Man flees from deputies after handcuffed

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a man who escaped from deputies while being arrested for violating a temporary protection order.

Lake County Sheriff’s deputies on Sept. 20 went to a home near Lindmar Drive and Chestnut in Painesville Township for a report of a violation of a temporary protection order.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, a 24-year-old man was sleeping at the home of his grandmother, where he is not permitted.

Due to the violation, he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge. A deputy handcuffed the man from behind and as he was escorting him out of the house, the man broke free of the deputy and ran into a heavily wooded area with significant underbrush.

The deputy got entangled in barbed wire in the heavy brush chasing him and the man got away, the Sheriff’s Office stated.

Deputies along with assisting area police officers searched the dense wooded area for the next three hours but were unable to locate him.

“We do not believe that he is a threat and he has no criminal history to cause alarm,” Chief Deputy Frank Leonbruno wrote in a Facebook post. “However, we wanted to let everyone in the community know why so many police officers were out in that area this afternoon, and to explain our presence so people do not become unduly alarmed.”

The man is listed at 5-foot-10, 160 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes, wearing gym shorts and we believe is no longer wearing a shirt according to the department.

“We do not believe that he has left the wooded area and so we still have some officers there searching the woods and brush,” Leonbruno said in the 3:50 p.m. post.