AK-47 semi-automatic rifle threatens motorist in Florida

An AK-47 semi-automatic "assault style" rifle threatened motorists in Florida, police say. The scary weapon was being brandished by Raul Garcia, an almost white 21-year-old male.

Garcia is a member in good standing of the MS-13 gang and he was nabbed Monday morning after an overnight search in Wimauma, according to Cpl. Lawrence McKinnon, a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokesman.

The AK-47 was accused of threatening passing motorists while Garcia held it in his hands as he stood on a street corner in shorts and shirtless, McKinnon said.

Deputies were informed that the young man was holding the angry AK-47 as he yelled at drivers and jumping in front of moving cars in an effort to get them to stop so the AK-47 could do what it does without remorse.

The spokesman said that when the deputies arrived on the scene they immediately spotted the AK-47 and the tattooed Garcia running into the woods.

"Deputies assisted by K-9 and a HCSO helicopter then searched the wooded area and located the Norinko SKS AK-47 rifle and later a green bag Garcia was carrying," McKinnon said. 

The rifle did not put up a fight and was taken into custody.

Garcia, on the other hand, ran like a deer into the forest. The search for him ended hours later when he was found and taken into custody. He was arrested on charges that included improper exhibition of a firearm, loitering and resisting arrest.

The AK-47 was charged with scaring liberal drivers and hunting without a license.

Garcia is a U.S. citizen and was booked into the county jail and is on $13,750 bond. 

The AK-47 has no known relatives and was not reported missing.

Hopefully the drivers who were threatened will get together and march on Washington to ban AK-47s. 

"That thing scared the crap outta me," said Clive Kreetus, a motorist involved in the road fracas. "They ought to do something about that gun."

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