A white SUV pulls into the gas station lot at 248 Main Street, Destin, and parks at the pumps.
Travis took this picture from his driver’s door. Seventeen days later he was arrested for a felony.
The camera was already down. He finished pumping gas, took the picture from beside the vehicle he was driving, and drove off. That post is the first thing the arrest warrant cites.
October 15, 2026: the State dropped the case. No formal charge was ever filed.
Read the record
Case dropped October 15, 2026.
“Finally, they’re out here matching energy. Flock camera down on the corner of Main and Airport. We see you Fort Walton. We’re catchin’ up”
What Travis was charged with
Criminal mischief, damage over $1,000
Fla. Stat. 806.13(1)(b)3 — third-degree felony
Charged as a principal, Fla. Stat. 777.011
What he has of the affidavit is here — two pages, which is everything he was given.
The State’s theory was not that Travis brought the camera down. It was that he was responsible for what someone else did — that he drove there, that he did not stop it, and that he drove away.
The felony grade turned on a single number. To be a felony rather than a misdemeanor, the damage has to exceed $1,000. The only support for that in the affidavit is a sentence saying the Sheriff’s Office Flock liaison estimated $3,000 to replace the camera. No invoice. No work order. The affidavit does not say the camera was damaged — it says it fell.
The record
Every line below is tagged with where it comes from, because the difference matters. Some of it is what the sworn affidavit says. Some of it is Travis’s own account. Those are not the same thing, and this page will not blur them.
Aug 16, 7:38 pm
Affidavit
Aug 16, 7:42 pm
Affidavit
The time the affidavit gives for the offense. Four minutes after the vehicle arrives.
Aug 16, evening
Travis’s account
He was at the driver’s side of the vehicle with his hands on the gas pump. The vehicle was parked facing the camera. He never went past his own engine bay. He finished pumping, pulled his phone out at the driver’s door, took the photograph, got in, and drove off.
Aug 16, 7:56 pm
Public
He posted the photograph to Facebook with the caption above. The post is still up. It has not been deleted or edited.
Aug 17
Affidavit
A deputy goes to the store and reviews its surveillance video. He identifies Travis from prior encounters. The investigation is essentially finished on this date.
Aug 18–19
Travis’s account
Sheriff’s deputies come to his house. Brief exchange. No arrest.
Aug 26, 8:15 am
Travis’s account
Officers come to the house looking for someone else. Travis consents to a search. When it becomes clear his family — including their ten-month-old — would have to wait outside in the August heat, he withdraws consent and says he is done answering questions. Nothing is searched over his objection and nothing is seized. He is told they will be back with a warrant.
Sept 2
Travis’s account
Arrested at home on the warrant.
Sept 5
Public record
Released on bond, with conditions he is following to the letter.
Oct 15, 1:30 pm
Travis’s account
Arraignment at the Fort Walton Beach Courthouse Annex Extension. The case was dismissed for lack of evidence.
Oct 15
Public record
The court docket for case 2026-CF-001751-F marks the December 14 pretrial conference “Canceled — Nolle Prosequi/No Prosecution.” A nolle prosequi is the State’s formal decision not to prosecute. No information, the formal charging document, was ever filed. The written disposition has not been docketed yet; it goes up here when it is.
Where a line is tagged Travis’s account, it is his recollection and nothing more. Where it is tagged Affidavit, it is what the sworn document says — which is not the same as saying it is true.
What the affidavit leaves out
- The same store video the deputy reviewed shows Travis at the pumps. The affidavit does not mention it. It says instead that he “made no effort to stop” what happened.
- There were no other people there. No independent witness has described what he was doing, because there wasn’t one.
- There is no video of him touching the camera, and the affidavit does not claim there is. He never approached it — the photograph above was taken from beside the vehicle he was driving, which was parked facing it, and the store’s video will show exactly where he was standing.
- The store’s video overwrites itself on a cycle measured in weeks. Travis has asked, in writing, that it be preserved before it’s gone.
Why this page exists
Those of us who know Travis put this together. What struck us about the affidavit is how little is in it — and how much of what is in it came from a photograph he took openly and posted under his own name.
There are Flock automatic plate readers all over Okaloosa County. They photograph your plate, timestamp it, and hold it in a searchable database — every car, every driver, no warrant, no suspicion, no notice to you. Most people who drive past them every day have no idea the contract exists, what the retention period is, or who can query the system.
You don’t have to have an opinion about the cameras to care what happens here. A father with a baby at home was facing a third-degree felony, and the strongest thing the State put in writing was that he was standing nearby and didn’t stop it. That deserved a close look, which is why every claim on this page is sourced and every document went up as it arrived. The case is over now. The record stays up.
Updates
Short, dated, and only when something actually happens.
- October 15, 2026
- The State dropped the case. At this afternoon’s arraignment it was dismissed for lack of evidence, and the court docket now marks the December pretrial conference “Nolle Prosequi/No Prosecution.” No formal charge was ever filed. We will post the written disposition when the court dockets it. Thank you to everyone who shared this page, gave, or checked in on the family. The defense fund is closing.
- September 8, 2026
- No information has been filed. That means the prosecutor has not yet decided what, if anything, to charge. Preservation requests are out to the store and to the Sheriff’s Office for the video and the body camera footage.
- September 5, 2026
- Travis was released on bond and is home with his family.
