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Johnny Big Sims
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-bso-unnatural-lascivious-arrest-20141020-story.htmlA 32-year-old man accused of grabbing $25 in a robbery at a gas station is also accused of grabbing himself while in custody.
Johnny Big Sims [...] arrested Sunday and charged with robbery by sudden snatching and committing an unnatural and lascivious act, according to the arrest report filed in the case.
He snatched cash from a customer about [...] ran from the Exxon [...] near Fort Lauderdale, deputies said.
The robbery victim saw Sims returning to the gas station [...] called Broward Sheriff's deputies who arrested him, [...]
Once in custody, Sims repeatedly fondled himself despite several warnings to stop. Only hand restraints prevented him from continuing, [...]
At Sims' first appearance in bond court Monday, Judge John "Jay" Hurley had to turn to his law books to see if the state statutes applied to masturbation by a suspect being held in custody in a small, windowless room that detectives use for interviews on video.
"We go by the facts, not necessarily the statutes," Hurley said [...] "I think it [falls under] exposure of sex organs."
Broward assistant public defender Dale Miller [...] law in this instance was "unconstitutionally vague" because Sims was not accused of fondling himself in public.
"There is nobody else in that room," [...] Sims did not know he was being recorded by a video camera in the interview room.
"Since [Sims] didn't know he was being videotaped through all of this, he thought he was in private [...]
The judge ruled that Florida statute 800.03 applies to the alleged fondling.
Bond was set at $12,500 for the robbery.
Records show Sims has a long criminal history with convictions for burglary, theft, robbery, forgery, battery, trespassing and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.