Family jailed over baggy pants incident

Twenty deputies, two canine units and a police helicopter were summoned to a mall in Florida to arrest a family in a case that began with baggy jeans.

Frantz Leger, 20, of Wellington, and six members of his family, including his mother and father, were arrested at The Mall in Wellington Green.

Leger, a business major at Florida State University, was banned from the mall last summer for wearing his pants too low and his return Thursday prompted an arrest for trespassing.



The situation erupted into chaos when Leger's relatives tried to prevent his arrest and mall security called for help, said Lt. Jay Hart of the county sheriff's office.

"The mall doesn't put up with that tomfoolery bullcrap", Hart said. "His pants were down below his butt. No one goes to the mall and wants to see the crack of someone's butt."

Charges against the family members include trespassing, resisting an officer with violence, assault with intent to commit a felony and assault on a law enforcement officer. The Legers, who are of Haitian heritage, feel their race played a factor.