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- Hello everyone.
I'm Sheriff Wayne Ivey
with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office
and it's time for another exciting episode
of Riding Shotgun.
Tonight, I have the honor of riding
with deputy Brad McLaughlin out of our Canaveral Precinct.
He is an exciting young man.
Works hard to keep our citizens safe.
It's gonna be a blast.
Let's go ride shotgun with deputy Brad McLaughlin.
What's up Brad?
- Hey Sheriff.
How are ya?
- [Wayne] I'm good, man.
Thanks for letting me ride with you tonight.
- Hey, anytime.
Glad you're here.
- [Wayne] All right, buddy, let's go.
Let's go have a little bit of fun.
- [Brad] Absolutely, let's do it.
- [Wayne] So Brad, how'd you end up working
for the Brevard County Sheriff's Office?
- I knew this was a job and a career
that I definitely wanted to get into well before
when I was a small little kid.
So, I mean, I've been a lifelong Brevard County resident.
Did the academy back in 2009.
However, it was just kind of, the cards weren't in my favor.
I just kind of too young at the time.
So ended up going into the military.
I served eight years in the United States Army
as a Military Police Officer.
So I knew that before I got out of the military,
I wanted to use the skill sets they had given me
and transfer it out here to the civilian side.
And right before I got out of the military,
I was in contact with our recruiters in career development.
They were very interested in me.
I got back from Europe and within 30 days of me being
out of the military, I was picked up with, with us.
Well we're gonna stop this car in front of us right here,
this gray Camry.
The reason why we're gonna stop them is,
as they're coming eastbound,
they're doing 85 miles hour in a 60 mile an hour zone.
See what's going on with them.
Hello, ma'am Deputy McLaughlin with the Sheriff's office.
Can I see your license, registration, proof of insurance
please?
- [Driver] Sure.
- How are you doing today?
- [Driver] Good, I'm on the way to work.
- Is that why you're going a little bit too fast today.
- [Driver] Yeah.
- Okay, because I clocked you doing an 85 in a 60, okay.
All right.
Give me a couple minutes.
I'll see what I can do for you, okay?
So I went up and just talked with the driver
of this vehicle.
She says she's running late for work.
So I'm gonna go ahead and just do a quick inquiry
of her license and see how her driving record is.
Unfortunately, with her doing
25 over the posted speed limit,
we'll make a determination on whether she gets a citation
or a warning today.
I'll go ahead and talk to her.
I feel it's probably a good idea to go ahead and educate her
on the speed limits and then a quick cut her out
with a warning.
Okay, you're current on everything, okay.
So listen, I'm not gonna,
I saw your driving history and all that.
I'm not gonna give you a ticket today,
but just letting you know,
25 over the posted speed limit's a $284 citation.
Yeah.
So, I need you to just slow it down just a little bit, okay?
- [Driver] Yep.
I'm gonna make cruise control my best friend.
- All right, excellent.
All right, Miss, do you have any questions?
- [Driver] No, I thank you.
- All right, drive safe and please slow down okay?
- [Driver] Thank you!
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- Now Brad workin' in, in this precinct,
you really have two areas of responsibility.
You have the city of Canaveral,
but you also have Port Canaveral, as well.
How do those two differ and what's what's unique about 'em?
- Well, with the way the port works is
we both work as Sheriff's Deputies for the Port Authority
and also to, for the city of Cape Canaveral,
which is actually very unique for Sheriff's Deputies.
Normally cities and port authorities
have their own law enforcement.
However, they trust us enough and they want us to,
because of our reputation to come out here
and provide those services for them.
So we, we cover the area,
complete area of the port to include the cruise
terminals and even on sometimes cruise ships themselves.
- Excellent.
- [Brad] 339, Brevard.
- [Dispatcher] 339.
- [Brad] Be out at mile marker 53.
Be in the wood line, looks like it's gonna be a small fire.
- [Dispatcher] 10-4. Eastbound or westbound?
- [Brad] It's gonna be westbound.
It looks like we've got a tent over there.
We're gonna come back around,
see what's going on with that.
I'll go grab my fire extinguisher.
Sheriff's Office, hello?
Yeah some of this underbrush is too.
- [Wayne] You got the bushes?
- Yeah.
Sheriff's office, hello?
- [Camper] Hey, how ya doing?
- Hey you guys need to put that fire out.
- [Camper] Why?
- You have your ID on you.
- [Camper] Yes, sir.
- Let me see it.
Do me a favor, go over
and talk to those deputies right there.
(extinguisher wooshing)
- [Camper] I mean, I've been packing myself up.
I already got my camp stove.
- 339 Brevard fire's extinguished.
- You know, you're not supposed
to be camping out here, right?
- Well, that's what she told me, she gave me a couple days
to pack my stuff up.
- So a deputy already came out and talked to you about it?
- [Camper] Yeah.
- Okay.
Yeah, the second we saw the fire and all that, you know,
'cause like with the canopy and it as dry as it's been,
this would have lit up real quick, okay?
- It's been raining for a few weeks down here.
- You'd be surprised on how quick this stuff
will light up real quick.
All right, sir.
As we told you before, okay.
This is your you've already been talked to once
before by a deputy right?
- [Camper] Yes.
If we have to come back out here,
you're gonna be trespass, okay?
So you need to clean this up
and you need to be out of here like ASAP, understand?
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- Too late.
(siren chirps)
- 10-4 is gonna be the Chevron station off Long Point.
Hello?
Can I see your license, registration,
proof of insurance, please?
You don't have your license.
Why not?
- [Driver 2] It's uh like
- It's what?
- [Driver 2] It's at her place.
And where's your place at?
- [Passenger] It's down the street.
- Okay.
- [Driver 2] We were just...
- You know, the reason why I'm stopping you, right?
- [Driver 2] Yeah, yeah, I know.
- So why don't you have a seatbelt on
and hanging out the side of your car like that?
Do you know how seriously injured you can get?
- [Driver 2] Yeah.
- Then why are you gonna do it?
I mean, it's not, there's no excuse for it.
Okay.
So what's your, you don't have your license on you.
All right.
I'll be right back.
Miss, what's your first name?
All right.
Give me a couple minutes,
but I want to reiterate how important that is, okay?
With you being in a convertible,
you could have easily fallen out.
Not only that you could have gotten ran over,
if you fallen out, if you weren't killed already.
All right.
You as a driver should be completely responsible for your
passengers, even though it's her vehicle, understand?
Okay.
Give me a couple of minutes, please.
- You writin' em?
- Absolutely.
Yeah, that needs to be a good lesson.
- Absolutely.
- That's one of the most dangerous things that we've seen.
- All right guys, listen up, okay?
You're getting a ticket for not having a license, okay.
On you.
You do have a valid license,
however, it's not on demand, okay.
It's not, it's a non-moving violation,
so you don't have points associated with your license, okay?
So you have 30 days to comply with the citation.
If not, they will suspend your license for that.
Do you understand?
Okay.
The reason why it's important is because if you got into an
accident or something like that,
that's the main reason on how we identify people is based
off of their driver's license and having it on them, okay?
So this is your, your citation, okay?
For that stunt that you pulled,
you're getting a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt.
Again, there's no excuse for that, okay?
I understand you guys are on vacation, correct?
Again, there's no reason for that.
You don't need to be hanging out.
Cause again, you fall out.
You're gonna get seriously injured if not killed
and ran over.
All right.
Do you have any questions whatsoever ladies?
All right.
Sorry about what happened, but again, your guys' actions
led to that, all right?
All right.
Drive safe.
Yep.
- Well, Brad, thanks man.
Thanks for letting me ride with you tonight.
It was an honor.
- [Brad] All right.
- We had a good time.
It's obvious the citizens over here love you, man.
They appreciate what you're doing.
And I certainly appreciate all you do for us, man.
- All right Sheriff, appreciate it, glad you rode.
- All right buddy.
Be safe.
- Yep, have a good night.
- Well, I hope you enjoyed tonight's episode
of Riding Shotgun.
Tonight, we had an opportunity to ride with Brad McLaughlin,
one of our deputies, in our Canaveral precinct.
As you can see, he did a great job
keeping our citizens safe.
He's strong where he needs to be strong,
compassionate where he needs to be.
That's what we ask of our deputies.
That's why we're so appreciative to have citizens
that love us so much.
Thanks for being with us tonight.
And we'll see you next time on Riding Shotgun.
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