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FWC Law Enforcement Report
April 20, 2014
Florida FWC Division of Law Enforcement reported the following activity during the weekend ending April 10:
ESCAMBIA COUNTY
Officer Pettey was patrolling along the Perdido River inspecting fishermen. While checking a subject bream fishing along the river, Officer Pettey asked the man how many fish he had. The subject appeared to be over the bag limit. He commented he didn’t know because he wasn’t counting. Officer Pettey counted 55 bream. Officer Pettey issued the subject a notice to appear citation for over the bag limit of bream.
Officer Manning received information that two individuals were attempting to sell sheepshead (fish) without the proper license. Officer Manning contacted the FWC Investigations Section for assistance with purchasing the fish. Two individuals sold eight sheepshead to an investigator. Officer Manning issued the individuals citations for the violations.
SANTA ROSA COUNTY
Officer Arnette responded from his residence to a search and rescue call after receiving information of some overdue boaters. He arrived on scene a short time later in the area of the Blackwater River where the subjects were supposed to be. After searching the area, he later located five subjects stranded on a sandbar. The subjects were wet and cold and all were safely returned to their vehicle.
Officer Lewis was patrolling near the Blackwater State Park when he observed a parked vehicle near a camping area. He recognized that it belonged to a man who had been camping there for longer than the allotted time. He also observed another vehicle parked near it that belonged to a woman who had a protection order against the man. He located the man’s camp and observed the man and woman together on the other side of the river, in violation of the protection order. He contacted the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office for assistance. Officers Johnson and Hutchinson went to the scene to assist with a small vessel. The man was arrested by the responding deputy. The officers assisted the woman in removing the camp and transporting her belongings across the river to her vehicle. Shortly afterward, Officer Hutchinson was leaving the area and observed a woman flagging him down on Highway 90 just west of Harold. As he slowed to stop, he observed a badly burned man with a sheet wrapped around him. He called for EMS and examined the man’s burns. The skin was hanging from his legs and it appeared to be a chemical burn. After EMS arrived on scene and transported the man, Officer Hutchinson questioned the woman about how the man was burnt. He was originally told that the man was working under a truck and smoking a cigarette when some gasoline ignited. When he asked to see the scene, the woman was evasive and deceptive. Officer Hutchinson determined that the man had been taken to his mother’s home just before being transported to the highway intersection. After speaking with the mother, he learned that a friend had dropped him off there. He went to the friend’s residence and observed a fire burning in the backyard. He called the fire department and Sheriff’s Office for assistance. Upon their arrival, they discovered a meth lab and the scene where the man had been burnt. A woman at the residence was immediately arrested for possession of methamphetamine. The lab was turned over to the sheriff’s office for investigation.
This report represents some events the FWC handled over the past week;however, it does not include all actions taken by the Division of Law Enforcement.
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4 Responses to “FWC Law Enforcement Report”
The petitioner in a restraining order can not be arrested for violating it, so says the Supreme Court. Regardless, I highly doubt she swam to him to set him up, they were probably lying next to each other at the camp site.
@ fisherman
PROLLY SO
55 Bream is easy to catch that many on that many. he prolly got on a bed and didn’t think he had that many
why was she not arrested? it was clear that the FWC had seen this man for a overly allotted amount of time @ the camp site, sounds like he was having to live there because af a restraining order against him by HER. if the FWC had reconized his vehicle from this overly allotted time and then observed another vehicle belonging to a woman who was “PROTECTED” by a restraining order, sounds as though she showed up just agravate the situation. just because she has a protection order, that should’nt give her the right to show up where the man is, causing him more grief and more jail time. how nice of the FWC and the SRC to help her clean up the camp site while they hauled poor old Joe blow to the county hilton. She probably swam the river to his camp site. wonder if they checked to see if her clothes were wet or dry? GREAT JOB GUYS!!!!! can you say SET UP.