April the 26th 2024 Flagler County Florida while conducting a patrol of a hotel parking lot a deputy observed a suspicious vehicle with a group of people loitering about they seemed startled by his presence so after summoning backup he returned to confront the occupants huh that door's open yeah I called by the car here s for a while oh yeah we we got it C on the okay 31 all right give you the hotel 24 31 any weapons in the car all M to White charger two bra miks whiskey Fox hello it's your car you know oh you know these people yeah they work for me is your car okay got these on you it's in the room okay can get the names you guys got any weed on you no sir what's your name Demarcus for work tomorrow Demarcus how sir where that bag at though the d e m a stay out of the car for now d e m a RCU s yes sir middle initial yeah uh last name how p o w e l l date of birth stand up front of the car over there where you going now you weapons on you make sure get chill over there no weed on your right search quick sear Pockets F car we smoking while you out here what's your the car the do open for a while and I smell we l what real quick your feet apart real quick that way uh date of birth 74 98 why the hell I had to think about that that's smoken no is your idea to Florida no I'm from Louisiana are y all from Louisiana Georgia no where's your ID out of Mr Demarcus Georgia yeah I'm put back over there I get gloves no just chill right there for now ma'am can you chill over here too stop all that walking around making me feel weird making me feel weird say just bought is it in your name now huh okay yall just visiting down here or oh what y do for work General yeah nice the one up there by wy's I mean rallies whatever was right there Checkers oh can I go get something drink quick no it's still here for now should be quick how yall is there you all in the same room or there's 12 of us here good we don't get P get pay for our hotels and mileage this one y sir I've already asked you several times no you going to chill right here please I asked you several times I have no problem telling them what's going on cuz I can't leave either and I just walked out here [Music] hello they're detained right now so if you if you want to talk to them you have to wait till we finish our investigation all right well why I had to come and stay with y'all day if cuz you were seen you were seen by the vehicle too I was here when you first pulled up yeah you were seen earlier well earlier yeah we there a lot of people that was right here earlier it's a team of us here there a lot of people that was okay well you were seen earlier and you came back out smoking weed in the vehicle we smell it coming from the car smoking in the car well we can smell the fresh burned odor of marijuana emitting from that car sir can you come over here for the third time we in a car sir can you stand in front of the vehicle please thank you not doing nothing I've asked him three times he's not listening what's wrong what's wrong with y'all this how y'all act like this down here I don't know this dude I don't know what he's capable of and he's not listening to me it's crazy though we a work grw we go we travel every we I'm sure yall do yeah we don't oh that's what I was coming it's not moving so well you got open containers in it too doesn't matter it doesn't matter matter well par well you're you're impeding my investigation right now I'm trying to explain to them right now go back to the car you can't have any open that that's an unsealed alcoholic beverage you can't have that in Florida you're detained right now we don't mind telling you what's going on but for now if you could just give us our space Demarcus if I have to tell you again you're going to go in the back of the car backpack is that your backpack yes sir back go you you're init you're get the back oh my God why back up now doing you're going to get it again put your hand behind your back shut put your left hand behind your back all right let's go I I got his left hand I got his hand I got I got you bring it behind your back slowly let him put his [Music] hands please stop F he not fighting no more secure all of them now secure white white female secure blue shirt hands behind your back blue shirt blue shirt over there you over there what's his name get that dude away from the car get your ass up roll your we'll do that in a second all right I need you to listen I wasn't doing nothing well secure you you're just being detained you're being detained over here right here I know my right got more CS be right back no shut your ass down you shut up and wait over there we'll talk to you in a second Cy justce supervisor what oh no there we go stand up push against the back of my that car stay over there secure her secure her no no I you're not listening I told you to get stop stop turn please don't put me in hand cuff please I'mma listen No I don't want to be the listen listen up against there okay wait you're just being detained okay all listen can you not put handcuff on me my partner just said to detain you okay you hurt aside from the taser deployment no sorry on my knee okay you got your knee scraped up why you being stupid man y scar man hey officer I'mma listen officer I'mma back up I'mma go to my car no you're not no you're not off I'm I'm listen you not listening I stop resisting please please can you take the hand off me I you need to listen you need to stop resisting stop moving okay resist my hand is on I'm not resisting why you yanking me I can't resist what you mean I'm trying to detain you you're not listening right now you need to listen to my lawful commands me I didn't do nothing dude this could have been like not like this where's case you get charged with whatever's in the car but fighting cops and trying to run no I'm list spread your feet y yall really scared [ __ ] out me man dude you had walked up on me and everything man dude if I wanted you to go to jail I would have secured you as soon as I walked up you feel me like we trying to be cool with you but you walking around like I'm telling you I'm trying to give you every opportunity nervous bro I'm not around here bro all right I got to make sure we have a medic coming to look at you for your taser appointment all right all right we'll put it on yeah put that on got no reason to detain me or stop me or get my name or nothing I ain't said nothing to him I don't even know to him got noas youed to be searching me I don't understand you had no reason to even search me Man or take my phone out yes you did and took my phone out my hand I'm going to place you over here by her okay place you over here so I can manage this better can you not manhandle me please I'm not manhandling you I'm just guing you over here this is an escort get there just listen you're just pain right now just out here working I'm about to go home I'm not going to work here you watch out good my camera's on don't dump anything I got nothing on man all right put your feet in all right what you what's in the [Music] car figure what is it [Music] o 10 o is what 31 [Music] one Hey Hey sir I already didn't feel good I pulled up the part I don't feel good I need a just lean against the car and breathe my period just started how you think I feel I'm going be out here throwing up again are you hurt good are you good scared here man do you understand why you're detained though no I don't you want me explain it to you all right let me I'll explain I'll explain to you just listen for a second all right so obviously super oh he's coming don't worry about that all right we'll let him talk to you I'm trying to help you out talk I want listen all right so obviously we don't know what you guys are capable of obvious you may not be but you can be a convicted felon you can be a gang member they could be the worst robbers we ever met we don't know that until we you know run yall stuff right so I get this dude walking around walking around me how many times did I ask him to stay in front of the car what did you do you listened right yes sir we were all good see him walsing around that silly stuff he finds something in the car and what does what does your buddy do he tenses up and runs right and starts fighting my my partner over here right and fights both of us over there we have to tase him right and then you aren't listening we're telling you to just back away and you don't want to listen so you're detained and you're detained because you're involved with this dude then they're detained cuz they're not listening why they bringus okay you got what let him do his inves he just told us he got a hypothetical something you Ain just hear him I don't know but he when he he he'll come over here and explain in a little bit this is their investigation they ambulances if you get tasted to make sure you're okay or something we make sure everybody's okay you guys have a medical complaint we'll make sure you guys are offered I don't I don't have a medical complaint I just worried about him he's the one got T three times he was trying to he did try to run but he stopped he did stop let him put and they allp I wasn't here for that they have acts on cameras okay all right right now they're conducting their investigation let them do their job trying to get up the whole time oh my God I can't believe this is happening hey s oh my God I cannot believe this is happening to sleep with my not this [Music] again he got t double deployment you need him to step out to inspect him or remove the probes or whatever just that spot uh I think he got him in the buto as well [Applause] don't cry stop crying please oh my God no I swear to God I hate this this is why I always do the it the right way this is why I always don't speed I always do the right way because of this they see a bunch of black folks start and they black they ta at work no other injuries right just just a taser yeah all right they're going to get the probes out for you and I told him four times we out here [Music] working Hey sir why don't you come over here and stand next to me okay have you stand over here with me all right I don't I know I no smoke with them either anything else in the car that you didn't put in there any bags I'm going to find that aren't yours or the Black Backpack that's right [Music] there phone you got my phone sir you got my phone where am I signning all right this just says that we came here retreated him and since he's in your guys custody you guys are taking him sweet appreciate yall thanks this is why I'm so in shock I've never been detained I never been in handcuffs I've never been detained is not arrest detained just means you're not free to go I'm still in handcuff and you're just in a physical restraint so we can situation huh I feel like I'm arrested you're not under arrest until tell you why and we advise you as of right now you're just detained we gave all of our names with no problem we didn't even ask for permission to search the car did he Joe I don't have no I don't have no war bro did he ask you permission to search the car can I go my did they have probable cause to search the vehicle they don't need permission but it's don't you need a search one or something n it's a it's a mobile convenance mobile convence a lot of a lot of them say they smell they have probable cars circum you say I got a question what if it was somebody smoking weed y it like just blew like 4 5 we're out here with the vehicle for a lawful purpose and we observe it's called probable cause you all right what's your first name Demarcus Demarcus all right so clearly we're at where we're at now I mean it is what it is why are you doing all that not scared man whenever you wed up on me you Ain say nothing you just wed up on me you feel what I'm saying why you get scared though CU man listen you just w w the pH me yeah I a around here none that you feel what I'm saying man you never been on the police before I have but like not you feel me you been arrested before uh yes okay probation c um okay where you been arrested before like what state okay so tell about what's in the car what up you tell me we can we can play this back and forth game the the quicker you let me know what's up the quicker we can get out of here and do what we have to do but I mean I already found it you know it's there all right I mean it is what it is okay okay so how much is in there what um I'm about the um we yeah um in a bag yeah I don't know I'm okay did you bring that with you Georgia right yes sir you brought that from Georgia uh no sir you got it where you're down here here yes sir okay where at uh I don't know we just is down okay here in Palm Coast or where you were working at or what I don't know where you just randomly you just happened to find someone that was selling and okay what about the gun uh that's mine okay you're a felon nothing okay so you're legally allowed to possess that fire and all that no sir then why you trying to run I'm trying to tell you you just scared me scared you you scared me bro I on your back all you had they do is listen you didn't even say that I did no you didn't I said my your back no you didn't all right man you're not heard from the Tas or nothing like that no got my knee I think got hit in the face a little bit you good there no I got a Bo there but my knee you didn't want to go with them you were good to go oh did they know about all that weed in the car or they weren involved in that's all yours um I mean everything in the bag is mine okay all it's yours anything else don't know you don't know about anything else that might be in the car okay you said you're not a f and nothing like that right all right I'm finish do what I got to do all right I cannot believe this is Happ all that's happening that conducted an investigation okay they had a situation to manage okay You observe being non compliant possibly got myid yes sir quite inside that bag though was a 45 caliber handgun with extended magazine 67 rounds of ammo a combined total of 82 G of THC several loose baggies and an electronic scale with marijuana residue I'm just going to let you know ahead of time okay I appreciate being cooperative you're the only one Cooperative as long as nothing else in the car you're not going to go to jail all right I got finish we're doing what I got to do first all right hey just wait over there with them that way you're we don't want to confir they're all good we'll give you we'll put out of the sole suspect Demarcus Powell was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence Bond was set at $12,500 which he posted before being released my mom in prison I'm trying to answer the phone yeah you yeah you're free to get your phone the detainees were also All released on site just so yall know all three of yall could y weren't listening to our law we're not going to do that okay can I talk to him though still to the the deputy no M hey get your LIC insurance I'm sh off you smoking up right now dude update just 2 days later on April 28th the deputy's twin brother also on the force arrested the driver of the same model vehicle leaving the same Hotel you up for me you're smoking your car dude you can't act like you weren't I walk up there's smoking out the window smells like weed hands on top of the vehicle any weapons on you stashed inside this vehicle was 344 G of THC [Music]