FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Adam Frank Cypress, a Seminole Tribe reservation resident who recently celebrated his 23rd birthday and has an arrest record in Broward and Miami-Dade, got in trouble again.
When he was 18, police officers arrested him for battery. Prosecutors dropped the case. When he was 20, he was arrested three times. At 21, officers found a stolen Taurus G3C 9 mm handgun and accused Cypress of waving it around.
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At 22, a brutal fight with his biological brother prompted Seminole Police Department officers to arrest him again at the tribe’s Hollywood Reservation. Allegations of violence and a weapon were part of this case too.
“Adam pointed an AR-15 rifle at him after they stopped fighting,” Officer Elonzo Walker wrote in the arrest report.
Seminole police officers arrested Cypress again on Saturday — while he was on probation for an old third-degree felony grand theft auto case in Broward County.
On Sunday, Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies held him at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale, and Broward prosecutors filed a felony case against him for third-degree grand theft. Records show the item Cypress allegedly stole at the tribe’s reservation was valued at over $750 and less than $5,000.
Cypress was also facing a charge of disorderly conduct. A judge set his bond for the grand theft and disorderly conduct charges at $15,000 but denied his bond on a probation violation.
According to the Florida Department of Corrections, Cypress was sentenced on April 10 to a 12-month probation for the 2021 case of grand theft auto. The probation was set to end on April 10, 2025, just five days before his 24th birthday.
Gary Bitner, a spokesperson for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, said Sunday afternoon that Cypress did not meet the requirement of at least one-quarter Seminole blood to be a tribe member, so he was treated as a reservation resident.
Broward County Circuit Judge Gary M. Farmer, Jr. was set to preside over the new case.