Two gun-toting Ocklawaha brothers were jailed Wednesday after they ran from a Marion County sheriff’s deputy who was searching for a burglary suspect.
The deputy reported that Kasper Wade O’Berry and Dalton Lane O’Berry, both 20, spotted his unmarked patrol vehicle in the 19600 block of 95th Street and ran into a wooded area. The deputy said it appeared that both of the men had long guns over their shoulders, a sheriff’s office report states.
After a sheriff’s helicopter and a K-9 unit responded to the scene, Kasper O’Berry came out of the woods with his hands in the air. The K-9 deputy and his dog then started a track for Dalton O’Berry. They found a black .22-caliber rifle and then spotted him a short distance away hiding in a bush, the report says.
Deputies then found a brown shotgun where Kasper O’Berry had exited the woods. He admitted he had been carrying the gun and said he initially ran from the deputy because his brother told him to do so, the report says.
Both of the brothers were arrested and transported to the Marion County Jail. Dalton O’Berry was charged with unarmed burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, larceny/petit theft (first offense), carrying a prohibited weapon, resisting an officer without violence and an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court for sentencing on a domestic battery charge. He was being held on no bond and is due in court Dec. 23.
Kasper O’Berry was charged with carrying a prohibited weapon and resisting an officer without violence. He was released Thursday morning on $2,000 bond and his next court date hasn’t yet been set, jail records show.