ORLANDO, FL — The Spectrum News 13 Watchdog Team has been investigating a prior arrest involving murder suspect Keith Moses, pushing for clarity on the incident.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office and State Attorney’s office have both been under scrutiny due to questions surrounding a past traffic stop and arrest.

The Watchdog team asked Sheriff John Mina about the absence of charges related to the stolen gun in the Keith Moses traffic stop just over a year ago.

Although Moses was arrested, he was ultimately released without any gun charges or criminal case for drug possession.

Sheriff Mina explained that the lack of charges related to the stolen gun was due to the difficulty in pinpointing who had the gun, as there were three people in the car.

Moses was charged with drug possession and drug paraphernalia, while the other two men faced similar charges. However, the deputies charged no one with possessing the stolen gun thrown from the car.

Despite this, Sheriff Mina stated that the case should have warranted a closer look by prosecutors due to the totality of the circumstances.

He noted that ski masks were found in the car, along with a gun and marijuana on Keith Moses, who had a significant history.

Sheriff Mina expressed that he would have "preferred the case move forward with prosecution."

However, Orange County deputies never filed gun charges. 

In an arrest report, one deputy wrote that they would be authoring DNA warrants for all three subjects to compare against the recovered firearm and any other articles that could contain DNA, but that testing was never done.

A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told Spectrum News in writing that, “it does not appear the DNA warrants were obtained by the patrol deputy who wrote that initial report and arrest affidavit.”

They further called it a "misstep" in the investigation.

The Sheriff’s Office explained ATF did test-fire that weapon in August of last year to see if they used it in other crimes. Right now, no test results are available.

Meantime, State Attorney Monique Worrell said they could not move forward solely on the drug charges.

“In order for us to prove possession of marijuana, we would have had to have testing of the substance that was alleged to be marijuana that we could present to a jury that this it was, in fact, marijuana," she said.

"Because the Florida Department of Law Enforcement does not test amounts under 20 grams. We could not meet our burden of proving that case beyond a reasonable doubt therefore, the case was not suitable for prosecution.”