A licenseless Summerfield man who once tried to pass off a bogus $100 bill was arrested Thursday after being accused of fleeing from Marion County sheriff’s deputies.
A deputy spotted 26-year-old Glenn Timothy Vincent traveling east on E. Hwy. 25 in a beige Honda Accord after pulling out of a Chevron gas station. The deputy recognized Vincent and verified that his driver’s license had been suspended. He then got behind Vincent’s vehicle and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, a sheriff’s office report states.
The deputy activated his emergency lights and siren but reported that Vincent sped up and refused to pull over. He continued driving on several different streets, making U-turns, running stop signs and passing other vehicles on a double-yellow line, the report states.
Vincent eventually tried to make a U-turn and ended up crashing through a fence and breaking a wooden post in half, causing $150 in damage. His vehicle then got stuck in the sand and he put both of his hands outside his window and surrendered, the report says.
Deputies searched Vincent’s vehicle and found a black backpack in the rear floorboard behind the driver’s seat. Inside the backpack they found a green cloth bag that contained a glass tube “utilized to smoke methamphetamine with remnants of a crystallized substance inside of it.” They also found a rubber gun-shaped bowl with a white powdery residue inside it, a glass bowl with a brown waxy substance in it and a red bowl with a brown liquid it. The crystallized substance in the glass tube tested positive for methamphetamine and the brown waxy substance and liquid tested positive for THC content, the report says.
A computer check showed that Vincent’s license had been suspended on Dec. 5, 2017. It also showed three violations regarding child support payments, the report says.
Vincent was taken into custody and transported to the Marion County Jail, where he was charged with fleeing/eluding a law enforcement officer with lights and siren active, driving while license suspended or revoked, criminal mischief, two counts of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and possession of drug equipment. He was being held on $29,000 bond and is due in court July 21 at 9 a.m.
Vincent was arrested in April on multiple drug charges after the vehicle he was riding in was stopped for inoperable taillights and no license tag light. He also was arrested in June 2019 after being accused of trying use a counterfeit $100 bill at a gas station in Leesburg.
