A Marietta man and a Florida woman tried to escape deputies in a stolen vehicle around 8 p.m. on July 14 and both ended up in the Monroe County Jail. A report from the sheriff’s office said deputy Jaleel Brown saw a gray 2017 Mazda SUV with darkly tinted windows and a temporary tag not issued by a state but supposedly issued by the Sovereign Citizen Organization on I-75 S near Johnstonville Road. The tag had no expiration date.
Brown initiated a stop on Arsenio Damar Nuckles, 31, near Hwy. 83 and stuck his hand out of the window, and signaled that he was getting off at the Tift College Drive exit. He then activated his hazard lights, took the exit, and pulled into the BP gas station. Brown had a female passenger, Christine Philippe, 23, of Lehigh Acres, Fla., and a small child in the car.