axkurtz's Blog

Whatever happened to Johnny Ray Mizelle??? Last I heard he was locked up in Canada. For those of you who don't know, Johnny Ray, stole a sheriff deputy's car while being transported to the county jail in N.C. last summer for some misdemeanor charges. The deputy pulled over to help a person with a flat tire. While the deputy was busily assisting the stranded motorist, a flexible Johnny Ray manuevered his handcuffs, in Houdini like fashion, to the front of his body and stole the police cruiser.

A huge manhunt ensued and Johnny Ray was later caught, ironically, the same way he escaped, by getting a flat tire-in CANADA! How he made it up there is beyond me. I thought the way the local media covered the story at the time was. . .laughable! Almost like a bad movie version of Natural Born Killers. The best part was when one of the local stations caught a "glimpse" of Johnny Ray running into the woods. Bigfoot footage is what comes to mind when I think about that clip.

Anyway, just wondering whatever happened to that guy?? Can anybody provide some insight or care to share thier memory of this story? It's always the wacky ones that we remember. . .