A teenager is being charged as an adult after he allegedly waved a gun on a Florida beach filled with spring breakers and then stood off with deputies who chased him into the Atlantic.<\/p>\n
The incident in New Smyrna Beach, a city on Central Florida’s Atlantic coast, happened Thursday afternoon when deputies patrolling the beach, populated with festive spring breakers, came across a fistfight, body camera footage showed.<\/p>\n
A crowd formed, and from it appeared to emerge a person waving a gun, the footage released by the Volusia Sheriff\u2019s Office showed. “He’s got a gun,” people in the crowd shouted.<\/p>\n
The teen ran from deputies, who ordered him to drop the firearm, and ended up in the ocean steps away, the video showed.<\/p>\n
Deputies trained their handguns on the suspect, who also had a bag in hand, before he was persuaded to drop his gun, raise his hands and come to dry sand to surrender peacefully, the sheriff’s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The recovered bag contained 20 smaller bags of cannabis, it said.<\/p>\n
The time between deputies’ first confrontation with the suspect on the sand and his surrender was about 5 minutes, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n The suspect was identified on Friday by R.J. Larizza, state prosecutor for the region, as a 16-year-old boy. Larizza said adult charges have been filed against the teenager, though he didn’t specify which ones. <\/p>\n NBC News is not naming the teen because he is a minor. <\/p>\n The Volusia Sheriff’s Office said the boy was arrested and booked on suspicion of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, possession of a firearm by a person under 18, improper exhibition of a firearm, commission of a second-degree felony with a weapon, resisting a law enforcement officer, tampering with evidence and possession of marijuana for sale.<\/p>\n The office also said he has seven active warrants from Orange County, Florida, based on allegations that include robbery with a firearm and violation of probation. <\/p>\n It’s not clear if the suspect has retained counsel. The state Office of the Public Defender for the region did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Larizza said he has ordered the suspect transferred from the custody of state juvenile authorities to the Volusia County Jail.<\/p>\n “This 16-year-old brought drugs and a gun to Volusia County during spring break,” Larizza said in a statement. “He will now face adult charges and serious consequences for his reckless actions. We welcome spring breakers, so long as they behave themselves.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] A teenager is being charged as an adult after he allegedly waved a gun on a Florida beach filled with spring breakers and then stood off with deputies who chased him into the Atlantic. The incident in New Smyrna Beach, a city on Central Florida’s Atlantic coast, happened Thursday afternoon when deputies patrolling the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sheriff's](\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best\/rockcms\/2024-03\/240316-florida-beach-teen-gun-rc-957p-f333ee.jpg\")
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