Detectives are trying to determine whether an escaped convict from Virginia they captured in Flagler County on Saturday morning was accompanied by another fugitive.
James Kent Booth, 54, escaped from a work-release program in Virginia.
"He cut off his ankle monitoring bracelet and fled to the state of Florida," said Jim Troiano with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
According to deputies, Booth was in a crash on Interstate 95 near Palm Coast on Friday night. When witnesses tried to help him and other people in the car, the occupants took off running. The fugitive and the woman he was with came right off of I-95, trailed through water and ended up on Big Horn Drive, they said.
Several law enforcement agencies searched the neighborhood with helicopters and the K-9 unit.
"We put a lot of time and effort trying to find the individuals," Troiano said.
But it was an off-duty deputy who found him hiding inside a shed behind his home and held him at gunpoint.
"It's appropriate — he goes to a deputy's home. He's in his shed. He was just in containment a little sooner than we knew," Troiano said.
Deputies said a woman with Booth said there was someone else with them. But they're still working to determine whether that's true.
Booth is now charged with burglary and resisting arrest. The woman could possibly face charges in Virginia, and investigators said Booth will be extradited.