Pinellas deputies chase suspect into Intracoastal Waterway

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office released dramatic helicopter video of its pursuit of a carjacking suspect through several communities on Sunday afternoon.

Deputies said it all started when the suspect, 27-year-old Kenneth Lunford Jr. got into a fight following a drug deal at a Dunedin motel. After stealing another man’s car, Lunford Jr. led deputies on a wild and dangerous chase that ended in the water.

“We gotta get this guy stopped no matter what,” one deputy is heard saying in the video. “He’s crazy he could kill somebody.”

The nearly 15-minute video shows Lunford Jr. driving in a reckless manner with no regard for other cars on the road.

At one point, he got out of the stolen red car and attempts to carjack another victim in Indian Rocks Beach.

The Clearwater Police Department tried to conduct traffic stops, but Lunford refused to stop, according to the PCSO.

Flight Unit deputies followed Lunford as he sped through Clearwater, Largo, Belleair Bluffs, and Belleair Beach.

Deputies said he tried to carjack someone else in Indian Rocks Beach before fleeing again.

One deputy can be heard asking a supervisor for “permission to ram him.”

Lunford Jr. eventually lost control, hit another car and drove through not one, but two fences before exiting the vehicle.

He eventually crashed into two vehicles in front of The Original Crabby Bills and carjacked one of the vehicles he hit, according to the sheriff’s office.

Lunford Jr. ran toward the Intracoastal Waterway. Once he waded into the water, deputies from the Marine & Environmental Units caught up to him with guns drawn before taking him into custody.

Lunford was charged with 21 total crimes. These included leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, DUI with property damage, fleeing and eluding, carjacking, attempted carjacking, resisting an officer with violence and robbery by sudden snatching.

Amazingly, deputies said nobody was seriously injured.
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