A man on Wednesday was arrested after breaching the Daytona Beach Airport in his car and attempting to enter airplanes on the runway. 

The man, identified as 58-year-old Bryan Parker, rammed his blue Mustang through security fencing and then drove onto the runway.

One eyewitness said, “It was like watching a movie. He was going so fast. I’d probably say about 70 to 80 miles an hour.”

The FBI and local authorities are still investigating the incident.

Via Fox 35 Orlando:

On air traffic control radio from SLCScanner on X, pilots and air traffic controllers can be heard discussing the disruption as the man began approaching planes on foot and attempting to enter them.

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In a statement, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said the incident occurred at approximately 4:23 pm on Wednesday, when “a vehicle drove through a gate at the international terminal of Daytona Beach International Airport and proceeded onto the airfield.”

The driver, described as “highly intoxicated,” attempted to enter an “occupied, running airplane” but failed. He then successfully entered an unoccupied plane before security apprehended him.

Full statement below:

This afternoon, around 4:23 p.m., a vehicle drove through a gate at the international terminal of Daytona Beach International Airport and proceeded onto the airfield.

The driver, an adult male who was highly intoxicated, approached an occupied, running airplane and attempted to make entry. He was unable to enter the locked plane.

Following that attempt, he approached two other unoccupied airplanes and briefly made entry to them before he was interrupted by airport operations staff and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University security.

The suspect is currently in custody and being interviewed. Multiple charges are pending. The VSO Domestic Security Unit is on scene along with the FBI.

DBIA operations are continuing without disruption while the investigation continues.

CASE UPDATE: The driver who crashed through a locked gate at Daytona Beach International Airport this afternoon is Bryan J. Parker, 58 (DOB 3/18/1968), Holly Hill.

Around 4:25 p.m. today, a deputy was notified that a blue Ford Mustang had just crashed through a gate. On arrival at the gate, the deputy found it destroyed and lying on the ground. Personnel indicated the Mustang plowed through it and headed toward the Embry-Riddle section of the airport.

On arrival at the scene moments later, the deputy found Parker already detained by airport operations and Embry-Riddle security personnel.

Witnesses reported Parker’s Mustang entered the taxiway and nearly struck an Embry-Riddle plane that was taxiing. Parker then got out of Mustang and tried to enter the occupied plane, but was unsuccessful. As Parker ran to other aircraft in the area, an airport operations technician chased him down, pulled him out of a plane and sat him on his truck’s tailgate. However, Parker jumped off the tailgate and ran toward another plane before he was once again apprehended and placed in handcuffs.

Parker indicated he was intoxicated on alcohol and drugs and didn’t remember what led to the incident.

Charges are pending completion of the investigation.

CASE UPDATE: The driver who crashed through a locked gate at Daytona Beach International Airport this afternoon is Bryan J. Parker, 58 (DOB 3/18/1968), Holly Hill.

Around 4:25 p.m. today, a deputy was notified that a blue Ford Mustang had just crashed through a gate. On arrival… pic.twitter.com/V6pXqetsXg

— Volusia Sheriff (@VolusiaSheriff) March 26, 2026

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Pro-Iran propaganda on social media claims that most U.S. bases in the Middle East have been destroyed and are uninhabitable, and that the United States has abandoned all of its regional bases. No part of this is true.

Prior to the February 28 strikes on Iran, the Pentagon reduced personnel at several bases located within range of Iranian short-range missiles. The U.S. Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain was drawn down to fewer than 100 mission-critical personnel, and all ships left port. Both measures had been taken previously in 2025 ahead of earlier strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

This tactical repositioning, a deliberate pre-strike defensive measure and part of a broader deception operation, is the kernel of truth on which Iran’s propaganda is built.

What the empty port actually represented was standard naval doctrine, not retreat. Dispersing ships is a common safety technique employed by navies around the world in times of heightened threat. A warship sitting at a pier is stationary, unable to maneuver or effectively use its own defensive systems.

Moving U.S. warships out of port in Bahrain was a prudent security measure; the Gulf state is well within range of Iranian missiles and long-range kamikaze drones, and U.S. military facilities in Manama did subsequently come under attack.

The U.S. military’s own strikes on Iranian naval vessels in port underscored the vulnerability of ships sitting pierside. Once at sea, the ships dispersed across the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean, where they remained active, maneuverable, and available for operations. Military analysts describe this “scattering” as a classic protective protocol designed to deny an enemy a stationary target. By moving into open water, ships become significantly harder to hit with the ballistic missiles and drone swarms that constitute Iran’s primary retaliatory capability. The port was empty. The fleet was not.

Two U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ships, USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara, equipped for mine-clearing operations, were moved from the Middle East to Malaysia and then on to Singapore, where the Navy confirmed they were conducting scheduled maintenance. The U.S. and Singapore have an agreement that allows littoral combat ships to operate from Singapore as a logistics and maintenance hub.

After maintenance is complete, the vessels will likely return to the Middle East. In the meantime, while the threat of naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz remains a possibility, the more immediate danger to ships is from drones, reducing the urgency of redeploying the two mine-countermeasure ships.

As for U.S. bases, Iranian retaliatory strikes have caused infrastructure damage at several locations. Satellite imagery confirmed damage at Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE, including to a compound, satellite systems, and radar equipment, though the base remains operational. The U.S. naval base in Bahrain sustained more significant damage, with strikes hitting warehouses and satellite dishes, prompting the departure of military families. Most Iranian attacks across the region were intercepted by host-nation air defenses.

The operational picture is one of expansion, not withdrawal. Prior to the latest reinforcements, 50,000 U.S. troops were already deployed across the Middle East. Kuwait hosts the largest concentration, approximately 13,500 personnel at Ali Al-Salem Air Base and Camps Arifjan and Buehring. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the forward headquarters for U.S. Air Forces Central Command, houses around 10,000 service members. Bahrain hosts more than 8,300 personnel, including U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

The Trump administration has since ordered approximately 2,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division to deploy to the region, on top of two Marine Expeditionary Units with their Amphibious Ready Groups, the 11th MEU and the 31st MEU, together bringing roughly 9,000 Marines and sailors to the theater.

The Iranian propaganda narrative conflates three distinct and unrelated developments: the pre-strike personnel drawdown, which was a deliberate deception tactic; Iranian missile damage to base infrastructure, which was real but largely intercepted; and the ongoing U.S. drawdown from Syria and Iraq, which predates the war. None of these constitutes abandonment.

As of late March, the U.S. has struck approximately 9,000 targets inside Iran since operations began on February 28 and is actively building combat power in the theater.

Thirteen U.S. service members have been killed in Operation Epic Fury. Six died in an Iranian drone strike on Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, on March 1: Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien, Chief Warrant Officer 3 Robert Marzan, Capt. Cody Khork, Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, Sgt. 1st Class Noah Tietjens, and Sgt. Declan Coady.

Sgt. Benjamin Pennington was wounded during an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia on March 1 and died of those wounds on March 8.

Six more were killed when a KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft crashed over western Iraq on March 12. The full crew was Maj. John A. Klinner, 33; Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31; Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt, 34; Capt. Seth R. Koval, 38; Capt. Curtis J. Angst, 30; and Tech. Sgt. Tyler H. Simmons, 28.

As of March 24, 290 service members have been wounded. Of those, 255, approximately 88 percent, have returned to duty, with 10 remaining seriously wounded.

Five U.S. Air Force refueling tankers were struck and damaged on the ground during an Iranian attack on Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. The aircraft were not destroyed and are currently undergoing repairs.

Within the same 24-hour period, two additional KC-135s were involved in a mid-air collision, resulting in one aircraft being lost and the other damaged.

No U.S. warships have been confirmed sunk or put out of action by Iranian strikes, though infrastructure damage, including radar systems and satellite dishes, has been reported at multiple installations.

USS Gerald R. Ford arrived at Souda Bay, Greece on March 23 for maintenance and repairs following a March 12 fire in the aft laundry room, damage unrelated to combat. The Navy stated the carrier remains fully mission capable and that the port call is for assessment, repairs, and resupply.

The Ford has been deployed for approximately nine months, well beyond the typical seven-month deployment cycle, first in the Caribbean and then in the Middle East. With the Ford in Greece, USS Abraham Lincoln, operating in the Arabian Sea, is the only carrier actively in the war theater. USS George Washington remains in Yokosuka, Japan, completing in-port maintenance.

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After years of litigation in which the Gateway Pundit founder and publisher Jim Hoft was the lead Plaintiff, Missouri v. Biden, the case experts said was “the most important free speech case in recent history,” has settled between the government and Hoft and the other plaintiffs.

The government admits that “Unrelenting pressure from certain government officials likely had the intended result of suppressing millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens.”

The important concession and agreement, secured through years of expensive and time-intensive litigation by the Gateway Pundit, is this hard-won agreement, as stated in the document:

The government admits that “Unrelenting pressure from certain government officials likely had the intended result of suppressing millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens.”

The important concession and agreement, secured through years of expensive and time-intensive litigation by the Gateway Pundit, is this hard-won agreement, as stated in the document:

“The Government cannot take actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly… to threaten Social-Media Companies with some form of punishment… unless they remove, delete, suppress, or reduce… content containing protected free speech.”

Another important line from the dissent decree stated:

“The Parties agree that modern technology does not alter the Government’s obligation to abide by the strictures of the First Amendment.”

For years, legacy mainstream media denied this was happening, and have refused to report on this case.

Now in court filings, it is not only confirmed, but this critical victory for free speech has been won.

On Tuesday, TGP’s Jim Hoft joined Steve Bannon on The War Room to discuss this historic Supreme Court win.

Listen to this interview to get a better picture of what was decided.

Jim Hoft: We had a huge win for the American people. This was yesterday. It was announced. This was myself, Dr. Aaron D. Kheriaty, MD, reporter Jill Hines, the state of Louisiana, the state of Missouri. And we won the Missouri v. Biden case that was brought before the Supreme Court years ago now.

And they came back yesterday and settled. And it’s— it was great news for us and for the whole country. What was happening was that the Biden administration was pressuring social media to take down content that they didn’t like, content they would call malinformation or misinformation or disinformation, which is just, you know, bogus, you know, lines that they came up with. And they can’t do that anymore. The government can’t do that.

And so it’s a huge win.

Watch the entire video here.

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