S. Brady Calhoun

The News Herald

A man is renting a room from his ex-girlfriend in her home. After a night on the town the man called the ex-girlfriend and asked for a ride home, she refused. Then things got complicated, Bay County Sheriff’s Deputies wrote in an incident report. The man called deputies and claimed he had been stabbed by his ex and showed them the wound and the bloody knife. The deputies wake up the ex who is surprised to find them in her home.

She tells them he is making the stabbing story up. After examining the knife closer deputies determine that the amount of blood seems to indicate that someone held the knife to the wound in order to get more blood on it. The man was intoxicated and kept changing his story, deputies wrote.  Deputies decide that the man cannot complete a statement because he is too drunk and drop the matter without arresting anyone.

A Callaway man keeps going to the party even when he isn’t invited. A woman told Bay County Sheriff’s deputies that the man keeps kicking her door in and coming in uninvited. He has been thrown out of her house by her guests several times. In the most recent incident the man knocked a beer out of another man’s hands and called him a racial slur. During the course of the investigation the man, who was quite intoxicated, told deputies that he did not kick the door in he just pushed it very hard.

The man was charged with trespassing and resisting and officer without violence.

A transient broke into a church and attempted to steal a coin-filled offering bucket, Panama City Beach Police officials said in a Saturday news release.
Police said a witness heard the sound of glass breaking and saw the lights on inside Cornerstone Family Fellowship Church in Panama City. The witness then watched as Larry Henderson, 43, exited the church and headed southbound on Grace Ave. Henderson was captured and found to be in possession of the church’s offering bucket.
He was charged with burglary of a structure.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact either the Panama City Police Department at 872-3100 or Crime Stoppers at 785-TIPS(8477).

Bad idea: Boating under the influence.

Worse idea: Thinking that you can confuse an officer by growling or falling off a dock.

According to a news release from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Officer David Erdman was refueling his patrol boat at a local marina when he observed a rental pontoon boat violate the idle speed zone in Grand Lagoon. Attempts to conduct a vessel stop were ignored by the operator, who proceeded to a boat ramp. Upon arrival at the ramp, Erdman attempted to gain the operator’s attention.

The operator and two other male occupants quickly confronted Officer Erdman with “a verbal barrage” and ”growls and hollering,” according to the report. They ignored all requests to provide identification and vessel documentation. A female occupant attempted to exit the vessel with her 3-year-old child.

Erdman summoned backup as he began what he now believed was a boating under the influence (BUI) investigation. He first ensured the woman and child were safe and then returned his attention to the boat operator.

This is when the two other male passengers tried to interfere — by falling overboard and off of the dock.

Bay County Sheriff’s Lt. Jay Chesser and Officers Neal Goss and Nick Price arrived to assist. “Once order was brought to the scene,” the report said, Erdman was able to continue his investigation. End result: arrests for boating under the influence with a minor present, interference with an officer, an active warrant out of Kentucky, and providing false information to law enforcement.

Some people take pens and staplers from work, police say Marisol Monroe-Garcia took $30,000.

But she planned to pay it back.

This is for those that missed it the first time around. The full story was in Sunday’s paper.

By S. Brady Calhoun

CALLAWAY

A Cedar Grove woman who admitted stealing more than $30,000 from her employer said she would pay it back, authorities said.

Bay County Sheriff’s investigators said Marisol Monroe-Garcia, 43, of 2511 Cedar Lane, used the money she stole from a hair salon to buy a car, go on a cruise and play bingo. Deputies charged her with grand theft of more than $30,000. She was arrested Thursday and released Friday on pretrial release.

According to an incident report from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, Monroe-Garcia was the manager of Cuts By Us on Tyndall Parkway in Callaway. She stole money from the business between October and December 2007, Deputy Luther Burnham said in a Sheriff’s Office incident report. The incident report said Monroe-Garcia “rolled the money,” basically stealing a deposit and then replacing it with a later deposit.

When her boss confronted her, Monroe-Garcia wrote a confession and said she would pay the money back with monthly installments of $500 and give up her vacation pay for 2008, according to the report. But instead of agreeing to the payments, the owner called the Sheriff’s Office.

Everyday I check the comments to see what you think about these crazy criminals in the blotter. And everyday I see only spam. Help me out dear readers. What do you think?

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. 27: A Panama City man invited a woman he barely knew to his home. Some time later, he dropped her off at a drug dealer’s house. The man then discovered that the woman had stolen some of his credit cards. The man informed deputies the woman was a “crack head.” Deputies registered his complaint against the woman and advised him to cancel the stolen credit cards.

Nov. 27: Maybe he likes arcades? Thieves took items from the back of a Panama City man’s truck. The man works in the lawn-care business. The thieves made off with a gas trimmer and a leaf blower valued at about $570. They also took $10 in quarters from his front seat.

Nov. 27: A Lynn Haven man is a victim of a computer crime. Someone changed the password on his account, preventing him from using it. The criminals then sent out e-mails to his contacts saying that he is stranded in Africa and needs them to send money to him quick. The man needed a police report in order to get the e-mail service to change his password back.

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.