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Man In Triple Trouble After Probation Arrest

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By HOWARD ALTMAN | The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 28, 2008

Micah Rodriguez

Micah Israel Rodriguez now knows what not to do when being arrested on a warrant for violating probation.

Don't give a false name.

Don't show authorities a fake passport.

And don't try to hide a handcuff key.

Rodriguez, a self-employed scrap metal dealer according to jail records, was arrested shortly after 9 a.m. today by Tampa police for violating probation on assault, battery and burglary charges, according to police records.

Police say that when they questioned Rodriguez, he gave a false name and presented a U.S. passport in that name. Police also found a handcuff key.

Police say they learned something else when Rodriguez was in the back of the patrol car. His wife does not know his real name, according to a report.

She knows him as the name listed on the false passport, police say.

Rodriguez was charged with identify theft, giving a false name to law enforcement, possessing a handcuff key and obstructing police without violence.

Possession of a concealed handcuff key by anyone in custody was made illegal in Florida after Hank Earl Carr's 1998 rampage in which he killed Tampa police officers Rick Childers and Randy Bell and Florida Highway Patrolman James Crooks. Carr had a universal handcuff key on a string around his neck and, after being arrested by Tampa police, used it to open the cuffs. He then grabbed Childers' service revolver and killed the officers.

He is being held at the Orient Road Jail with no bail set, according to jail records.

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