The Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrested Brandon Kolodeny after he reportedly ran from a crash on Nalle Grade Road in North Fort Myers Saturday night.
LCSO said Kolodeny then went into a yard along Williams Drive and tried to steal a four-wheeler.
“I was sleeping that night when the family called me and told me he was driving up the property, and he saw him try to steal the four-wheeler,” said Dairiel Diaz, who was working on the four-wheeler for a friend.
Security footage shows Kolodeny crashing into the gate and leaving the four-wheeler behind before running away.
“I was entering the property, and I saw the lights on the vehicle, and he left,” said Herberto Santana, who owns the property the four-wheeler was being kept on. He said he now has to pay thousands of dollars to fix the gate.
LCSO said once Kolodeny was cleared from the hospital and being taken into a patrol car, he looked at the deputy, said “Sorry man” and took off running, before being caught yet again.
Kolodeny is charged with grand theft, burglary and attempting to escape.