Prosecutors have dropped charges against Gregory Allen Davis, 49, of Port St. Lucie in an incident June 24 when Davis ordered three juveniles out of their car at gunpoint and told them to get on the ground at the intersection of SW Morelia Lane and SW Acapulco Terrace. Minutes earlier, one of the teens had fired an Orbeez toy gun at the car that Davis and his fiancee were in.
According to Assistant State Attorney Jason Bruin of the 19th Judicial Circuit, the charges were dropped because in Florida, citizens have the right to make a citizen's arrest if they see that a felony has been committed in their presence. Bruin said that under Florida law, when someone effects a citizen's arrest, they have the same powers as a police officer would, at least temporarily.
Davis was charged with three counts of false imprisonment and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison if convicted.
Bruin said the prosecutor's office does not recommend that people take the law into their own hands and should call the police instead. According to Port St. Lucie Police, Jordan Gomez, 15, was charged with shooting or throwing a missile at or into an occupied vehicle. In the aftermath, the popular St. Lucie County scanner page on Facebook that Davis ran distanced itself from the founder after his arrest.