06/09/2026
Just before 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 7, Boynton Beach Police Department Communications received a request for assistance from the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) regarding a traffic stop involving a suspect with an active burglary warrant. FHP advised that during the traffic stop, the suspect dragged a State Trooper down the road, crashed the vehicle and fled on foot near 1000 North Congress Avenue.
BBPD Road Patrol Officers immediately responded and established a perimeter while the Real Time Crime Center deployed a drone to assist with the search. BBPD K-9 Argo was deployed and quickly picked up a track that led officers through the Renaissance Commons area. Throughout the search, multiple witnesses reported sightings of the suspect, helping officers narrow the search area.
A short time later, BBPD K-9 Ash located a white shirt with blood stains, believed to have been discarded by the suspect. Officers then received information that the suspect was in the nearby SeaLofts Drive area. Responding officers arrived and located 34-year-old Devontea Stubbs who surrendered without incident.
Stubbs was taken into custody and charged with aggravated fleeing and eluding with injury or damage, fleeing and eluding while failing to obey law enforcement commands, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, driving while license suspended, burglary, and petit theft.