Cops tase down kidnap and rape suspect

Tense moment cops chase down and tase 'rapist who kidnapped two women after barging into apartment with a knife during a girls' night in'

Benjamin Hovan, 32, was arrested Thursday morning at a Titusville gas station
The Florida man allegedly broke into a Casselberry apartment where he kidnapped two women and raped one at knifepoint on June 30
Hovan is wanted for crimes from his hometown Tallahassee to South Miami
Police bodycam video shows Hovan resisting arrest and trying to run away
But cops tase him down, causing him to face-plant onto the concrete
He was booked into Brevard County Jail and will be transferred to Seminole County to face charges of home invasion, sexual battery, and kidnapping

Published: 15:03 BST, 7 July 2018 | Updated: 16:34 BST, 7 July 2018

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A man suspected of breaking into a Florida apartment where he kidnapped two women and raped one at knife-point has been chased down and tased by police.

Benjamin Hovan, 32, allegedly broke into a Casselberry apartment where two women were having a girls' night in on June 30. After sexually battering one of them he forced them into one of their cars to head to a nearby Publix ATM to withdraw money.

At the store one of the women told an employee to call police, causing Hovan to flee the scene.

But Officer Austin Quinn found him as he was leaving a gas station in Titusville on Thursday.

Benjamin Hovan is the 32-year-old suspect behind a Casselberry home break-in where he kidnapped two women and raped one at knife-point then fled the scene. He was found and chased down by police Thursday morning, pictured above

His arrest was captured on a cop's bodycam footage which shows the moment he resists officers and tries to escape

Hovan is pictured frantically running away as the officer whips out his taser to shoot him

Finally the prongs make contact sending Hovan flying to the concrete ground face-first

After he was tased he was arrested and booked into Brevard County Jail but will be transferred to Seminole County to face charges of home invasion, sexual battery, and kidnapping

Titusville PD shared this image following his arrest at the Titusville gas station on Thursday

Police cornered the Tallahassee man and he tried to outrun the officers Thursday morning, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Police bodycam footage displays the moment an officer confronts Hovan who puts his hands up in surrender and obeying to orders to lay on the ground.

The officer shouts 'Handcuff him right now!' but when another deputy arrives on the scene, Hovan gets up and runs away.

The officer then immediately brings out his taser and frantically shoots at Hovan as he sprints away, and after the two run past the corner of the gas station, the prongs finally make contact causing Hovan to face-plant onto the concrete.

Once he's on the ground he's heard repeating 'ow ow ow'.

When the officer asks his name he can barely articulate it.

'You know who you look like?' Quinn says as he handcuffed Hovan and later identified him by his drivers license.

Hovan was identified as a suspect in the Casselberry case by fingerprints found at the scene.

He was wanted for a series of crimes from Tallahassee to South Miami, old mugs pictured

Hovan pictured being perp walked as he was taken to jail following his Titusville arrest

Police announced Thursday that they arrested Hovan in connection with the Casselberry home invasion, kidnapping and sexual assault incident from June 30

Police released this wanted notice for the Tallahassee man following the Casselberry invasion

He was wanted for several crimes throughout Tallahassee to South Miami.

Officer Quinn realized he found Hovan after he spotted a man that looked like him at the Marathon gas station Thursday at 11:30am, and noticed he tried to turn his face away from the officer, according to WFTV.

'The surveillance image I saw, he was behind a glass window, and when I saw him behind the glass door, he was a dead ringer for the guy,' Quinn said to Fox35.

Once inside, Quinn ran the license plate on his Mercedes and found it was stolen during a Miami home invasion, according to police.

Speaking on his quick thinking Quinn said: 'It was pretty high paced, because I didn't know he had a weapon on him. I had cause to stop him, I was pretty sure he was who I thought he was.'

'It feels pretty good because he could have stopped. No one else got hurt now he is where he needs to be for the time being,' he added.

He was booked into Brevard County Jail and will be transferred to Seminole County to face charges of home invasion, sexual battery, and kidnapping.