July 3rd, 2023. While on patrol at the Ichit Tuckney State Park, FWC officers Jason McMillan and Terrence Bing spotted four young adults consuming mixed alcohol beverages at the tailgate of a white F-150. And there is no alcoholic beverages allowed in this park. So, they're about to get in trouble. How y'all doing? How old are you? How old are you? How old are you? Turned 22. You are? Yeah. Is everybody else 21? How old are you? I believe they are. Y'all got your ID? Let's go grab them out your truck. I got mine. Gotcha. How old you girls? I believe it's 21. You want to put this out? Yeah, if you don't mind. I don't about that. Oh, and it tool. Gotcha. This your cooler or is that his cooler? That's his cooler. All right. Did we do something wrong? You just drinking liquor. If they're under 21. Yeah. They can't be drinking. I got you. How much y'all had to drink? I know. I've been drinking. You've been You've been having pretty good bits. No, I'm not. No, I'm sober. Like, okay. Y'all stumbling around a little bit like seem like you're kind of drunk. No, I'm trying. Whose idea you got there? This is both my military ID, too. Where you at? You in the Marine Corps? I was in the Marine Corps. Yes, sir. You out now? I am. Basically got out with a medical discharge. But what's that? Basically got out with a medical discharge, but Okay. Yes, sir. Um, you got your ID, too, bud. You can close that door. Yes, sir. Are you 21? Okay. Appreciate you being honest, sir. All right. How old are the girls, sir? How old are the girls? Girls are 20. Okay. They got their IDs on them. I think I honestly I don't think they do. Any more alcohol in the truck or is it all in the cooler? Yes, I You got a flask right there. Is there anything in that? No, that's that's just some good old perfume right there. Okay. All right. Yeah. All the alcohol in the You got your key. Key is back here. Put it back in the box. I don't need it. Just uh It's your cooler here, right? This is your cooler. Yes, it is. What kind of liquor y'all got in there? I know y'all had a couple bottles that was pouring pretty good. Yeah, sure. Go ahead. Go ahead and open it up for me there if you don't mind. Really? Yeah. Well, they were drinking too. So, got some peach smo. Where's that big jug at? Right there. Red, white, and berry smo. There's a couple bears in there. So, you're the only one that's 21, right? Is that right? He should be 21, too. No, he's not 21. I'm not 2 months away. I'm the only one that's 28. Till October 28th. Is that right? Is that your birthday? Yes, sir. I'm the only one that's the only one. Y'all see them signs when you come in about not drinking alcohol, right? Oh, to be honest, notice her. We didn't honestly know we didn't be honest with you. I know they uh they ain't too happy about it. But who ain't too happy about it. What you mean? Well, them up there. You know, as long as you got any fans or anything like that. Well, you got a pile of it. I'll come load it for bear, didn't you? Is this stuff mixed up already or is it No, that's just that's just What about this? No. So, that's just that's just how it came. Okay. Slide this over just a little bit where I get this down. with my back. Sorry. That's all right. Had to be good. Y'all with them? Y'all with that guy that just come by? I have no idea who that is. Okay. All right. All right. You come sit over here with him. You all right, man? I think you might had a little too much. You kind of I just honestly I just don't want to get in too much trouble, man. Yeah. I think you're pretty hammered. You driving? I drove here. Yeah, I drove here sober ago. But y'all carrying a big barrel full of liquor on the river. Fix to drink it some more and then come back and drive home. You know, it says truck. your truck. This is your vehicle, right? Yes, that's How old are y'all? 20. You didn't have You had the ID? He's 20. You had your I got You got Yeah, I got both of them. I did. Did you go? Yes, sir. How long was you in? About two years. What's your date of birth? Medical discharge. You all right? You good? You good? I work I was a P working on helicopters. You know your daddy Brown? Well, we're best friends. Oh, that's cool. Y'all from Florida, too? Yes. Hawthorne Melrose. Uh Keystone. Yeah. Keystone. And both of y'all have dices, right? You just don't have you want to talk to, right? Yes. Recording. Y'all good? Talk a second. You got the registration? Grab your registration for me. Yes, sir. Hey, how much how much you had, man? The drain to be honest. Just a little uh I had some little bit of vodka and a little bit of uh orange juice earlier. But you seem to be not able to drive. You feel like you can drive different with the DUI. You feel like you ain't got a DUI, but you feel like you can drive. I mean, I probably wouldn't. I guarantee I can get I can get everybody home safe. I'm You 20, right? Yes, sir. So, this would be my registration right there. Okay. Hey, let me So, come here for a second. This is your vehicle. So you're responsible for anything goes on your vehic. You realize that, right? Yes, sir. So what's going to end up happening? You going to get cited for possession of alcohol on 21. It basically the law says you can't legally possess it. You're not in trouble. Like I mean how much trouble? You're not going home, but I don't know if I'll be driving. You may want to get somebody. I wouldn't recommend you drive a vehicle once you done here. Yes, sir. 100%. I'm just But you you you're not going to jail or nothing. Okay. But you will get a court date. I will? Yes. Cuz you're under 21. You legally can't be That's it. That's a misdemeanor. Where you work at? I work for God burn electric. You Oh, you you do you electrician? Man, I'm What you What you mean? I'm sorry. You're all right. You're not. I mean, I don't want to get in no damn trouble. I know you. Well, man, when you when you when I do this Yeah. You do this kind of stuff right here. And I know it seemed like you guys already probably had enough and then y'all come back to drank more. So, when you do this kind of stuff, brother. So, what you had earlier today? Sir, what did you earlier? You had this. What did you earlier drink? Yeah, just that. What? What is that? Just just the right here. Oh, that right there by itself. Oh, you don't mix it with nothing? I don't know about that. I mixed it with some Oh, with some of your orange juice and stuff. Yes, sir. Okay, Dad. How that was what couple hours ago? Yes, sir. Then y'all floated the river, right? Yeah. I just had a little uh container with that one container and I just floated down and Yeah, that's about it. Yeah. All right, bro. Let me uh You ever been in trouble before? No. Yes. Once for alcohol? Not for alcohol. Oh, okay. You ain't got no record on that, do you? No, sir. Yeah, I didn't think so. Man, am I Is this going to affect my job? It's not going to. So, I just got to pay a ticket. You just go to court and it's I can't give you um I got a court date. You'll get a court date for Columbia County and then Columbia County. This is Columbia County you in. So you got to come back like city. You know where city is at? You where you at? Where you live at? Keystone. Yeah. You know where city is at? It's about an hour and a half away. Mhm. But you got to come back and it's just basically the charge of possession by calling a 21 and that's you getting You clearly in possession back calling 21 o holding your breath. You was staging pretty good when we saw you earlier though. We ain't think he said man. That's what kind of brought guys attention the way you were walking. But all right, man. You can go back to the table. You good? Do you mind if I just go use the restroom? Yeah. Okay. I just want to make sure. I didn't want to leave. No, no, no, no. You all right. We don't We ain't We don't Thank you guys. We don't we're not treating you like criminals. You got it's it's like also you good. You got a lot of freedom. You don't don't feel like you got to be too uptight. But I appreciate you letting me know. That way we know you just just marked off. So yeah. No. Good deal. Good deal. That's what I just want to. No. But anytime you guys just lie cuz it ain't the end of the world. Is something wrong? Basically what's going to happen is you're 21. You'll get signed for drinking alcohol inside the state park which say $80 in fraction cuz you're 21. You can't have no alcohol in the state park. Period. I didn't know that. Yeah. None. So that's the first mistake. The second one, they only 21. They can't be in possession of it. That's the two issues you got. So So because I'm the only one that's 21 here, you get a $80 ticket. Well, they get court dates. Wait, but does this impact anything on me? You just get $80 tickets in fraction. But you charge you for drinking that car which $80 ticket. They got separate. Everybody is going to get their own violation. It don't fraction impact me at all. 80 besides pay $80. Okay. You get like a seat belt ticket. You get a seat belt ticket, you pay the fraction, right? That's in a fraction, right? Okay. All right. You following me? I got you. 80 bucks. That's what it cost you. All right. But them been on 21 [ __ ] is possession by calling which is a misdemeanor which means a court date. You following me? So each one of them yes got a whole different we could have charged you with contributing would which would have been a misdemeanor but we don't necessarily believe it but a lot of time if you're 21 and you handing somebody under 20 under 21 alcohol then you contributing to them. So you got to be real careful who you give alcohol to. I got you. But right now as a stand, you get a $80 ticket for infraction for just consuming alcohol. Okay. Which pay $80 ticket in 30 days, you're done. Okay. It's infraction. You know what fraction is, right? I do. Yeah. So it's it's like a seat belt ticket. I got you. No points on your license, none of that stuff. Does this go through DMV? Go through No points on your license, nothing. Okay. the FWC $80 you paid at the courthouse. You get you it'll be on your ticket where you mail in the fine of $80. So in 30 days. So I I got a court date. You got a court date. You got they got a court date. So there I got to go to court. You got to go to court. I'm You're the one that concern us the most cuz when we saw you earlier you was staring. We were hoping you wasn't driving cuz you wasn't walking too good come through that parking lot. And so we were like, that's what got all our attention to see if what you gonna be driving. Then we thought you guys were leaving. You guys come out here and start doing your alcohol thing. And I'm going like, damn, they done had enough. So it's almost probably good that you guys did get stopped cuz it seemed like y'all was going to keep going. I didn't even drink. You drank? Yeah, you did. When we came to the school, we came to the truck. We watching that man right there. We sat there. Only one that didn't drink anything was him. He's the only one that didn't drink anything. He picked up the one time he put it down. But he's the only one that didn't drink anything. That's the only one we saw that didn't drink. But other than that, but if he would have been 21, he would have got nothing because he's the only one we saw that didn't drink anything at this truck. What he did earlier, we didn't see him. But what at this truck, he's the only one. That's why when we first got out, we was going to dress. If he'd have been 21, we wouldn't have wrote him cuz we didn't see him drink. We saw him pick it up, but he didn't drink anything out of it. That's how long we've been sitting right there for a while. I got you. Yeah. In fact, when y'all come walking up, we be back then over there. You actually looked at our truck. We looked at it? Yeah, you looked at it. I I don't know. Maybe because we was running. I don't know. You might have looked at it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know why. So I thought we thought you might have something you notice or something. Then we came over in here and y'all paid us no attention. Any more question? And they all take it, man. That's simple. They got to they don't got to go to court. Uh what you thinking? I'm worried about myself. What you wor about yourself? You got the You got the You're in the best position. You get $80 in supposed to be off I'm supposed to be off of probation right now. Oh, okay. I'm supposed to be off of probation right now. You on probation? Yeah, but I didn't infraction the difference. Supposed to be off Manislo. Oh, yeah. The only reason I got off of probation is because a woman in Hawthorne got mauled by two dogs. Was it your dog? No, it wasn't my dogs. It was my probation officer supervisor mom. Oh yeah. That got mauled. Was it alcohol related? It was your probation. It was. Oh yeah. I don't know what your status or your probation is. But this is is that going to affect? It's infraction. It's the lowest violation you can get. That's why it's only $80. That's the thing. They may they Yeah, I'm I'm not too sure. you I would call your probation officer and say, "Hey, I got an infraction but been in the state park drinking a beer and call them and let them know, but but I don't know how the lowest violation you can get besides a warning." I just don't want it to be a It ain't a misdemeanor. Like a violation. It's an infraction. A violation of my Oh, your probation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what your stipulation was. I didn't know if they said is mine a misdemeanor. Yours was a misdemeanor. That's why you got to go to court. Anytime you got to go to court, that means a misdemeanor to drink to possess alcohol and stay to possess alcohol. How much like how in trouble am I? Like is this going to me from doing you just got to show up to court and then listen to what the judge says. And then whatever the judge says, that's basically your consequences. And you he'll look at your record. If you got a clean record, he can do what Judge can do whatever he want. Yeah. I mean, it is what it is. I'm just scared because I I'm supposed to be already off of probation. But let me let me um Your license your address on your license is correct, sir. The address on your driver license is correct. No, it's not. You want me to follow? No. No. You You need to go to the bathroom. Yeah. I'm a little stressed. I see. I see. I'm trying to be like [ __ ] as possible. Y'all need to use bathroom at all? Just one at a time can go. Just go ahead and go. We may have questions for him. Just go ahead and go. Is this Is it on there? Is that the right one? That's it. I just use that one there. How How much you weighing? Damn. You How much is you weighing? Yeah. 165. You got green eyes. What color your eyes? Green eyes. Yeah. Bright. I'm sometime I can't tell. You green eyes, blonde hair, brown hair. I don't know. Brown. It's kind of brownish, light brown, like a light brown. And you were born in Jacksonville. Where was you born at? I was born in uh Gainesville. Okay. Appreciate it. You set that table. Be right back. I'm ready.