- December 13, 2024
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A 26-year-old man threatened to murder deputies and caused $1,500 in damage to a Flagler County Sheriff's Office patrol vehicle while resisting arrest.
Flagler County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Daniel Weaver saw suspect Raymond Glass walking down U.S. Highway 1 March 15 with a 30-year-old woman that has an active no contact order against Glass.
The injunction was put in place by the Warren County Sheriff’s Office in New York on July 31, 2020 and is not set to expire until July 30, 2023. This injunction is known to Sergeant Weaver as he accompanied the Bunnell Police Department (BPD) on Jan. 9, 2021, when Glass was arrested for violating the injunction.
Weaver turned his patrol vehicle around and approached the couple, which caused Glass to speed up and attempt to walk away from the victim.
Weaver called for Glass to come to him and sit on the front of the patrol vehicle while he tried to figure out who Glass’s probation officer was. Glass quickly became argumentative with law enforcement and claimed that walking near the victim was not a violation of his probation, which is inaccurate.
As Weaver attempted to handcuff Glass, Glass clenched his arms across his chest.
After giving numerous commands to stop resisting, Weaver performed a leg sweep and took Glass to the ground to secure him.
Glass continued to resist arrest. Weaver told Glass numerous times that if he continued to resist he would be tased. Weaver then deployed the Taser in stun gun mode, which means that no probes were deployed. Eventually, Glass was placed in handcuffs.
During a search of Glass’s pockets, an assisting BPD officer found a metal pipe with burnt cannabis residue. Glass repeatedly threatened the deputies and officers on scene, shouting that he wanted to kick them and that he would kill them.
While law enforcement officers searched Glass, he became enraged and slammed his head into the frame of the patrol car, denting the vehicle.
He then threatened to bite a deputy attempting to search him, deputies placed a spit hood over his head for officer safety. He was placed in leg shackles, and a bandana was cut off of his neck that was unable to be untied. Glass again threatened to murder the deputy that removed it. He tried to kick the deputy that removed the bandana, but missed and kicked another deputy standing beside him.
In the back of the patrol vehicle, Glass began kicking the interior rear passenger door and broke the latch, bending the frame. The estimated cost of damage to the vehicle is $1,500. Body camera footage of the arrest can be viewed on YouTube or Facebook (WARNING: Video contains profanity and racial slurs by the suspect.)
“Our deputies showed great restraint while dealing with this guy who was trying to fight them and continually threatened to kill them,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “He even went so far as to bang his own head into the patrol car while screaming ‘police brutality.’ This case is a great example of why our deputies wear body cameras and why we are implementing dashboard cameras across our fleet of patrol vehicles. We have demonstrated transparency throughout my tenure, and our well trained deputies have nothing to hide."
Glass was transported to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility and charged with Battery on a Law Enforcement Officer, Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer, Threats to a Law Enforcement Officer, Criminal Mischief over $1,000, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, and two counts of Resisting Arrest. He was additionally charged with Violation of Probation for violating the no contact order. He is being held with no bond allowed.
