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YouTuber and societal media influencer Jack Doherty was arrested for cause possession and different charges successful Miami Beach aft helium was recovered disrupting postulation to allegedly movie societal media content, constabulary said.
Miami Beach Police announced that the 22-year-old was taken into custody aboriginal Saturday connected aggregate charges, including possessing amphetamine and marijuana, on with resisting an serviceman without violence.
"The Miami Beach Police Department remains steadfast successful its committedness to support nationalist information and bid passim the city—regardless of personage status," the bureau said. "The Department volition proceed to instrumentality proactive enforcement enactment against behaviour that endangers residents, visitors, oregon officers and volition clasp each individuals accountable nether the law."
According to his bio connected Delka Talents, his endowment agency, Doherty has implicit 3.2 cardinal YouTube subscribers and implicit 500 cardinal YouTube views. Doherty is champion known for filming "daredevil" stunts and pranks, and his most-watched video has implicit 18 cardinal views arsenic of March 2018, his bio said.
CBS News Miami has reached retired to Doherty's representatives for remark connected his arrest.
An influencer blocks postulation for the involvement of "content"
Around 3:12 a.m. Saturday, Miami Beach Police officers were conducting a high-visibility item on the 700 artifact of Washington Avenue wrong the city's Entertainment District, erstwhile a radical of individuals entered the roadway from the eastbound sidewalk into the northbound lanes. A antheral from the radical -- aboriginal identified arsenic Doherty -- separated from them and attempted to prosecute officers to "create video content, positioning himself successful the mediate of the roadway with passing vehicular postulation and creating a important information hazard," according to apprehension documents obtained by CBS News Miami.
Miami Beach Police officers began issuing aggregate commands to nonstop Doherty to exit the roadway, but helium refused. Even aft his radical urged him to comply, helium continued refusing officers' commands.
Officers continued, informing Doherty that nonaccomplishment to comply would effect successful his arrest. Still, the influencer continued to garbage commands and told them, "Once I'm done with this bet," the apprehension documents said. At this moment, Miami Beach Police safely apprehended Doherty successful the mediate of the roadworthy owed to his "deliberate refusal to travel lawful orders and continued to obstruct traffic."
According to apprehension documents, portion officers searched Doherty's person, they recovered "half of an orangish oval-shaped pill with 3 imprinted connected it, accordant with a Schedule II amphetamine, arsenic good arsenic a achromatic integrative instrumentality holding 3 hand-rolled suspected cannabis cigarettes weighing astir 4.0 grams combined."
After a records cheque that showed nary progressive warrants, officers took Doherty to Miami Beach Police's holding installation for booking and contacted an after-hours lawyer for charging guidance.
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