Titusville, Florida: A man has filed a defamation lawsuit against a Florida sheriff who posts weekly “Wheel of Fugitive” videos on social media, saying that he wasn’t a fugitive when his name and image appeared several times in 2021 in the officer’s posts inspired by the long-running TV game show “Wheel of Fortune”.

Because of the sheriff’s posts, David Gay lost a job and suffered emotional distress, according to the lawsuit seeking more than $US50,000 in damages. The lawsuit was filed last week in state court in Brevard County, along Florida’s Space Coast.

Gay’s prospective boss called him as he was driving to his first day of work and told him not to bother showing up as he had seen Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey’s “Wheel of Fugitive” videos, the lawsuit said.

A spokesman for the sheriff’s office on Monday didn’t respond to an emailed inquiry seeking comment about the lawsuit.

In the videos posted to social media, Ivey spins a wheel with photos of what are described as 10 of the county’s most wanted fugitives.

“Everybody watches it. Even the fugitives watch it to see who becomes ‘fugitive of the week’,” The Associated Press reported Ivey said.

Gay was involved in the court system for an undisclosed offence and was sentenced in November 2020 to three years of probation for “a withhold of adjudication”, a special sentence in which a defendant is not formally convicted of an offence, the lawsuit said.

Gay was taken into custody for violation of probation in January 2021 after he had been arrested several weeks earlier on a misdemeanour domestic battery charge. He says he believed his father had gotten into a physical altercation with his mother, and the case was dismissed eventually.

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