A man is accused of stealing marked Florida police vehicle from a station parking lot last week, driving around with a K-9 inside before he was apprehended.
The incident happened just after 8 p.m. June 12 when a 63-year-old man broke into a marked Ford F-150 K-9 pickup truck parked in the secured rear lot of the Jacksonville Beach Police Department, WJXT-TV reports. Security camera footage showed the man enter the lot through an open gate.
The man drove to station's front lot and sat in the parked truck for nearly 15 minutes. He then drove off, and footage from the vehicle's dashboard camera, which was released this week, captured his brief joyride.
Police caught up with the suspect shortly after 8:30 p.m., and he was taken into custody. He was charged with theft of a motor vehicle, grand theft and other counts.
Furyk, a Belgian Malinois K-9, was in the truck the entire time and was safely recovered. Department guns also were in the vehicle when the suspect drove away.
According to police, the man's family had been worried about the man's mental health.
