Deputy Fired For Going To Lunch Instead Instead Of Responding To 911 Emergency

A Lee County deputy is out of a job. He is accused of going to lunch instead of answering a call for help.

We first broke the story last month after the sheriff launched an internal affairs investigation in Deputy Yvan Fernandez.

On Wednesday we got a hold of that report. It lays out what happened on the day Gwen Minnis died.

Investigators say Minnis called 911. Instead of answering the call, Deputy Fernandez went to lunch. By the time he arrived, more than 50 minutes later, Minnis was lying in the grass unconscious.

[...]The report says Fernandez was having lunch with three other deputies at a pizza and wings restaurant at the time, and did acknowledge the call.