See it: Wild Video Shows 260-Pound Suspect’s Daring Escape from Moving Patrol Car

 

Now that’s a tight squeeze.

A 6-foot-7, 260-pound suspect in police custody decided he’d had enough of waiting — and kicked his way out of a moving patrol car.

Keon Dewayne Leonard allegedly ran from Houston cops who nabbed him on Sept. 3 when they went to arrest him on a warrant, the Houston Sheriff’s Department said in a Facebook post.

But Leonard, who was initially arrested on charges of aggravated assault on a public servant, apparently wasn’t ready to go quietly into custody.

It took two sets of handcuffs to get Leonard into custody to begin with according to KTRE in Houston, which then reported he managed to squirm his restraints from the back of his body to the front before attempting his daring exit.

Like a moment out of spy thriller, a handcuffed Leonard can be seen on a video taken from inside a moving patrol truck stealing furtive glances toward the driver as he repeatedly tries to open the door.

He then leans his large frame back in the seat and begins slamming his feet into the window until it shatters — and shimmies his bulky body out of the still moving vehicle, the footage shows.

“Look at this guy, he was determined,” said Fox News anchor Dana Perino as she played the surveillance footage Thursday on America’s Newsroom. “Where did he think he was gonna go?”

A deputy chased Leonard and used a stun gun to subdue him, authorities said, according to KTRE.

“After the brief escape from custody, the suspect was apprehended AGAIN,” the sheriff’s office said in the Facebook post.

The sheriff included photos of the patrol truck with the upper half of its door bent outwards, and the shattered glass covering the back seat.

Leonard was brought to the Houston County Jail and faces additional charges of escape, criminal mischief and evading arrest or detention, police said. He was being held on $40,000 bail.

Watch above via Fox News.

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