PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A man who allegedly fought a deputy and fled was arrested along with his friend after a chase that ended when the BMW sedan they were in crashed into an unmarked Bay County Sheriff’s Office car, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Samuel Paramore III was stopped for driving a scooter with no taillights around 8 p.m. Friday. The deputy who stopped him attempted to take him into custody for driving with a suspended license when Paramore pulled the deputy to the ground and began hitting and kicking him.
A BMW pulled up and several women got out and said Paramore was having a seizure, but when the deputy released him to see if it was true, Paramore, who had gone limp, fought again before running to the BMW and driving away.
Another deputy saw the car less than 10 minutes later on North Lagoon Drive. The driver saw the deputy and pulled into a business, where additional deputies boxed him in. The driver of the BMW, Nathanial Gregory Adams, crashed into one of the BCSO cars.
Adams, 22, of Jefferson, Mo., was arrested and charged with resisting an officer without violence and fleeing and eluding police. Paramore, 22, of Midway, would not get out of the car until deputies smashed a window to remove him. He is charged with fleeing and attempting to elude, battery on a law enforcement officer, knowingly driving with license suspended or revoked and resisting an officer with violence.