Man booked with attempted murder for trying to run over a sheriff’s deputy who tried to stop him for speeding on April 13

Tyrone Singleton, 28, came to the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday,April 22, looking to re-claim his silver BMW, seized April 13 when it was found abandoned after being used in an attempt to run over a sheriff’s deputy who tried to stop its driver for speeding.

Singleton never got his car.

In fact, he never left and was booked by sheriff’s detectives with attempted murder, alleging he was driving the vehicle during the incident, Sheriff James Pohlmann said. The suspect is being held in St. Bernard Parish Prison, also booked with hit-and-run driving and aggravated flight from police. He will go before a judge to have bond set.

He also had an outstanding arrest warrant on a drug charge in New Orleans and a separate warrant from Gretna, the sheriff said.

The deputy who tried to stop a speeding motorist on West Judge Perez Drive after a parade was running radar at the time and perceived the driver of the car involved tried to run over him when he tried to stop him for speeding. The officer jumped out of the way and suffered a minor injury when one of his arms was struck by a mirror on the vehicle, Sheriff Pohlmann said.

Singleton, who is from Gibson, La., told sheriff’s detectives he was innocent and had reported the car stolen in New Orleans the day someone tried to run over the officer.

Sheriff Pohlmann said Singleton is identified on a surveillance video from the Wal-Mart parking lot in Chalmette as getting into the same car there after 2 p.m. and leaving only minutes before the vehicle was involved in the incident with a deputy, which happened less than a mile away.

The sheriff said the deputy was using radar on east-bound traffic in the 8300 block of West Judge Perez Drive. The officer saw the silver BMW approach with several occupants inside and he stepped off the curb and signaled the driver to stop because he was speeding. Instead the driver tried to hit the officer, the sheriff said.

Sheriff’s deputies responding to the incident located the abandoned car just several blocks away, behind a department store, but the driver wasn’t found.

Since then, Singleton had contacted the Sheriff’s Office about his car and came to the Criminal Investigations Bureau on Tuesday to see about re-claiming it