- Hello everyone, I'm Sheriff Wayne Ivey
of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.
And welcome to another exciting episode of "Riding Shotgun."
Tonight, I got the honor of riding
with Deputy Anthony Nunez out of our West Precinct.
Anthony likes to put bad people in jail,
he likes to have fun,
and he loves working here in our community.
Let's go ride shotgun with Deputy Anthony Nunez.
(car door thuds)
What's up, my brother?
- [Anthony] How you doing, Sheriff?
- [Wayne] I'm good, man. You ready?
- [Anthony] Yes, sir.
- [Wayne] All right.
Let's do this. (car door thuds)
- [Anthony] Appreciate you riding with me.
(upbeat music)
- [Wayne] So how'd you end up here
at the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, brother?
- So I've been in the sheriff's office here
for about two years now.
Prior to that,
I was at Titusville Police Department for about two years.
And then prior to that,
I did about three years in the army, US Army infantry.
My dad also works here at the sheriff's office.
He's an agent.
Figured I'd join him and work together here
at the sheriff's office.
So right now, we're going to a call for service.
We're gonna try to pick up somebody with an active warrant.
He fled from one of my zone partners
about a week ago now.
So now we're gonna try to locate him.
It's a felony fleeing an elude warrant,
so hopefully he's there and take him to custody.
What's up, bro?
- [Nicole] He just went inside and locked the door.
- [Anthony] All right.
(dog barking)
He just locked the door.
- [Nicole] He just locked the door?
- [Anthony] Yeah.
(dog barking)
Oh, it's okay, doggie.
It's okay, doggie.
Hey, sheriff's office!
Hey, come out and talk to me, brod.
Hey, Corb, who's in there?
- [Wayne] You saw him go in, Nicole?
- [Anthony] Yeah.
- [Nicole] It definitely looked like him,
'cause right as I was coming up,
dogs started barking, head poked out,
(door thuds)
and then door slammed shut
(door thuds) and door was locked.
(door knocks)
- Nunez, make an announcement to him
that we are going to bring a dog in.
He has exactly one minute to come out.
- [Anthony] Yep.
(dog barking)
(fist knocking)
Dennis, this is sheriff's office.
You have one minute to come out.
We're gonna send our dog in and get you out.
(door creaks) Come out.
- [Dennis] I'm coming out.
- [Anthony] Dude, what's your problem, man?
- [Dennis] I don't have a problem.
- [Anthony] So put your hands behind your back.
- [Dennis] Now you see what I'm saying?
See what I'm saying?
- [Anthony] You wanna play games?
- [Dennis] There was no games.
All you had to do was say what you were here for.
- [Wayne] Don't run from us.
We will put your ass in jail.
You're going to jail for running from us.
- [Dennis] From running from you?
- [Wayne] Yeah.
- [Dennis] No, I turned my-
- [Wayne] So from now on, when you see us show up here,
get your ass out
in the front door. - Let's go.
- [Wayne] And be waiting on us.
- [Anthony] Don't run from the police.
(Dennis laughing)
- [Dennis] What's 10 days?
- [Anthony] That's how long you're gonna be in jail.
(speaker 1 sobs) - Okay.
- [Anthony] You got any priors?
- No. - No.
- [Anthony] No?
(person laughs)
When was the last time you've been arrested?
- I don't know, couple years ago.
- [Anthony] Okay.
You're not paper or anything like that right now.
- [Dennis] No.
- [Radio Operator] Standby, reference to 23, 92,
Mark or Bishop.
(car door thuds)
VIP system one, 52 of 10 minutes,
(car door thuds)
advised that it hit the vehicle.
- So he's getting arrested for his active warrant
as well as an additional charge
of resisting officer without violence,
since he refused multiple lawful orders
to come out of the house, so. (keyboard clicks)
Well, it's gonna be Holmes and Aurora street.
(car window clicks)
(car thuds)
(device whirring)
(first tapping)
Can I open the door?
- Yeah. - Okay.
(car door creaks)
How you doing, sir?
- [Speaker 2] Good.
- I'm Deputy Nunez, you know, why I stopped you by chance?
- [Speaker 2] No.
- [Anthony] Your tag lights are super dim.
I could barely read them, brother.
Even like when I'm right up on you, right behind you?
- [Speaker 2] Yep. You want me to turn them on?
I can see, I can show you.
- [Anthony] It's okay.
I'm just explaining the reasons why I stopped you, man.
Do you got your drivers license on you?
- [Speaker 2] Yep. And I got my thing.
I'm going through the court there right now.
I got my all my affidavit.
- [Anthony] You got your what?
So you're saying your license should be restored right now?
- [Speaker 2] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Anthony] Okay. When was this taken care of?
- [Speaker 2] In the process right now, officer.
- [Anthony] Oh, you're in the process.
Okay. - Yes sir. Yeah.
It's already done inside the Tallahassee.
- Okay. - Only thing.
- [Speaker 2] Only thing I have to do,
I went and check the ADI class,
all that's done. - Okay.
All right.
So I pulled this gentleman over
for not having tag lights visible from 50 feet.
He immediately gave me a Florida ID card
not a driver's license.
He said he has paperwork to get his license reinstated
but he pretty much admitted
that he does not have a valid license right now
at this time.
So we're gonna look at his driving history, driving record,
you know, and see what the status
of that is right now. (radio buzzing)
Yeah, so he's been,
(car door thuds)
has a bunch of prior FTAs, fail to appears, and at least two
or three habitual traffic offender convictions.
So he's gonna be 10:15 right now
based on the driving history.
- [Wayne] Mm-hmm.
- [Anthony] Brother, I told you I'll take a look
at your driving history and I will try to...
If I could work with you, but man, your driving histories.
- [Speaker 2] If you look at my paper works,
it'll show right now on my paperwork,
my license have been reinstated.
We did the ADI plan, I had to do a 12-hour class.
- [Wayne] But you didn't get your driver's license
and your driving.
- [Radio Operator] Is that's the issue? (indistinct)
- [Wayne] That's the issue.
And you have multiple-
- [Radio Operator] It could show you
that I've been particularly (indistinct).
- [Wayne] Driver's license suspensions and revocations
and you're still out here driving
without a driver's license.
- [Anthony] Sir, I understand you're doing the right thing.
You're doing the right process and having it taken care
but unfortunately I have no discretion
when I look at you're driving record
and I see how many convictions there are.
- [Radio Operator] There's a lot, man.
- [Anthony] Pulled up on my screen that he had
at least 15 prior convictions
for driving while license suspended
and his license has been revoked since 1991.
Based on that, it's kind of hard to, you know,
cut him a break and stuff like that.
So I pulled him out of the vehicle
and placed him in handcuffs and arrested him
for a felony status, driving while license suspended.
With knowledge, so he'll be going to jail for that
and that's that. (device beeping)
47 now, okay 13.
(device chiming)
What'd he stopped you guys for?
- [Speaker 3] Well, tags expired, sir.
- [Anthony] Oh, tag expired?
- Uh-huh. - Okay.
We have a expired registration couple months.
Several of them in the car.
Hey Wanda, you mind stepping out?
- Yeah. - I appreciate it.
Sir, do you mind stepping out as well?
Just wanna hang out right here for me?
(car door creaks)
Just right over here by the passenger light.
Oh, was that a crack pipe that you're stepping on?
Yeah, that's an out, that's a problem.
Come over here. Come over here.
You come over here.
Hey, crack pipe, right?
- [Speaker 4] Gonna get (speaks faintly).
- [Anthony] When I go test that,
is it gonna test positive for crack?
I just saw you drop it.
- [Speaker 4] I didn't drop anything.
- [Anthony] It fell right out of your hand.
- [Speaker 4] No.
- [Anthony] There's cameras everywhere. Come on.
- [Speaker 4] See you.
- [Anthony] Oh, you come over here.
Come over here.
- [Speaker 5] One thing about it-
- [Anthony] Right here.
- [Speaker 5] We don't deal with no crack here.
- [Anthony] Okay, well, it's testing positive for cocaine.
All right, we gonna find anything else
in the vehicle around any of you, guys?
- [Speaker 4] What's test positive, sir?
- [Anthony] Crack pipe that you've dropped on the ground.
- [Speaker 4] I didn't drop anything.
- [Radio Operator] 344.
- [Anthony] What did you think,
I just wasn't gonna see that or something?
- [Speaker 4] No. I didn't say nothing, sir.
- [Anthony] Okay.
- [Speaker 4] It just happened to look back.
- [Anthony] Well, you dropped it and then you stepped on it
and tried to smash it.
- No, I didn't drop it. - Okay.
- [Speaker 4] I didn't have nothing in my hand
with a cigarette.
- [Anthony] Well, it just magically fell from the sky.
- [Speaker 4] People throw stuff, like I said all the time.
- [Anthony] She's going to jail
for possession of paraphernalia with residue
and the other two occupants will be released on scene.
I'm just waiting on a licensed driver
to come get the vehicle and drive them home.
- [Wayne] So Anthony, I know what it's like for me
but what's it like for you out here in this community
that loves us so much?
- [Anthony] What's it like working in the sheriff's office?
It's pretty awesome.
Everywhere I go, whether it's a gas station
or even on a call, someone will stop me and, you know,
just shake my hand, thank me for my service
or try to buy me lunch.
Don't regret any decision I made.
So, I love working here and working here
with all my zone partners and supervision, so.
- [Wayne] Anthony, man, what a great night, brother.
- Thank you. - You did a good job, man.
(object thuds) Loved riding with you.
Thanks for having me, buddy.
- [Anthony] Thank you, Sheriff.
- [Wayne] All right, you'll be safe out there, brother.
- [Anthony] Thank you, sir.
(car door thuds)
(car revving)
- Well, I told you it was gonna be an exciting night
riding with Deputy Anthony Nunez.
Man, couple arrests, worked with our canines
to get another arrest.
What a great job by our Brevard County Sheriff's Office
and our deputies.
Man, I'm so proud to be a part of this team.
We'll see you next time on "Riding Shotgun."
(upbeat music)