The Blotter is intended to show that there is more to policing than many realize, and is based on reports from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.Nov. 26: A Lynn Haven man let a friend stay at his house until he could get back on his feet. The friend got back on his feet by stealing $1,700 from the man’s wallet. The friend is currently in jail on an unrelated charge. Deputies are still investigating.

Nov. 26: A Callaway woman let a friend with a history of drug and alcohol problems borrow her vehicle. Surprise! The woman never came back. The friend was supposed to visit someone and then return. Deputies searched for the friend but came couldn’t find her. The vehicle is still missing.

Nov. 26: A deputy pulled over a mother and her daughter after watching the mother drive recklessly on Front Beach Road. The mother was drunk, though not drunk enough to arrest and the deputy said she could call someone to come pick her up. However, the deputy also requested and received permission to search the vehicle. He found a baggie of marijuana in a purse that held identification for both women. Both women claimed ownership of the purse and the pot. Deputies took them at their word and arrested both of them. After realizing they were both going to jail the woman’s daughter confessed. It was her mother’s pot, she said.

The Blotter is intended to show that there is more to policing than many realize, and is based on reports from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.

Nov. 20: A 49-year-old Panama City Beach man allowed a 27-year-old woman whom he had known for only two weeks to borrow his truck. The woman was supposed to take it for only a few minutes to go to the store. Surprise! She never returned. The man did get an identification card from the woman before she took off in his truck. However, when deputies went to the residence listed on her card, they found she no longer lived there.

Nov. 20: A Fountain man made $60 but now is facing burglary charges, and we doubt the pawn shop he used will ever buy from him again. Deputies said the man was caught on videotape during a burglary - twice. First, when he stole a high-pressure washer off the back of a trailer in the parking lot of a shopping center. He was seen again selling the washer at a pawn shop for $60. He was not seen at his home when the cops arrived but a warrant is now out for his arrest.

Nov. 19: The deputies did as they were told. During a traffic stop, a female passenger refused to comply with several requests made by deputies. The woman stepped out of a vehicle and would not return when ordered by officers. The woman kept moving to the back of the vehicle even as a deputy ordered her to get back into the van. When she reached the back of the van the woman said, “Put me in jail.”
Deputies put her in jail. She was charged with resisting an officer without violence.

Nov. 19: If you left a T-shirt, a pillow case, a pack of Marlboro’s, a bottle of wild grape-flavored Smirnoff and brochure in front of a Bayou George store, you can pick your items up at the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. You might have some explaining to do though; the T-shirt and pillowcase are covered in blood.

Nov. 19: Respect your elders even when they threaten to spray you with water and videotape you at work.
A 57-year-old woman, unhappy that a lift station is being built near her Panama City Beach home, got into a verbal disagreement with construction workers. The woman used a ladder to take pictures of them men and used a garden hose to spray a previous crew down. A member of Monday’s crew told the woman that if she hit him with water, he was going to wrap the hose around her neck. No water was sprayed, but deputies were called.
The deputies decided that no serious threat was made and no one was arrested. However, the information was forwarded to the State Attorney’s Office.

The Blotter is intended to show that there is more to policing than many realize, and is based on reports from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.

Nov. 19: A woman traveling south in the northbound lanes of State 77 nearly ran over a Bay County Sheriff’s deputy. The deputy had to take “evasive action” to avoid getting hit. She then began to pursue the woman. After about a mile and a half the woman finally pulled over near Southport Elementary School.
As the deputy approached she noted the distinct smell of alcohol emanating from the woman’s vehicle. The woman asked the deputy why she had pulled her over and the deputy informed the woman that she been traveling the wrong way on State 77.
“Well, I’m not from around here,” the woman replied. “I don’t know which way these roads go.”
The woman was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of alcohol by someone under 21. The woman told deputies that she lives in Chipley.

Nov. 19: There was probably no tip either.
An all night restaurant in Callaway is prepared to prosecute over a $6.49 bill. A “heavy set” woman with long, hair extensions ordered two waffles and a piece of ham. After she “consumed the food” the woman left the restaurant without paying. If deputies find the woman restaurant officials say they are prepared to go to court.

Nov. 19: A woman said her husband was abusing her but it just turned out to be a cold sore.
The woman told a deputy that she her husband had slapped her in the face and busted her lip. But when a deputy examined the wound it turned out to be a cold sore. The woman also said she had been pushed into a coffee table by her husband causing a bruise on her leg. The deputy examined that bruise but it was not consistent with the woman’s story about how she hit the coffee table. The woman also had a broken toe but could not tell deputies how it happened. The woman’s landlord doubted that any domestic violence occurred and said that when the woman is drunk, she frequently falls down.

Nov 18: A deputy observed a driver going the wrong way on Tyndall Parkway. The driver was leaving a pharmacy and attempted to drive over a concrete median. The deputy turned on her lights and sirens and directed traffic around the driver.
When the driver got back to the parking lot he stepped out of his vehicle.
“At which time I noticed that (he) had urinated on himself,” the deputy wrote in an incident report. “I could see that the front of both legs all the way down to his feet were wet.”
The man did not have a driver’s license. The man was arrested because he did not have a license and for driving under the influence.

The Blotter is intended to show that there is more to policing than many realize, and is based on reports from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. 

Nov. 16: A man reports that a woman at a bar  “asked him to come party with her group. He stated that he told her no, and that she grabbed his gold necklace and stated that she liked it.” The man reports the woman ran past her “group,” shouting, “I got it, let’s go,” and ran into the oparking lot. The  man caught her in the parking lot, where she punched him in the face. Twice. “He then lost sight of her,” the deputy reported.

 Nov. 16: Deputies are dispatched to a disturbance, and upon arrival find what appears to be a wreck with multiple vehicles parked along the road and one person laying in the road and another in a ditch.  Female No. 1, blood in her hair, says she was hit in the head by another girl armed with a crutch. She said it started with a fight between guys until “one girl hit one of the males.” Female number 1 asked the second woman why she hit the man, and the second female “pushed (female No. 1) in the forehead. (She) tried to defend herself … and was struck once in the head with a crutch …”

It did not get any simpler from there. In the end, it was turned over to the teens’ parents, who “expressed the desire to deal with their childrens’ activities at home.”

 Nov. 16: A store clerk reports that two men in an older model Honda Acura did more than run out with a measly six-pack of beer. He said one distracted him by talking while the other left with a “five-liter keg of Henieken Beer.” The clerk “made contact” with the man in the parking lot, and the “suspect returned the keg.”  Unfortunately, the clerk discovered another keg missing, and suspects the men already had one in the car before he caught on.

Nov. 16: The Dollar General store clerk knows what is suspicous and what is normal, and there was something going on with the woman with the dolphin.

“He stated that what caught his eye about (suspect) is she had a cart full of stuff, but was keeping a plastic dolpin in her hand.” Sure enough, the woman left the store with the dolpin stuffed in her purse. She was detained and warned.

Nov. 17: A woman walks outside of her home “to smoke a cigarette and observed her vehicle was on fire.” The deputy notes that the vehicle is smoking and the passenger’s seat is destroyed.

Nov. 17: A woman reports her ex-boyfriend showed up at her house “beating on the door and asking for money.” He is gone when deputies arrive, and the woman is told to call again if he returns. He does, and she does.

“When I turned onto (the) street I observed a cloud of dust from the parking area” at the residence. The deputy sees the vehicle, with no tag, pull into a store, and the suspect gets out.

“When (he) saw me, he placed his hands behind his back and stated, ‘You got me.’ He then stated, ‘Did you see me leave (her) house?’ I told him no, but I saw the dust.” The man told the deputy he was “just trying to drown his troubles in alcohol,” and did not have a driver’s license. He is arrested.