Saul Garcia Corado faces six felony counts stemming from his Sept. 9 arrest in the Holiday Mobile Home Park area near 49th Way North in unincorporated West Palm Beach. The charges listed in WPBF's report are two counts of aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, three counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, and one count of resisting a police canine with violence. WPBF said it obtained those details from a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office probable-cause affidavit: WPBF 25.
What the charges allege
According to the account attributed by WPBF to investigators, deputies were serving search and arrest warrants when they saw a man believed to resemble a robbery suspect leave a residence in a Chevrolet Camaro. An undercover deputy activated emergency lights and a siren, but deputies allege that Garcia Corado moved the Camaro away from the patrol vehicle and struck it. The Camaro then rolled into a second, unmarked sheriff's office vehicle, and deputies reported damage to multiple PBSO vehicles. These details come from WPBF's report and its description of the affidavit: WPBF 25.
WPBF also reported that Garcia Corado left the Camaro and was later found in a crawl space between a trailer and a shed with help from a K-9 team. Investigators accused him of struggling with the dog and of kicking officers during the attempt to take him into custody. The supplied reporting does not establish whether the officers or the K-9 needed medical or veterinary treatment.
Potential penalties described in the cited sources
The article's cited explanation of Florida law states that aggravated battery against a law enforcement officer is reclassified as a first-degree felony, with a possible sentence of up to 30 years and a five-year mandatory minimum upon conviction. That explanation is attributed to Pumphrey Law's discussion of Florida Statute § 784.07(2)(d): Pumphrey Law.
The same cited legal material describes battery against an officer as a third-degree felony carrying a possible sentence of up to five years and a $5,000 fine. The article also identifies Florida Statute § 843.01(2) as the provision making it a third-degree felony to knowingly and willfully resist or oppose a police canine working with an officer by using violence against the animal: Florida Statutes.
The public information supplied for this account does not describe the underlying felony warrant, identify any injuries, or quantify the damage to the sheriff's office vehicles. The charges are allegations, and their filing does not establish guilt.
