How To Register Hands As Lethal Weapons In Florida

Guess rules martial arts fighter's hands and feet are 'deadly weapons' in route rage assault

A mixed martial arts skilful involved in an alleged road rage attack has been jailed later a guess said his hands and feet were 'deadly weapons'.

Charged: Fernando Rodrigues was ordered held without bail after he allegedly pistol-whipped one man and beat up another

Charged: Fernando Rodrigues was ordered held without bond after he allegedly pistol-whipped ane man and crush upwardly another

Judge John Hurley said given Fernando Rodrigues' specialised training his hands and feet were every bit lethal a gun.

He ordered the 33-year-old former Iraqi war veteran be held without bond subsequently hearing how he had pistol whipped 1 man and beat up another.

Estimate Hurley said: 'I've always thought that if you are a black belt in karate or you are a expert in martial arts, that your hands and feet would exist considered weapons.

That's what I've always thought since I was an chaser'.

'He's a mixed martial arts competitor. He's an expert in Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu. He's also the president and co-founder of a mixed martial arts grooming facility.'

The judge made his ruling after prosecutors told a courtroom in Florida how Rodrigues, a onetime Marine, allegedly attacked ii men at a traffic low-cal in Coral Springs, Florida.

1 of the alleged victims, Michael Caccavella, said he was attacked considering he didn't striking the gas fast plenty when a lite turned green.

'He probably has more steroids in him than half the cattle in Texas,' said Mr Caccavella of Rodrigues.

Mr Caccavella said Rodrigues smashed him beyond the head with a loaded handgun before fracturing the basic of his friend Juan David Uribe's centre socket with several jabs to the face.

Mr Caccavella,54, a puddle cleaner said Rodrigues was blasting his horn at him and tailgating equally they collection through Coral Springs, about Miami.

He said he pulled over to let Rodrigues pass, but moments later the ex-Marine appeared at his window and pointed a gun in his face up.

Mr Caccavella said Rodrigues started screaming about how he was a Marine and served in Iraq.

Mr Caccavella said he considered getting out his own gun, but Rodrigues walked away and he called 911.

Attacked: Juan David Uribe is pictured with a black eye he got when Fernando Rodrigues allegedly punched at his eye socket with several jabs to the face

Attacked: Juan David Uribe is pictured with a black eye he got when Fernando Rodrigues allegedly punched at his eye socket with several jabs to the face up

While Mr Caccavella was talking to a dispatcher, he said, Rodrigues returned and cracked him over the caput with the handgun smashing his nose.

'At that place was claret gushing everywhere - on the steering cycle, the seat, the windshield,' Caccavella said.

Mr Caccavella said he told his colleague Uribe to run.

'I'm 54. He's 25. I figured if I was going to become shot, at to the lowest degree I've lived my life,' Mr Caccavella said.

'The craziest things go on in your head in a situation like that. I wanted him to live. He'due south just 25.'

Mr Caccavella said his assailant caught Uribe and began chirapsia him upwardly and then he grabbed his own gun.

'I thought, 'I have to do what I have to do,' MR Caccavella said.

Before whatever shots were fire police force arrived and arrested Rodrigues.

Rodrigues is charged with seven counts, including aggravated set on, that could see him jailed for life.

The Judge denied bond for the two assault charges.

'The court believes at this time that your hands and feet are considered, for probable crusade, to be mortiferous weapons,' he said.

Rodrigues's attorney, Brittany Nicolli, tried to fence that his hands and feet should not be considered a deadly weapon.

'They said he just struck them in the confront, and so fifty-fifty if you were a specific special martial arts instructor, I don't see how that could peradventure crusade mortiferous injury to someone but by hitting you in the face,' Nicolli said.

Nicolli asked the approximate to consider house arrest or possibly a higher bond instead of his ruling of no bond on two of the counts.

She told the court that Rodrigues 'has been a U.Due south. denizen for 11 years. He has no priors, and he's a iii-time Iraqi war veteran.'

The approximate denied her request and told Rodrigues, 'Sir, your attorney did a good job, merely frankly she had an uphill battle today, and it'southward the best whatsoever attorney could practise'.

According to the American Top Team's website, Rodrigues is a Marine who 'attended The Citadel Armed services College, Echo Company Course of 2005' and served ii tours in Iraq.