A Gainesville man was arrested Wednesday morning following an investigation into several gang recruitment videos posted on YouTube.
A joint force of Alachua County Sheriff's officers and city police carried out a search warrant at 4401 NW 21st St. at 9 a.m., according to Gainesville Police spokesman Lt. Keith Kameg.
Naymontie Enoch, 18, was charged with four counts of soliciting or recruiting gang membership and four counts of electronic communication promoting gang interests. Both are third degree felonies.
Enoch's bail was set at $200,000.
A recent Florida law raised gang recruitment to a felony offense. This arrest is one of the first under the new law.
On Aug. 25, authorities learned of online videos showing Enoch with bags of marijuana and threatening others not to mess with his gang, the East Coast 725 Out West Piru Bloods.
The loading of automatic weapons is also audible, Kameg said.
Enoch was sleeping at the time of the search and did not resist arrest.
Police did not find guns or drugs but found evidence of gang recruitment, he said.
Enoch's previous record includes 23 felony counts and 11 misdemeanors.
"He has been a thorn in the side of the city since he was a child," Kameg said. "He had been skating by as a juvenile, but now as an adult it will be different."
The house sits a few blocks away from C.W. Norton Elementary School.
Kameg said boys between 12 and 14 years old frequently hung out at the house, and the neighbors thanked police for taking action.
"If you are dumb enough to put it on the Internet, then we are smart enough to arrest you for it," Kameg said.
