A deputy mistook the legally blind 61-year-old's cane for a gun, while Hodges was walking home from canceled jury duty.
Kennedy Dendy, Action News JaxLAKE CITY, Fla. — A legally blind man in Lake City plans to sue the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, after what many are calling a “wrongful arrest.”A deputy mistook his cane for a gun, while Hodges was walking home from canceled jury duty.
Phillips said Hodges was unlawfully harassed, detained, searched, and arrested by Officer Jayme Gohde and Sergeant Randall Harrison of the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office. On the day Hodges was arrested, Gohde believed Hodges was carrying “what appeared to be a silver pistol with a white grip in his back right pocket,” according to the arrest report. The item was later identified to be a folded-up walking stick.
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