A documented gang member and convicted felon in Florida allegedly called dispatchers and threatened to shoot a state trooper who sped past him over the weekend. James Edward Keister Jr., 43, who works as a plumber, was driving a Mr. Rooter Plumbing work truck at about 11:30 a.m. Saturday when a trooper passed him to pull over a speeder on the Howard Frankland Bridge in Pinellas County, Florida Highway Patrol said, according to the news of Tampa Bay.
The trooper observed a motorcyclist driving too fast and sped up to overtake the driver on the bridge, but Keister believed the trooper was also driving too fast. He called the Florida Highway Patrol dispatch center and reported that a trooper sped past him before allegedly threatening to shoot the trooper if he saw him again.
