{"id":207136,"date":"2026-03-26T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207136\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T17:06:08","slug":"florida-man-suing-sheriffs-office-after-he-says-error-led-to-2-weeks-in-jail-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/207136\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man suing sheriff\u2019s office after he says error led to 2 weeks in jail \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida man is suing the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office after he said a database error landed him in jail for two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Brewer said he was wrongfully arrested and charged as a felon after a national crime database listed a past case as a felony instead of a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said they relied on that information when they arrested him for illegally possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t believe this is happening,&#8221; Brewer said in body camera footage of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors eventually dropped the case against Brewer, but he&#8217;s now suing for false arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m not a felon, I have a real estate license, I have a concealed carry license out of Kentucky,&#8221; Brewer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-martin-county\/martin-county-man-sues-sheriffs-office-after-a-database-error-leads-to-14-days-in-jail-for-a-felony\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-martin-county\/martin-county-man-sues-sheriffs-office-after-a-database-error-leads-to-14-days-in-jail-for-a-felony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told WPTV<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m speaking out because I don\u2019t want anyone else to have to go through this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the error did not originate from their agency and was likely not updated properly by authorities in Kentucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Florida man is suing the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office after he said a database error landed him&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[28,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-207136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-florida","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}