UPDATED: Sheriff Chad Scott announces no open carry arrests in Alachua County, but “we urge all citizens to follow the current law out of respect for the judicial process”

Staff report

Updated at 5:30 p.m. after ASO updated its post

ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – After announcing earlier that deputies would continue to arrest people for openly carrying firearms, Alachua County Sheriff’s Office (ASO) has now reversed course and announced that nobody will be arrested for the open carrying of firearms if that is the “only crime they have committed.”…

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