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January 14, 2018

Baker, FL – A Couple days before December 19, 2017, FWC Officers Trueblood and Rockwell responded to a call regarding suspected illegal camping in the Blackwater Wildlife Management Area (WMA). The officers made contact with three subjects in a creek-side camp where they had illegally accessed the campsite via a closed road.

While addressing the violation, deputies from Escambia County, Alabama, arrived to question the same three subjects about multiple burglaries and thefts. The two FWC officers and Alabama deputies found more than $10,000 in reported stolen property out of Alabama. The Alabama deputies used these findings to obtain an arrest warrant for Louis Allen Scott.

On Tuesday, December 19, 2017, an Escambia County, Alabama, deputy attempted to conduct a traffic stop on Scott in an attempt to serve the six felony warrants. Scott fled from the Alabama deputy and crossed the state line into Blackwater WMA where he bailed out of his truck and ran into the forest.

Okaloosa Correctional Institute (OCI) K-9 team arrived and deployed their man-tracking team, with Officer Ramos and an Okaloosa County deputy. Lieutenant Hahr, and Officers Jernigan, Wilkenson, Lugg, and Roberson joined the effort and set up checkpoints in the surrounding area in conjunction with the Sheriff’s Office. The joint OCI K-9 team tracked the subject for more than five miles through the forest before turning the track over to the Santa Rosa County Corrections K-9 team.

Officer Cushing joined the K-9 team on the foot chase and they tracked Scott for several more miles before the he was taken into custody without incident.

Scott’s apprehension was an example of cooperative law enforcement work between FWC, Escambia County, Alabama Sheriff’s Office, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, OCI K 9 team and the Santa Rosa County Corrections K-9 team.

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