Who said that? – Florida Trend

“No one has the right to cause compliant citizens to lose their jobs or live in fear of confrontation or arrest; not even the Sheriff.”

— Brevard attorney Jessica Travis

A man falsely included in several episodes of Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey’s popular “Wheel of Fugitive” social media ‘gameshow’ is suing the sheriff and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office for defamation, saying the experience cost him a job and impacted his mental health.

David Austin Gay was not a fugitive when his picture appeared in four episodes of the show between January and February 2021. Instead, he was either sitting in jail after turning himself in on a probation violation or, in one case, already legally released.

A 2021 investigation by FLORIDA TODAY found Gay was one of 60 ‘fugitives’ the sheriff had featured on the wheel across 45 episodes between February 2020 and February 2021 who were either in jail at the time the episode aired, already free or had no active arrest warrant.

Read more at the Florida Today