Crime

Loud snoring led Fla. deputies to suspect

/ AP

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Officials say a Florida man suspected of stealing a car fled on foot from a traffic stop and briefly eluded deputies while he grabbed a nap under a nearby trailer.

But, in a variation on that old axiom, "you snooze, you lose," the Pensacola News Journal reports that deputies followed the sound of 37-year-old Kevin Lee Barbour's snoring - described as a "snorting wild boar" - to find and arrest him Sunday night in Santa Rosa County.

Officials say deputies tried to stop Barbour, of Pensacola, after noticing his vehicle didn't have tag lights. They say that when the deputy activated his siren, Barbour pulled off the road and ran.

The deputy lost sight of Barbour... but not sound.

Barbour was in the Santa Rosa County Jail on Tuesday, accused of driving with a suspended license, vehicle theft and resisting an officer.

Maybe he can at least a Breathe-Rite commercial out of it.

AP

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