56Um...

09:57Are you tucked it away?

09:59In the bushes?

10:00I really need to tuck my girlfriend.

10:03But just think about it and let us know.

10:07...to his warrant.

10:08This suspect was charged with resisting and armed robbery.

10:11He is innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.

10:14...

10:27Yes, sir?

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