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On March 14, 2024, at approximately 1603 hours, I, Deputy A. Brady attempted a traffic stop in the area of the 4800 block of 41st Street westbound on a silver Mercedes-Benz SUV bearing FL tag LEAD90. (Note: LEAD9Q0 shows an active registration for a green Nissan). The Mercedes-Benz VIN is: 4JGAB75E05A530493.
Prior to the traffic stop, my patrol vehicle's license plate reader alerted me to FL tag LEAD90, which had a registered owner with a suspended driver's license. As I reviewed the license plate reader alert, I noticed that the registered vehicle for LEAD90 was a green Nissan. However, the vehicle I was attempting to stop was an older model, silver Mercedes-Benz SUV. I then conducted a DAVID search of license plate LEAD90, which again showed it being registered to a green Nissan. The Indian River County Public Safety Dispatch also conducted an FCIC/NCIC check of FL tag LEAD90 and confirmed it was registered to a green Nissan.
I activated my emergency lights and sirens at approximately the 4800 block of 41st Street. I was driving my agency-issued, marked patrol vehicle with Sheriff insignia. The defendant and sole occupant of the vehicle, later identified as Nafertiti T. Dutes, immediately turned north on 49th Avenue and began to accelerate away from me. The defendant then turned east on 42nd Street, running the stop sign at 42nd Street and 48th Avenue. Subsequently, the defendant ran the stop sign at 42nd Street and 47th Avenue and again at 47th Avenue and 41st Street. These intersections are in a residential neighborhood. The defendant turned east on 41st Street, again accelerating away from my patrol vehicle with my emergency lights and sirens still activated. At the intersection of 41st Street and 43rd Avenue, the defendant then turned south on 43rd Avenue, nearly colliding with other vehicles. The defendant continued to drive south in the northbound lanes of 43rd Avenue, still accelerating away from me. At this point, for the safety of the public and oncoming traffic, I attempted a PIT maneuver on the defendant’s vehicle. The defendant drove to the west side of 43rd Avenue and then back across all lanes to the east side of 43rd Avenue. Still traveling southbound, the defendant drove through several business yards and ditches before ultimately becoming stuck in a ditch at the 4000 block of 43rd Avenue, where she was taken into custody.
The Indian River County Public Safety Dispatch confirmed that the defendant's license was not valid and had multiple active suspensions. I conducted a DAVID search of the defendant's driving history, which provided numerous driving while license suspended guilty convictions, totaling 14 DWLS. I stopped counting at nine guilty convictions and two habitual traffic offender designations. Correction Deputy K. Grandy printed the defendant’s NCIC criminal history for me. The defendant’s most recent habitual traffic offender designation was when she was placed on probation on 11/15/2023. Her probation ends on 11/14/2028. The three most recent DWLS with knowledge guilty convictions for the defendant are as follows: 9/19/2021 citation # ADIOJ8E, 4/6/2021 citation # AEJU76E, and 11/2/2020 citation # ADJ15GE. On the passenger side seat of the SUV was the defendant's FL issued ID card. The defendant did not have a FL driver's license on her or in the vehicle. The DAVID driver's history search shows the defendant's driver’s license being revoked for five years, once on 6/16/2021, and again on 12/7/2023.
With the facts listed above and the evidence, there is probable cause to charge Nafertiti T. Dutes with violations of F.S.S. 316.1935(3)(A) Fleeing/Eluding Officer in a Marked Patrol Vehicle with Lights & Siren Active with disregard for persons or property and F.S.S. 322.34(5) Knowingly Driving While License Suspended or Revoked (Habitual Traffic Offender)."