A man was arrested Sunday after asking a Florida Highway Patrol trooper if he could run away from the scene of a crash, saying he could get the trooper more meth than he had found in his car.
Scott Ecklund, 32, was arrested on charges of methamphetamine possession and driving with a suspended license. He was arrested earlier this month and accused of crashing a Chevrolet truck into a house in Winter Park and claiming to be an FBI agent with an AR-style rifle, police said at the time.
On Sunday afternoon, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper got to the scene of a crash at World Center Drive and South Apopka Vineland Road, records show. Ecklund had crashed a blue Chevrolet Impala into another vehicle, records show.
FHP Trooper Glaudson Curado wrote in his arrest report that he searched Ecklund's car and found meth and a small scale, records show.
Ecklund talked nonstop, Curado wrote.
"Mr. Ecklund was making no sense during our conversation," Curado wrote. "... He was asking me to let he (sic) run away, that he could get me much more illegal substance that I had found with him today."
Ecklund is being held in the Orange County Jail.
