Lee County Sheriff's Office

Florida man in overturned vehicle asks deputies for cigarette following pursuit.

Lee County Sheriff's Office released body camera video showing the moment a fleeing driver requested a cig from deputies after his vehicle crashed.

The October 18th incident began when a driver ran a red light.

Deputies attempted to traffic stop, but the suspect fled, drove over a median into oncoming traffic.

How heavily do the federal agencies or the Secret Service in particular rely on local law enforcement? Very obviously.

you have a Lee County Sheriff's office, but, uh, FTC, you also has its own, uh, like law enforcement.

Yeah.

Uh, and, and the port authority police that have the airport and the state and the state police and the, uh, Florida law enforcement, the state folks, everybody will be involved in protection and security of the president, whether it's running leads or running routes on the roads and leading motorcades.

Both people suffered life-threatening injuries, according to the release.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office was assisted by the Dixon Police Department, Dixon Rural Fire Department, Dixon City Fire Department, and Advance EMS Ambulance Services.

The cause of the collision remains under investigation.

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He swerved violently until the creature was thrown off.

Now, when Davis reported the incident to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, his genuine terror and the physical evidence on his car convinced deputies to take him seriously.

The vehicle had deep scratches and claw marks on its roof, and a side-view mirror was badly damaged.

The story was picked up by the local press and quickly went national, igniting Lizard Man Fever.

He got the spare on, got the flat and the jack back in the trunk, and was closing the trunk when he heard something behind him.

What happened next comes from Davis himself, told first to his parents that night and later to the Lee County Sheriff.

He heard a thumping sound, and he turned around and looked back across the field beside the road, and something was running across it toward him.

It was about twenty-five yards away when he saw it, and it was running upright on two legs.

For two weeks, the Davis family kept the whole thing in the house, and the car with the scratched roof sat in the yard, and nobody outside the family knew that anything had happened on Brown Town Road at all.

That changed because of another car.

On the evening of the fourteenth of July, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office got a call from Brown Town.

Tom and Mary Way had come out that morning to find their 1985 Ford torn up in their own yard.

He swerved violently until the creature was thrown off.

Now, when Davis reported the incident to the Lee County Sheriff's Office, his genuine terror and the physical evidence on his car convinced deputies to take him seriously.

The vehicle had deep scratches and claw marks on its roof, and a side-view mirror was badly damaged.

The story was picked up by the local press and quickly went national, igniting lizard man fever.

Now she's facing a felony charge, and the reader who sent her there was someone she never meant to show it to.

Carly Michelle Heller of Bonita Springs was arrested after investigators found she wrote on September 26th that she would, quote, shoot up the Lee County Sheriff's Office, according to the local WINK News.

Per investigators, Her Klon account showed conversations saying that she had gotten a new gun by that next day.

The arrest report says Anthropix platform monitors for key phrases and threatening content.

Oh, no.

On September 26th, 27th of 2026, Heller wrote entries to Claude stating that she had planned to shoot up the Lee County Sheriff's Office and later mentioning that she bought a new gun or buying a new gun.

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