Sergeant Doug Baldwin in Pensacola, Florida, was dispatched to assist in a high-speed car chase. He responded immediately and soon was hot on the tail of the speeding vehicle.
Suddenly, the suspect’s car veered off to the side of the road. The driver’s door sprang open, and the driver bolted from the car. By the time Baldwin could get out of his own car and follow on foot the suspect had disappeared.
A search of the fugitive’s car uncovered a quantity of drugs. Now he was wanted for possession, speeding, and resisting arrest. But he was nowhere to be found. An extensive canvass of the area proved fruitless. After hours of searching, the officers were ready to call off the search, but Sergeant Baldwin decided to again check the area.
Looking behind an auto mechanic’s shop, Baldwin heard something. It sounded like a man whispering “ouch” and quietly cursing. Officer Baldwin traced the sound to a car up on blocks. He bent down, looked underneath the car, and saw a bare-chested man twitching wildly on the ground.
The officer called to the squirming man, who identified himself as the suspect. “You’re under arrest,” Baldwin said.
“Okay, but hurry up!” the man pleaded. “You’ve got to get me away from all these mosquitoes; they’re about to bite me to death!”
Sergeant Baldwin dragged the man from under the car and saw that his skin was as bumpy as a rhinoceros’s hide from mosquito bites. He handcuffed the suspect and was leading him out of the fenced compound when, from out of nowhere, two security dogs appeared and jumped the bad guy. They bit him several times before Sergeant Baldwin could run them off.
Between the mosquitoes and the dogs, the man had about one hundred bite marks on his body. It was a bad case of “overbite”—and a stellar example of taking a bite out of crime!