A wildly popular vigilante predator hunter has been busted in Florida for allegedly assaulting a suspected creep and forcing him to eat used cigarette butts. Jay Carnicom, a father of five with more than a million followers for his videos confronting apparent child sex predators, was busted by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office in Florida last week and charged with simple battery and felony extortion, jail records show. The arresting officer said he felt sympathy for the predator catcher’s aims — but said he took it too far, potentially also ruining chances for his prey to be prosecuted. A vigilante pedophile catcher allegedly assaulted a man predator and forced him to eat cigarette butts under the threat of calling police. Instagram / @ jaycarnicom33 “If I was a citizen of Clay County and I heard that we made an arrest on somebody who’s protecting kids, I’d be upset as well,” the sheriff’s office chief of investigations, Domenic Paniccia, told News4Jax .…