A Chipley man used the threat of a gun in order to steal a Playstation 3, Panama City Police investigators said in a news release.  Joshua O. Voyles, 26, said he was going to buy the toy and got a Target clerk to remove the game system from a locked cabinet. But after she removed it he said he had no money but he did have a gun, investigators said in a Friday news release. The clerk called for assistance and Voyles fled the store without the game system. Investigators said they found him a short time later in possession of crack cocaine.
He was charged with attempted robbery, possession of crack cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Anyone with information about this case is asked to contact the Panama City Police Department at (850) 872-3100 or Crimestoppers at (850) 785-Tips.

A Panama City woman told Bay County Sheriff’s deputies that several items had been stolen from her home. The woman named her ex-boyfriend as the most likely suspect, deputies wrote in an incident report. The thief took a DVD player, 20 DVDs and a box set of four adult movies, the woman said. She added that the boyfriend keeps driving past her place of work. The victim works at a gas station.

Four men with baseball bats showed up at a Callaway home Tuesday. They were not looking for nine innings of fun, Bay County Sheriff’s deputies wrote in an incident report. Instead, they harassed a Panama City man as he sat in his car. The man was visiting his current girlfriend, who is the former girlfriend of one of the baseball bat boys.

The men tried to get the victim to leave his vehicle but he would not so they did their practice swings on the car. The man drove away and was unharmed. Two of the men, who are both active duty in the Air Force, were arrested, deputies wrote.

A Southport man was leaving notes and other information in the night drop box of a local credit union. On a recent outing the man left money in the drop box, Bay County Sheriff’s deputies said in an incident report. The man does not have an account at the credit union. Deputies returned the money to the man and told him not to leave anything else in the drop box.

Deputies scurry to assist Animal Control with a trailer load of rats.

On arrival, they find “hundreds of rats in wooden and glass cages” on a utility trailer sitting in a front yard. Several of the rats are dead, presumably due to the heat.

About 20 minutes later, a man comes out of the residence and moves the trailer, rats and all, to the back of the house.

Authorities “made contact with the man and asked him why he had all the rats,” the report stated. “He stated that he got them from a friend, who was unable to care for them.”

He said he got the rats home about 4:30 a.m. and his alarm failed to wake him.

A deputy investigating a report of suspicious vehicles becomes more suspicious when another vehicle arrives and acts suspiciously.

Deputies are out with the first suspicious vehicle when a truck rolls up and sits in the street rather than going around.

“Lt. Ashman asked the driver what was going on,” the deputy wrote. “The driver … stated, ‘I’m  just driving around on non-county maintained roads.’ “

The first deputy recalls that he arrested the man for driving with a suspended license two weeks earlier. The man said he was told he could drive a four-wheeler on non-county maintained roads, “and he figured it applied to vehicles also.”

It did not.

“Lt. Ashman asked the driver what was going on,” the deputy wrote. “

A Cedar Grove woman met a homeless man at her work and gave him a ride to a vacant house, Bay County Sheriff’s deputies wrote in an incident report.

The man then stole a bicycle from the neighborhood and used it to go to the woman’s home at about midnight. The man asked if he could stay the night with her and she said yes. However, she told him to get rid of the stolen bicycle. When she awoke the next morning she was missing $50, the driver’s side of her car seat had been moved and her gas tank was low.

The woman told deputies she suspected the homeless person had taken the car for the night and returned it the next morning without her permission or knowledge.

Deputies found the stolen bicycle but have been unable to locate the bike owner or the homeless man.

A fight erupts over pizza leftovers.

A man, upset that his girlfriend’s friend ate his leftover pizza, punches the refrigerator and demands the return of the “dolphin-shaped pipe” he previously gave his girlfriend.

The woman declined, saying it was a gift, and instead “removed a Marilyn Monroe picture from the wall and told him he could have that gift back if he wanted it.”

The man stomped the picture, breaking the glass, and in the ensuing scuffle the woman cut her arm. The man is arrested for battery.

A Bay County Sheriff’s deputy pulled over a speeding car on US 231 and noticed several suspicious  incidents. Someone threw a small white object out of the vehicle after the deputy pulled in behind the car, the deputy wrote in an incident report. Also, the vehicle’s license plate did not match up with the vehicle. Then the deputy noticed the strong smell of marijuana coming from the vehicle.

The deputy searched the passenger of the car and found a plastic bag with Cannabis and a “drug smoking pipe” inside the man’s right shoe.  He was arrested on drug charges. The driver was arrested for driving with a suspended license and without the proper insurance and registration, the deputy wrote in an incident report.

A Callaway resident is going to be super mad when he gets back home. Not only is he being evicted but the landlord cleaned out his apartment and discovered the man’s drug stash, according to an incident report from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. The landlord called deputies and turned the drug pipes and “other drug paraphernalia” over to them. The items were collected and turned over to evidence control where they will be destroyed, deputies wrote.