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Cantonment Man Arrested After Carjacking, Attack, Multiple Wrecks
April 23, 2013
A Cantonment man was arrested after a carjacking Monday afternoon. Steven Kyle Meadows, 22, attacked a man with a chain and wrecked a stolen pickup truck three times during the incident, according to Rhonda Ray, spokesperson for the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident happened shortly after noon in the area of Yarrow Circle in the River Gardens Subdivision, near the intersection of East Nine Mile Road and North Davis Highway.
Escambia Sheriff’s Dispatchers received a call from a victim who told them that as he was working on a home in the 9500 block of Yarrow Circle, a man approached him and asked him for money. When he declined to give the man money, the suspect, later identified as Meadows, left and then returned to the home where he attacked the victim with a chain. The man resfused medical treatment.
The suspect then ran to the victim’s truck and retrieved a knife, and robbed him of personal belongings before entering the home and taking several more items along with the victim’s truck keys. He then stole the victim’s truck and fled the scene at a high rate of speed, Ray said.
The Sheriff’s Office then began receiving calls of a reckless driver who had nearly hit several drivers in the area prior to wrecking in the area of Nine Mile Road and Davis Highway. Deputies arrived to find the suspect and vehicle on a dirt road in a nearby wooded area. As deputies approached the suspect vehicle, Meadows rammed a patrol cruiser and fled the scene prior to crashing into another vehicle near Nine Mile Road and Scenic Highway.
Meadows ran a red light at the intersection and collided with a 2013 Hyundai driven by 53-year old Cynthia M. Minor of Pensacola. She was transported to West Florida Hospital with minor injuries.
Meadows fled on foot and was apprehended behind a business in the 12000 block of Scenic Highway.
Meadows was charged with three counts of aggravated assault, battery, two counts aggravated battery, criminal mischief with property damage, burglary, larceny, grand theft of a vehicle, robbery with a firearm and resisting arrest with violence. He was booked into the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $260,500. He was also cited twice for leaving the scene of a crash with property damage, running a red light, and two counts reckless driving by the Florida Highway Patrol.
Additional charges against Meadows may be pending, Ray said.
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9 Responses to “Cantonment Man Arrested After Carjacking, Attack, Multiple Wrecks”
well, maybe the SO thought the better, as they apparently did not charge him with carjacking after all..
Is a knife now considered a firearm?
>>>william, in the title you have listed one of his crimes as “carjacking”….however, in your article i dont see where it indicates that the victim (or anyone) was in the vehicle when meadows stole it
The Escambia SO termed it a “carjacking”.
Under Florida statutes, a vehicle does not have to be occupied to be a carjacking…
812.133 Carjacking.—
(1) “Carjacking” means the taking of a motor vehicle which may be the subject of larceny from the person or custody of another, with intent to either permanently or temporarily deprive the person or the owner of the motor vehicle, when in the course of the taking there is the use of force, violence, assault, or putting in fear.
william, in the title you have listed one of his crimes as “carjacking”….however, in your article i dont see where it indicates that the victim (or anyone) was in the vehicle when meadows stole it….and, i dont see where meadows was charged with carjacking- just grand theft of a vehicle….i am thinking that there is more to this incident than what is actually reported- such as, who is the un-named victim? how did meadows know where to find the keys to the truck in the victims house?..just does not sound like a random act of violence and stupidity to me.
Drugs is what it sounds like combined with being a dummy at the same time.
Hey Mick, I like what you said and I agree completely! He knew every step along the way that he was doing WRONG! He hurt innocent people and looks like he didn’t care because he kept at it until he was caught. Put him away for a long time!
I’m guessing the home owner didn’t have a gun, let the guy come visit me and try to take something, BOOM, Done, no more problems for anyone else.
Here’s another burden on society, no respect for life or law…a bad day? thats no way to act… lets accept the burden and put him away for a long time, take away his freedom, and let him reflect on his actions for a few years, don’t waste your comments on he’s from a good family, blah blah blah, he’s got problems, yadda yadda, yadda, what he had was freewill and he chose to do what he did, he never gave one thought about the one’s who love him and how this would affect them, nor did he care about the victims, or the law enforcement officers
sounds like he had a bad day lol