We did not receive a response from the FBI in reference to this request so telephone contact was established. The person we spoke to at the FBI could not confirm the warrant and was making telephone calls to an unidentified agent to confirm this. An hour had passed from the time we initiated contact with Sawyer and we had no received warrant confirmation. It was decided that the suspect would be released from the scene due to not receiving a hit confirmation.
A short while later we received confirmation for Sawyer. We returned to the area and learned that Sawyer was gone. We deployed a sheriff’s office helicopter as well as Pinellas Park Police K-9 teams and searched the area with negative results.
To clarify some issues
1. Sawyer was detained pending confirmation. He was not in custody
2. Sawyer did not escape from us not did he climb out of a window to escape
a. When we returned Sawyer was gone and we did not see him
3. We had contact with Sawyer in January
4. The warrant was not issued until March 18th, 2014
Source: Pinellas Park Police Department