A 20-year-old man who threatened to kill his godmother with an Uzi was busted by St. Johns County deputies after a high-speed chase and manhunt through the woods earlier this month, the agency said.
Yo’Hance Butler had been on the run since May 4, when Flagler County deputies responded to a violent domestic incident at a Palm Coast home, court records show.
His godmother told deputies she kicked him out after finding a backpack filled with small baggies—some containing white powder, others green leafy substances she believed were drugs.
Later that day, Butler returned, forced his way through the locked front door, and caused damage to the home.
Inside, he grabbed two guns—an olive-green Uzi-style weapon and a black semiautomatic pistol—then stormed out of the house with a firearm in each hand and threatened to come back and kill her.
He fled the scene in a white Infiniti with a man known only as “Skip.” A third gun was later recovered from the home by deputies.
Two days later, deputies in St. Johns County spotted Butler in a vehicle — also a white Infiniti — near Wildwood Drive and US 1-South.
The vehicle mentioned in the initial incident has Pennsylvania plates, while the video from the St. Johns department showed the Infiniti with New Jersey plates.
When they tried to stop the car, the driver hit the gas, leading deputies from both St. Johns and Flagler on a high-speed chase.
The car finally gave out near railroad tracks, and Butler and the driver—28-year-old Eric Felder—bolted into the woods.
They didn’t get far. Bloodhound Daisy Mae tracked them down, and both were taken into custody.
Inside the vehicle, deputies found over 12 grams of cocaine. Felder and Butler were charged with resisting without violence and possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
Butler was also booked on his active warrant for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
