Man arrested at Disney resort after refusing a temperature check – 'I spent $15K,' he said
A tourist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana was arrested Sunday at Disney Springs in Florida after he refused to submit to the temperature screening. He told police he shouldn’t have to leave the park because he'd spent $15,000 on his vacation, and at one point he claimed to be a Disney stockholder.
Kelly Sills refused to get his temperature checked when asked by Disney employees, according to a report from the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
"I spent $15,000 to come here," Sills said after a deputy told him that he was officially considered to be trespassing. Deputies and a security manager at Disney Springs had approached Sills outside the Boathouse restaurant, according to the police report.
Body camera surveillance video shows Sills refusing to leave the theme park.
A woman could be heard asking officers not to arrest Sills in the video.
"He's not listening," a man responded. "All he had to do was get temperature-checked. That's it."
At another point in the video, Sills asked whether authorities could take his temperature before forcing him to leave. Someone responded that they would do so at the jail, according to NBC affiliate WFLA of Tampa.
