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Pensacola, FL - Teddie Lee Carroll, 44 is an absconded sex offender
with three outstanding warrants who was wanted by the U.S. Marshals
Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force (FRFTF) in Orlando. The Pensacola
Division of the FRFTF arrested Carroll this evening in Pensacola.
Carroll was being sought by the Osceola County Sheriff's Office for
Violating Probation by Failing to Register as a Sex Offender. The Indian
River County Sheriff's Office was also looking for him on similar
charges for Violating his Probation. Carroll was also wanted locally by
the Escambia County Sheriff's Office for Failure to Appear since 2005.
Carroll was originally convicted in 2000 in central Florida on charges
of kidnapping, impersonating a police officer and lewd and lascivious
assault on a minor. Carroll was later arrested for a second sex offense
which involved raping a woman at gunpoint, but the charges were dropped
after the victim refused to testify.
Several weeks ago the Marshals Task Force in Orlando contacted their
counterparts here in Pensacola after learning that Carroll may be in
Pensacola once again. The Pensacola task force conducted surveillances
at several different locations in Pensacola for a couple of weeks before
determining that Carroll was living at an address on the 2000 block of
East Maxwell Street.
At approximately 6:30 this evening, U.S. Marshals and task force members
from Escambia and Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Offices approached the
home and heard the front door being locked and someone run through the
house. They then witnessed someone who resembled Carroll through a
window ingesting something from a pill bottle and drinking something
with it that appeared to be a large alcohol bottle. They then forced the
door open concerned for both Carroll and the officer's safety. Carroll
immediately complied with commands and was detained. He was then taken
to Baptist Hospital as a precaution after learning that he had swallowed
rat poison and possibly washed it down with gasoline. An interview of
Carroll at the hospital revealed that he had not drank gasoline that was
found in a small pill bottle but head in fact washed down a handful of
rat poison with a mixture of vodka and iced-tea. Carroll was examined
and cleared to be released to law enforcement who booked him into the
Escambia County Jail.
The Florida Regional Fugitive Task Force in Pensacola is made up of
officers from the U.S. Marshals Office, Florida Department of Law
Enforcement, Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and Walton County Sheriff’s
Offices, Milton, Pensacola, Ft. Walton Beach, Niceville and DeFuniak
Springs Police Departments, State Attorney’s Office, the Office of
Attorney General and the 1st Special Operations Security Force at
Hurlburt Field.
Additional information about the U.S. Marshals can be found at
http://www.usmarshals.gov.
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