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SORRENTO, Fla.— Numerous law enforcement officers were at the home Thursday night where a wanted man was apprehended earlier this week conducting a “follow-up investigation”, Lake County Sheriff’s Office Lt. John Herrell told Inside Lake.

Multiple sources reached out to Inside Lake Thursday evening and said law enforcement officers from multiple agencies were at the home at 31624 Orange Street in Sorrento, including LCSO and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office around 6:30 p.m. This is the same home David Flores, 37, fled from early Wednesday morning after being on the run from deputies for more than two days.

Flores was apprehended by K9 Ex on a nearby property, was treated for his injuries and transported to the Lake County Jail. Neighbors told Inside Lake the residence is a “known drug house,” and law enforcement officers could be heard announcing a search warrant. Several people could be seen in front of the home handcuffed. They said, along with LCSO and OCSO, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was on scene.  Inside Lake was unable to confirm with LCSO if a search warrant was being served at the Orange Street home, and unable to confirm if ATF was on scene, but LCSO stated in a social media post Wednesday they were investigating an allegation Flores had explosives at the home on Bates Avenue in Eustis where the original crimes Flores was wanted for occurred.

Law enforcement officers can be seen here at a home on Orange Street in Sorrento. COURTESY VIDEO

 

Flores is now facing additional charges, including armed sexual battery, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, battery by strangulation, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and petit theft. He continues to held in LCJ on no bond.

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SORRENTO, Fla.—A tip to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office resulted in the apprehension of the man who was the subject of an extensive search in Eustis Sunday night.

LCSO responded to a home on Orange Street in Sorrento just after midnight Wednesday and began searching the property for David Flores, 37, and he fled on foot, LCSO Lt. John Herrell said.

“A sheriff’s K-9 located him shortly thereafter hiding in a hole where it appeared trees had been cleared,” Herrell said in an email.

K9 Ex bit Flores and he was treated for minor injuries and later transported to the Lake County Jail. He was served a warrant revoking his bond for prior grand theft and criminal mischief charges and is facing a new charge of resisting arrest for fleeing deputies before he was apprehended early Wednesday. LCSO body cam video shows Flores getting bit and screaming.

LCSO body cam shows the apprehension of wanted suspect David Flores. 

 

Additional charges are likely, Herrell said.

Flores is  suspected of committing an aggravated assault that occurred in the county portion of Bates Avenue around 5:30 p.m. Sunday, deputies and Eustis Police Department officers searched for Flores for more than five hours by ground and by air Sunday night, causing concern for residents in the area. The victim of the aggravated assault told LCSO Flores was armed and in possession of a bulletproof vest, Herrell told Inside Lake Monday. Flores fled into a wooded area and slipped the perimeter set up by law enforcement.

 

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