A $9 hat, $5 in quarters, $25 in ashtray change and baby Jesus
December 18th, 2007, 2:11 pm · Post a Comment · posted by Brady Calhoun
The Blotter is culled from Bay County Sheriff’s Office incident reports.
Dec. 16: A 30-year-old man went to jail for a $9 hat. The man entered a Panama City department store and took the hat and a pair of blue jeans to a dressing room. He left the dressing room and returned the jeans but not the hat. When police arrived he fled and hid under a truck. The man was found, arrested and searched, and the hat was recovered. Department store officials said they would be pursuing charges.
Dec. 17: A deputy pulled over a 22-year-old Youngstown cyclist at about 11:30 p.m. The man was dressed in all black and his bicycle did not have the proper reflectors, the deputy said. When the man lied about his identity and kept moving to the back of the vehicle, the deputy attempted to pat him man down.
The man threw a “sucker punch” that missed. The deputy did not miss when he punched the man in the forehead, sending him to the ground. The deputy arrested the man and charged him with giving false information to a law enforcement officer, carrying a concealed weapon, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, resisting an officer with violence and violation of probation.
The man apologized to the officer on the way to jail saying that he was trying to land a sucker punch so that he could run away.
Dec 17: Someone has kidnapped baby Jesus. A Panama City Beach man reported that the plastic baby Jesus that was part of his lawn decoration has been stolen. The other decorations were left alone, the man reported. Deputies have no suspects at this time.
Dec. 17: Someone pried the coin slot box out of a pool table at a local resort. The thieves used a screwdriver to remove the entire box from the pool table. The thieves made off with $5 in quarters. A search of the premises did not yield the box.
Dec. 17: A Panama City Beach man reported that while he was away for the weekend someone broke into his truck. The thieves broke the back sliding windows of the man’s camper to get into the bed of the truck. They then broke out the back window of the truck to get into the cab. The thieves made off with $25 worth of change that was in the ashtray of the truck.
