Nationwide — David Cunningham, an African American police officer from Cellular, Alabama, was arrested at a Disney resort in Florida and charged with kidnapping after he handcuffed and detained a person at a home social gathering in Mississippi, a state the place he had no official police authority.
Cunningham, 22, was arrested in Orange County, Florida, on June 3 after a warrant was issued by Harrison County, Mississippi. He faces one felony depend of kidnapping linked to an incident on Could 24.
In accordance with People, Cunningham was off-duty when he detained a 21-year-old man at a home social gathering in Mississippi. The person had reportedly shot the home-owner’s canine throughout a spherical of “leisure gunfire.” Cunningham handcuffed the person, put him behind a Prichard Police Division car, and drove away.
Since Cunningham had no jurisdiction in Mississippi, deputies from the Harrison County Sheriff’s Workplace stopped him shortly after the incident. He wasn’t arrested on the spot, however investigators later dominated his actions met the authorized definition of kidnapping. They issued an arrest warrant days later.
A passenger in Cunningham’s car, Kristin Allen, can be dealing with prices. Authorities say she gave deceptive accounts of the incident and will have obstructed the investigation. She turned herself in on June 2, whereas Cunningham was arrested the subsequent day on the Disney resort.
On the time of the incident, Cunningham was employed by the Prichard Police Division. The division stated it was not conscious of the out-of-state incident till June 2. An inner investigation is now underway to find out if Cunningham violated division insurance policies, together with using a metropolis car throughout state traces.
Cunningham is being held in Florida on a $500,000 bond and is awaiting extradition to Mississippi.
