The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office extradited a man who is accused of sexual battery on a child back to Florida after officials say he was a fugitive in North Carolina and Florida’s Agriculture Commissioner assisted in the situation.

Kermit Booth , who is facing the sexual battery charges, fled to North Carolina after the charges in Flagler. He was returned to Florida Friday after he was originally arrested Aug. 1. He was initially arrested in North Carolina on a Flagler County warrant for the two counts of sexual battery on a person less than 12 years of age.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly himself went to Franklin, North Carolina Friday to bring Booth back to Florida. He was being held in the Macon County Jail in Franklin awaiting extradition. Gov. Ron DeSantis granted Stal

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