Copy. He's slowing down just north of me. >> The city is terminating. I see. Four people ran from police this summer. A cornfield in Wisconsin. A backyard pool near Tacoma. >> Hello. >> The woods of central Florida. >> Hey, your perimeter looks amazing. >> A store bathroom south of Seattle. >> Around his neck. He's carrying his jacket. It looks like August 17th, 2026, Fondelac County, Wisconsin. Earlier that day, according to the criminal complaint, FondeLac police tried to stop this car after it ran a stop sign. The driver took off and officers called off that chase for safety reasons. Just before 2:30, a sheriff's deputy finds the car again. What follows, according to the sheriff's office, is a chase of about 12 1/2 miles. County roads, Highway 45, and Highway 151. The driver is a 40-year-old Fondelac man. He's wanted on a Department of Corrections warrant for violating his probation. >> 156 was city able to identify the driver. According to the criminal complaint, the deputy estimates his speed at 115 to 130 mph. The complaint says he ran stop signs, passed in no passing zones, and nearly hit an oncoming car head on. >> Can you notify Dodge County, please? State Patrol. >> Units ahead set up sticks. Spiked strips laid across the road to puncture the tires. >> Confirming I approve spikes and I'll be heading to the area on the south side of the city. >> Copy 156 approve spikes. Pass side. I got him with spikes. I got him with spikes. >> The stop sticks are put down on County Road K. Shortly after he's on Highway 151 coming up to 45 at that location >> at 235 near exit 164. He jumps out. The sheriff's office says the car was still rolling. He leaves it in the lane of Highway 151. >> And the city is terminating. >> He heads for a neighborhood off Valley Creek Road with deputies on foot behind him. Minutes later, he runs back into a corn field. Inside the corn, deputies lose sight of him and according to the sheriff's office, call off the foot chase for safety reasons. here. 40 seconds. I got a >> man. SHOW ME YOUR HANDS. >> Run back to the cornfield. >> It will be nearly 4 hours before police see him again. The sheriff's office video skips the next 4 hours. Deputies set a perimeter around the field. Drones from the city and the sheriff's office search from above, but the corn is too dense. Multiple canine teams search the ground. Loudspeaker announcements go unanswered. Then around 6:30, he's spotted trying to leave the field near Reinhardt Road, and he runs back in. 5 hours in the corn with drones overhead. So, can you really hide from an eye in the sky? This summer, three other people tried. There's a unit in the Safeway parking lot 72 Portland. They can like hang tight here. There's a black Kia Optima that's getting ready to leave. It's Boy Henry S. >> August 13th, Pierce County, Washington. According to the sheriff's office, an autotheft task force spots a car with an invalid registration. All right, he's taking off westbound. Other than the tabs in the vehicle sold, did you say you identified this guy with a warrant? >> The driver takes off. A sergeant backs the deputies off and a state patrol plane call signm tracks the car instead. In 2021, 2023, and 2024, Washington changed its pursuit law. Officers still have to weigh the risk of the chase itself. >> He's going to be making a right-hand turn down the South M Street. He's stopping. He's bailing now. I'll stay with the driver. He's going to be continuing westbound into a driveway with a blue car. driveway in >> from above. The plane's thermal camera tracks him over a fence and a shed. >> He's going to be hopping a fence. >> He's going to be hopping a fence. Continuing westbound into the next neighborhood for the unit that just pulled up. He's going to be hopping the fence in that house right there off your driver's side. [music] >> He's on top of a shed. He's jumped to the neighbor's yard. Directly off your driver's door. 90 or south of me. >> He's going to be to the north of you now. If you pull to the next residence. Nope. Don't back up. Go straight. Go straight. Go straight. Go straight. >> He's going to be off of your driver's door now. That house there. He's in the backyard of that house. >> The car turns out not to be stolen. The driver is somewhere in these backyards. Uh, smoky fart for the units in the pool. There's a hot spot in the middle of the pool closest to the house side. >> A hot spot on a thermal camera. That means heat like a body. >> He came out from underneath the trampoline. Crawled in the side of the pool. >> Okay, we're in the backyard. We're in the backyard. >> Sheriff's department, if you're in here, make yourself known. >> Oh, yeah. Good call. >> [music] >> in the backyard with a pool. You're going to want to continue east now. There's another backyard with a pool on the other side. The fence you guys are on. >> Those are some thick brushes. >> Go over that property to the right. >> My dog will find you. He will bite you. G Sheriff's Office conduct an area search and police pay. Make friends know. My dog will find you. He will bite you. >> Announcements are made. He stays under the cover. >> Going up towards the >> ground. You're going to get bit or drown. >> Hands up. Both hands. >> Hands up. >> Both hands. >> Okay. >> Stand straight up. Stand straight up. All the way up. Hands above your head. in case that people >> when you're ready. I got second hand. >> It's just after 900 p.m. about half an hour after he bailed [music] out. The 37year-old is arrested for felony eluding, driving with a suspended license, and obstruction. We found no public record of charges being filed. He is presumed innocent. July 23rd, Deltona, Florida. The sheriff's helicopter, Air1, is already overhead. Continue on. >> Stay hit. >> 40. Got a steak hit. >> Bell out. Bell out. Bell out. Sorry. He's pulling into the backyard. Uh. >> Yep. Bell out. Bell out. We have a black male, white shirt, pants. Street, black, male, white shirt, pants. [music] He's in the backyard of A. He just ran to the wood line. >> Hey 40, your perimeter looks amazing. It uh it's locked down tight. X-ray 41's with them. No, it's saying X-ray 41 can >> on the ground. K9 Benny and deputies push into the brush. According to the sheriff's office, he tossed a backpack before he ran. Overhead, Air1 keeps watch on the perimeter. Show me your hand. >> Come out to me. I don't HAVE >> I DON'T CARE. COME out to me. Show me your hand. >> Pocket, buddy. >> Good pocket. Come out to me. >> Well, come out. >> I can see his hands. He's got a phone in one hand. >> GET YOUR HANDS UP. >> KEEP YOUR HANDS RIGHT. >> Keep your hands up. [screaming] >> Let's go. Let's go this way to your left. See if we can push out this way. >> Fox 35 reports he was treated at a hospital for a dog bite and medically cleared. >> Watch your neck. On this watch getting you right here. Hey. >> Hey. Do me a favor. His face right here for me. Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> That's it. He's going to He's going to search you real quick. >> I've been I've been I ain't been doing nothing about it, bro. >> Hey, we don't take this personal. All right, we're good. >> No one takes this personal. >> We're good, man. All right. No one's going to treat you disrespectfully. Nothing. All right. It is what it is. >> The sheriff's office says the backpack held a loaded handgun, 203 g of meth, 17 g of fentinel, and 7 g of crack cocaine. In Florida, 200 gram of meth carries a 15-year minimum sentence if he's convicted. He was booked without bond on armed drug trafficking and other charges. No court outcome is public yet. He is presumed innocent. August 20th, Covington, Washington. A man walks into an Ulta beauty store. According to the sheriff's office, he walks out with several items and one of them carries a tracker. A silent alarm goes off and the tracker goes live. He gets into a waiting car, a stolen one. Deputies later learn. [music] >> Guardian one, there's a second male that's with him. Just got out of the passenger side. Got in the driver's seat. He's still pumping fuel. >> Looks like number eight, uh, Hispanic male driver. Just got out of the vehicle. >> Guardian one has the car at a gas station in Kent. The tracker is going there inside the store. You hear another vehicle. >> Guardian one. >> Guardian one. We're following it right now. It's going eastbound on Kit K. Going pretty fast in the turn lanes. Passing a lot of cars. >> At the gas station. The man from the store was arrested. 31 Chevron. >> Copy one at Chevron. When he's parked between the auto zone and the Jack in the Box, one space to the west of the auto zone. Just got out. This is going to be a white male, white five beater, uh short hair, black pants with a backpack and a bandana around his neck. He's carrying his jacket. It looks like he's about to throw on >> car one. Is anybody coming over here to come grab this guy? He's running. He's going to He might even carjack somebody. If you guys need to probably contact him. [music] >> Stop. Stop right now. >> Get on the ground. Get on the ground. Get down on the ground. >> Get on the ground. Get down on the ground. >> Face down. >> Get on the ground right now. >> Don't move. >> According to Fox 13, the driver had changed his clothes in the bathroom. >> Hey, just >> in the parking lot, deputies find the jacket he dropped. >> Hey, 32. I got the jacket here. under it. A shortbarreled shotgun. Prosecutors charged the driver with organized retail theft, hit and run, eluding, possession of a stolen vehicle, and unlawful possession of a firearm. Both men pleaded not guilty on August 27th. The case is ongoing and both are presumed innocent. back in Wisconsin. This drone video is from 7:43 that evening, more than 5 hours after he ran. A canine team and a drone operator have found him again. Officers follow his trail for about 300 yd through the rose. [music] Officers on the ground push him toward an arrest team waiting at Paradise Lane. [music] >> [music] >> At about 7:45, he's [music] taken into custody without incident and handed over to Fondelac police. After a medical check at a hospital, he's booked into the county jail. >> [music] >> Two squad cars were damaged. A deputy and a Fondelac police officer suffered minor injuries. He's charged with nine counts. Two of eluding an officer, [music] two of resisting or obstructing, secondderee recklessly endangering safety, and four counts of felony bail jumping. All as a repeat offender. Bail jumping means breaking the conditions of a bond while a case is still open. And why did he run? The criminal complaint gives his answer. On September 8th, he pleaded not guilty. His next court date is a status conference on October 9th. The case is ongoing. Charges are allegations and he is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Four hiding places, one pattern. In every case, there was an eye in the sky. Drones, a plane, two helicopters, and every [music] time it still took officers on the ground to make the arrest. Drones. A plane and two helicopters were overhead in all four cases. Is that smart policing or too much surveillance? Tell us below.