Man charged with driving truck toward Virginia Beach protesters arrested in Florida after missing
Man charged with driving truck toward Virginia Beach protesters arrested in Florida after missing court date
A Chesapeake man accused of driving his truck toward a group of protesters at the Oceanfront in May was arrested Wednesday night in Florida.
The arrest came a little over a week after a Virginia Beach General District Court judge issued a warrant for 20-year-old Emanuel Manny Wilder when he failed to show up for his trial for a second time.
Lake City police officers stopped Wilder on Wednesday night because he matched the description of a person they were looking for in connection with a battery investigation, Greg Burnsed, a spokesperson for the police department said in an email.
Wilder was not the person Lake City police were looking for, but when an officer ran his name they found his Virginia Beach warrant, Burnsed said.
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