Cops: Gun-toting HOA officer threatened residents watching fireworks (Guess the state...)

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

My girlfriends parents lived in this complex for about a year while they worked on a project at Disney's Animal Kingdom, her dad sent me this.

A resident watching fireworks explode late Thursday over The Hamptons at MetroWest on Turkey Lake said she feared for her life when a man carrying what looked like a machine gun ordered her to leave, according to Orlando police.

The heavily armed man turned out to be Swapna Mandavia's neighbor with the title of "chairman of the fine and hearing violations" committee for the west Orlando complex's homeowners association.

"The suspect, later identified as Howard Fox, approached her and told her to leave because it was after hours," according to an arrest report released Friday. "Mandavia began to leave the pier when Fox raised the gun and pointed it at Mandavia and said she was doing something illegal." Another resident with two children then complained about a stranger openly carrying firearms. That's when Mandavia, 36, noticed that Fox, 47, was pointing the gun at her again, and she called 911 for help, the report stated.

The first officers to reach the 776-unit complex found Fox at home, where he said property managers gave him permission to enforce HOA rules. He also said he walked the grounds at night to hunt small animals with a 9mm pistol on his belt and a .40-caliber Glock short-barrel rifle over his shoulder, the report stated.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2013-07-05/news/os-gun-hoa-threaten-resident-20130705_1_orlando-police-howard-fox-gun-safe

Here is a different link with a video, which if you didn't know any better you would think was about George Zimmerman.
http://www.clickorlando.com/news/hoa-officer-arrested-after-armed-confrontation-with-woman/-/1637132/20859484/-/b9lkiw/-/index.html

[Thinkingabout]

1. Wow, i have participated in neighborhood watch for several years and have only armed

Myself with a cell phone. I have never followed someone and pulled a weapon out.