Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has taken a really public stance towards looters within the aftermath of the devastating hurricane harm Ian left in its path.
Final week, The Gateway Pundit reported on the Governor’s warning to looters, “We’re a regulation and order state, and this can be a regulation and order group. So don’t assume that you just’re going to reap the benefits of individuals who’ve suffered distress.”
The governor warned these looking for to “ransack folks’s properties” that the state is closely armed.
“I can inform you within the state of Florida, you by no means know what could also be lurking behind someone’s residence,” DeSantis stated. “And I’d not need to probability that if I have been you — provided that we’re a Second Modification state.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warns folks to not loot properties amid hurricane restoration: “You by no means know what could also be lurking behind someone’s residence…we’re a Second Modification state.” https://t.co/zEQTa6EZra pic.twitter.com/EZaVPNXPDq
— CBS Information (@CBSNews) October 1, 2022
The New York Post reports on the arrests:
4 Floridians have been arrested and charged with looting within the aftermath of Hurricane Ian as tons of of hundreds of residents and enterprise homeowners within the Sunshine State look to recuperate from the crippling storm.
Omar Mejia Ortiz, 33, Valerie Celeste Salcedo Mena, 26, Brandon Mauricio Araya, 20, and Steve Eduardo Sanchez Araya, additionally 20, have been all arrested Thursday by Lee County sheriff’s deputies on expenses of housebreaking of an unoccupied construction throughout a state of emergency, jails information point out.
Brandon Araya and Steve Araya, in addition to Mena, have been additionally charged with grand larceny. Ortiz was hit with a petit larceny cost.
The 4 have been arrested a day before a video emerged of five individuals sitting handcuffed for looting in a devastated part of Fort Myers, although it’s unclear if any of the 4 suspects charged with looting are within the video.
In feedback onTuesday, DeSantis revealed that three of the 4 looters arrested are illegals.
“And we’ve had 4 looters that have been arrested, I suppose a pair days in the past, they usually have to be delivered to justice. We’re not going to tolerate it. However you realize, three of the 4 are unlawful aliens. And so these are folks, which might be foreigners, they’re illegally in our nation. And never solely that, they attempt to loot and ransack within the aftermath of a pure catastrophe.”
“I imply, they need to be prosecuted however they have to be despatched again to their residence nation. They shouldn’t be right here in any respect.”
