Search for possibly impaired person hiding near Sundance Drive, Buncombe County NC
Suspicious ActivityFire, EMS, and law enforcement units are searching for a possibly impaired person who fled from officers near the end of Sundance Drive and Hodges Creek in Buncombe County. The individual is believed to be hiding in the woods near a cul-de-sac. A K9 unit and crime scene investigators are assisting in the search.
Audio|Source: Buncombe County Fire and EMS
05:59
Transcript:
00:00
Hey, Verger, you do spell his last name, (name withheld), C-R-O-O-M-S, right?
00:07
It doesn't have an S on it, just (name withheld).
00:11
(name withheld).
00:16
And she does drive an older Chevy Equinox, but we think it's at O-Fort.
00:21
It's white, and it's at O-Fort with a flat tire, we think.
00:24
We'll find out in just a minute I'll get back to you.
00:30
What colors you say?
00:35
White.
00:40
Okay, she's not driving it, it's sitting at old for it, it's down there at Brownies with on Hodges Creek with a flat tire.
00:49
They're driving something else.
00:55
It's longer than a car,
00:57
possibly a pickup truck, but I can't confirm that.
01:02
Hey, Travis has got McDowell Deputy on the phone and said, hey, you're all pretty familiar with the (name withheld).
01:09
He said, oh, yes.
01:14
All right, the other, his trucks,
01:18
2,700, Dodge,
01:23
maroon in color, long-wheel-based pickup.
01:26
That's probably what they're in.
01:32
That's the one that was out last night, wasn't it?
01:39
Probably so.
01:45
I'm surprised you haven't put the drone up.
01:52
Virgil, they're not going to let anybody up around that tracko.
01:55
They got CSI coming out in K9 for a track.
01:59
And the last point we definitely song was at the tracko running.
02:04
Travis did say if you come up here though if you stay dinner with those deputies I think he's going to come back down you can explain him where that trail is he's on the phone with the McDowell deputy I've got to clear here and go to the Ag Center in a minute.
02:21
I'll be up there in a few minutes I got to take my meds and stuff.
02:27
okay.
02:30
Story, residential structure, nothing showing off the side will be up for investigation.
02:38
McDow County,
02:40
to the far left side of that Sundance development.
02:43
Down in there there's a cul-de-sac and there's a little trail he's at and goes back to his house.
02:53
If you can look on a Venza maps and get like the closest address or something to it, it may help them.
03:04
I'll pull that on a tax map in a minute and I can tell you exactly.
03:12
I bet you're talking about the very end the Sundance Drive there's several little odd name squirrel track raccoon race trail and stuff celestial ridge drive is where the house was that burnt and if you go past it it looks like it dead ends and maybe used to be an old pond back there that's also where that guy shot himself.
03:36
Okay, there, if you come back up there on the ridge and keep going to the northwest, there's a house back there above the road and you're right down there to the end of the road and his property is right there at the cul-de-sac.
03:52
Right, he comes right up to the development.
03:56
You ask if you can look that up, I'm not that technologically advanced where I'm at.
04:05
Honestly, I don't think he ran that far though.
04:08
I think once he cut his first curve out of sight of me because he kept looking back.
04:12
I think he ditched and went into the woods and they got a canine coming.
04:20
He's probably hiding around there.
04:22
I wonder where the Dodge and her went.
04:27
It's got to be in here somewhere.
04:29
Uh,
04:31
but they can't drive through there, can they?
04:37
So a person in their right mind wouldn't try, but he or him or her might try, but they're not going to make it.
04:47
McDowell's checking their side they're very familiar with him,
04:50
and I can tell you from talking to him face-to-face for a minute he's high as a colleague.
04:58
You've got one coming your direction hot.
05:03
Copy kitchen timer.
05:08
We'll be clearing shortly at 803.
05:14
He's booking it back to meet Travis.
05:17
They're going out Sundance.
05:18
I think they figured it out.
05:24
The person that legally rented or leased at wouldn't have walked it eight miles, plus they wouldn't have ran when I told them the sheriff was coming just to double check.
05:38
Squad 12 in service.
05:42
Squat 122 in service 804.
05:48
I've got to leave here.
05:49
I need to go to the Ag Center.
05:50
If you want to, Bruce can hang out and wait on you or something.
05:53
I think they got a dog and a bunch of other people coming.
05:57
You might be able to show them where that trail is on a map or something.
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Location mentioned:
Sundance Dr, North Carolina 28711
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