GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — A Gwinnett County man is out on bond after police say he sped away from a traffic stop, and then left a trail leading officers right to where he was hiding.
Duluth police said they aren't sure exactly why Jonathon Ryno ran from a traffic stop but they know one thing: He needs to learn how to play the child’s game of hide-and-seek a little better.
Duluth police said that Ryno’s SUV had a tag violation, but he slipped through a strip mall parking lot and took off. On May Road, the truck was dumped, and an officer saw the man running into a warehouse.
The warehouse was dark, and officers weren't sure who the man was or how dangerous he might be.
Police sent a K-9 and his partner to scour the warehouse as other officers climbed up on piles of sheet rock.
But it wasn't too hard, police said the man left footprints in the sheet rock dust and they just followed the trail.
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Police found Ryno hiding on top of one of the piles 20 feet up. Bodycam video captured everything.
“How’d he get up there?” one officer asked.
Ryno claimed he wasn't the driver.
“I was in the back,” Ryno said. “No, you weren't,” the officer responded.
Police had to use a forklift to get Ryno down.
“The forklift is going to come up and you can come down on that,” one officer is heard on bodycam video.
Police said they’re happy the situation ended peacefully.
“In that type of situation, we are coming into a warehouse that we've never been in and in the dark, it could have been an ambush,” said Duluth police Officer Ted Sadowski.
After his arrest, police said Ryno claimed he had gotten scared when he saw the blue lights because he just got out of prison a month ago and is on probation.
Officers said they couldn't verify that in records.