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Suspicious Circumstances II

In April, Scott Ecklund, 32, was in two car crashes. Early in the month, he purposefully crashed into a house, saying a sex offender lived there. Investigators say the resident is not a sex offender. When troopers arrived, they found Ecklund “taking a fighting stance” and claiming to be an FBI agent. He refused orders to lie on the ground, and “stated multiple times that he was going to kill me and that he had an AR that he would shoot me with.” The tense situation ended when Ecklund backed away — and tripped and fell down; he was quickly handcuffed, and charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, and threats to harm or kill an officer. Before that incident, the Orlando Sentinel notes, Ecklund had received at least 24 traffic citations in the past 16 years, and “served a brief term in state prison” for battery on an officer in 2010. Late in the month, Ecklund crashed into a car. Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Glaudson Curado said Ecklund “was making no sense during our conversation,” but he could understand one thing clearly: Ecklund asked the trooper to let him “run away” so he could get “more” meth. Sure enough, the trooper found suspected methamphetamine and drug sales paraphernalia in the crashed car. Curado declined to let Ecklund “run away,” instead taking him into custody on drug charges. (RC/Orlando Sentinel) ...So many crimes, so few consequences.