He believes out-of-town police officers who were assisting at the bridge are responsible for what happened. Rewis acknowledges his son has a history of drug arrests after he fell in with the wrong crowd at school in Everglades City. He was arrested on suspicion of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, resisting arrest without violence and violating the 9 p.m.
Rewis was taken to Physicians Regional-Collier Boulevard, where he was treated before he was transported to the jail. Rewis started to run and pushed one of the law enforcement officers in the chest and struck the officer in the head, according to his arrest report.Īdditional officers led chase and tackled Rewis, twice using a stun gun to immobilize him, the arrest report states. Hurricane Irma: Complete coverage from the USA TODAY Network 11, the day after Hurricane Irma hit the county.
He was being arrested on suspicion of violating the curfew, which was from 9 p.m. When they arrived at the bridge, which was being manned by law enforcement officers because of damage from Hurricane Irma, he was ordered to get out of the vehicle and put his hands on the car. He was riding in a car driven by his cousin Angela Goff, 36. He had gone into town to get supplies and to get some chainsaws fixed. Rewis - the great-grandson of Loren "Totch" Brown, a legend in the tiny island community of Chokoloskee - was stopped by law enforcement at the Chokoloskee bridge at 1:32 a.m. “I don’t know how long he laid in the cell unresponsive,” said his father. They called paramedics, who performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Thursday, deputies found him slumped over in his cell in the medical area of the jail. When he was brought to the jail the day before, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said Rewis resisted officers and they deployed pepper spray to get him under control, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Office. Doctors told the family Devan was brain dead and he was taken off of life support and died at 5:53 p.m. Friday. When the family was notified to go to NCH Downtown, doctors could not say what caused him to be on life support, according to Rewis Jr. A Florida man is searching for answers after his son died while in police custody after being arrested for violating a county curfew early Thursday.ĭevan Rewis, 31, died in custody at NCH Downtown Baker Hospital in Naples on Friday after he was arrested on a charge of violating Collier County's curfew early Thursday.Įddie Rewis Jr., 53, and his extended family want to know how Devan wound up on life support at the hospital following his arrest.
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