This is an open video directed to the Florida Department Of Law Enforcement’s Commissioner Rick Swearingen. Commissioner Swearingen your...
This is an open video directed to the Florida Department Of Law Enforcement’s Commissioner Rick Swearingen. Commissioner Swearingen your agency is distributing incorrect intelligence about me that is at best, a reckless endangerment of my life, or at worst a purposeful and malicious attempt to get me murdered. The FDLE is distributing this incorrect information to law enforcement agencies as well as other government and non government entities throughout the state of Florida. nnThis FDLE bulletin incorrectly states that I do not posses a valid concealed carry permit, despite the fact that I have possessed a valid concealed carry permit for over 10 years.nnIn another bulletin distributed by the North East Florida Fusion Center, dated April 17th 2012 and titled, Sovereign Citizens and the Potential Threat To Law Enforcement I am incorrectly listed as: A subject stopped for having an improper tag, who refused to provide a license, and provided a passport and sovereign citizen paperwork instead. Was arrested after a brief struggle.nnThis is completely false and simply never happened.nnnIn another Fusion Center Intelligence Bulletin I am incorrectly listed as the following nnn 09/10/12 SJCSO SJSO12CAD096658 08:40nTraffic Stop – Arrest SJSO12OFF010344 Narcotics Possession‐ FelonynGray was a passenger in a vehicle which was being driven by Eric Walter Novak (DOB 12/31/66) when Novaknillegally passed another vehicle and was subsequently pulled over for the traffic infraction. A strong odor ofnmarijuana was emitting from the vehicle. Permission was granted to search the vehicle where four handguns,nXanex, Roxycotin, Oxycodone, 71.9 grams of marijuana, four glass pipes, two straws, two grinders, and two digitalnscales. Novak was arrested for possession. Gray appears to have been released although no mention of him wasnmade in the narcotics report.n A Clerke .22 revolver was located just behind the driver’s seat area.n A holstered and loaded Cobra .38 special was located in the center console.n Two handgun cases were located behind the driver’s seat with a loaded Kimber .45 semi‐auto with 8nrounds, and KelTec .22WMR, with a total of 41 rounds.nnNow lets have a look at the actual arrest report Where St Johns County Florida Sheriffs Deputy Daniel Roberts wrote the following.nnRead arrest report...nnTruth be told, I actually was at the scene of Eric Novaks felony arrest for weapons and narcotics possession but I was not a passenger in his vehicle. I was filming the arrest of Novak and search of his vehicle from across the street. And I have the video to prove it.nPlay video clip…nnSo, how did I go from being a person engaged in the constitutionally protected activity of documenting the arrest, to being a passenger in the vehicle? nnLet me make something very clear; I am not a drug running, weapons smuggling, violent sovereign citizen as the false intelligence distributed by the Florida Department Of Law Enforcement and Fusion Center makes me out to be.nnWhat I am, is a devoted husband to my wife and devoted father to my three children. I am also a citizen journalist as well as a peaceful civil rights activist who focuses on government transparency through the right to record public officials and through public records access.nnCommissioner Swearingen, I am calling on you to ensure that the FDLE immediately ceases distribution of this false intel about me. I am also asking that you ensure every agency, entity and person the FDLE has sent this false intel to, is contacted in order that my name be cleared. Furthermore, I am asking that an investigation be conducted in order to find out how this happened, to find out if other innocent citizens are being slandered and their lives endangered, as well as to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.nnSincerely,nJeff Gray Less
