BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. (CBS12) — A K-9 out of Lee County helped deputies catch a man who stole a car and crashed it into a fitness center in Bonita Springs.
On Tuesday, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) responded to the Holiday Inn Express where they learned a 42-year-old man approached the driver of a vehicle in a parking lot and demanded their car.
Deputies say after a small altercation, the suspect, identified as Adam Naylor, was able to make a getaway with the victim’s car.
Shortly after the theft, LCSO received a 911 call about a vehicle that had crashed into a Smash Fitness, located on Bonita Beach Road, and fled on foot.
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That’s when K-9 Dundee responded to the scene with a team of deputies following behind him.
Body camera video shows a white van that had crashed through the front of the fitness center, leaving the building severely damaged and items all over the floor.
The video then cuts to show K-9 Dundee leading his handler to Naylor who was hiding in the bushes.
Deputies found that Naylor was the sole occupant of the vehicle. He was arrested and taken to the Lee County Jail.
He was booked on counts of carjacking, driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a crash.
This isn’t Naylor’s first run-in with law enforcement, the sheriff’s office says. In 2007 he was arrested for disorderly intoxication and resisting an officer.
The incident is being investigated by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit.
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