When the wife of a Florida man was allegedly struck as her husband attempted to hit her with a Pop Tart the authorities deemed it an act of criminal domestic violence.
36-year-old Brandon Sutherland is a disabled veteran who lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with his 29-year-old wife.
Around 10:00 pm on December 15, Sutherland and his spouse reportedly got into an argument that escalated to the point where the man allegedly became rather frustrated.
A Florida man allegedly left a young boy by himself on the side of the road near a police department after becoming convinced that the boy was gay.
On the evening of December 1, a person notified the authorities after they allegedly witnessed a man and a young boy inside a vehicle on the highway that runs in front of the Haines City Police Department. The witness alleged that the child got out of the car at the side of the road, as the driver made a U-turn and left the area and left the child without supervision.
The police department was closed at the time, and an officer found the child when he went to the location to investigate the report made by the concerned citizen.
A Jacksonville, Florida man has been accused of masturbating in a grocery store parking lot and attacking an elderly man who tried to get him to stop.
39-year-old Kerry Vandergriff was in the parking lot of the Miami Mexican grocery store Fresco Y Mas last Saturday afternoon when an elderly man allegedly saw him with his pants pulled down.
The man went up to Vandergriff and reportedly told him to cease his public sexual self-gratification and Vandergriff allegedly became upset by the request, issuing a punch to the senior citizen.
Just after 8:00 pm on November 22, a Largo resident was reportedly driving a truck at an estimated speed of 35-40 mph when his vehicle crashed into the back of a car that was idle behind another stopped vehicle.
From the strong impact of being rear-ended at that speed, the first car was lurched forward and smashed into the car in front of it.
A Florida man has been accused of causing his neighbors to fear for their lives after allegedly threatening them with a pellet gun.
On October 28, New Port Richey resident Derick Wade Tidwell allegedly pulled a pellet gun that operates with air-power on his neighbors and threatened to kill them, but they reportedly believed that the gun was a shotgun or rifle and that they were in serious danger. The 46-year-old allegedly told them, “I’m going to put you in the ground.”
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office intervened and placed Tidwell under arrest for the accusation, and he was transported to the Land O’Lakes Detention Center.
A pair from Clearwater, Florida, were arrested after they were pulled over for a traffic violation and allegedly found in possession of a kilo of meth inside a box of laundry detergent.
Around 2:30 pm on October 24, a Florida man and his female passenger were in a vehicle traveling down Interstate 10 when they were pulled over by Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputies for a possible violation of traffic laws.
When they approached the vehicle and made contact with the people inside, the deputies identified the driver as 35-year-old Ryan Davis from Clearwater.
Officers reportedly faced quite a challenge while trying to catch a slippery suspect who was allegedly naked, covered in Vaseline, and causing a scene in a Florida mall.
On Tuesday afternoon, the authorities were called to a mall in Southern Florida when a man was allegedly seen by patrons as he ran around, shiny and in the nude, yelling about his belief that Elizabeth Warren was trying to take all of his money through taxation.
Local officers dispatched to the shopping center and spotted the suspect, but when they tried to detain him they reportedly spent the next 45-minutes trying to get their hands on the man, who had allegedly covered his body with a liberal amount of Vaseline.
On Tuesday afternoon at the Target store in Pinellas Park, a man reportedly went to the section of the establishment where the stuffed animals are shelved.
The man allegedly proceeded to remove from the merchandise display a large stuffed unicorn, in addition to a plush snowman licensed by Disney in the image of Olaf from the movie Frozen.
A Florida man was arrested for allegedly stealing many inflatable pool toys over several months, presumably for his sexual pleasure.
During the past seven months, specific residents of Palm Bay reportedly found that their blow-up pool floats had disappeared on more than one occasion. Some of the screens at the homes were reportedly destroyed in order to gain access to the toys.
The authorities began to receive complaints, and over a dozen people reported the alleged thefts of their pool toys. The police posited that the suspect responsible had swiped a large amount of the inflatables based on the fact that most of the alleged victims did not log complaints until they had been stolen from a few times.
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