If you like fish and wildlife content, be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on future videos. An officer with Florida Fish and Wildlife was on patrol when he observed two side by sides driving on private property. Everyone, put your hands up. Call your other side by side over here right now. Put your hands up. Turn that off and put your hands up. Easy now. Easy. >> Turn that off. And put your hands up now. >> Put your hands up. Turn that off. Is it off? >> Yes, it's off. >> Turn yours off. >> What are you guys doing out here? >> Catching our dogs. >> Okay. Whose property is this? >> This is St. John's Water District Management. >> Okay. Whose grove is this? >> I'm a land owner. >> What's your name? >> Todd. >> All right. Go ahead and give me your IDs, guys. >> Any weapons on you? >> Oh [ __ ] sir. >> You know what? Mine's in my truck at the house. >> That's fine. I just need IDs right now. I have >> I don't have a >> You more than welcome to follow me right to the house on Avenue. >> We're going to stay right here. I just You don't have any ID on you? >> No, sir. >> All right. Who's all these guys? >> These are my sons right here. >> What's your name? >> That's Colton. >> Colton. >> Levi. >> Levi. >> Corbin. >> Jacus. >> Jacus. >> Matthew. >> Matthew. All right, guys. What are you doing on this property? Why are you turning your lights off? I'm following them, so I didn't want to blind them with my lights. >> Why are you turning your lights off? >> Mine were on. >> His lights were on. I was following him. >> What's your name? >> Lightsy. >> Lightsy. >> Lightsy. Yep. >> All right. I'm >> good to meet you. All right. So, you guys, what was y'all doing earlier? What other properties were you on tonight? >> Right across. That's where our dogs. >> We've got rights to Bobby. >> All right. >> We just got them off of a hog cuz they ran a hog from Bobby into this group. So, we're coming right out. >> Okay. Where's the other group? Where's the other people had with you today? >> Right here, bud. Anybody else? Had nothing to do with us. >> They weren't with y'all tonight. >> Absolutely not. >> Those other groups weren't with y'all. >> Nothing to do with us. >> All right. >> I got John from St. John's Water Districts giving me rights. I am I'm a land owner. >> He gave you rights to hunt all this. >> I have the rights to every rideaway out here on 25,000 acres >> to hunt. >> Yes, sir. >> If I want to ride up, >> I'm going to need to see that from John. Now, do you have that written permission in your possession? >> At my house, you're more than welcome to follow me. >> All right. So, just so you understand, it's required to be in your possession at all. >> At any time you're participating in a hunt, >> legally, you must have it in your possession, not at your house, not on a computer somewhere. It's got to be with you. >> You're right. And if I had my damn wallet with me, you'd have it. >> All right. >> I've got my card that John gave me. >> Whose dogs do we have here? >> 6342 6344. Can you go ahead and show me the information on their caller with your name and address or phone numbers? >> There's not the caller. >> Oh, that's also required by law. >> Okay. So, do you see we got a couple issues here? >> Yeah. >> I've run into people poaching all these properties and John's one of the one that's asked me to come down here and check on this. >> I will be happy to call. >> I'll be honest with you. You want to call John? Yep. >> Call him right now. >> When I turned my lights on behind y'all back there, all of y'all turned your lights off. >> That wasn't us. We've been right here the whole entire time. There is somebody else out here in a Chevrolet. >> There was somebody out. >> It's not us. >> It's not a truck. Two side by sides. Turn your headlights back on for me. >> Yep. >> No, not us. >> Say on this property, but go ahead. Go ahead. Call John real quick. I got his phone number, but I'll probably recognize his voice. >> If he answers. >> Yeah, >> he gets paid. >> If not, uh, what's her name? May answer. Marjorie may answer. >> I'm calling her to see if she answers. >> Yeah, John didn't answer. >> Hello. >> Hey, Miss Marjorie. It's Lighty. Hey, I'm out. I got you on speaker phone, just so you know. >> I'm taking you to Marjorie right now. >> Okay. How's this daughter? >> Mary's now at the phone. Hey, Miss Marjorie. >> Hello. >> Hi. >> Hey, it's Lightsy. I got you on speaker phone. >> Hey, so I got a group out here. Mr. >> Yes. Todd. >> Todd. He told me he has permission on every right ofway out here on St. John's property for hogs. >> I'm with Todd Thompson is a landowner. >> Correct. >> Now, is he supposed to be hunting on our rightways? He said he has permission for every right ofway out here. He's in a He's in a grove over here. I think FPL bought this grove. >> Yeah, FPL did. >> He's on FPL property, which >> on the rightway. >> You weren't on the rightways. You were cutting in and out of all it. Hey, >> that's okay. >> I know it's kind of laugh matter, but trust me, you're probably not going to get off lightly here. >> I'm just giving you a heads up. Go ahead, ma'am. >> Okay, so we don't have any right ofway at Budding. We have only have easements, so he is technically on FPL property. full stop. >> All right. >> If he is not if he is not on 154th and he is not on 122nd, then it is not right of way or Oslo Road. That is not a rightway. It is easement. Therefore, it is FPL property. >> Okay. All right. I got you. As far as as far as just for for his benefit, I always like to ask, you know, because I'm trying to get the full picture. I've never heard of John mentioning that anybody has full rights to hunt all these rightways. >> No, we're not. came in here to get >> John doesn't want anybody in the district. >> Okay. >> Is Johnny answer your call or no? >> No, he didn't answer. He don't want anybody hunting the district, but they can hunt on their property though. >> They are more than welcome to hunt on their property. They're more than welcome to hunt >> on the ditch adjacent to their property. >> It's like if he were up on the flowway, >> right? >> I don't care he's a land owner or not. He cannot be up there. >> Okay, I got you. And and and this is me talking to her. John, you know, I'll let you talk John, too. Or we'll talk John. I'll I'll call him later and uh cuz I like to give everybody the benefit. But uh Okay. All righty. I appreciate Do you have any questions for her? >> No. My We're good. >> Okay. Okay. No, ma'am. Hey, I appreciate you answering the phone. I know it's What time is I'm getting old. I can't. >> My daughter had it, so it was golden. We're golden. >> Okay. Hey, I appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Is anybody else here 18? >> No, they're all under 18. >> 103. That's why I came out with them because they lost the dogs. We were hunting over at probably Lindsay's >> M >> and the dogs ran across over here chasing a hog. So, we came over here to find >> I don't know where you saw us where the sets of lights were. We were probably on the other side. >> Well, I've watched about four different sets of people tonight. >> Yeah. And there's some there's some other kids up there now. I don't know who they are. >> Those are the one Well, who's got the shed? Who's got the little barn thing? >> Who's that? >> That's a different group. >> They just ride around though. >> Yeah. Well, they yeah, they got that property right there, too. So, >> now if you was on your property, that'd be a whole another story, right? All right. >> But we just had to come catch these dogs. That's why we got them tied up now >> because he ran all the way across, run a hog all the way down the damn main ditch over here. >> So, we came back through. They got the hog or the dog. So, now we're heading back. >> Okay. >> But I got I got property up here at the FCC. >> I hunt that. I have the rights to hunt that for for hogs. And then I got my property on. And then I got Bobby's property and he's got one right here on the he's got one on and one on or 30. Okay. >> You got the rights to hunt all that. >> All righty. >> 6230. >> I'm not sure if you already did. If you could add me a case number and also found two priors for resource violations on him. And then let me check the dogs here real quick. So, you said I mean, can you show me any name or address on these colors? >> I'm just asking cuz >> there's one that may have it. >> All right. >> Mine that one has it. He don't have it. I had that vest on them I've been using. And you can't put the card took him out. But he has the >> Well, you get Make sure you find a way to do it cuz it's got to be on there. >> Yes, sir. I was trying I'm I think I'm going to get it now. >> Let's see. You got your name and phone number. >> Name and phone number. Okay. What about this one? Both these your dogs >> should have one on them. Dex has one on the house. >> Yeah, it's on. >> All right. >> And the other one up here. >> We took it off and we put a vest on cuz this guy right here. >> No, >> that's Boom. That's That's my That's one of my cow dogs that the boys >> Which was the one that was lost? >> That one. >> The cow dog. >> He's so fast he'll jump from the ground all the way up. He's the quickest one of all of them. Huh? >> You outun. >> All right. Well, hang tight for me real quick. >> You come over here, please. Sorry it took so long. Ever since they had that power outage the other day with Verizon, it seems like everything's slower. >> You had AT&T power outage. >> All right. This is going to be your copy. Let me explain it to you. >> So, this is IMC Gro. >> So, yeah, I think FPL owns all this now, I think. >> No, IMC still owns this. And I called Lance that runs it. >> Okay. Okay. But I couldn't get a hold of them. Obviously, FPNL is on that side of the ditch right there. >> All right. I didn't even worry about any of that tonight. I'm going to get to the bottom of all that. >> So, all right. So, what I did was I issued you a citation for um running your dogs out here without landowner permission and then not having the collars on it. >> Okay. >> Uh let's see. I just need you to >> So, what am I doing with this? >> So, this right here, this is a notice to up here. So, you have a court date and it's going to be on your copy right there, but it will be on the other side. It should be on one of your pages right here. Right there on that side. It's going to be April 2nd at 8:30 in the morning. Oh, that's your copy. Yeah. Yeah, you keep that side. So, >> in the end, Todd was charged with using hunting dogs without ownership tags and using dogs to pursue wildlife on private lands without written permission. He hired a criminal defense attorney, pled no contest to both charges, and his adjudication was withheld. He was ordered to pay $670.50, which was promptly paid. If you like this video and want to see more like it, subscribe to Arrest Cam. As always, thanks for watching. [music]