The Hillsborough County court was looking for Kevin McBride, but it was Virginia's Arlington County Sheriff's Department that found the former St. Petersburg business owner.
According to an inmate inquiry emailed to CL, McBride, 51, was booked just after 12 p.m. on July 12. He is being held without bond.
The booking came less than two weeks after the Hillsborough County Clerk e-filed a document saying that there was probable cause to believe that McBride — who was arrested in Tampa in March for battery on a police officer at a Pink! concert — violated a court order. The same document said that his pretrial release should be revoked and that he should be held without bond.
The Arlington County booking came just hours after McBride published a video titled "Feminist Problem Global," saying that he was in Washington D.C. protesting “about how devastating and how horrible the LGBTQ and feminist movements have been to our country.”
In response to the booking, a GoFundMe page has been started to help raise money for McBride’s legal costs.
“My best friend is setting [this] up,” the page reads. It also mentions McBride’s trip to Washington D.C., his arrest and that his father and mother are sick in California.
“They arrested me saying there was a warrant for my arrest in Florida. I haven't been able to use the phone, i haven't been given my medication, i contracted a skin condition which the jail medic will not treat, and i haven't seen my family for a month,” the GoFundMe page, written as McBride, said.
One person named Richard Alter has donated $100 in the two days since the GoFundMe has been published, which is decent considering the fact that another McBride GoFundMe (“I'm out Here Fighting Everyday for All Men!!”) only raised $45.
CL has reached out to Arlington County officials regarding the McBride GoFundMe’s claims.
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This article appears in Aug 1-8, 2019.