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A Florida amputee generally known as “Lieutenant Dan” who was using excessive for virally claiming he was refusing to depart his small house boat forward of Hurricane Milton has now been arrested for failing to depart a park-side dock, the Tampa Police Division tells Fox Information Digital.
Police say that Joseph Malinowski, 54, didn’t have an accessible gadget to discharge sewage from his unregistered vessel and didn’t have a document of correct disposal of waste, which was making a public well being hazard.
Malinowski failed to maneuver after “quite a few warnings” and was arrested at round 7:30 a.m. Friday at Bayshore Linear Park and Dock. Officers mentioned that they had met with Malinowski the day earlier than when he was instructed to depart the park.
VIRAL TAMPA SENSATION ‘LIEUTENANT DAN,’ WHO RODE OUT HURRICANE MILTON IN BOAT, DESCRIBES HOW HE SURVIVED
A Florida amputee generally known as “Lieutenant Dan” who was using excessive for virally claiming he was refusing to depart his small house boat forward of Hurricane Milton has now been arrested for failing to depart a park-side dock, the Tampa Police Division tells Fox Information Digital. (Fox Information Digital, primary, Tampa Police Division, inset.)
Malinowski was taken into custody on Friday and transported to Orient Highway Jail. The unregistered vessel was impounded.
He’s being charged with two excellent warrants for failure to seem and one misdemeanor cost of trespassing in a metropolis park after warning, police say.
Malinowski’s occupation was listed as “TIK TOK STAR” whereas his arrest inquiry lists him as unemployed, per WTSB. A consultant for Malinowski tells TMZ that his staff is working to bail out the viral sensation.
Malinowski’s “Lieutenant Dan” nickname seems to have come from his resemblance to the “Forrest Gump” character with the identical identify, performed by actor Gary Sinise. Malinowski is lacking a part of his left leg and makes use of crutches to get round.
He went viral for claiming he would journey out Hurricane Milton earlier this month in his 20-foot-long boat because the storm barreled in the direction of Tampa.
Regardless of pleas from native residents, legislation enforcement officers and the mayor of Tampa, Jane Castor, to depart and search shelter, Malinowski selected to remain put along with his boat tied to Bayshore Boulevard close to Tampa Normal Hospital. He additionally rode out Hurricane Helene in the identical boat.
Tampa police attempt to persuade “Lieutenant Dan” to depart his boat as Tampa was making ready for the arrival of Hurricane Milton on Oct. 9. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photographs)
Nonetheless, the mayor of Tampa, Jane Castor, mentioned he had been taken to a shelter earlier than the storm hit. Stay TikTok feeds and information interviews indicated he was nonetheless on the boat refusing to depart the vessel.
Malinowski informed Fox Information Digital after the storm had handed that he “wasn’t going wherever.”
“I by no means deliberate on leaving. The storm didn’t scare me as a result of I didn’t see it. I didn’t write it. I didn’t make it occur.”
“It’s a ship,” he mentioned. “You retain the water out of the boat, you’ll be advantageous.”
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Malinowski had beforehand caught the eye of TikToker Adin Ross, who supplied to buy “Lieutenant Dan” a $50,000-$100,000 boat and initiated a full-time stay stream TikTok deal the place Malinowski may doc his “voyages” and produce earnings for the lone sailor by way of social media.
Nonetheless, Ross rescinded the provide when he discovered Malinowski’s prolonged legal document, which incorporates arrests for hitting a police officer and allegedly attempting to set a lady on fireplace, in response to the New York Put up.
Police tried to get “Lieutenant Dan” to depart his boat on Oct. 9 forward of Hurricane Milton. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photographs)
“He supplied it to me. I by no means requested for it,” Malinowski informed one TikToker who recorded him stay. “If you happen to’re anxious about your picture and who you might have working for you, it’s best to have performed your due diligence and seemed me up earlier than you made me a proposal of $100,000 sign-on bonus, $50,000 a month with a $100,000 boat.”
His different previous prices embody drug possession, tried breaking and coming into and aggravated battery with a lethal weapon, in response to the New York Put up.
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Regardless of backlash, Malinowski mentioned he plans to journey out all future Tampa hurricanes in his boat, although the New York Put up reported an open case wherein the boat’s possession got here into query.
Malinowski mentioned as Milton inflicted injury upon Tampa Bay and “beauty injury” to the boat, he began speaking to God and meditating.
Throughout meditation, Malinowski informed Fox Information Digital, he envisioned a hoop round him that he believed may need protected him from hanging the channel’s wall. When he turned distracted from meditation, he mentioned he thrashed towards the dock once more, inflicting extra injury.
The boat “Lt. Dan” stayed in throughout Hurricane Milton, Helene (Fox Information Digital)
Viral sensation ‘Lieutenant Dan’ arrested for boat being ‘public well being hazard’: police
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