Off-duty Florida fire chief arrested for aggravated assault, deputies say

A St. Pete Beach district fire chief was arrested for aggravated assault while off-duty in Redington Shores Thursday evening. The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said Thomas McClave, 55, was driving a 2017 Chevrolet pickup truck south on Gulf Boulevard behind Gregory Hicks, 58, who was riding a bicycle in the shared bicycle/vehicle travel lane. Deputies said McClave then pulled up to Hicks and yelled at him to get off the road. After they briefly yelled back and forth, Hicks rode his bike onto the raised median, where McClave followed him in his pickup.

[rw]

The sheriff under charged him because he's his friend which is illegal and he should be charged accordingly 💯💯💯💯

[robertocano]

How do these type of people get promoted? His attitude must have been known. Lousy example of leadership. Needs to be removed.

[ScreamingEagleFTW]

the judge is suprirsed that the cops didnt charge him properly, but rather gave him the friends and family discount. Im not surprised. im surprised they charged him at all since he is in the gang also.

[youngjohn]

He doesn’t look remorseful. What a disgusting person.

[Sweetskis]

Victim didn’t respond because he is going to sue the piss out of the city.

[shanesischo]

It’s not allegedly. It was on video that he not only ran into him with his truck. But then got out and confronted and shoved him.

[RussSwanson]

Civil suit. Termination. Felony prosecution.

[Gage_Preston_OroGrandeG]

He must have thought he was an off duty cop whose buddies would lie for him...

[conradb]

Judge Aileen Cannon could pickup some valuable pointers from this very fair and impartial Judge!

[crazyfishlady]

Now there can be an investigation into why the police chief didn't charge him appropriately.

[RodneySlinger]

The police took it easy on him regarding the charges because he is one of them.

[Ron]

Anger issues and road rage - he is a fire chief ?? responsible for a fire department. Gve him some jail time and demote him to fireman. Shame on him!

[GolfFoxtrotCharlie-gfc]

Giving some one "professional courtesy" should be illegal.

[smitty]

Wonder how he got the job. I think I saw he had history as well.

[kennardjohnson]

This dude has a mental issue, and needs treatment in a county jail for a year.

[Art-phtu]

No, she's doing that because he's a fire chef. Any regular Joe, wouldn't be so lucky.

[tettazwo]

This guy doesn't seem to have what it takes to be on the public's payroll.

[garybowler]

Florida men all the way to the top. The state sucks.

[TheBonzomatic]

There's video of the incident. Why isn't that part of this story?

[kjack]

His wife is cheating on him so he takes it out on everybody else