A suspect has been jailed after crashing a stolen truck during a chase by Lady Lake police.
The 2005 Chevrolet Silverado truck was stolen last week from Plaza Lincoln on U.S. Hwy. 441 in Leesburg from a man who works at the dealership. The truck’s owner got off work at about 6 p.m. and found the truck was gone. He’d left a spare set of keys in the toolbox.
A Lady Lake police officer spotted the stolen truck Sunday night on U.S. Hwy. 27/441 and began to chase it. The truck was traveling at 75 to 85 miles per hour in a 50 mph zone, “swerving through traffic nearly striking several vehicles,” according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. The truck made a right turn onto County Road 25A in Fruitland Park where it struck a concrete light pole. The driver, later identified as 30-year-old Floyd Thomas Coburn Jr. of Leesburg, crawled out the front passenger window and fled on foot. An officer chased Coburn, bringing him down with a Taser. Coburn was transported to Leesburg Regional Medical Center for medical evaluation and later transferred to the Lake County Jail where he was being held in a quarantine pod.
Coburn is facing charges of grand theft auto, fleeing law enforcement with disregard for safety of others, resisting arrest and driving while license suspended.
