A Lake City community activist was arrested Saturday afternoon after interfering with a traffic stop.
Sylvester Warren, 42, was booked into the Columbia County Detention Center at 4:20 p.m. on the misdemeanor charge of obstruction without violence.
Greg Burnsed, a Lake City Police Department spokesman, said Warren came upon a traffic stop at the intersection of NE Escambia Street and North Marion Avenue earlier Saturday afternoon when he tried to "interject" himself into the situation.
Burnsed said officers told Warren he could "observe from over there. When he tried to interject himself again, he was arrested."
Warren, who speaks out regularly at public meetings and often is disruptive, was released at 7:14 p.m. after posting a $2,000 bond.
The driver who was pulled over, 49-year-old Tywan Henry, of Lake City, was also arrested, Burnsed said. Henry was charged with cocaine possession and booked into the jail at 2:20 p.m. Henry, who Burnsed said was pulled over for an inoperable taillight, was released at 7:33 p.m. after posting a $5,000 bond.