Fugitive ex-deputy vanishes before trial in deadly sports car crash

An apprehension warrant has been issued for an ex-deputy successful Polk County, Florida, who failed to look for his April proceedings aft being charged with 2 counts of manslaughter successful 2022. 

In the aboriginal greeting hours of April 12, 2022, Joshua Roelofs allegedly killed Kris Koroly, 44, and Ricky Gongora, 44, successful a high-speed DUI crash connected the Courtney Campbell Causeway successful the Tampa, Florida, area.

A 3rd idiosyncratic was near permanently disabled aft the wreck.

Joshua Roelofs aft his 2022 arrest (Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)

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According to the Tampa Bay Times, helium was scheduled to look successful tribunal successful April of this twelvemonth to either plead blameworthy to DUI manslaughter charges oregon inquire the authorities for a trial. Initially, helium was released from jailhouse connected a $19,000 bond.

However, helium was a no-show for that tribunal day and has not been seen since. 

The Times reported Roelofs was a Polk County Sheriff's lawman for astir 5 years until helium was fired successful 2015 for allegedly filing inaccurate clip records truthful helium could person other pay.

A roadworthy lined with thenar trees betwixt Tampa and Clearwater, Fla. Joshua Roelofs is simply a fugitive successful the area. (Getty Images)

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Just earlier the 2022 crash, dashcam video from wrong the Nissan GT-R sports car Roelofs was driving reportedly caught him driving erratically and swerving successful and retired of lanes earlier crashing into an SUV carrying Koroly, Gongora and 2 different people.

One of the surviving passengers sustained a terrible encephalon wounded successful the clang and was successful a coma for 4 months. He reportedly "struggles to walk, has seizures, needs changeless assistance and has a reduced intelligence capacity," the Tampa Bay Times reported.

Roelofs has ties to Ohio and Michigan. 

Joshua Roelofs is simply a erstwhile Polk County Sheriff's deputy. (Polk County Sheriff's Office)

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Fox News Digital reached retired to his attorneys, Deborah Barra and Glen Lansky, who withdrew arsenic his counsel erstwhile helium failed to look successful court. 

The U.S. Marshals Service did not instrumentality a remark request.