A Wildwood man was arrested after running away from officers to avoid paying overdue child support.
An officer responded to Jackson and Moss Streets to help law enforcement apprehend 41-year-old Beon O’Zar Strong at 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to an arrest report from the Wildwood Police Department. He had an active Sumter County Civil Order for Arrest for failure to pay child support in the amount of $3,918.
When officers approached him about this, he fled northbound on foot. The officers chased him as he ran through private residential backyards and trespassed through unsecured dwellings. They searched the area until they safely arrested him in the 600 block of Perry Street, the report said.
Strong was charged with resist officer without violence and two counts of withhold support of children. He was booked at the Sumter County Detention Center with bond set at $4,418.
He was also arrested in March 2024 after trying to strip off a woman’s clothes, in May 2023 while making a snack run for his then-pregnant girlfriend, and in Nov. 2017 with a bookbag full of drugs.