Deputies responded to a call of a stalking Friday evening and were met by a 23-year-old Springfield woman who said an acquaintance of her boyfriend had been following her.

According to a Bay County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the 47-year-old man had made a habit of calling and dropping by her home when her boyfriend was out. The man also dropped by when the woman was at a Panama City bar with girlfriends.

Earlier in the week, the man came over to the woman’s home with a gift: a pair of pink panties. “This scared her,” the report said. 

The woman’s boyfriend knew where the man lives and deputies made contact with him, informing him he is to stay away from the woman and instructing him not to attempt to contact her.

A Bay County Sheriff’s deputy stopped two kids dressed in dark clothing walking along a road in Southport earlier this week. When the deputy asked one of the kids where they were going he said he was walking his friend home. When he asked the other boy where he lived the boy, “Stated he didn’t know,” the deputy wrote in an incident report. The juvenile also said he did not know his house address, street name or how long he had lived there. He did say the house was two streets over.

The deputy told the boys he would give them a ride to their home. Before the ride he asked them if they had any weapons. One of the boys lifted his shirt, produced a BB Gun and handed it to the deputy. The boy said he didn’t have any other weapons but the deputy patted him down and found a five inche knife in the kid’s pocket. The other kid had an eight inch knife in a holster.

The boys said they lived on Holland Road and the deputy drove them there but when he escorted them to the door they confessed that they had lied again and that they actually lived on Hubbard Road. The deputy then took them home and told their parents what had happened. The parents said they thought the boys were sleeping.

Although the deputy thought the boys were acting suspicious he could not prove they had committed a crime and returned them to the custody of their parents.

CALLAWAY - A man charged Wednesday with unlawful sexual activity with a minor told authorities he had no idea that sort of thing was illegal.

His arrest was the result of a recent investigation by the Bay County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and the Department of Children and Families (DCF), according to a news releas. DCF contacted BCSO investigators after receiving a complaint on Jamey Lee Hudson, 36, of Dogwood Way in Callaway.

Hudson allegedly had a sexual relationship with a juvenile, the release said. The victim told authorities that she and Hudson had been involved sexually for about one year. During his interview, Hudson told investigators he was not aware that a person under the age of 18 could not legally give consent.

Hudson was arrested and taken to the Bay County Jail.

A Panama City woman pre-paid $42.38 for 20 gallons of gas at a local convenience store but the woman only needed $25.37 worth of fuel. When she went back into the store to get her change the clerk told her he couldn’t refund the money because a manager wasn’t around, Bay County Sheriff’s deputies wrote in an incident report. The manager was not around the next day either when the woman again tried to get her change. Deputies told her that if she could not successfully contact the manager to get her change she would have to sue the store because no crime had been committed. The manager was supposed to be working the next day, starting at 4 a.m. but it was unclear from the report if the woman ever got her money back.

Daniel Russell of Fountain did not like it when a neighbor told him it would be a couple of days before he could work on Russell’s 1993 Red Dodge Ram. So, the 59-year-old set the truck on fire, investigators with the Bay County Sheriff’s Office said in an incident report.

Russell’s neighbor told him he would fix the truck but that was not good enough, the neighbor told investigators. Russell began yelling and cursing at him and the neighbor rode away on his horse, the incident report stated. A short time later the neighbor watched as Russell poured something on the truck. Then watched the truck “suddenly light up on fire.”

The truck eventually exploded.

Investigators questioned Russell about the fire but he was “highly intoxicated” and his speach was slurred. Russell was charged with arson and he was released on his own recognizance.

Deputies with the Bay County Sheriff’s Office found lost property in one of their own cruisers Monday, according to an incident report. It was a sock containing marijuana.

It was unclear who the sock belonged to so the marijuana was scheduled to be destroyed.

Authorities responded to an altercation early Wednesday after a 37-year-old Panama City man allegedly drew a weapon on a man sleeping with his wife.

According to a Bay County incident report, the man returned from a year and a-half of military service overseas and found his 32-year-old wife in bed with a naked 22-year-old man.

The wife of the man told deputies she woke to found her husband yelling. She said her husband retrieved a 9mm hand gun from the closet and tried to point the gun at her lover, but she prevented him from doing so by wrestling for the gun while the younger man fled.

Neither the man’s wife or her lover wished to pursue charges, the report said, and both refused to cooperate further with the investigation.

Criminal complaints of aggravated assault against the husband will be sent to the State Attorney’s Office for review, the report said, and the man’s 9mm handgun was secured as evidence.