By Erika Hernandez
May 5, 2024, 3:09 PM EDT
A Palm Bay, Florida, Homeowners Association board member was arrested last month after allegedly pointing a gun at three children. who fished in a lake in their subdivision.
Police charged Kyle Patrick Tate, 57, with criminal mischief and grand larceny as a result of the incident.
An affidavit filed in Brevard County, Florida, alleges that on April 14, officers from the Palm Bay Police Department were dispatched to a suspicious incident in Stillwater Lakes, a subdivision owned and managed by a Homeowners Association.
FOX 35 in Orlando confirmed that Tate is the president of the community’s Homeowners Association.
Responding officers spoke with three boys who were fishing on the south side of the lake in Stillwater Lakes, who said a man, later identified as Tate, He approached them while holding a firearm and told them to get off his property.
But the property belonged to the Homeowners Association, not the Tate, according to police.
Even so, Tate grabbed their fishing rods, reels, tackle boxes and other equipment, before throwing them into the woods and damaging them.
The children told police they estimated the fishing rods and reels were valued at $1,900; the tackle and lure boxes inside worth approximately $150; and the nets for about $150 dollars.
Tate also allegedly took a phone valued at about $1,500 from one of the children, which has not yet been recovered, according to court documents.
After learning of the situation, Police arrested Tate on April 14 and he was booked into the Brevard County Jail.according to Sheriff’s Department records.
He now faces charges of grand theft of property valued between $750 and $7,500, and criminal mischief over $1,000. Both charges are classified as third-degree felonies in Florida.
Tate was held on $5,000 bail ($2,500 per count), which he later posted.
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