Jury shown dashcam video in Marco DUI, fleeing case vs. East Naples man

Jurors in the trial of an East Naples man accused of driving drunk and fleeing from police in 2014 saw parts of a video of the reported chase Tuesday and heard from the police officer who said he attempted a traffic stop.

Kiereek Seymour, 28, faces charges of fleeing or eluding law enforcement, a third-degree felony, and misdemeanor charges of obstructing an officer without violence, DUI and driving with a suspended or revoked license.

Dashcam video from Marco Island Police Officer Brian Granneman's patrol vehicle was shown during the trial. Granneman said it shows a Toyota RAV-4 speeding past him southwest on the S.S. Jolley Bridge early Dec. 31, 2014.

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The driver, later identified as Seymour, led Granneman on a chase through Marco Island, police reported. Seymour eventually crashed into a palm tree, ran  and jumped into a canal, authorities said.

A Collier County Sheriff's Office K9 unit found Seymour hiding in a garbage can at a condo complex, police said.

Seymour was arrested and Granneman drove him to the Naples Jail Center. In a recording, Seymour can be heard saying he ran because he thought he could get away.

"If I didn't get lazy, I would've gotten away," Seymour can be heard saying in the audio and video recording.

Seymour's defense attorney, Peter Adrien, questioned Granneman for about seven hours about whether he properly read the defendant his Miranda rights, whether Granneman turned on his red and blue lights and siren while attempting the traffic stop and whether he conducted field sobriety tests correctly.

The dashcam video showed Granneman flashed on his emergency lights on two occasions but did not activate his siren. The officer testified he did not turn on his car's red and blue lights initially because he was trying to get close enough to the vehicle for his in-car license plate scanner to read the plate.

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During traffic stops, "you want to call out the tag, location, vehicle and, if possible, the number of occupants" to dispatchers so other officers have the information in case there is trouble during a stop, Granneman said.

In 2016, Seymour entered into a plea agreement after being charged with drunken driving in two crashes: the chase and crash on Marco Island and a May 2014 crash that killed a woman in East Naples.

He was sentenced to three years in prison on the fleeing and eluding charge stemming from the Marco Island crash. The DUI manslaughter charge he was facing in connection with the fatal crash was reduced to misdemeanor DUI.

After the sentencing, Seymour’s attorneys argued the fleeing and eluding charge was elevated from a third-degree felony to a second-degree felony “unbeknownst” to Seymour.

Hardt vacated the sentence in both cases. Seymour is on trial on the fleeing and eluding charge and will face a separate trial on the DUI manslaughter charge.