The Palm Beach Post

Gun gets wildlife worker arrested

Report: He admits to showing gun during I-95 road rage incident.

- By Matt Morgan Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Road rage

A Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservati­on Commission employee was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol after he displayed a gun to another driver on Interstate 95 and threatened to blow the man’s head off, according to an arrest report.

Jordan Little, 25, faces charges of aggravated assault and carrying a concealed weapon. Little was driving southbound on I-95 near Hypoluxo Road when he cut another driver off, the report said.

The driver of the other car flashed his lights at Little. When the other driver tried to pass, Little pointed a gun at him and said, “I will blow your head off, you (expletive),” the report said. The other driver called the FHP and followed Little to a residence in Boynton Beach.

Little admitted to showing his gun, but only because he

basketball courts seemed to collect the most votes. A wet playground, picnic pavilions and a rock-climbing wall were also popular.

The top selections won’t automatica­lly be included in the 12-acre park, which will go on a long rectangula­r strip of land on the west side of the 160-acre spring-training baseball complex that the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros hope to open in 2017.

But the ideas will help West Palm Beach recreation planners determine what will fit in the park, which the city will be responsibl­e for maintainin­g after it is built.

The baseball complex is just south of 45th Street between Military Trail and Haverhill Road. The public park’s entrance will be off Haverhill Road.

The park will be paid for by the Nationals and Astros, who offered to build it to help sweeten the deal they received during negotiatio­ns with Palm Beach County.

The county is earmarking $108 million in hotel tax revenue to help finance the $ 135 million baseball complex.

But the teams will use their own money — not the bed tax revenue — for the public park.

Team representa­tives declined to speculate on how much the park might cost until after the city comes up with a rough draft of a design.

The city has a May 1 deadline to present the new park’s features to the county, which will own the baseball complex and parkland.

“We would like to hear from the community on what they’d like to see there, then we will analyze and meet with city officials,” Nationals executive Art Fuccillo said when asked how much money the teams are willing to spend.

The park is on 7.8 acres. Another 4.2 acres on the south end of the

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