- April 28, 2024
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Deputies arrested a 33-year-old fugitive after a two-hour standoff at a Town Center apartment on Aug. 31.
The suspect, Leroy Capers Sampson Jr., surrendered after Flagler County Sheriff's Office deputies breached a third-floor apartment at the Central Landings at Town Center apartment complex in Palm Coast at about 6:30 p.m. Aug. 31, according to an FCSO news release.
Sampson had barricaded the door with a couch. He lives in the apartment complex, but the unit in which he was arrested wasn't his own: He'd entered it through an unlocked door, according to an arrest report.
Sampson had five arrest warrants, including probation violations for felony battery, cocaine possession out and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
"His actions caused a large response and concern to the community, but that didn’t work out too well for him, and now he’s in the Green Roof Inn," Sheriff Rick Staly said. "It’s now time for the courts to hold him accountable and send him away to prison for a long time.”
Sampson has been convicted of seven felonies and six misdemeanors and has faced 35 charges in Florida and Georgia since 2004, including burglary, aggravated battery on a pregnant person and selling drugs.
