Fort Myers police arrest Hernando warrant suspect after repo threat

A Hernando County warrant brought Fort Myers police to the Cleveland Avenue corridor, where officers stopped Mitchell Anthony Vega, 32, on April 18 and found a firearm in his vehicle after investigators said he may have been headed into the city armed.

Vega was wanted in Hernando County on an aggravated assault with a firearm charge after allegedly threatening a repo driver while the worker was trying to tow his vehicle. That allegation started as a local dispute in Hernando County, but it turned into a multi-county search once police received information that Vega might be traveling toward Fort Myers and could be armed.

Fort Myers officers used that tip to look for Vega and ultimately located him in the city’s Cleveland Avenue corridor. The traffic stop ended without incident, a detail that matters in a case like this because it suggests officers were able to bring in a suspect tied to a firearm allegation without a confrontation on a public roadway. During an inventory search of the vehicle, police found a gun and collected it as evidence before Vega was taken to the Lee County jail.

The arrest gives Hernando County investigators a clearer path forward, but it does not erase the underlying case. The warrant remains tied to the alleged threat against the repo driver, and the next steps will move through the court system in Hernando County, where felony cases are handled in circuit court. For readers tracking the case from Spring Hill to Brooksville, the key question now is not whether Vega was found, but how the Hernando charge is formally processed after an out-of-county arrest.

Court records in Lee County can be searched through the Lee County Clerk of Court’s online inquiry system, although not every document is visible to the public. Hernando County also keeps criminal court records separate from booking and jail information through the Hernando County Clerk of Circuit Court & Comptroller and the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office, so the booking in Lee County will not tell the full story of the Hernando case. The Fort Myers Police Department’s Public Information Office handles media inquiries and records requests, which should help clarify the report, the evidence seizure and any further action as the case moves back toward Hernando County court.