Attempting to run over police officers with a stolen vehicle without a driver's license. While in possession of a crack pipe. Never commit a crime while committing a crime, or two, or three...
Posted on 10/26/2025 6:58:46 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
HAINES CITY, Fla. — An early-morning shooting Sunday involving a Haines City police officer is under investigation by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and Haines City Police Chief Jay Hopwood detailed the incident in a news conference Sunday afternoon.
According to Hopwood, the officers involved were conducting a traffic stop on a pickup truck with no tag and dark window tints at approximately 2:30 a.m. in the area of Avenue I and 12th Street N. in Haines City.
Hopwood says the suspect in the stopped vehicle suddenly backed up, nearly striking the patrol vehicle and an officer before accelerating forward at an officer standing in front of the pickup truck.
One officer then opened fire, hitting 24-year-old Louivens Ceus and killing him, Hopwood said.
The HCPD officers involved are Joseph Elam and Ryan Hamilton, who have since been placed on paid administrative leave following the incident.
Hamilton has been with HCPD for about one and a half years. Elam has been with HCPD for over a decade.
Judd said he believes the truck had been stolen and that it was spray-painted black to mask its original color and did not have a license plate.
Judd also said there may have been a meth pipe and stolen medical marijuana in Ceus' possession.
According to Judd, Ceus's previous criminal charges include a hit-and-run from 2021, driving without a license, and a domestic violence battery incident of which Ceus had also violated his probation.
"He's been running from the law," Judd said in a video PCSO shared to Facebook Sunday. "He was fleeing and resisting a felony arrest."
The sheriff's office is still investigating.
Nice shot placement.
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Grouping could have been a little tighter, but considering the circumstances it’s alright...............
Are there any riots scheduled yet?
I’m rioting all over my back yard. Of course I’m in Idaho, so you probably didn’t noticed. My dog pee’d on a tree. It really, wait for it, pissed me off. I guess white boys don’t know how to riot.
Sheriff Grady Judd doesn’t mess around
“Well shoot you graveyard dead”
Moving target?
Yep, but it was headed straight for the officer..............
If you can figure out how to pronounce it.
>Sob he could have been a brain surgeon or Afronaut!
Nothing of value was lost.
He found out.
Probably the first time in his life that he paid actual consequences for actions he took. That’s the problem with mollycoddling feral, criminal behavior.
My kind of sheriff.
If you can figure out how to pronounce it.
Yes, how on earth DO you province the dude’s name?
Pronounce
That dude is a skank.
2:30 in the morning....unless he was coming home from work (yea, right), he was causing trouble...
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