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Police: Flagler County detective caught speeding 88 MPH, arrested for fleeing

A detective with the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office was arrested on Thursday after Ormond Beach Police said he was actively trying to flee from officials.

Detective Ardit Coma, 28, was arrested Thursday morning, Dec. 4, for a traffic violation, which the sheriff’s office defined as “fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer.” Coma was arrested in Ormond Beach by Ormond Beach Police.

Coma was driving around 88 miles per hour on N. U.S. Highway 1 in Volusia County, an arrest affidavit said. An officer initiated a traffic stop behind Coma at an intersection and activated his lights and siren, the affidavit said. Coma continued north – failing to yield – and accelerated around traffic, police said.

“It was apparent the vehicle was actively attempting to flee,” the affidavit said.

As Coma passed another Ormond Beach officer, he was traveling 90 miles per hour, the affidavit said. Coma avoided the department’s stopsticks.

When officers conducted a felony stop on Coma, they observed his uniform, indicating he was law enforcement. Coma asked the officers what was going on, to which they told him he was under arrest for fleeing and eluding. Coma said he didn’t know an officer was behind him trying to pull him over.

Coma – who joined the sheriff’s office in June 2023 and currently serves in the Major Case Unit – was in an unmarked agency-issued vehicle and was on his way to work when the incident occurred, the sheriff’s office said. Coma was immediately suspended without pay.

Coma previously received a life-saving award in 2024.

“Sheriff Rick Staly expects our employees to follow the law and when a deputy’s alleged actions rise to the level of an arrest, we act swiftly, as this type of behavior is not representative of the values or expectations of the Sheriff’s Office,” Mark Strobridge, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office’s Chief of Staff said in a released statement. “We also believe in the criminal justice system which provides Detective Coma due process just like anyone else.”

The Ormond Beach Police Department is conducting the investigation.

Once the criminal case is completed, the FCSO Professional Standards Unit will conduct an internal investigation, the sheriff’s office said.

At this time, Detective Coma is suspended without pay and has no law enforcement authority.

Source; FOX 35 Orlando

Prison Drone Delivers Steak Dinner And Weed, Gets Intercepted Before Thanksgiving Feast

South Carolina prison officers on Sunday seized a drone that dropped a package stuffed with steak, crab legs, marijuana and cigarettes into the yard at Lee Correctional Institution, officials said.

The Department of Corrections posted a photo of the haul on X and said staff nabbed the drone and the “holiday” spread before inmates could grab it; investigators are working the case and no arrests have been announced.

“I’m guessing the inmates who were expecting the package are crabby,” prisons spokeswoman Chrysti Shain told the Associated Press.

A photo shared by corrections officials shows a raw steak in supermarket wrapping, crab legs with a tin of Old Bay, plastic baggies of marijuana and cartons of cigarettes; the drone was confiscated on the spot, according to the agency’s X post. Using drones to float contraband over fences has become a persistent problem for prisons nationwide. In South Carolina, merely flying a drone near a prison is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 30 days in jail; dropping contraband is a felony carrying as much as 10 years behind bars, the AP reported.

The department’s post suggested someone was angling for an early holiday crab boil and steak dinner — but the feast never happened thanks to sharp-eyed staff at the maximum-security lockup about 60 miles east of Columbia.

AW1Ed is very relieved, I’m sure, that they didn’t forget the Old Bay.

Source; Daily Caller

Emails show Ellison wanted taxpayers to cover his commutes to and from Harvard fellowshipEmails show Ellison wanted taxpayers to cover his commutes to and from Harvard fellowship

Internal emails obtained by 5 INVESTIGATES reveal outgoing city council member Jeremiah Ellison asked, through an aide, to use city funds to pay for flights between Harvard and Minneapolis to attend city council meetings twice a month.

The emails, which have not been reported, were recently released through a public records request. They give a behind-the-scenes look at a tumultuous time on the city council that is still frustrating some constituents.

The city clerk ultimately denied the request, and in a text message, Ellison called this report “flimsy” and a “non-story.”

5 EYEWITNESS NEWS reporter Jay Kolls first broke the story this summer that Ellison accepted a fellowship at Harvard University that required him to move.

Ellison has long maintained that he can do both and that he’s still working full time from afar. But his decision caught some on the council off guard.

“He cannot effectively helicopter in once in a while to vote on important city issues,” Linea Palmisano said in one meeting.

Ellison still earns his $110,000 salary from the city on top of a $57,000 stipend from Harvard.

Now, 5 INVESTIGATES obtained internal emails from July showing Ellison’s office requested the “Ward 5 budget to cover travel expenses…” specifically “round trip travel between Minneapolis and Boston” so Ellison could attend city council meetings every other week from August to the end of the year.

In response to Ellison’s request, the city clerk acknowledged the prestigious program but said it’s a “personal professional development opportunity” and “travel for this purpose is not allowed.”

“It’s very disconcerting,” said Kim Smith, an Ellison constituent in Ward 5.

“As a retired math teacher, I can’t imagine asking my students to pay for me to commute to and from school,” she said. “We are his constituents.”

Smith’s neighbor, Eva Young, was relieved to hear it didn’t go through.

“I also am glad that the city rejected that request, so it does show that their financial guardrails worked,” Young said.

Back in September, the council reassigned his committees to other members because of his expected absences.

But he said he intended to be around for full council meetings.

“You’ll certainly see me at council meetings barring some kind of emergency,” Ellison told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS reporter Eric Chaloux. “You’ll certainly see me at full council.”

But a review of council attendance records shows he’s missed five of the 11 meetings ever since he accepted the Harvard fellowship.

Ellison’s term ends in January.

In a string of text messages, Ellison called this report a “hit piece” and refused to do an interview unless 5 INVESTIGATES proved it was somehow in the public’s interest.

He also appeared to defend the travel request, saying it’s travel between his urban planning education and his urban planning-relevant job.

Source; KSTP

FBI: Man, woman drive to police station with Homeland Security agent trapped in vehicle

A man and a woman are facing charges of assaulting a federal officer after Homeland Security Investigations agents tried to arrest the man Wednesday for overstaying his student visa.

In an affidavit in support of the criminal complaint against Oluwadamilola Ogooluwa Bamigboye and Rekeya Lionesha Lee Frazier, FBI Special Agent Terry Getsch writes that the HSI agents were inside an unmarked Ford Explorer SUV surveilling Bamigboye’s Kia Optima, which was parked outside an apartment complex in Plymouth, Minn.

Frazier, 23, pulled up next to the Kia in a Jeep SUV with Bamigboye, 24, in the front passenger seat. When Bamigboye spotted the unmarked Explorer, he allegedly pulled a mask over his face and got out of the Jeep.

According to the FBI affidavit, the HSI agents walked up to the Jeep, displayed their badges, identified themselves as law enforcement officers and told Bamigboye that they wanted to talk about his immigration status.

Bamigboye then allegedly jumped into the Jeep’s back seat and yelled at Frazier to drive away.

One of the HSI agents got into the front seat of the Jeep in an effort to stop Frazier while Bamigboye tried to push him out and a second agent tried to pull Bamigboye out of the back seat.

Frazier allegedly put the vehicle in gear and drove off. The HSI agent “was now being involuntarily carried in the Jeep as it drove,” according to the FBI.

The HSI agent tried to put the Jeep in park, but Frazier continually pushed his hand away, allegedly threatened to crash the car and said that they were taking him to a police station.

The agent, who’s assigned to another HSI office and is in Minnesota on “temporary detail for an operation,” is unfamiliar with the Twin Cities, did not know where they were going, and “was in fear that he was being abducted.”

From the back seat, Bamigboye called 911, a detail confirmed in an incident report from the Plymouth Police Department. HSI agents pursued the Jeep from close behind with their lights and sirens on, “at one point inadvertently hitting it from behind in the snow.”

Even after the agent inside Frazier’s Jeep drew his gun and ordered her to pull over, she allegedly continued driving and stopped only after reaching the New Hope Police Department.

According to the affidavit, Bamigboye jumped out and ran into a Hy-Vee grocery store across the street while Frazier remained in her vehicle and was arrested only after other police officers arrived.

Another HSI agent chased Bamigboye into the Hy-Vee, where a police officer found him in the back of the store, pulled out a taser, and ordered Bamigboye to get on the ground. When Bamigboye allegedly refused, the HSI agent “took Bamigboye to the ground and arrested him.”

Both are being held in the Sherburne County Jail, where most federal defendants in the Twin Cities are held while in pretrial detention.

Frazier declined to speak to investigators. In an interview with authorities, Bamigboye allegedly denied that the agents showed their badges, but admitted telling Frazier to drive away. According to the affidavit, Bamigboye also said that he has PTSD from being kidnapped in his native Nigeria.

Source; MPR News

Man charged after using wife’s Homeland Security vehicle to pose as officer: Police

A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged after police said he used his wife’s Homeland Security-marked vehicle and posed as a federal officer while responding to a police call.

According to the Washington Township Police Department in Gloucester County, on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, just before 2 p.m., officers were called to Strand Avenue for a property check after a person reported that a home under construction had a front door open.

Police said that when officers arrived on scene, a marked Homeland Security vehicle also arrived at the same time.

A man, now identified as Nicholas M. Cabral, of Sewell, Washington Township, exited the Dodge Charger Homeland Security vehicle and identified himself to the responding officers as a Homeland Security officer, according to police.

Police said that Cabral then attempted to assist the officers at the scene in clearing the residence while armed, holding a handgun.

Although he possessed a valid New Jersey permit to carry, police said a follow-up investigation revealed that Cabral is not employed by Homeland Security, any federal law enforcement agency, or police department.

Further investigation revealed that Cabral had been operating a marked Homeland Security Police vehicle belonging to his wife, who is employed by Homeland Security as a police officer and was out of state on a duty assignment.

Police said data showed the Homeland Security vehicle was driven with emergency lights activated and also went to the Wendy’s Restaurant while Cabral’s wife was away on assignment.

Homeland Security now has possession of the vehicle, according to police.

As a result of this incident, a warrant was issued for Cabral, who then turned himself in on Thursday, December 11, 2025.

Police said Cabral has been charged with impersonating a police officer and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.

Cabral was lodged in the Salem County Jail, according to police. The firearm Cabral had was seized following a search.

“Impersonating a police officer is an extremely serious offense and presents significant risk. The safety of our Washington Twp. police officers and the public remains our number one priority,” the Washington Township Police Department wrote in a news release.

Anyone with additional information or potential impersonation encounters is urged to contact Detective Anthony Aquilino at 856-589-0330 or at araquilino@pd.twp.washington.nj.us.

Source; NBC Philadelphia

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