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here at live now from Fox I'm your host
Carl Lada we are going to continue to
speak on the top story of the day the
FBI's investigation into what they're
calling the second attempted
assassination against former president
Donald Trump now all of that went down
in West Palm Beach Palm Beach County
Florida at the Trump International Golf
course but the suspect actually was
caught in Martin County so to discuss
all of this how all of those events went
down I'd like to bring on to the program
now Sheriff William Snider with the
Martin County Sheriff's Office Sheriff
Snyder we appreciate your time I know
it's been very busy these past couple of
days but walk us through all of these
events from the moment that you heard
that there was a second attempted
assassination to the moment that your
deputies caught up to that
suspect sure good evening Carell this
all started yesterday Sunday at 1:55
p.m. we first got a notti from the Palm
Beach County Sheriff's Office we got a
bolo be on the lookout and they gave us
the vehicle and a vehicle description
initially the report was that a suspect
had fired at uh at president Trump now
we know since then that actually wasn't
the case but we went on that information
did what we call flooding The Zone we
put about 30 cars up on the interstate
looking our helicopter one airborne and
ultimately one of our marked units saw
the suspect vehicle met the tag fell in
behind it advised on the radio followed
it for right at two miles after which we
had enough of our other vehicles or
heavy duty pickup trucks with big
bumpers and we actually crowded the
vehicle off the off the interstate to
prevent a Chase and then really after
that he was called out felon his
stop he complied to all of our
directives and he was taken into custody
and held until the FBI and Secret
Service responded out to the inter
now we heard earlier today a press
conference featuring FBI agents the
Secret Service and also a local Palm
Beach County Law Enforcement the FBI
saying that the suspect there Ruth he
invoked his right to an attorney and is
not speaking to anybody but tell me did
your deputies were they able to get
anything out of this suspect how was he
acting when he was
apprehended I got out to the scene right
after he was called out of the car took
me a little while to get up to it it was
we had stopped on 95 Northbound I was it
was hard to get to the
stop he never made a statement to us we
were very careful first of all it's not
our case so so we had to be careful we
didn't ask him any questions and he did
not blur anything out we had a unit one
of my uh Patrol deputies had a body War
camera and actually kept it on him the
entire time so we have we have the whole
the whole event is is on record and he
really never made a statement when I
looked at him and saw that he wasn't
asking what what was this about I knew
he knew what time it was and it was time
that he was going to
jail now speaking on the fact that this
incident happened in Palm Beach County
but he was captured in Martin County I
want you to talk to us a little bit
about the effective communication
between both of your agencies and I mean
how quick was it until Palm Beach got a
of you and then your sheriff's deputies
found the suspect took him into custody
how did that work well it worked it
seamless first of all we have a great
Advantage I we work very closely with
the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office
we're actually in a taskforce with them
they were sending us real time data so
we knew something happened we didn't
know at first that he would be heading
this way and then they got information
that he was on I
95 he was able to get out of Palm Beach
County where the Border County and she
got into my county and writ it about uh
uh the M marker about
110 we picked him up and then at the 112
we we forced him off the road and made
the
stop
FR so here on your screen we do have a
still image of that suspect when he was
finally taken into custody there Sheriff
Snider another thing that's being
commended right now is really the help
from the witnesses that were on the
scene down there at the golf course I
mean they took a picture of the car the
license plate they were able to identify
this suspect what more do you know about
the efforts from these Witnesses and
really how much it helped aiding you
guys and also Palm Beach County to kind
of you know swiftly capture the
suspect well I can say you this if all
they would have had was was The
Interchange between the Secret Service
and the suspect and had he gotten out of
there like he did but there was no
witness who took a picture we may still
be looking for that fell but we had that
picture the palmach County Sheriff's
Office a fabulous Sheriff's Office gave
us that picture right away we knew the
car we were looking for so that witness
really deserves the Lion Share of the
credit had that witness not done the
right thing used his head sna that
picture then came out to the interstate
and identified the suspect we we would
have a whole different scenario
tonight here on the screen some body cam
footage of when that suspect was caught
Sheriff Snyder let's talk about the
investigation going forward I know that
the FBI is taking the lead in this but
what have they asked of the Martin
County Sheriff's Office uh with this
case as it moves
forward all that we did was done here on
the interstate we we made the
apprehension we made sure that if he
made any statements we would have
recorded them we will write a report
detailing what we did our flatbed our
Sheriff's Office truck towed it back or
put it on flatbed for the FBI brought to
their facility in Palm Beach County and
and really that will be the end of it I
the Pres president Trump has invited my
deputies that made the apprehension to
Mar Lago to thank them tomorrow I pretty
much think that would be the end of it
for
us finally Sheriff Snyder a question
that I have here as someone that has
been down there with the sheriff's
department involved with law enforcement
throughout several years tell me does
this situation that we've seen here
throughout this weekend where the Martin
County Sheriff's Office stepped in to
capture the person suspected of
committing an attempted assassination
against a former president how does this
compare with some other cases that
you've been involved with in the past
I've been in this industry 52 years and
I will tell you without equivocation
this was the the biggest apprehension I
have ever been part of I mean if you
think about it here's a man who was
about to assassinate the former
president of the United States and the
second time uh the president is well in
this case he wasn't fired on but he was
the first time and was hit I am relieved
personally that we have him and you know
what I'm really glad for president Trump
he doesn't have to worry
is this guy out there is he coming back
after him he can get back to his golf
game get back to running for office and
know that the man who would have ended
his life was apprehended in this in the
joiny county to where he
lives and definitely that apprehension
coming things to really the
collaboration between so many different
agencies including yours down there
Sheriff William Snider with the Martin
County Sheriff's Department we
appreciate your time here live now from
Fox very busy couple of days
you take care