CASE UPDATE: The driver who crashed through a locked gate at Daytona Beach International Airport this afternoon is Bryan J. Parker, 58 (DOB 3/18/1968), Holly Hill.
Around 4:25 p.m. today, a deputy was notified that a blue Ford Mustang had just crashed through a gate. On arrival at the gate, the deputy found it destroyed and lying on the ground. Personnel indicated the Mustang plowed through it and headed toward the Embry-Riddle section of the airport.
On arrival at the scene moments later, the deputy found Parker already detained by airport operations and Embry-Riddle security personnel.
Witnesses reported Parker's Mustang entered the taxiway and nearly struck an Embry-Riddle plane that was taxiing. Parker then got out of Mustang and tried to enter the occupied plane, but was unsuccessful. As Parker ran to other aircraft in the area, an airport operations technician chased him down, pulled him out of a plane and sat him on his truck's tailgate. However, Parker jumped off the tailgate and ran toward another plane before he was once again apprehended and placed in handcuffs.
Parker indicated he was intoxicated on alcohol and drugs and didn't remember what led to the incident.
Charges are pending completion of the investigation.
