Brian Laundrie Manhunt Sparks War Between Police, Sheriff Calls Out North Port Authorities For Losing 'Person Of Interest' After He Returned Home In Van Without Gabby Petito
Sept. 30 2021, Published 1:49 p.m. ET
Brian Laundrie's whereabouts have sparked a full-on police war between North Port cops and a neighboring sheriff who finds it mind-blowing they lost him in the first place.
Grady Judd, the sheriff of Polk County, is questioning how authorities let Brian slip through the cracks when he returned home from his cross-country trip with Gabby Petito in her van without her.
Polk County sits next door to Sarasota County and its city of North Port, where Brian and Gabby lived with the Laundrie family.
Speaking to a local reporter, Judd slammed cops for not taking Brian into custody after he returned home on September 1 and before he vanished into thin air on September 14.
“I can tell you, at this sheriff's office, when he showed up with [Petito's] car and she was no place to be found, we would have never let him out of our custody that day,” Judd said on Thursday via Fox News.
Adding more fuel to the fire, the sheriff ended his tongue lashing by stating, "I can tell you that, a