You have your ID on it. >> Hold up. Here we go. You have your ID on it. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Put the bag down. >> Whoa. Whoa. What the >> Please explain it to me before you put me in this. >> You're being detected. >> Sit in the car. >> I'm like, what's the guy going to do? I saw the black. I'm like, it was the before and he's at the top left side, you know, already going. I said, "Oh, wow. All that sort of been done for what? I mean, dude, come." On June 1st, 2024, Street Petersburg officers responded to a 911 call reporting a man spray painting a sound barrier wall along 54th Avenue South in Street Petersburg, Florida. The suspect later identified as 33-year-old Ryan Howard matched the caller's description exactly, carrying a black bag filled with spray paint cans. But when officers tried to identify him, the stop shifted into something far stranger than officers expected. >> How's it going? How you doing? You have your ID on you? >> What? >> You have your ID on you? >> Where you going, man? Hold up. Where you going? Investigation. You have your ID on you? What? Can you maybe take the ear pods out? >> What's going on? Do you have your ID? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Okay. Can you get a >> 53rd Avenue and then we come back out to 54? >> No, actually I didn't see anything. >> Um 54th Avenue um just east of the uh the >> Before I proceed, >> what's the issue? I mean, obviously for my call for >> Yeah, it's for your call. Did we make contact with anybody to see? >> This is the issue. Yeah. >> No, I found it on the wall here. Try to >> Oh, what are you looking for, dude? >> Do you have ID? >> Listen, this is real simple. I'm asking for your ID. >> I know. >> Put your bag down for me. >> I'm asking why you're stopping you, dude. cuz I you fit the description of an investigation we're conducting. And when I pass when I pass you, you ducked into the bushes and now I can see your bag. >> Got your spray paint in his bag. >> I took a Yeah, >> I took a spray paint for now. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. What do you need? >> I need Well, first off, I need your ID. I've asked you for like three times. >> I know. >> So, yeah. >> Hold on. >> Yeah, >> bro. You're being you're being a little bit too pro pressing. No, no, >> I have to ask. I have to ask. >> Yeah, >> I have to ask. >> Okay, do me a favor. Put the bag down. All right. >> Under Florida Statute 91151, the stop and frisk law, officers are allowed to temporarily detain someone to investigate possible criminal activity. Since the suspect matched the witness's description and was not cooperating to provide his identification, the situation raised reasonable concern and the officer detained him for further investigation. Oh my god. No. Hold on. >> Put the bag back down. Wo wo wo. >> Put the bag down. >> Whoa. Whoa. >> What's up? Put the bag down. >> Hold on. You're being detained. You're being detained. >> For what reason? >> I'll explain all that to you in a second. All right. >> What reason? >> I will explain all that for you. One reason. For what reason? >> For what reason? >> I'll explain it to you. Just hang tight. >> Uh just let's just throw them under your car. We'll do a quick pack down your car. >> You have anything on you, boss? >> The original was a Steve arms up. Lift your arms up. >> All right, step back. Step back to >> For what reason? Explain that to Wait, wait, wait. I have every right to >> We'll explain all that to you. >> I have every right to understand what the is going on. >> So, please, please explain it to me before you put me to this. >> You're being detected. Get in the car. >> All right. >> Sit in the car. >> Sit in the car. >> Sit in the car. Get in the car. >> Stop it. Get in the car. >> Get in the car. You have your camera on? >> I do. >> Get in the car. >> Camera on. >> I sure do. >> Yep. Camera on for your >> Yeah. Step out. Step out. Step out. Step. I'm asking you to step out. >> Okay. Hold on. >> Okay. There you go. Okay. I was going to help you if you needed it. Come on. >> All right, hold on. Chill your attitude. Yeah, >> you need to chill, dude. You don't want to want don't want to listen. >> Um, actually, I just know my rights. I am so sorry. >> Okay, sit down for real quick. >> Sit down. >> I'm asking you nicely to sit down. I don't want to have to push you back in there again. >> Hold on. >> Okay. >> Can I ask you why I didn't sit down? >> Because I'm asking you to sit down because you're detained right now. Detreat. >> Yes. Detained for what? >> For for suspicion of a crime. >> Criminal mischief. For >> criminal mischief. You know what? You had that spray paint. You were spray painting. >> Sit down. >> Sit down. >> Oh, hold on. Listen. You think we're going to put you back in the car or you going to sit down? You >> I don't want to have to put you back in there again. Sit down or we're going to put you back in there. >> Hold on. >> I'm going to ask you one more time. >> That's great. >> I'm going to ask you one more time and then you're going to go in the vehicle. I'm going to put you in the vehicle. >> Okay. Sit down in the vehicle. See back on channel, >> dude. Get in the vehicle. >> Get in the vehicle, >> bro. Bro, how about you eat your >> Wait, for what? >> There. And actually, could you just briefly tell me again? And you were driving down 54th there and you saw him tagging the last part like the upper left corner there. >> Correct. And then he's driving down. He's coming home. So driving down. I'm like, "What's that guy doing?" I saw the black like was the before and he's at the top left side, you know, already going. I was like, "Oh, wow. All that's already been done." >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um >> I called she >> would you be okay with writing a statement down for me or Okay, that would be great. >> Can I put my camera on because you you you're being not being cooperative >> and I'm trying to be nice to you. >> Hold on. It's not that I'm not being cooperative. I'm actually curious what's going on. >> Okay. Right now, right now you are detained for criminal I'm telling you right now you were detained for criminal mischief. >> Okay. For spray painting on the wall. Okay. You had the spray paint cans. You said you were spray painting. Okay. That's why you're here. >> Yep. >> Okay. I didn't say what I was raping him or that or what I was raping him. But >> but you asked me to No, that's it. That's it. There's nothing else. There's nothing else to tell you. >> Can I continue? >> There's nothing else to tell you. >> That's it. Like I told you over in the other car, there's nothing else to tell. >> Do you have any proof? >> Yes, we do have proof. >> Where's our proof? >> We have witnesses. >> Where's the witness? >> I can't give you that. Can you please? >> No. No. >> I'm asking you nicely. I don't want to have to put you in the car again. >> I mean, I have to ask. >> Okay, I'm going to I'm going to say this one more time. >> Mostly because I didn't do it. I didn't do it. >> I'm going to say it one more time and then we're going to put you in the car and I don't want to do that. >> Oh, no. >> Come on. Please get in the car. >> Oh, no. Please don't put me in the car. That way y'all could be on >> the fact that like you >> I know. I'm trying to be nice, too, but like you got to go what? Do Florida's finest for like Philly? >> For what? >> Step over here. >> For >> You're under arrest. I already explained to you. >> For what? >> Step over here. >> For what? >> Criminal mischief instruction. Let's go. Ryan, go over here. >> For what? >> You're going to jail. I already explained it to you. >> For what? >> Criminal mischief and instruction. Come on, let's go. You can argue in court. You said you know more about the law than I do. So, did you plead your case? Well, I mean, you are the party, so that's fine. Step up here. >> Boom. What? Over here. Take the handcuffs off the back. Make it a little easier for you. What is going on? There's no debate. >> What is going on? >> You'll have your name. You talk to talk to judge stuff like that. Let's step over here. What is going on? >> Pull away from me. >> Before I put you in the van, you have to go to the bathroom. >> I don't know. I'm very confused. I would like to speak to my family. I'm super confused. >> Once I get you out to kind of jail, you can talk about >> I'm not trying to get you in jail, bro. >> I get that. Please. Unfortunately, that for what? I mean, do this. Do you have to go to the bathroom before I put you in the van? >> This is insane. You sent me. >> Back to the original question. Before I put you in the van, you have to go to the bathroom. No, I want talk to my mom. once you unless I get you up to the county judge. Did you recall? >> No. No. No. No. Not at all. >> Please. >> You are not putting me into >> Do you have a resistance charge yet? >> Not yet. >> He's like, "Please do not put me into this goddamn system. Please don't do that." >> That's our decisions already made. So you can either cooperate what and get less charges or if you continue to argue and cause problems, you're going to get charged with resisting as well. >> I don't want to go into this. >> Well, that's not that's not a choice. You're going you're going to jail for what reason? >> We already told you. >> So the religious obstruction at this point, you're on the border of getting resistant. So you either step in there on your own >> or you will get that. Forgot in there. What you think? [ __ ] racist. Okay, that's not happening. So, if I read you your rights, are you going to talk to me or you not going to talk to me? You don't really want to talk to me. >> Okay, that's fine. Thank you. Sorry. >> Howard was taken to the Penllis County Jail. He was charged with criminal mischief and resisting an officer before posting a $1,000 bond. Want to watch more videos like this one? Click the one on the screen.