Wild body camera footage captured a Florida man confessing to ingesting a boatload of drugs and alcohol while being arrested for crashing his Mustang through an airport gate and trying to hop on multiple planes, according to authorities and reports.
Bryan J. Parker, 58, was cuffed after he allegedly crashed through a federally regulated, locked gate at Daytona Beach International Airport while “highly intoxicated” Wednesday afternoon, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Department.
Parker, of Holly Hill, allegedly drove his Ford Mustang through the gate and across an active taxiway toward Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University before ditching his car and trying to board at least two planes, according to the Daytona Beach International Airport and Fox35.
The attempted plane jacker nearly hit a student-training plane on the taxiway during the chaotic incident that occurred in the span of just four minutes, the outlet and airport officials said.
In bodycam footage, Deputies and airport officials were seen wrangling a barefoot Parker as he told cops that he couldn’t remember what happened.
“I don’t remember. I was at my house. I went to an AA meeting, and next thing I know, I’m doing cocaine, drinking, and smoking pot,” he said in the video released by the department.
“So you were doing all kinds of drugs and ran through a gate?” a deputy asks him.
“Yeah and I crashed my car,” Parker replied.
But the apparently forgetful joyrider asked “what happened?” just moments later, after he was handcuffed.
“What’s my car doing over there. What the f–k is my car doing over there?” he muttered as police hauled him into the back of a patrol car.
Nobody was hurt during the alleged drug-fueled tirade, authorities said.
Parker was hit with a laundry list of charges, including attempted aircraft piracy, burglary of a conveyance, felony trespass (airport), exposure of a sexual organ, criminal mischief, DUI property damage, and refusal to submit to testing, police said.
“We would like to commend the eyewitnesses who immediately called 911 to report the incident, and the Air Traffic Controller who quickly reported the suspicious vehicle and took action to ensure the safety of airfield operations,” Daytona Beach International Airport wrote in a statement.
“The safety and security of the traveling public is always Daytona Beach International Airport’s number one priority,” the airport said.
“We understand there are many questions about yesterday’s incident. The information the airport can release is limited as this is an ongoing investigation.”
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