CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. – A man who was already on probation is behind bars again after he is accused of carjacking a mother in the parking lot of the Walmart Supercenter in Coral Springs.
40-year-old Steven Bryan Mccluskey was in a Broward County courtroom Thursday. According to a police report, just before 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28, a woman was securing her child into the car seat in the back of her dark-colored Kia sedan.
That’s when Mccluskey got in the driver’s seat. The woman told Mccluskey that he must have accidentally gotten into the wrong car. The victim told police that Mccluskey turned around and said, “Sweetie, this is a carjacking. Take your kid out of the car or I’m driving off with her.”
The victim said he put his hand in a backpack that he had placed on the passenger seat and she feared that he had a weapon. Police later found that he did not have a weapon.
Police said Mccluskey took off in the car and got less than a mile away when he hit another car in the 4800 block of Creekside Drive. It was then that he drove about another block before he stopped and got out of the car and hid in nearby bushes, according to the report.
It didn’t take long for officers to find Mccluskey, but when officers told him to come out, he told them they should shoot him.
“The suspect refused to exit the bushes and stated multiple times, ‘f*** you, shoot me,’ " the report stated.
Instead, an officer used a taser on Mccluskey, and he was taken into custody.
Assistant State Attorney Eric Linder said during Thursday’s bond court hearing that “(Mccluskey) threatened the woman that if she didn’t get her child out of the car that he would leave with the child in her vehicle, essentially threatening to kidnap her child.”
Mccluskey had just been put on probation 10 days ago for violating an order from a domestic violence case he already had.
Because of that, he is being held with no bond.