YouTuber and social media influencer Jack Doherty was arrested for drug possession and different expenses in Miami Seashore after he was discovered disrupting site visitors to allegedly movie social media content material, police stated.
Miami Seashore Police introduced that the 22-year-old was taken into custody early Saturday on a number of expenses, together with possessing amphetamine and marijuana, together with resisting an officer with out violence.
“The Miami Seashore Police Division stays steadfast in its dedication to keep up public security and order all through town—no matter celeb standing,” the company stated. “The Division will proceed to take proactive enforcement motion in opposition to habits that endangers residents, guests, or officers and can maintain all people accountable beneath the legislation.”
Later Saturday night time, Doherty posted a TikTok video exhibiting him bonding out of jail with the caption “I bought arrested final night time and now I am free.”
“I am a free man, child,” he stated within the video, whereas holding the property bag that held his private objects on the time of his arrest. “Let’s go.”
In accordance with his bio on Delka Abilities, his expertise company, Doherty has over 3.2 million YouTube subscribers and over 500 million YouTube views. Doherty is finest identified for filming “daredevil” stunts and pranks, and his most-watched video has over 18 million views as of March 2018, his bio stated.
CBS Information Miami has reached out to Doherty’s representatives for touch upon his arrest.
An influencer blocks site visitors for the sake of “content material”
Round 3:12 a.m. Saturday, Miami Seashore Law enforcement officials have been conducting a high-visibility element alongside the 700 block of Washington Avenue throughout the metropolis’s Leisure District, when a gaggle of people entered the roadway from the east sidewalk into the northbound lanes. A person from the group — later recognized as Doherty — separated from them and tried to interact officers to “create video content material, positioning himself in the midst of the roadway with passing vehicular site visitors and creating a big security hazard,” in response to arrest paperwork obtained by CBS Information Miami.
Miami Seashore Law enforcement officials started issuing a number of instructions to direct Doherty to exit the roadway, however he refused. Even after his group urged him to conform, he continued refusing officers’ instructions.
Officers continued, warning Doherty that failure to conform would end in his arrest. Nonetheless, the influencer continued to refuse instructions and instructed them, “As soon as I am accomplished with this wager,” the arrest paperwork stated. At this second, Miami Seashore Police safely apprehended Doherty in the midst of the highway as a result of his “deliberate refusal to observe lawful orders and continued to impede site visitors.”
In accordance with arrest paperwork, whereas officers searched Doherty’s individual, they discovered “half of an orange oval-shaped capsule with 3 imprinted on it, according to a Schedule II amphetamine, in addition to a black plastic container holding three hand-rolled suspected hashish cigarettes weighing roughly 4.0 grams mixed.”
After a information verify that confirmed no energetic warrants, officers took Doherty to Miami Seashore Police’s holding facility for reserving and contacted an after-hours lawyer for charging steering.
