An ex-con who sprinted and lunged at an NBC news reporter during live coverage of Hurricane Ida from the Mississippi coast was arrested in Ohio by United States Marshals on Thursday.
Benjamin Eugene Dagley, 54, was tracked to the Dayton area and handcuffed as he exited a store, federal officials said.
Dagley was driving the same white pickup truck he was seen jumping out of in the now notorious video before he lunged at NBC's Shaquille Brewster as he covered the storm from a beach in Gulfport, Mississippi, on Monday.
Brewster was updating residents about the aftermath of the hurricane when Dagley could be seen running up behind the reporter, shouting and lunging at him before the footage cuts away.
'This violent fugitive was attempting to flee from his charges in Gulfport,' United States Marshal Pete Elliot told Cleveland 19, 'but the swift work of our task force members resulted in a timely arrest.'
Dagley is facing two charges of assault, as well as charges for disturbing the peace and violating an emergency curfew in the aftermath of the Category 4 hurricane.
Benjamin Eugene Dagley, of Ohio, was tracked to the Dayton area on Thursday and was arrested in connection with an assault on an NBC reporter trying to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Ida
Footage of the incident shows NBC reporter Shaquille Brewster covering the aftermath of Ida, which had come ashore as a Category 4 hurricane the previous night, when a man, who was identified by police as Dagley, parked his pickup truck and began sprinting at him
Dagley runs up to the crew shouting, 'Y'all reporting this accurately right?' as Brewster has his crew shift the camera away from the man
Dagley, however, continues to shout and the segment ends just as he lunges towards Brewster, shouting, 'Report accurately!'
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Chicago 19 News reports that the United States Marshals arrested Dagley on Thursday
After the incident on Monday, Gulfport police were called to investigate the alleged assault, and in a release sought the public's help in finding Dagley, whom they discovered is currently on probation for previous charges in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.
Dagley was arrested in 2017 for drilling holes into storage tanks at an electroplating company he once owned, according to Cuyahoga
