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    Multiple vehicle thief caught

    Posted on August 3, 2022

    A suspect fleeing law enforcement officers in a stolen vehicle bailed out of the car and fled on foot, running through several residential yards — including Sheriff Wayne Padgett’s. Rodquez Dontay ‘Kermit’ Holmes (left) was apprehended by a PPD K9.

    A local man with a history of fleeing law enforcement was captured Monday afternoon after a three-county car chase that included two stolen vehicles and a foot chase through Taylor County Sheriff Wayne Padgett’s yard.

    Rodquez Dontay “Kermit” Holmes, 30, of Perry and Live Oak, was apprehended by a Perry Police Department (PPD) K9 Monday afternoon just before 7 p.m. after leading law enforcement officers from six different agencies on a winding car and foot chase that ended in a residential neighborhood on Dorman Peacock Road just of Hwy. 27 East.

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