>> ALL NEW I-TEAM
INVESTIGATION.
PRIVILEGE IS A FORMER LOCAL
FOOTBALL STAR TURNED NFL PRO
ENDANGERING THE PUBLIC.
>> TIP TO THE I-TEAM LED TO US
LOOK INTO JABAR!JABAR
LOOK INTO JABAR.
INVESTIGATORS LINDSAY UNCOVERED
NEARLY 50 DRIVING INFRACTIONS
BUT HE IS STILL LEGALLY ALLOWED
TO DRIVE TONIGHT.
LINDSAY HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?
TICKETS APPEARS TO BE A LEGAL
LOOP HOLE.
BUT WE WANTED TO KNOW GETTING
HIM SPECIAL TREATMENT AND
PUTTING OTHER DRIVERS HERE IN
JACKSONVILLE AT RISK.
JABAR!JABARA
JABAR FORMER FOOTBALL STAND OUT
TURNED UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
WIDE RECEIVER.
THEN NFL PRO FOR 11 SEASONS.
TODAY INSTEAD OF FIGHTING FOR
WIN ON THE FIELD HE'S HIRING
ATTORNEYS LIKE AJ TO FIGHT HIS
MOUNTING LEGAL BALLOTS IN COUR
MOUNTING LEGAL BALLOTS IN
COURT.
LAST MONTH THE HEARING FOR HIS
MOST RECENT TRAFFIC STOP
NOTICEABLY MISSING.
MISDEMEANOR IM HIMSELF HE COULD
HAVE HIS ATTORNEY ATTEND FOR
HIM THIS HEARING FOCUS ON THE
MOST RECENT MARIJUANA
POSSESSION CHARGE.
HIS FOURTH DRUG CHARGE IN 15
MONTHS.
INCLUDING THIS ARREST OUTSIDE
OF A JACKSONVILLE GYM.
HE WAS CAUGHT MARIJUANA
CIGARETTE.
OFFICER SAID HE ADMITTED HE
SMOKED POT BEFORE HIS WORK OUT
BECAUSE IT RELAXING HIM.
ANOTHER ARREST FOUND 6.5 GRAM
OF WEED IN THE TRUCK.
HERE THEY FOUND 2016 ALONE HE
HAD 7 RUN-IN WITH LAW
ENFORCEMENT AND ARRESTED FOR
VIOLATING A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
INJUNCTI.
HE HAD THREATENED HER AND SHE
FEARED FOR HER LIFE.
I FOUND HE REPRESENTED
JABAR IN THAT CASE AS WECHLT
ALSO IN 2016 GAFFNEY CAUGHT
SPEEDING 25 MILES AN HOUR OVER
THE SPEED LIMIT IN SCHOOL OR
WORK ZONE IN THE PORSCHE.
LAST YEAR HE ALSO HIT ANOTHER
DRIVER WHILE SPEEDING IN THE
MASSES RAT ON I-10.
THE DRIVER NOW SUING GAFFNEY.
THE I-TEAM LOOKED FURTHER INTO
GAFFNEY RECORD AND OBTAINED HIS
FULL DRIVING HISTORY FROM THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY
SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES.
WE FOUND AN ASTOUNDING 48
SEPARATE DRIVING INFRACTIONS.
INCLUDING 10 TICKETS IN RECENT
24 MONTH SPAN.
MOSTLY FOR SPEEDING.
THOSE TICKETS WOULD BE ENOUGH
TO SUSPEND A DRIVER LICENSE FOR
FULL YEAR IN FLORIDA.
BUT JABAR!JABARA
BUT JABAR KEPT LEGALLY DRIVING.
WE FOUND THE LEGAL LOOP LOW
PRESSURE HOLE HERE USING THE
SAME DRIVING RECORD.
ON IT WE SAW FOR EACH RECENT
DRIVING TICK HE RECEIVED ZERO
POIN ON HIS DRIVER LICENSE.
IN FLORIDA THE TRAFFIC COURT
CAN ADJUDICATE A DRIVER GUILTY
WHICH IS A CONVICTION OR THEY
CAN WITHHOLD THAT ADJUDICATION
WHICH IS NOT A CONVICTION.
IN ORDER FOR DRIVER TO GET
POINTS AND POSSIBLY LOSE THEIR
LICENSE THE COURT MUST
ADJUDICATE THE DRIVER GUILTY
JACHLT BAR CASE WE FOUND HE
GETS AN ATTORNEY, PAY AS FINE
AND KEEPS DRIVING.
OF THOSE 10 RECENT TICKETS 9
WERE HERE IN DUVAL COUNTY T.OUR
CRIME SAFETY ANALYST GILL SMITH
SAYS FLORIDA GUNS DO HAVE
ACCESS TO THIS SAME DRIVING
INFORMATION OBTAINED BY THE
I-TEAM.
>> I KNOW A LOT OF CITIZENS WHO
HAVE HAD THE LICENSE SUSPENDD
WITH FAR LESS DRIVING
INFRACTION THAN JABAR HAS.
>> IS JABAR!JABAR
>> IS JABAR GETTING SPECIAL
TREATMENT.
>> HARD TO SAY WHET HE IS
GETTING SPECIAL TREATMENT
BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT'S THE
JUDGE DISCRETION.
NOW THE NAME IS A BIG NAME NOT
JUST IN JACKSONVILLE BUT IN THE
STATE OF FLORIDA.
>> WE DOES FURTHER IN 2000 HE
WAS ARRESTED FOR DRIVING ON A
SUSPENDED LICENSE.
HE WAS ALSO ARRESTED IN LATCH
WITH COUNTY FOR FELONY THEFT.
GAFFNEY WAS NEVER FOUND GUILTY.
IN 2009 WE FOUND HIM CITED
AGAIN FOR DRIVING ON YET
ANOTHER SUSPENDED LICENSE.
FELONY CHARGE INCLUDING
TAMPERING WITH EVIDENCE AND
RESISTING AN OFFICER.
FIX!NEXT
FIX CAME A FLURRY OF SPEEDING
TICKETS.
92 NCAA IN A 70.
90 IN A 65.
80 IN A 45.
85 IN A 55.
BY 2013 TICKETED FOR DRIVING ON
YET ANOTHER SUSPENDED LICENSE.
THIS WAS THE THIRD TIME HE WAS
CAUGHT DOING SO.
WHAT WE DISCOVERED IS ALL OF
THESE OLDER TICKETS WERE MOSTLY
IN OTHER FLORIDA COUNTIES
OUTSIDE OF DUVAL.
AND ALMOST EVERY CASE GAFFNEY
WAS FOUND GUILTY AND EVENTUALLY
LOST HIS LICENSE.
BUT SINCE 2014 WE FOUND A
DIFFERENT TREND EMERGE.
GAFFNEY RECEIVED 10 NEW TICKETS
ALMOST ALL IN JACKSONVILLE.
HE HAD A POTENTIAL FOR 24
POINTS.
ENOUGH TO SUSPEND FLORIDA
DRIVER LICENSE FOR AGAIN ONE
FULL YEAR BUT JABAR!JABARA
FULL YEAR BUT JABAR RECEIVED
ZERO POINTS.
ZERO.
OUT OF 24.
>> IS JABARA DANGER ON THE
ROAD.
>> HARD TO TELL BECAUSE THEY
SPREAD OUT OVER SO MANY YEARS.
SPEEDING VIOLATION TROUBLESOME.
IF HE BELIEVES THAT HE'S NOT
GOING TO GET THE LICENSE
SUSPENDED THEN THEY COULD BE A
DANGER IF THEY FEEL THAT THEY
CAN GET AWAY WITNESS.
>> WE TRIED TO TRACK DOWN
GAFFNEY FOR HIS SIDE OF THE
STORY.
WHEN HE WASN'T IN COURT WE WENT
TO THE HOME ADDRESS BASED ON
COURT RECORD.
THAT TOOK US HERE TO THE NEARBY
CONDO.
BOTH COMMUNITIES WERE GATED.
WE ALSO REACHED OUT TO HIS MOST
RECENT ATTORNEY AJ TACHBLINGT
HE SAID GAFFNEY WOULD NOT BE
SPEAKING TO US BUT HE DID GIVE
US THE STATEMENT.
I AM VERY SURPRISEED TO
DISCOVER YOU ARE WORKING ON A
STORY ABOUT A 36-YEAR-OLD MAN
DRIVING HISTORY.
WHEN HE HAS NEVER BEEN
CONVICTED OF ANY SERIOU
TRAFFIC INFRACHBLINGTS IN THE
DRIVER'S LICENSE CONSISTENTL
VALID.
I'M AT A LOSS WHY YOU ARE
FOCUSING SO MUCH OF YOUR TIME
AND ATTENTION ON THIS ISSUE
T.REGARDLESS I CAN ASSURE YOU
MR. GAFFNEY HAS NOT RECEIVED
ANY DIFFERENT TREATMENT BY THE
COURT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
THAN ANY OF THIS FIRM OTHER
CLIENTS IF THAT IS YOUR CONCER
CLIENTS IF THAT IS YOUR
CONCERN.
THE T.
>> TAKE DRIVING RECORD SIMILAR
TO THIS ONE IS ALSO OFTEN FOUND
AFTER A TRAGIC ACCIDENT.
MORE THAN LIKELY A FATAL
ACCIDENT AND THEN THAT PEOPLE
ARE LEFT ASKING WHAT MORE COULD
HAVE BEEN DONE.
REPORT THERE? DOWNTOWN TONIGHT