Army trainee who abducted busload of kids adds to his woes by trying to escape jail
Former Army trainee Jovan Collazo
From Army Times;
A South Carolina Army trainee charged with hijacking a school bus full of children is likely to face new charges after failed escape attempts, according to authorities.
Earlier this month, Jovan Collazo, 23, assaulted a guard at the Richland County jail and tried to escape, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott told The State newspaper. Collazo broke his ankle during that incident and was taken to a hospital, from which he also tried to escape, Lott said.
“We have additional charges that we’ll eventually be placing on him,” Lott told the newspaper.
According to an incident report Lott read to the paper, Collazo was being moved to a restraint chair when he pushed a guard away, ran for a door, then up stairs to a higher floor. From a railing, Collazo jumped to the floor below, landing on his feet and then his side, the report said.
Fielding Pringle, Collazo’s defense attorney, told the paper Thursday her client was not trying to escape during the incident, which happened while he was handcuffed, on suicide watch and unclothed.
Authorities said then that Collazo — a trainee at Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army’s largest basic training facility, in Columbia — ran from the post with an Army-issued M4 rifle.
Collazo went to a nearby bus stop where children were waiting to be taken to Forest Lake Elementary School, boarded the bus, but told the driver he did not to hurt anyone, just to be driven to the next town, authorities said.
Some of the 18 students on the bus used cellphones to let parents know what was happening, Lott said. After some of the children asked repeatedly if Collazo planned to hurt them or the driver, the trainee “got a little frustrated” and ordered the bus stopped, allowing the driver and children to get off, Lott said.
Collazo drove the bus several miles before abandoning it, with the rifle inside. Spotted by deputies, he was arrested without incident, according to the sheriff.
Poor kid can’t seem to do anything right. Thanks to Jeff LPH 3 for the tip.
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Dude just really wants to get home and buy his 2021 Belmar beach badge before they are all sold out.
And yeah, NJ is everyone’s favorite punchline, until you see the Garden State Parkway southbound starting Friday afternoon before Memorial day, where it is jam packed full of Bennys escaping NY and North Jersey to invade the Jersey Shore.
Belmar Beach badges are about $70 for the season or pay $9 per day. Major GSP driving hazards on Friday’s are Benny’s and people trying to get to Lakewood before sunset. NJ is a beautiful state with some great people, unfortunately many of them continue to elect thieves year after year. Now that my youngest is out of the house, I’m making plans to head South, and I’ll be the Benny!!!
Thank you for your service.
Hunter
lol…love it.
Perhaps he was looking for answers?
Fielding Pringle? mm’kay Wasn’t trying to escape? Maybe he was practicing his basic training lessons of always trying to capture the higher ground? Handcuffed and nekkid is no way to go thru life.
Dude getting his “mentally deficient” defense in order.
Well, he’s consistent.
If I am captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.
who else suspects there is a foreign gang allegiance in this turd’s life?
Somewhere in New Jersey, there’s a recruiter purging his files of any contact with this fuckstick.
Whoever recruited that little poodle shit into the US Army needs to be held accountable for that!
Word.
I don’t even think this turd could cut it at All-Points Logistics.
Is The Stunning Agency hiring? He looks like has plenty of prior experience lighting squirrels on fire.
Where is he trying to escape TO?
We can help fix that, but our way. In any direction he chooses.
BRING UP THE TREBUCHET!!
He wasn’t trying to escape. He wanted to blow the whistle on “Correction Officer incompetence” and mismanagement in his block. He aimed to run across 20 miles of civilian territory to get to a Starbuck’s from where he could telephone the Sheriff and inform him about what was going on at the jail.
(^__*)
Retard… which, especially applied to him, insults the slow.
It is ok to be slower than the rest. It is not ok to be stupid.
One has what one has, but to willfully not make constructive use of it… you got it.
Which is why if given a choice between working with a stupid person or a lazy person, I’ll take the stupid one every time.
He does not appear to be the sharpest knife in the drawer, nor the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Why Go big. When you can go Bigger
That mark on his forehead ain’t no tat…yet
Fucking up fast and picking up speed.
He just wanted to make sure that he is available to attend the upcoming Army Birthday Ball.
BHWHAHAHAHA !!!!!!
😜🤪🤨🧐😁😄😃😀😅😂😆
No need to hate on the army
No hate for The Army, but the Sergeant Major expects every soldier in the command to attend.
He does.
And the SMA is proud of them all.
Every GI has a “no shit” story about a Basic Training Fuckup who exasperated the Drill Instructors/Sergeants and his/her fellow recruits. In 30 yo ears there is going to a retired Master Sergeant sitting in the VFW, and when some guy finishes his story, the Master Sergeant is going to say “Did I ever tell you about Recruit Jovan Collazo?”
“NO SHIT, THERE I WAS in Basic Training with this one very brainless shit…”
Huh. We had “UA” guy, “Fraudulent Enlistment” guy, and “Sir, this Private refuses to train!” guy. Yea, I got nothing on former recruit Jovan Collazo. May his next attempt be a face plant vice ankle break…
I knew a few rocks with lips.
Had one clown (he washed out) that was on wife #3 and he was 17 years old.
What a fucking clown.
Developed the asthma, a heart condition and a “heart at attack” about 20 minutes after exiting the cattle trucks.
Guess the MEPPS docs missed those as well.
His dedication to SERE inspires awe. Promote this Warrior – post haste!
Belmar Beach badges are about $70 for the season or pay $9 per day. Major GSP driving hazards on Friday’s are Benny’s and people trying to get to Lakewood before sunset. NJ is a beautiful state with some great people, unfortunately many of them continue to elect thieves year after year. Now that my youngest is out of the house, I’m making plans to move South, and I’ll be the Benny!!!
I wonder if Bubba & Thor have cornholed him in the shower yet, or was that the reason for his escape attempt?
Mr. “Tiny” got to him first… followed by Julio and the rest of Cell Block “C”
How long until miscreant Mr Collazo, while being profiled for a crime he didn’t commit, is described by the media as a “former soldier with weapons training” (and SERE)?
He did try to take his M4 with him.
Slept with that motherfucker under his pillow he did.
The enemy was always around the corner and waiting…..
Got an odd feeling that this is about to be the case where he is headed….