Suspect caught after 2-hour hunt in woods

Posted on January 5, 2018

A Steinhatchee man who fled from a local deputy during a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon crossed the county line and was apprehended after a two-hour hunt in the Big Bend Wildlife Management Area (Jena Unit) in Dixie County.

Once in custody, Jordan Blake Boyington was transported to the Dixie County Jail and charged with failing to yield at an intersection, driving while license suspended, fleeing and eluding a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer without violence.

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