A New Jersey man is behind bars in South Florida after an argument over smoking outside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport ended in a battery, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The incident happened Tuesday on the lower level outside Terminal 3 when a deputy responded to a report of a passenger yelling at a taxi employee, an arrest report said.<\/p>\n
When the deputy arrived, they heard loud screaming and saw the suspect, 47-year-old Paul Thomas Soltys, raising his arms while trying to approach the employee and telling him he would “f— you up,” the report said.<\/p>\n
The employee said he told Soltys that he couldn’t smoke near the taxis, which caused Soltys to “get agitated” and start yelling, the report said.<\/p>\n
At one point, the employee said Soltys came at him, grabbed his arm and threatened him, the report said.<\/p>\n
Soltys was taken into custody, but while searching his personal items and luggage, the deputy found a clear plastic tube containing trace amounts of cocaine or cocaine base, the report said.<\/p>\n
The deputy also found a baggie containing six pills of Oxycodone, the report said.<\/p>\n
In addition to a battery charge, Soltys, of Sicklerville, N.J., was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of Oxycodone, and booked into jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Jersey man is behind bars in South Florida after an argument over smoking outside Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,249,251,1771,250],"class_list":["post-327293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-hollywood-international-airport","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327293","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=327293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}