TAVARES, Florida—The Fifth Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office (SAO) has upgraded charges against a man suspected in the attacks of three women and trying to run over a Eustis Police officer earlier this year.
Late last month, the SAO dropped stalking and resisting an officer with violence charges against Jephson Seguin, 20, and upgraded the charges to attempted sexual battery and attempted first degree murder of a law enforcement officer, according to documents filed in the case by prosecutor Thomas Wieczorek.
Seguin, of Eustis, is accused of attacking two women in the spring and a third woman on June 27 and when EPD arrived on the scene of the third attack, he allegedly attempted to run over EPD Officer Cody Schneider as he exited his patrol vehicle. Schneider fired three shots, striking Seguin in the shoulder and he fled the scene in a vehicle and stayed on the run for three days until he was finally arrested on June 30 after his parents called EPD.
When officers apprehended him in his Eustis neighborhood, they found he had not received medical treatment for the gunshot wound, and he was taken to a Level II Trauma Center in Sanford. He was booked into the Lake County Jail after receiving treatment for the wound and posted a $37,000 bond the following day. He was released with several stipulations, including no contact orders with the female victim in his latest attack and Schneider and a GPS monitor.
Seguin’s next plea negotiation conference is scheduled for Aug. 22; he is represented by attorney Christopher Kaigle of Orlando.
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