Brandon Leohner, 27, the boyfriend of the child's mother, abducted the 1-year-old 'while armed with a handgun and was driving with the child in his lap as he left the residence,' the sheriff's office said.
The Flagler County Sheriff's Office responded to a home on Bunker Lane in Palm Coast, about 60 miles south of Jacksonville, on the evening of Sept. 27 about a report of a possible child abduction, it said in aBrandon Leohner, 27, the boyfriend of the child's mother, abducted the 1-year-old"while armed with a handgun and was driving with the child in his lap as he left the residence," the sheriff's office said.
Deputies tried to pull Leohner over after he drove recklessly through medians and sped on Belle Terre Parkway, the sheriff's office said. He did not comply and instead fled east onto State Road 100, driving through oncoming traffic, before he turned into a McDonald's parking lot in a shopping center, it said.
After a brief standoff, deputies used a Taser on Leohner and rescued the child, they said. Leohner tried to flee and resist arrest, but a K-9 dog and a Taser brought him under control, and he was placed in handcuffs, the sheriff's office said.
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