Because of the sheriff's posts, David Gay lost a job and suffered emotional distress, according to the lawsuit seeking more than $50,000 in damages. " Gay was involved in the court system for an undisclosed offense and was sentenced in November 2020 to three years of probation for a withhold of adjudication, a special sentence in which a defendant is not formally convicted of an offense, the lawsuit said. However, while Gay was in jail for the violation of probation arrest, Ivey said in a "Wheel of Fugitive" video that Gay was a fugitive, when in reality he was already in the Brevard County Jail, according to the lawsuit