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The problem is that Gay wasn’t a fugitive at the time; Gay had been in the Brevard County Jail since Jan. 25 and wasn’t on the lam when he appeared on the Jan. 26, Feb. 2, Feb 9. and Feb. 23 episodes. For three of those weeks, Gay was at the jail after turning himself in over a probation violation. The fourth time, Feb. 23, he was, in fact, legally out of jail, having taken a plea offer.
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“It’s very humiliating, it’s keeping me from getting jobs,” said Gay, whose probation violation resulted from a dispute with his father. When his probation officer called Gay to inform him there was a warrant for his arrest, he surrendered the same day, he said. His original arrest, for punching a man, was Gay’s first felony offense and adjudication was withheld in the case.
Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey’s signature social media program, “Wheel of Fugitive,” in which a “fugitive of the week” is selected in a mock game show every Tuesday, almost always includes people who are not on the run from the law because they are already in jail, out on bond, have served their time or have no active warrants for their arrest.
On the show, Ivey spins a giant roulette wheel with up to 10 mugshots of “participants” who are supposedly wanted by law enforcement. The goal: land on one who will be the focus of efforts that week to bring them to jail.