LENUEL JOSIA VELAZQUEZ
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA
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Law enforcement officers, when acting outside their jurisdictions, retain the same capacity to make felony arrests as private citizens.
[1] Law enforcement officers retain authority to make felony arrests outside their jurisdictions based on the principle that such officers should not be less capable than pri…
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Join FLexlaw to unlock all legal intelligence“Common sense dictates that law enforcement officials, when they are outside their jurisdictions, should not be any less capable, by virtue of their position, of making a felony arrest than a private citizen.”
The court cited Phoenix v. State to support the principle that officers retain arrest authority outside their jurisdictions.
Lenuel Josia Velazquez appealed a conviction from the Circuit Court for Orange County, challenging a matter related to law enforcement authority.…
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SIXTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
STATE OF FLORIDA
Case No. 6D2025-2071 Lower Tribunal No. 2024-CF-016675-A-O
LENUEL JOSIA VELAZQUEZ, Appellant,
V.
STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Orange County. Barbara J. Leach, Judge.
November 6, 2026
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED. See Phoenix v. State, 455 So. 2d 1024, 1025 (Fla. 1984) ("Common sense dictates that law enforcement officials, when they are outside their jurisdictions, should not be any less capable, by virtue of their position, of making a felony arrest than a private citizen.").
NARDELLA, WHITE and GANNAM, JJ., concur.
Blair Allen, Public Defender, and Tosha Cohen, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellant.
James Uthmeier, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Zachary L. Wiseman, Assistant Attorney General, Daytona Beach, for Appellee.
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE MOTION FOR REHEARING
AND DISPOSITION THEREOF IF TIMELY FILED
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