LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A man was arrested on Tuesday after posting an AI-generated image on social media that depicted Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno being shot at by two armed individuals, according to LCSO.<\/p>\n
30-year-old Christopher Nimmons Jr. was taken into custody on Tuesday and faces charges of written threats to kill or do bodily injury and violation of a domestic violence injunction.<\/p>\n
The arrest followed an LCSO investigation into a threatening social media post.<\/p>\n
The investigation began after LCSO received a report about an AI-generated image posted on Instagram. The image showed a sheriff in full uniform, including a white shirt, dark green pants, black tie, collar brass, badge, and full-duty gun belt, running while sustaining an apparent head injury. Two individuals dressed in dark clothing with their faces covered were depicted actively firing weapons at the sheriff.<\/p>\n
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The image was allegedly posted as a comment under a “UC Breaking News” post regarding the line-of-duty death of LCSO K9 Dundee on Monday. Analytical research indicated the Instagram account may be associated with Nimmons.<\/p>\n
An LCSO detective reviewed a previous case from July 3, when deputies responded to Nimmons’ address for a well-being check after he sent concerning messages to his family.<\/p>\n
Nimmons was located inside a vehicle at Gulf Coast Town Center and placed under a Baker Act. The complainant provided correspondence that included a photograph of Nimmons’ face on the Instagram account, which Detective Alejo determined was the same account used to post the AI-generated image.<\/p>\n
With the assistance of TNT and the Narcotics Unit, Nimmons was located during a traffic stop and taken into custody.<\/p>\n
LCSO said a cell phone was recovered from Nimmons, and a firearm, an M&P Shield, was located in the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Based on the content and manner in which the photograph was posted, detectives said they found probable cause to charge Nimmons with a violation of written threats to kill or do bodily injury.<\/p>\n
Officers transported Nimmons to the Lee County Jail without incident. He is scheduled to appear in court at the Lee County Justice Center on Nov. 2 at 8:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 A man was arrested on Tuesday after posting an AI-generated image on social…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-414006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414006","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=414006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}