A man walked into Newbies on Panama City Beach and pretended to browse, Bay County Sheriff’’s Deputies wrote in an incident report. The man was caught on a surveilance video taking two bottles of Early Times Whiskey and walking out of the store. The suspect then ran away to a waiting vehicle that fled west down Front Beach Road. The case is under investigation.

FOUNTAIN - Bay County Sheriff investigators have arrested a suspect in a Saturday robbery at Roese’s Grocery in Fountain.
Lewis L. Spivey, 25, of 11822 Harrington Road, Fountain, was arrested Tuesday and charged yesterday armed robbery with a firearm, use of a firearm during the Commission of a felony, and aggravated assault with a firearm. A firearm matching the description of the one used in the robbery was recovered from Spivey’s house, investigators said in a news release. Spivey also matched the physical description of the robber provided by the victim in this case. Investigators said.

During an interview with Spivey, he admitted to investigators he committed the robbery, saying he had a methamphetamine addiction and used the money to purchase the drug, investigators said in a news release.

Bay County Sheriff’s deputies obtained a search warrant and went looking for drugs at a storage unit on Alf Coleman Road, deputies wrote in an incident report. The owner of the unit had already been arrested and charged with conspiracy to traffic in more than 25 pounds of marijuana in a seperate case, the report stated. Inside the storage unit deputies found a 5 gallon cooler that contained “a minute amount of marijuana residue.”

They also found 35 pirated porn DVDs. “All evidence in this case can be destructed,” deputies wrote. The suspect is being deported, they added.

A Callaway man was charged with theft and probation violation Saturday afternoon when he was caught lifting a Wrestlemania video, socks and shoes, according to a BCSO incident report.

The man was leaving K-mart when an alarm went of and the loss prevention manager asked him to return any items that belonged to the store. The man handed over a pair of socks, but again set off the alarm. A Wrestlemania video a movie and pair of sneakers were also found on the suspect. 

Once authorities arrived, the man explained, ”I stole this stuff because I have no money!” After admitting to being on probation for attempted burglary, the suspect was booked into Bay County Jail on probation violation and retail theft.

A Bay County Sheriff’s deputy reports that a Panama City Beach woman is missing 240 “Hydroscope” pills. A Google search turns up this possible answer, “The word hydroscope is used to mean any of several instruments related to water.”

However, we are not sure how that could translate to 240 pills of something. The News Herald is considering the possibility that the deputy meant Hydrocodone and misspelled it. But, if any of you have taken Hydroscope before please let us know in the comment section below.

A 22-year-old and a 56-year-old got into a 30 second fight on Happyville Road Wednesday, according to an incident report from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. The 56-year-old accused the 22-year-old of shooting cats with his BB gun but the 22-year-old denied it saying that he has a cat and would never do that, deputies wrote. After the fight ended a deputy caught up with both men and asked them if they wanted to press charges against each other. They both said no and apologized to each other while the deputy was finishing his paperwork on the incident.

If you are missing an ankle bracelet, a monitoring device or a convict you might want to call the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. A Callaway man found an ankle bracelet and a monitoring unit, but not the man those devices were attached to, in the woods near his house, deputies wrote in an incident report. The monitoring device reported that it used to be attached to an 18-year-old Callaway man, deputies wrote. Attempts to contact the suspects’ probation officer were not successful, deputies wrote.

A Fountain woman says her daughter’s boyfriend had threatened to kill her if she did not let him see her daughter. Surprisingly, the woman did not give in to that threat and instead called the Bay County Sheriff’s Office, deputies wrote in an incident report. The 19-year-old suspect has now been charged with making harrassing phone calls, deputies wrote.

Bay County Sheriff’s Office deputies were called to Discover Rental Purchase at 131 Tyndall Parkway on Monday and received a complaint that a woman had failed to return a plasma T.V. and two laptop computers she rented Oct. 1-2, valued at $8,409.60, according to a BCSO incident report.

After unsuccessful attempts to contact the woman and mailing her certified notice letters, the store filed a notice of retrieval of the property, the report said, and deputies were provided a sworn recorded statement.

It was eventually discovered the woman was at Bay County Jail for violation of probation, the report said. A complaint affidavit was taken to the jail, where a charge of failure to return rental property was added to the woman’s booking sheet.

A woman was driving drunk weaving across the road and even struck a guardrail while being followed by two good Samaritans, Friday night. The woman eventually got the vehicle into her garage and shut the garage door before law enforcement could confront her, according to an incident report from the Bay County Sheriff’s Office. When two deputies knocked on her door and asked her to come outside the woman told them to go away. When they persisted she threatened to shoot them, according to the report. The woman then disappeared into her bedroom and came back out with her hands behind her back as deputies watched through a window, according to the report.

The deputies commanded her to show them her hands at which time she showed them one hand and then pointed a gun at them. The deputies, “immediately took cover away from the window.”

With the help of the good Samaritans the deputies ran the woman’s license plate and discovered her identity.  However, a Lt. on scene advised the deputies not to pursue the woman any further. Instead, an arrest warrant for aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer has been issued and the suspect will now face much more than a hangover.