TAYLOR COUNTY, Fla. (WTXL) —
9:45 A.M. WEDNESDAY UPDATE
FDLE canceled the Blue Alert at 9:34 a.m. Wednesday morning and confirmed to ABC 27 that the suspect is “not at giant.” No additional updates got.
9 A.M. WEDNESDAY UPDATE
A press convention has been scheduled for midday on Wednesday to present an replace relating to the taking pictures of a Taylor County Sheriff’s Workplace deputy and the continuing manhunt for the suspect, Gregory Ryan Miedema.
The scene the place the taking pictures occurred has been cleared as of 9 a.m. Wednesday.
ORIGINAL STORY
A spokesperson for the Florida Freeway Patrol says {that a} Taylor County Sheriff’s deputy was shot Tuesday night time.
The deputy sustained critical accidents and was airlifted from the scene at US 19 and Deer Run Street, south of Salem.
A Florida Blue Alert has been issued for the suspect, Gregory Ryan Miedema. Authorities launched photographs of him Tuesday night time.
FDLE
A Blue Alert is issued if a regulation enforcement officer is critically injured, killed by a topic, or turns into lacking whereas within the line of obligation underneath circumstances inflicting concern for the regulation enforcement officer’s security.
Miedema, a white 33-year-old male, was final seen in Perry.
He’s listed at 5-foot-8, 165 kilos with brown hair and blue eyes.
ABC 27
He could also be touring in a 2000 gold Chrysler Sebring with a Florida License plate tag Y78TKU. The car has a dark-colored convertible high.
In case you see Miedema, regulation enforcement officers say don’t strategy him.
No different particulars in regards to the deputy or their accidents have been launched at the moment.
In case you see him, authorities say to not strategy him, however as an alternative name 911.
The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Workplace has Miedema on its intercourse offender registry.
According to a prior press release, “Miedema was convicted in 2011 whereas serving the within the U.S. Military on one rely of Lewd or Lascivious Battery, Intercourse with a Sufferer 12 to fifteen Years Previous and one rely of Possession of Little one Pornography. He was sentenced to 78 months in federal jail adopted by two months of probation.”
