Tampa, FL – The U.S. Air Force has apologized to Derek Jeter after an active-duty member posted a photo on Facebook of a citation issued to the retired New York Yankee shortstop for boating in a restricted area near MacDill Air Force Base on the Fourth of July.
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Jeter, who lives on Tampa’s Davis Islands, was stopped by Air Force security forces Monday and ticketed $250 plus a $30 processing fee.
The issue came to light because of the Facebook posting.
“This action is totally inconsistent with Air Force values and the responsible airman will face the appropriate disciplinary action,” MacDill spokesman Terry Montrose said in a news release. “We sincerely apologize to Mr. Jeter for any inconvenience.”
Montrose declined to identify the airman Tuesday and said he didn’t know whether the airman played a role in issuing the citation.
The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/29qd9xs ) reports the post had two photos, one showing the citation and another that showed someone on a boat. The caption said, “On behalf of the Boston Red Sox, here is your ticket Derek Jeter.”
Jeter, who retired from Major League Baseball in 2014, owns a 30,000-square-foot mansion that is about 5 miles by water northeast of the MacDill boundary.
Signs posted some 1,000 meters from the shore warn boaters against entering the area. Montrose says it’s common for security forces to issue citations to boaters. He says it’s “really easy to drift into those waters.”
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The Air Force police, are nothing but hoodlums and goons. About two years ago, a Grandmother, Mother, and their small children were visiting the Air Force Museum, at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio. As the family were leaving, the children were admiring all of the out of state license plates, in the parking lot; the Grandmother and Mother were with them, explaining the various states, and pointing to the plates, while walking in the lot. Evidently, some fool thought that they were acting suspicious, and called the Air Force police.. As they were leaving, the low life Air Force police, forced all of them out of the car at gunpoint, and made them kneel on the ground. They detained them for over an hour, over nothing. They were idiots, and should have been sued for abuse of authority, false imprisonment, and deprivation of civil liberties. The aggrieved parties were not breaking the law. Unfortunately, the power of the uniform and the gun, goes to some people’s heads. The dumb Air Force cops, by questioning the party, could have ascertained that no laws were being broken. Instead, they took the TSA approach. Don’t ever visit that place!