Before we get into the video, we just want to say we want to grow our channel. We need your help to do it. If you're interested in fish and wildlife content, please consider subscribing. It's our goal to provide objective, non-biased footage from various agencies across the US. Now, on to the video. On February 8th, 2025, an officer with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office was on patrol when he observed a white vessel anchored for approximately 50 minutes. According to the report, he looked through his binoculars and observed two males cleaning fish near the transom of the vessel. How you doing, sir? I'm doing all right. What are you doing? Just cleaning a few blue runners. Okay. How do I know they're blue runners? Okay. How do I know that's blue runner that you're cleaning? Where's the bodies? Right here. No, that's not the way that goes, sir. All fish must be must come in and landed hole. Okay. I didn't get in because I said, let's clean out our instead of leaving all the, you know, the the dogs inside the, you know, the the the canal. Then you take another trip and bring bring just the the carcasses out. Actually, this is what we just we fell. What other fish do you have on board? Huh? What other fish do you have on board? The those on a few drunk. Okay. You need the paper. I need to see all the Yes, please. One. What's in anything in the cooler? Okay. Few grunts. You want to pull that out? Yeah. That. Let me see those. You want to pull it out? No. Those that Yes. that they're right there. And then the other one. So these are grunts. Those aren't those are I think it's um m No, okay. And how big do they have to be? I think it's like 10 12. Okay. I think I was measuring there. Okay. Yeah, but if you can measure all you want, but if you don't if you don't know how big they got to be, you don't know you you're just measuring them just to measure, right? Okay. Um, see, those are move that over. There's a blue runner. Okay. So, all the same. All right. Okay. Let me have your fishing licenses. You can put those back in. You want to open this up. Oh, this is the one that I was saving because it was unhooked all the way in the the guts and I was keeping alive. I forgot. Believe me. Okay. Hi. Did you catch him? Well, let me go get something. Did you have your ID? Cuz I said to I said to him to my friend because it's not I said we got to try to keep them alive. Actually, this is not Oh. Super. Can I throw it? Yeah, that's fine. That's the idea. I want the mutton. No, no, no, no. I need to measure the mutton. Don't throw anything else away, sir. Hold on. Just wait. Wait a minute. Wait. No, no. Okay. Keep alive. Keep it alive because the hook goes all the way in the ground. Okay. Okay. That's my I can tell you right now. That's fine. I just need to take photograph it. That's mangrove. I want the other one. Can I throw this? Why would you throw it away? Is it 10? Why don't you measure it? Well, I thought No. Yeah, it's almost 12. Well, this is a good one. Yeah, I see. And I was saving to throw that away. Now let me have the mutton. Come on. I know these one. They are 18. I said not 18 at all. Oh, that's fine. Do you guys have ID? Yes. ID please. Show you. You didn't catch anything. Okay. I just had the document. That's all. So you you caught the mutton and [Music] did you have a fishing license or you weren't fishing? No, he he has a license. Can you give me an offense number reference? Uh possession of undersized mutton snapper. Where'd you guys catch the fish? On the ocean. All right, sir. You're receiving a notice to appear? It's an arrestable offense. I could take you to jail today. Yes, sir. It's It's not for alive, dead. It's called possession of an undersized mutton snapper. Okay. I understand what you're saying. there. I was wrong and that's the way that I saw it. Another [Applause] [Music] kind when were you going to throw it away? No, I forgot because we got here by the time that I that I noticed I would throw it away. So the law says you know how many throw? You didn't throw away one. I said you didn't throw away one. No one because it was on the go and it was like there and I start moving inside. Okay. But the live well that fish because I didn't want to throw it away dying in the water. Okay. You're a good human, but uh you can't uh you can't possess what you're doing. I just practice main because not everybody bodies on the same weight. Okay. All right. Well, you got to go to court. All right. So, you um I'm going to give you a copy, your copy, and it'll have your court date on it. Um it's actually Let's see. Another thing is I don't want to say this, but yeah, if you notice, I have no record at all. I I don't I don't really look that stuff up, sir. I don't judge on your record cuz anybody can change. So, I don't I don't like I don't make my I don't make my recommendation I don't make my determination on what I'm going to do to you based on what you've done in the past. That's that's not that's not fair to anybody. No, no, of course. So, that was not the point. But I thought that you were checking too. No, I I don't check I don't I don't run a history on just everybody. And and again, if you don't have a history and this is your first time, like you said, then, you know, you could talk to the state attorney's office. Maybe they'll they'll just give you pre-trial release or something. You don't end up with a record. I said you're doing your job. Yeah. So, all right. So, your court date is going to be This is yours. All right. Let me circle that for you. It's going to be right there. and it says 22625 at 8:45. And there's the address right there. Okay. If you have any questions, you can contact this phone number. That's the courthouse. The address is right there, sir. Right there. All right. And then just And then just so you know, remember, you cannot clean fish outside. You have to be you you have to bring fish whole. Okay? It must be in whole state. That way it can be inspected. All right. That's like ringing tails out here. Can't do it. All right. There's the same kind of thing. All right. All right. Thank you, sir. All right, sir. You're welcome. You have a good day. Okay. You, too. All right. In the end, the 62-year-old male named Sergio was charged with possession of an undersized snapper, a secondderee misdemeanor. He has a hearing scheduled for June 5th, 2025. If you like this video and want to see more like it, subscribe to Arrest Cam.