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Century Man Charged With Drug Possession, Battery On Deputy
June 19, 2012
A Century man is facing multiple charges including drug possession and battery on a police officer after an incident Friday night in Century.
Escambia County deputies reported that they were on patrol near Pond Street and Jefferson Avenue when they observed several black males sitting around a table at the edge of the road. When deputies made contact with the men, they noticed a small baggie of marijuana on the ground. They obtained consent from the men for a pat-down search.
As deputies were searching 42-year old John Calvin Carter, they located what was believed to be narcotics in Carter’s sock. He was ordered to turn around and place his hands behind his back, but Carter instead shoved a deputy in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Carter then ran east on Pond Street, according to an arrest report.
Deputies gave chase and observed Carter remove the item from sock and drop it as he ran. When deputies caught up with Carter, he “reached into his pocket with his left hand as though he was attempting to remove something else that I believed to be a weapon”, the deputy wrote in the arrest report. Another deputy gave Carter numerous orders to remove his hands from his pocket before firing his taser at Carter.
After Carter hit the ground, deputies attempted to take him into custody but he continued to try to get to his pocket, the report states. Deputies tased him a second time and took him into custody.
The item Carter allegedly dropped was determined to be crack cocaine, according to the arrest report.
Carter was booked into the Escambia County Jail on charges of possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence. He was later released from jail on a $7,500 bond.
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9 Responses to “Century Man Charged With Drug Possession, Battery On Deputy”
25 either felony or misdeamenor convictions since 1986. An alumni of the clerk of courts.
In response to Shelby Lane and concerned citizen:
The search was consensual. Once the Deputies saw the marijuana, they had reasonable suspicion (possibly even probable cause, depending on the circumstances) to detain the men.
From the article, “When deputies made contact with the men, they noticed a small baggie of marijuana on the ground. They obtained consent from the men for a pat-down search”.
“As deputies were searching 42-year old John Calvin Carter, they located what was believed to be narcotics in Carter’s sock.”
If you see a LE officer and decide to leave the area and was not directed by LE not to leave the area then what is the crime? If I were approaching an entranceway and observed blue lights and officers and decide it was best not to stop, am I breaking the law?
I am not in defense of crimminals but I am for civil rights. Thom if you are anyone else comes up to me and says hows the weather, I am not obligated to say anything to you. While it may be a crime to provide false information to a LE officer it is not a crime to remain silent.
i guess its a crime to sit at table by the road in your yard or someone else yard…wow the police in century really need to step their game up and find something better to do than to harass people that are minding their own business!! s.m.h.
>>By the way, what did this guy have in his pocket? This report seemed incomplete. William, can you help us out?
The arrest report does not indicate what, if anything, was in his pocket.
Concerning ‘Wow I did not know you could be searched…” The police have every right to approach anyone for whatever reason, just like the rest of us do. Ask if that person is okay, discuss the weather…whatever… If they see, smell, or have any other justifiable reason to believe a crime is being committed, they then have the obligation to investigate. Now, if they see drugs or guns or dead people on the ground, they HAVE a duty to investigate. It looks to me based on this report that the guy decided not to cooperate with this investigation. Why? The deputies might have asked themselves this very same question. But the guy ran, they had reason to beleive he wasn’t goning to be nice and answer any questions. So they had to stop him using resources available to them. Please do not make excuses for people that run from the police when they are being stupid. By the way, what did this guy have in his pocket? This report seemed incomplete. William, can you help us out?
What I am dying to know is what was in his pocket? He was being tased and he was still trying to reach into his pocket….and that’s it? Seems ambiguous.
Wow I did not know you could be searched for sitting in your yard. Maybe they just stopped by to say hello and well this is none sence this would never happen in my neighbor hood I wonder why though.
REGARDING:
“I wonder if the LE would have contacted these individuals if they had been on private property.”
If it’s the table I’m thinking it is, it is on private property, just very close to the road.
David who always waves to them