Saturday, a Florida man was arrested after he was upset about a Best Buy store’s coronavirus mask policy.
According to a police report, deputies responded to a disturbance call at a Best Buy store in Vero Beach.
One of the store employees said that the suspect involved in the “incident” left in a red Cadillac sedan. The officers located the car and initiated a traffic stop. When stopped, the driver, Alton Ashby said that he had just been at the Best Buy but that “nothing” happened.
The deputy then returned to the store and made contact with several witnesses, including both a manager and worker at the Geek Squad repair division.
Witness say that they told the deputy that Ashby had come into the store with no mask. Despite being offered one, he repeatedly refused to put one on.
Eventually, Ashby put on a mask, but he soon took it off. Ashby was then told that he would not be serviced without a face mask.
After being denied service, witnesses say that Ashby got so agitated that he “coughed, sneezed and spit” all over the Geek Squad counter as well as another adjoining counter.
Shortly after employees ordered the 51-year-old to leave, Ashby headed to the front, grabbed a Coca-Cola, and sprayed all of the contents “everywhere” while walking out.
Unfortunately for the store, they had to ask all customers to leave in order to do a deep cleaning.
The deputy returned to the traffic stop where Ashby was being detained and arrested him on a disorderly conduct charge.
The suspect acknowledged the chaos that he had caused, stating he was “upset and going through a lot this year and got carried away.”
It really must be something in that Florida water because it’s always some foolishness going on.
