St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office<\/a> says deputies were called to the 5100 block of Happiness Street around 9 p.m. Sept. 12 after someone reported people actively firing guns. A witness told investigators a man and woman had been shooting a shotgun, rifle and handguns.<\/p>\nDeputies determined the pair had been firing into the ground. Investigators also learned both had been drinking before and during the incident. No one was injured.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office identified them as Tiffany Rose Lindo and Jacob Mills, both 25 and from Fort Pierce. Each was arrested on charges of discharging a firearm in a public or residential area and using a firearm while under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n
Still Smiling<\/p>\n
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The sheriff’s office released a composite showing the residential area, three firearms laid out on a bed, and both people in custody.<\/p>\n
Lindo’s expression quickly became part of the reaction. She is shown smiling widely from the back of a patrol vehicle, while Mills sits in another vehicle nearby.<\/p>\n
The location supplied the obvious material.<\/p>\n
“I’ve never seen someone so happy about being arrested lol,” one person wrote beneath the sheriff’s post.<\/p>\n
Another went straight for the street name: “Happiness Street just turned into Sadness Lane.”<\/p>\n
Others focused on whether the arrests were justified. Several questioned whether firing into the ground on private property should amount to a crime, while others argued that mixing alcohol with gunfire was reason enough for deputies to intervene.<\/p>\n
One commenter reduced the entire Saturday night to four words: “Sounds like a fun Saturday night.”<\/p>\n
Last Call<\/p>\n
St. Lucie County jail records list the same two charges for Lindo and Mills, with $1,150 in total cash bonds for each. Both were released early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office took a less celebratory view of the evening.<\/p>\n
“Firearms and alcohol. Two things that should never be part of the same plan,” the agency wrote.<\/p>\n
All parties are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Happiness Street was unusually literal Saturday night. A woman photographed smiling broadly in the back of a sheriff’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,3886,158814,158816,11700,158815],"class_list":["post-398975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fort-pierce","tag-happiness-street","tag-jacob-mills","tag-st-lucie-county-sheriffs-office","tag-tiffany-rose-lindo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398975","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=398975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}