When a Broward Sheriff’s Office deputy knocked on Nathan Gingles’ door to serve him with a restraining order, he didn’t ask Nathan whether he had guns on him, despite a judge ordering Nathan to surrender his weapons, body camera footage obtained by the Miami Herald shows.
On Jan. 6, Civil Division Deputy Joseph Sasso served Nathan with the restraining order at his apartment, just over five minutes away from his estranged wife Mary Gingles’ home. The weapons remained in Nathan’s possession. Sasso is suspended as the Broward Sheriff’s Office investigates at least seven other deputies for their handling of the case.
Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony slammed deputies for not collecting Nathan’s weapons and not seeking a judge’s order to temporarily seize the weapons. BSO could have done so under Florida’s red flag law , enacted after the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High mass shooting in Broward…