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Vista of Lake Buena, Fla. – More than a dozen Range County Sheriff’s deputies stormed a shuttered Walt Disney World theme park in April, trying to find a man accused of camping on an island in the resort, according to a video obtained by News 6.
Richard McGuire, 42, was arrested in April for camping at Disney’s former Discovery Island Zoological Park, while the entire resort was closed due to a coronavirus epidemic.
[RELATED: Report: Man caught camping on Disney’s Discovery Island says it was ‘tropical paradise’]
As deputies tried to locate McGuire by land, air and water, the suspected criminals recorded videos of themselves hiding on the island.
“Disney World is not playing. Disney World (Explosive) is not playing, “McGuire said in a recent video posted on his YouTube channel, saying he could hear the sheriff’s helicopter hovering overhead.
McGuire has not pleaded guilty to a felony at Disney, a felony that carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison.
Newly released video captured by deputies’ physical nutrition cameras shows how the breed evolved on Discovery Island, an 11-acre island in the middle of Disney’s two lakes, once home to animal exhibits, walks and a stand of freshness.
In 1999, a year after Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park opened, East Park, which can only be reached by boat, closed to the public.
Disney security officials told deputies that wildlife cameras, such as those used by hunters and biologists, snapped a photo of a man on Discovery Island on April 30 at 7:00 p.m.
Videos posted on McGuire’s YouTube channel suggest he traveled to the island around 11pm last night using a small boat, which he transported to the Disney property on the roof of his van.
An hour before Disney’s camera shot a picture of the perpetrator, McGuire was seen drying his shoes in front of a campfire on a YouTube video that appears to have been set on fire inside a building on the island.
“You guys, if you always do that, have respect for the people at the front who are researchers,” McGuire said on a YouTube video. “If you have a fire, make sure you put it out the next day. I’ve been doing this since 2004 and I’ve never caught anything in a fire. “
Around 8 a.m., two deputies took a boat around the bay lake and began exploring the island.
Deputies’ body-wearing cameras show them holding guns as they search for criminals inside the crumbling buildings of the former park and on the vine-trapped roads.
“He’s going to live here somewhere,” said one deputy, adding that law enforcement officers will need to cover the island.
A few hours later, three teams of deputies arrived at Discovery Island by boat and flew over the sheriff’s helicopter to speed up the property.
In one of the videos posted on McGuire’s YouTube channels, the deputies’ voices can be heard in the background, as they appear to be hiding from them.
“They’re talking to me,” McGuire said on the video. “The island is surrounded.”
For more than an hour, deputies tracked the former zoo’s rusty animal cages, crumbling restrooms and collapsed planks, using machets to cut with thick brushes at times.
“This is the best game to ever hide and seek,” one deputy joked.
“Dude, this is a sketch,” replied his companion.
Unable to find the culprit, deputies ended up searching the land, but Disney staff continued to keep an eye on the island from shore.
“We probably walked right away from him,” said a deputy before leaving the island.
At around 00:00 pm, deputies were called back to Walt Disney World when a man who identified himself as McGuire was seen crossing two lakes in a motor boat.
“I just wore it. The flat was out, ”McGuire told a deputy on the shore, pulling the boat out of the water.
“Did you go camping?” Asked the deputy.
“Yes,” McGuire replied. “It is a tropical paradise. I was going out there for about a week. “
As McGuire was handcuffed and placed in a patrol car, deputies located his camouflaged colored van with a decal reading “Wildlife Field Biologist.”
Near the van, whose subdivisions said it was illegally parked in the back alley of homes in the Horizons West neighborhood of Orange County, deputies said a woman was believed to be McGuire’s girlfriend.
However, he originally denied knowing anything about McGuire, but the unidentified woman later admitted that McGuire had come to shoot a video for his YouTube channel, showing deputies’ body-wearing cameras.
“I said to McGuire, ‘Look, if you’re in trouble, count me out. I’m not part of it. ” The woman explained to the deputies. “I love it, but not so much.”
Although McGuire’s criminal case is still pending, new videos showing him on Discovery Island have been posted on his YouTube page, just like last week.
“Fortunately, I took my daughter to Disney World long before she received a lifetime ban,” McGuire told her 2,300 YouTube channel subscribers in a recent video. “Who wouldn’t want to go and keep it all to themselves?”
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