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City board member faces felony charges
BY Scott Unger Key West Citizen
Key West Sustainability Advisory Board member Richard Lightner was charged with felony battery and felony resisting arrest following an incident at a New Town restaurant Tuesday afternoon.
Police were called to the Outback Steakhouse, but found Lightner, 71, nearby at Sweet Fire Chipotle, 3220 N. Roosevelt Blvd., at 4:38 p.m. as he was walking out of the restaurant’s front door, according to Key West Police.
They noticed an empty gun holster on his hip and found a filet knife on his person, as well as a multi-tool, reports state.
Lightner was reportedly asked to leave the steakhouse after calling a patron a terrorist and shoving the manager. Lightner appeared drunk and at first said he had diabetes and then denied it while telling police he would sue them, reports state.
Lightner kicked one officer and tried to trip him while he was being placed in custody, reports say.
Once in the police car, a Sweet Fire Chipotle employee informed officers that some of his property was still in the business. Police found a loaded .40-caliber Glock under a shirt, reports say.
Lightner, a former treasure salver, was appointed to the Sustainability Board on Nov. 5, 2015. He is also a Florida Green Building Coalition Certifying Agent. Lightner has also been a licensed real estate broker and certified builder since 1979, according to his resume.
Last year, Lightner filed a police report concerning a missing sign-in sheet at a meeting about cistern use.
He told police multiple speakers and citizens signed the sheet, but he added there were also “several activist groups opposed to the subjects being discussed,” reports say. Lightner told the officer the meeting was civil; however, he believed someone from one of the activist groups may have taken the sign-in sheet. No action was taken in the case.
Lightner was taken to Monroe County Detention Center on Stock Island and was released Wednesday after posting $5,000 bail.
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