This was a “not so great escape.”
A wanted Florida man tried to evade arrest by hiding under water in a pond — but was swiftly busted by police when he was forced to come up for air, cops said.
Daniel Christopher Booth, 36, of MacClenny, Fla., had warrants out for his arrest from Baker County for selling methamphetamine, police said.
Last week, authorities got word that Booth was at work at a local solar plant and went to collar him.
Booth “decided that he didn’t want to go to jail and tried make his escape and ran away,” the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook as the department poked fun at what the shirtless and tattooed suspect did next.
“Now we can only assume that Mr. Booth has seen one too many action movies and thought he could hide from the K9 teams from Suwannee CI and Mayo CI by hiding under the water in a pond,” the sheriff’s office wrote.
Booth, however, “didn’t take into account he’s not a fish and had to come up for air and was quickly captured.”
A “soaking wet” Booth was booked at the Suwannee County Jail and slapped with additional charges “related to his not so great escape,” the sheriff’s office said.
In the social media post, the sheriff’s office used the humorous hashtags #actionmoviesarenotreallife, #NotRambo, #mistakesweremade, #thatsnothowanyofthisworks and #BreathingIsNotOptional.