Florida hospital employee wanted for public nudity caught with loaded guns at workplace

VERO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — An employee at the Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital (CCIRH) who was being arrested for a different crime was accused of having two loaded firearms on the facility's campus.

According to the arrest report, Christopher Webb, 54, was arrested on March 7 while sitting at the hallway desk in front of an ER room at the hospital. Upon the deputies' arrival, they asked Webb to confirm his identity and told him that they had a warrant for his arrest which was for a different crime. Neighbors had accused Webb of walking around his neighborhood naked.

According to an arrest report, Webb was booked on a count of exposing himself.

However, there is a second arrest report. Because, as deputies arrested him, they realized they had a bigger problem at hand.

Indian River County deputies stated in the arrest report when asked why he violated the hospital's no gun policy, he said it was due to CCIRH being a mental health receiving facility, where psychiatric patients regularly visit psychiatrists.

Body cam shows a deputy approaching Webb, who's dressed in light blue scrubs, and asking for his name before they ask him to step outside.

"What did I do wrong?" Webb asked when the deputy instructed him to place his hands behind his back.

After a physical search, deputies found a pocket knife in the pocket of his shirt. The report says, deputies then placed him in a patrol vehicle, as Webb's supervisor approached with a beige-colored assault tactical-style backpack. The report continues that Webb confirmed that the backpack was his.

Deputies asked him where the firearm was. He responded stating he took the firearm out of the backpack but ammunition was still in there, video shows.

In the video, the sheriff's office asked him if they searched his bag are they going to find a firearm.

"If there's a firearm in there it would've been with the magazine," Webb responded.

Deputies asked him again if there was a firearm in the bag, video shows.

"There shouldn't be a firearm in that bag," he said.

Video showed deputies searched the bag and found two black firearms, loaded with ammunition, ten additional loaded magazines, three full boxes of ammunition and a magazine ammunition speed loader.

Webb told deputies he has been employed with CCIRH for nine and a half years and that he knowingly violated the policy, the report states.

He was taken to Indian River County Jail and charged with bringing a firearm into a mental health facility.