An officer with Florida Fish and Wildlife is patrolling the Deerfield Beach Pier to conduct resource inspections. >> What's up, guys? >> Any luck? >> No, I don't see >> Nothing? Now, I It's just your tackle in here? >> All right. >> All right, thanks, fellas. Good luck. How long you guys been fishing for? Oh, that's it? Okay. >> And we had like no luck. And then we went down We're driving down to run away from the rain. >> All right, well, good luck. All right. Hey, guys. >> Hey, man. >> Hey, how you doing? Do you guys have any luck yet or We just We just got that bird off of the boat there. >> Oh, for real? >> Yeah, yeah. >> Oh, man. >> First of the day. >> What did he do? Dive down at your base? Drives me nuts, man. >> know what to do, and then luckily we had that, so we just used it to bring him up. >> Nice. Well, good job getting him out. He's all right? >> I think so. I think he's a little little shaken up. >> Yeah, he'll be fine. And hopefully he learns his lesson. Um do you guys have any fish here or Okay. All right, cool. Yeah, no, all good. Thanks, guys. How you doing? How you doing, sir? Is that Is that yours? >> Yes. >> Okay. These are porkfish. In the state of Florida, these are an aquarium species. While possessing porkfish is legal, they must be landed and kept alive in a circulating, aerated, or oxygenated tank. >> Yeah, you can look in our cooler. I I use it for bait. >> Okay. Uh do you have more? >> Yeah, those. >> Okay. Uh what else? >> I use it for bait. These are my cooler. I don't have nothing. I use them for bait. >> Okay, do you know what kind of fish that is? Okay. I'm just going to I want to take a look at the other ones, too, okay? No, sir, they're not. Uh these are marine fish. You can't keep these. All right. Do you have more? Okay. Okay. No, sir, it's too late now. Can't put them back now. Do you have your license on you? Is this yours, too? Okay. All right. Yeah, you have another one here, just so you know, okay? All right. How long have these been out of the water? Okay. Let me just feel it. No, it's dry. Okay. All right, we're not going to be able to revive that, okay? Um so, we I need to get your license. So, we're going to need to go back to the truck, all right? Okay. Just so you know, these fish each fish these fish they're three misdemeanors. Okay, this is an arrestable offense for keeping this fish. All right, they need to be landed alive, they need to be in a a well, and you can't catch them hook and line and keep them. >> Okay. >> Okay. Uh it's your responsibility to know what fish you keep. It's a It's a protected species for marine life. >> Okay. >> All right. So, we're going to have to go back to your truck, and we're going to have to get your ID, okay? >> Yeah, I I have my I have my license over there. >> Do you have a picture of it? >> I'm trying to find out. >> Okay. Have you ever had any issues with us before? >> No. >> Okay. So, are you guys together? >> I'm my own. >> Okay. All right. >> know how to get my ID. >> Yeah, we get Well, where's your truck? >> Over there on the parking >> Okay. All right, let's go to your truck so we can get your ID, and then I'm going to have you go to my truck, okay? But, we got to take these fish with us. >> Yeah, no I know. But, over here we don't need a fishing license, no? >> No, the pier covers it. Yeah. >> We need a license. >> Yeah, I I need your driver's license, yeah. >> I don't have a driver's license, but I don't have my my passport. >> Your passport? Okay. Do you live here? Are you a resident? >> Resident of Florida. >> Okay. >> Yeah, let me let me maybe Let me maybe call my wife to get that picture from my passport. >> Okay. >> It's my passport. >> But, do you don't have your driver's Do you have a Florida driver's license? >> No, we don't have a license. >> You don't have that? >> No. >> Okay. Do you have Do you have any weapons on you, anything like that? Okay. >> knife. >> Just the knife, okay. Leave it there. It's okay. Leave it there. >> my knife over there. >> Leave it there. All right. So, what ID is in your car that you were saying is in your car? >> same >> This, the passport? >> Yeah. >> All right. >> There you go. >> Do you have a Florida ID? Cuz if you live in Florida, you need a Florida ID. >> No, we don't have Florida ID. >> Why? Is there a reason why or >> No, because I got my paperwork My paperwork is in is in process. >> Okay, cuz I'm telling you if I if I can't prove you live in Florida and show up to court then I need to take you to jail. Okay? So, if you have a Florida ID, you need to give it to me. >> No, I don't have. >> All right. So, um we're going to go back to our truck, okay? I need your hands out of your pockets, okay? >> Okay. >> I'm going to take the fish. We're going to walk over to my truck, okay? And I need I'm going to see your ID, all right? We'll we'll do that we'll do that at the truck. >> You want to see the passport or I got the physical passport in my truck. >> I understand, but you got to listen what I'm saying here. If you're not from Florida if I can't prove you're from Florida what you have that's criminal. If I can't prove you're from Florida I have to put you in handcuffs and I have to take you to jail. Does your son have an ID? >> He He have a school school ID. >> I'm in school like I I lost my school ID. >> Okay. All right. So, let's go to our truck. Sir, I'm going to have you wait here, okay? I don't want you coming to the truck just yet, all right? And then I'm going to take your dad to the truck and then I'm going to talk to him and figure this out, but we're going to do over all over there, okay? All right. I'll you go ahead start walking. I'm going to follow I'm going to grab the fish and I'm going to follow you. All right. Thank you. >> You like? >> All right. Yeah, but they they have to be kept in a live well and this is very it's very they're very dry. They that is not going to survive, all right? Let's go to the truck. You So, you but you live in Florida. >> Yeah, I do. >> Okay. All right. So, what I'm going to do cuz I I I don't I don't want to take you to jail, okay? Are you How long How long have you lived in Florida? >> Uh like 2000 >> Do you 2000? Okay. >> I'm coming to work with you. I got my house in the ground. >> Okay. >> I got to go I'm coming to work with you. >> All right. So, basically what I have to do is I have to make sure if I give you a court date that you show up to court. If I If I feel like you can't show up to court, then we have to go to jail, okay? It's This stuff is very regulated here. Very very regulated. It's your job to know what fish you're taking, all right? >> Yeah. >> After you, okay? See, my my truck's right here, okay? Have you had a license in the past? >> Yeah. >> Long time ago, okay. All right. So, maybe I can find it through that. I'm trying to think of ways that I can find it. All right. So, do me a favor. Just wait right here. I'm going to get your info, your address, and I'm going to look everything up to make sure that I If I give you a court date, you'll be able to show up, okay? All right. What's your What's your full name? The way The way it's on your passport. All right. And what's the address here in Florida? >> I'm Florida. I got the hot to address. My address I'm living over here is in Hollywood. >> Okay. >> It's a two and and my my address in in Orlando is a 36 >> Where do you live though? Where do you live mostly? >> Okay. I I explain to you. I'm coming to work over here. >> Okay. >> And and and my resident house is in Orlando. >> Okay. So, you're not going to be here for long. >> No, yeah. I'm going to stay here for a couple years over here. >> Ah, cuz you'll be here for a couple years. Okay. >> I'm a superintendent in construction. I'm coming to work over here. My company pay my rent for the house and >> Okay. Yeah, Orl- Orlando's fine, too. I just I just want to make sure when they ma- if they mail you something, >> Oh, no. No. No. No. No. >> That's the best thing in the next couple months. That's the best >> No, my lease doing August. >> August? >> Uh-huh. >> Ah, okay. >> August 23rd. >> Okay. Okay. What's your phone number? All right, perfect. >> This is >> Okay. >> This is This is my house. >> Okay, perfect. Okay, I'm just going to double-check all that. All right, just wait here for a second. Be patient with me. I want to make sure that we can do this right. I don't I don't want to be arresting you and taking you anywhere, especially with your with your son. All right, who drove here? >> Me. >> You drove, but you don't have a license. Okay, does does he have a license that he can drive? >> No, we we we crossed it that he could drive to the he got his license. >> Okay, all right. >> He already passed the test. >> All right. All right, I'm going to see what I can do here. >> I'll be here, all right. >> What? >> I don't like you. >> You don't like what? >> I don't like you say I don't have a license. >> Okay, yeah, no, I'm just I'm just making sure cuz I have to take that into consideration, too. Um, just give me a minute, all right, I'll be a moment. >> Mouth off. >> the address. Okay. So, I'm not taking you anywhere, but I am going to give you what's called the notice to appear. Okay, it's going to be a court date. There's three misdemeanors here, all right? Um, I'm going to see what I can do. I'm I don't I don't want to put all of them on you. Okay? So, I'm going to see what I can do, maybe give you a warning for one of them. But, you're going to have to go to court for this, all right? So, I'm going to I'm going to have them mail this to >> Yeah, yeah. >> That's the one that that's the court date, okay? If you if I'm sure you know, if you don't show up, >> Yeah, I I know. >> they will >> They take me to the jail. >> Yes, yes. All right, but um >> I know Moses. >> Okay, just just give me a few minutes. I'm going to type everything up, and then I'll let you get back to your day, all right? All right, just sit tight for me. >> Mouth off. >> so the first copy I gave you, this is a property receipt. This is saying that I took the fish. Okay? The the three pork fish. All right? All right? So, that's just saying that I have it. That's going to be submitted into evidence. And I need you to sign there. All right? The second, this is the court appearance. Okay? As of right now, they don't have a time or a date. Everything they're going to mail you a time and a date to show up. So, what you're signing is when they mail you that you will you'll be promising to show up, okay? Just write write here on the bottom. >> So, from my understanding what right now we don't got date? >> No date. >> Okay. >> They're going to mail you the date. Okay? These These are your You have copies of both of these, okay? Any questions? Okay. All right. You're You're free to keep fishing. Also, your your driver's license was suspended, okay? Obviously, you're not driving. Nothing I can do right now. >> Okay. >> Make sure you're not driving that car. Have your son drive something else. All right? >> All right. >> Absolutely. Sir, sorry. Before I go, I forgot to mention what everything was, okay? So, you got charges for adding them to the because they weren't alive, all right? They need to be alive. And they weren't in a live well, a circulating live well, or like an aerator bucket. The other one, I'm just giving you a warning for. Um catch those with a a hook and line. And keeping them uh you're not allowed to do that, but that's just a Okay, this is what you don't get over. We just gave you the tip. All right? I forgot to explain that to you, okay? >> Okay. >> Any questions? >> No. >> Okay. All right. >> Thank you. >> Take care, guys. >> In the end, the suspect was found in possession of three pork fish with the largest being just over 8 in. He was charged with harvesting an aquarium species without a circulating aerated or oxygenated tank and failing to keep an ornamental species alive. He played no contest to both charges and his adjudication was withheld. He was ordered to pay $294 in costs and fines, which he later paid. If you like this video and want to see more like it, subscribe to Arrest Cam. As always, thanks for watching.