Florida man accused of cutting off diver's air supply in fight over coveted lobster diving spot

A conflict implicit a lobster diving spot disconnected the Florida seashore allegedly escalated into an underwater nightmare aft a antheral was accused of shutting disconnected different diver's aerial proviso — a confrontation that landed him down bars connected an attempted execution charge.

Michael Joseph Simpson, 51, surrendered Tuesday to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center successful Miami-Dade County, wherever helium was booked Tuesday evening connected an attempted execution charge, according to Miami-Dade jailhouse records. His enslaved was acceptable astatine $10,000.

According to Local 10 News, the incidental occurred soon aft 7 a.m. connected July 29 astir a half-mile eastbound of Fisher Island during Florida's yearly lobster mini season.

Citing the apprehension affidavit, Law&Crime reported that Simpson allegedly approached different vessel astatine a precocious complaint of velocity and circled the vas respective times earlier anchoring astir 10 feet away.

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Michael Joseph Simpson booking photograph aft his apprehension connected an attempted execution complaint successful Miami-Dade County, Florida (Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation)

Investigators accidental the confrontation began aft Simpson claimed the radical was diving successful "his spot" and warned that a larger vessel was connected its mode earlier it arrived and anchored nearby.

Authorities allege Simpson past threatened to crook disconnected the surface-supplied aerial strategy providing oxygen to an 18-year-old diver searching for lobsters. Investigators accidental Simpson jumped into the h2o and intentionally unopen disconnected the unit.

As the confrontation unfolded, witnesses yelled, "We person a diver down determination you a--hole!" according to the apprehension affidavit cited by Law&Crime.

The diver's vessel proprietor jumped into the h2o and pulled him to the surface. The diver was gasping for aerial and appeared disoriented but was not injured, Local 10 reported.

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Rodriguez was awaiting proceedings connected charges including cocaine possession with intent to sell, being a felon successful possession of a firearm and ammunition, and trespassing astatine the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center successful Miami, Fla. (Google Maps)

Investigators allege Simpson near the country earlier deputies arrived. After authorities identified him arsenic the suspect, Simpson voluntarily surrendered Tuesday, according to Local 10.

Simpson's attorney, Howard Srebnick, powerfully denied the allegations successful a connection to Fox News Digital, arguing that investigators ignored grounds and witnesses that helium says enactment his client's account.

Srebnick said Simpson was diving from his ain vessel with friends and his 2 young children and "never disabled anyone's diving equipment."

Srebnick said video shows 1 of the accusers became entangled successful the Brownie's Third Lung aerial strategy portion Simpson "was obscurity adjacent it."

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A tourer snorkels adjacent the Christ of the Abyss statue surrounded by dormant coral connected the water furniture successful the Straits of Florida adjacent Key Largo, Florida, connected September 23, 2021. (Photo by Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images)

He besides disputed investigators' allegation that Simpson fled, saying his lawsuit alternatively idled his vessel distant from the contiguous country to debar escalating the confrontation earlier cooperating with responding Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers and providing a statement.

Srebnick said galore eyewitnesses aboard 2 abstracted boats corroborate Simpson's mentation of events and criticized the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office for arresting his lawsuit earlier interviewing what helium described arsenic exculpatory witnesses.

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"We are optimistic that the State Attorney's Office, aft reviewing the video and interviewing each the eyewitnesses, volition disregard the charges, wide his name, and reconstruct the estimation helium has spent a beingness building," Srebnick said.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office for further comment.