BY DAN HILDEBRAN
The Bradford County Sheriff’s office said a traffic stop near Brooker on Friday night evolved into a two-day manhunt in which the defendant held three people at gunpoint.
The office said in a social media post that during the attempted traffic stop, Terrell Douglas led deputies on a chase down a dirt road to a cemetery, then fled on foot.
Later in the day, deputies received a tip that the 50-year-old was in a Brooker car shop.
“As initial deputies arrived,” the agency said, “three men exited the building and reported to deputies that Douglas had entered the shop with a firearm and held them at gunpoint, threatening to shoot them if they did not surrender their cellphones to him.”
As SWAT team members and deputies surrounded the structure, Douglas slipped out a back door and into the woods before a perimeter had been established.
On Saturday morning, Alachua and Bradford deputies followed a tip that the fugitive was in Waldo. However, officers were unable to locate him.
Deputies then tracked Douglas back to the Brooker car shop, where they apprehended him.
