And dumber than dumb ….. Man accused of bringing boy, 6, to drug deal June 18, 2013

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man who brought a six-year-old boy with him as he and a friend drove to a north Sarasota home to buy drugs.

Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a white pickup truck just after 10:00 p.m., Friday night. The vehicle had just left a residence at Dixie Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., and ran a stop sign as it left the area. When deputies approached the vehicle they found Fallon Miller, DOB 2/10/81 (driver, no permanent address), passenger Gregory Wagner, DOB 4/28/65, 3735 Aloha Drive, Sarasota, and the child sitting between them.

Deputies noticed Miller had put crack cocaine in her mouth in an attempt to conceal the drugs and after a short struggle the small white was collected as evidence. Miller admitted hiding a crack pipe beneath the child and acknowledged her driver’s license was suspended.

The area where the drug deal occurred has had a number of narcotics-related violent crimes recently and Wagner knowingly put the six-year-old child at risk. Wagner is charged with Child Abuse and being Principle to Possession of Cocaine. Miller is charged with Possession of Cocaine, Tampering with Evidence, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Driving While License is Suspended.

Deputies called a family member to take custody of the child and reported the incident to DCF. This is Wagner’s 17th arrest in Sarasota County and Miller’s 22nd local arrest.

Man tried smuggling coke into jail. You may ask how? Well he was using the old toe trick. Didn’t work. June 14, 2013

A man found with what he said was a bag of cocaine between his toes said the drugs did not belong to him, but the explanation evidently wasn’t enough to get a leg up on investigators, according to recently released arrest records.

Martin Perez, 33, made the statement after 2:20 a.m. June 2 after being taken to the St. Lucie County jail in Fort Pierce on an aggravated battery charge.

When Perez arrived, officials asked whether he had any drugs or weapons. He said he didn’t. Deputies, however, discovered a bag of white powder between his toes. Perez said it was cocaine, but said it wasn’t his.

Toes are the wiggly digits on human feet. Each foot has five toes, thus each person has 10 toes in total. Toes play a central role in a song/activity parents enjoy with young children known as “This Little Piggy,” in which toes are likened to pigs engaged in activities including going to market and eating roast beef.

Some women enjoy professional grooming services for their toes, a process known as a pedicure. A pedicure might be particularly appropriate for someone with excessive toe jam, a combination of dirt, fungus and yucky stuff found between toes.

Meanwhile, Perez said the bag of powder belonged to another person, though that person wasn’t named in affidavits.

 

In addition to the aggravated battery charge, Perez, of the 1900 block of Delaware Avenue in Fort Pierce, was arrested on charges including cocaine possession and smuggle contraband/introduce into detention facility.

Man exposed himself at park, desired oral sex from undercover officer June 13, 2013

On today’s date, 6/12/13, members of the Special Deployment Unit (SDU) were in Scott Springs Park, 2300 SW 24th Ave., in an undercover capacity. While there, one of the officers observed a white male subject, later identified as Larry Joe Dambach, DOB 7/3/45, with his pants down in an area where the various trails intersect.

Dambach pulled up his pants and suggested they go sit at a picnic table. Upon sitting down, Dambach pulled out a pipe to smoke marijuana – later field tested positive. He then asked the undercover officer why he was there. When the answer was “oral sex”, Dambach requested that the undercover officer meet him on one of the trails, over a hill. When the officer followed, he found Dambach exposing himself and confirming he wanted oral sex performed on him.

At that point, the officer identified himself as a law enforcement officer and placed Dambach under arrest. Dambach declined to speak with the officer any further. The officer noted that two vans of mentally handicapped persons were present in the park at the time of this incident.

Dambach was transported to the Marion County Jail an charged with one count of Exposure of Sexual Organs and one count of Possession of Marijuana.

Fishermen Find Twenty-Five Kilos of Floating Cocaine

 The Okaloosa County Multi-Agency Drug Task Force is investigating the recovery of 25 kilograms of cocaine recovered in area waters south of the Destin East Pass.

Five local fishermen observed a large bale/package floating in the water, retrieved it from the Gulf and pulled it into their vessel. When the fisherman saw that it contained numerous individually wrapped packages, they contacted law enforcement.

State and federal law enforcement officers responded to the scene. The fishermen provided statements and turned the bale over to authorities.

The Drug Task Force collected and processed the bale and determined that it contained 25 kilograms of cocaine.

Federal and state, air, water and land assets have responded to the scene, and this investigation is continuing.

The street value ($100/gram) is 2.5 million dollars.

The Drug Task Force is comprised of the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, Niceville Police Department, and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Florida couple arrested in grow house with 217 marijuana plants June 10, 2013

OSCEOLA  COUNTY, Fla. —Deputies in Osceola County arrested two people and charged  them with trafficking marijuana and manufacturing cannabis.

Officials said they began  the investigation on Friday when authorities smelled what appeared to be  marijuana near 600 Regency Way in Poinciana.

Deputies knocked on the  door and the resident, Misael Delgado-Sanchez, allowed the deputies in the house  where they discovered small marijuana plants, according to a new release.

Investigators said Sanchez  told deputies he was growing a few marijuana plants in the house.

After a search warrant was  obtained, authorities said they found about 217 plants in the home, some as tall  as 5 feet in height.

Based on the information  and evidence, Sanchez and his girlfriend, Gort Mailenis, were arrested and  booked into the Osceola County Jail.

The Osceola County  Investigative Bureau (OCIB) dismantled the grow house and took into evidence  approximately 217 plants and more than 30 lbs. of marijuana.

Woman accused of dealing rock cocaine near church has 59 past charges

The Sarasota Police Department has arrested and charged three people with felony selling of rock cocaine within 1000 feet of a church.

   

Allen Thomas, 45, of 32^nd Street, Sarasota and Sheila Hough, 63, of 32^nd Street, Sarasota and Dallas Phillips, 55, of 32^nd Street, Sarasota, were all arrested and charged last week.

 

Undercover Narcotics Officers say they’ve received numerous complaints concerning illegal narcotics being sold at 1156 32^nd Street in Sarasota.  In April and May, officers say they bought rock cocaine from Hough, Phillips and Thomas.

The transactions happened at or near 1156 32^nd Street, Sarasota, which is within 1000 feet of the First Haitian Baptist Church, located at 3200 Old Bradenton Road.

 

Hough has been arrested on 9 felony charges with 4 convictions, 23 misdemeanor charges with 12 convictions, 10 unknown level charges and 17 unknown dispositions with no incarcerations.

Doomsday prepper sentenced to 8 years in a bunker June 7, 2013

Search Warrants Produce One Arrest, 30 Firearms, Ammunition, Drugs and Cash

Arrested:

Jason Deon Thomas, 31, home address is 2200 37th Street North. Thomas is the owner of JT’s The Perfect Tattoo Shop located at 3001 34th Street North.

Thomas is a convicted felon. In 2001, he was charged with Armed Trafficking MDMA, Trafficking in Phenethylamines, Felony Possession of Marijuana and Possession of LSD. In 2012, he was charged with Possession of Marijuana over 20 grams.

Thomas was arrested this morning and transported to a federal booking facility in Tampa, Florida. Thomas has been charged federally and made his initial appearance in federal court this afternoon, in Tampa, before U.S. Magistrate Elizabeth Jenkins.

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The St. Petersburg Police Department’s Vice and Narcotics Unit and The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), conducted a joint investigation after receiving a tip about Jason Deon Thomas selling drugs.

During their investigation, detectives learned that Thomas sold drugs out of his home and possessed a large quantity of firearms.

On Thursday February 7, 2013 at about 10:45 a.m., the St. Petersburg Police Department’s SWAT Team conducted the search warrant at Thomas’s home while other investigators served the search warrant at Thomas’ business.

Thomas was arrested at his home without incident.

The search warrant at Thomas’ business only produced some boxes of ammunition. The search warrant at Thomas’ home produced 30 firearms, including one fully automatic rifle, two sawed-off shotguns, numerous assault weapons, semi-automatic rifles and various handguns.

Investigators also took possession of one suppressor, numerous C- magazines (each one holds one-hundred rounds of ammunition), several bullet resistant vests, one Kevlar body suit, including knee pads and bullet-resistant arm bands.

They also recovered bullet-resistant helmets and gas masks, numerous survival knives, bug out bags, survival books, and several large boxes of ammunition.

Investigators recovered 9.5 grams of powder cocaine, 216 grams of marijuana and $7,390.00 in cash from inside of the home.

Chief of Police Charles “Chuck” Harmon said, “This is a significant arrest that began with a tip from a concerned citizen.

This case clearly reinforces the notion that law enforcement needs the public’s support to get drug dealers and illegal firearms off the street.”

Investigators are still inventorying all of the seized items at this time.

UPDATE: 

TAMPA — An ex-con tattoo shop owner will spend the next eight years in prison for amassing a stockpile of weapons, a federal judge decided Tuesday.

Jason Deon Thomas, 32, of St. Petersburg told authorities who raided his home in February that he was preparing for the end of the world, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Earlier this year, someone tipped off authorities about Thomas, whom police said owned JT’s the Perfect Tattoo Shop at 3001 34th St. N. Records show he has previous convictions for dealing and selling drugs.

Officials confiscated 29 firearms, including a machine gun, six assault rifles, five shotguns and 17 handguns from his home. They also found more than $7,000 in cash, and marijuana, cocaine and prescription pills.

Thomas pleaded guilty in March to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and marijuana.

Police say woman tried to refill prescription for dead person June 5, 2013

FORT WALTON BEACH – When a pharmacist received a call to have a Lortab prescription refilled, he became suspicious and did some checking.

Sure enough, the person needing the prescription refilled had died in April.

The pharmacist called police.

They in turn arrested 29-year-old Aimee Nicole Stokes of Fort Walton Beach, who they say called the pharmacy at Winn-Dixie and pretended to be her mother, who had passed away earlier this year. The pharmacy staff say the caller said she’d lost her prescription bottle and asked them to look up her information. When their records indicated the woman had died, they called her doctor, who confirmed the death.

The pharmacist told the caller to come in and pick up the prescription. A Fort Walton Beach Police officer was waiting for her.

When he asked why she was trying to pick up a prescription for a dead person, Stokes said she didn’t know it was against the law and was trying to get the Lortab “in case someone got hurt,” the officer wrote in the arrest report.

She was charged with prescription fraud, a felony. Her court date is July 9.

Man with burnt lip from crack pipe falsely claimed to be carjack victim June 4, 2013

MARION COUNTY, FL (June 3, 2013) – John Christopher Dunneman, 41, of Morriston was arrested just before 6 p.m., Saturday, June 1, 2013 along West Highway 318 in Reddick. Dunneman wanted to file a report of being carjacked. Dunneman told deputies around 11 p.m., Friday, May 31, 2013, while he was driving, two men flagged him down. Dunneman told deputies he stopped to see if he could help. Dunneman said the two men jumped into his vehicle, pulled him out of the vehicle, punched him in the mouth and sped off.

The deputies asked a few more questions and soon learned that Dunneman had actually traded his vehicle to settle a crack cocaine debt. Dunneman had an injury to his mouth and was asked what happened. He stated that his “crack pipe got really hot and burnt his lip.” Dunneman made up the carjacking story as a way of getting his vehicle returned.

ARRESTED:    John Christopher Dunneman
D.O.B:               07/03/1971
CHARGES:      False Report of a Crime

Woman busted after claiming pain pill was her nipple June 2, 2013

The Delray Beach police officer saw something protruding from Tiana Nicole Calandro’s chest pocket.

So he asked the 21-year-old woman what it was, according to an arrest report.

“It’s my nipple,” she responded.

The officer begged to differ.

“I advised her I knew what a nipple looked like and that wasn’t a nipple,” he wrote in his report.

Calandro, of Bloomfield, N.J., “quickly reached into her pocket and removed a white round tablet and quickly consumed it,” the officer alleged.

The young woman then ignored orders to spit the pill back out, the report stated. The officer said he “attempted to the remove it with negative results.”

Calandro swallowed the pill, police said.

It was just after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 16200 block of South Military Trail. A Delray Beach police sergeant had just stopped an orange and black Dodge Challenger with Ohio plates.

Calandro, standing outside the Dodge, had allegedly been overheard “saying that she was in Delray Beach to buy narcotics, but hadn’t had any success.”

When the sergeant began talking to somebody else in the car, the other officer noticed the pill-like shape in Calandro’s front-left T-shirt pocket.

After she ate it, she told the officer it was a Dilaudid, according to the arrest report.

Dilaudid, also known as hydromorphone, is an opioid narcotic that is prescribed as a pain killer. According to a July 2012 Drug Enforcement Administration report, the abuse of Dilaudid “has been a continuing problem in the United States.”

Calandro was arrested on felony charges of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and tampering with or destroying evidence.

She was booked in at the Palm Beach County Jail at 5 p.m. Tuesday and remained there Wednesday in lieu of a $3,000 bond.