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Press Release
November 29, 2007
Approved by Sheriff Joe Nugent
The Gulf County
Sheriff’s Office will be conducting vehicle safety checkpoints and DUI check
points during the months of November and December 2007. The check points
will be held throughout the county to include Highway 98 near St. Joe Beach,
Highway 98 and Garrison Ave, C-30 Simmons Bayou, Highway 71 North of White
City, Highway 22 and Highway 22A, Highway 71 and West Arm Creek, Highway 71
Dalkieth Area and Highway 71 near the Calhoun County Line.
On 11/21/2007 a deputy went to Escambia County and
picked up Robert L Colvins b/m 21 on a violation of probation warrants the
original charge was reckless driving.
On 11/21/2007 at approximately 9:30pm a deputy stopped
an ATV in the Highland View area for not having any lights. While the deputy
was speaking to Shon Lewis Harrison w/m 21 he noticed the odor of an
alcoholic beverage about his person. Harrison was asked to perform several
sobriety exercises, which he did poorly on, Harrison was arrested for DUI,
he refused to take a breath test when he got to the jail.
On 11/22/2007 deputies responded to a disturbance in
the Wewahitchka area, when they arrived on scene they determined that the
suspect Shelly Kaye Harrelson w/m 36 had hit her boyfriend in the head with
a wine bottle. Harrelson was arrested for domestic battery.
On 11/23/2007 Christie m Hoelter w/f 38 was arrested
for failure to appear on charges on worthless checks.
On 11/25/2007 deputies wee flagged down near the
Wewahitchka Substation and told about some suspisous activity. They went to
the Parker St area and observed a lawn tractor pulling a trailer with turned
out to be stolen air conditioners on it. The juveniles fled the area, the
four juvenile were located and charged with burglary.
On 11/26/2007 deputies responded to a disturbance in
the Wewahitchka area, as the deputies arrived a truck left the scene, the
deputy was told that the aggressor was in the vehicle. When the deputy
attempted to stop the vehicle it turned off its light and ran several stop
signs. The driver Jerry Mack Yarborough w/m 31 was arrested for reckless
driving and the passenger Robert David Reed w/m 24 was arrested for
aggravated battery, it is alleged that he struck his ex-girlfriend who was
pregnant.
On 11/27/2007 at approximately 10:00pm a deputy
observed several people riding bicycles on Alabama Ave on St. Joe Beach.
Because of the recent thefts in the area he
On 11/27/2007 Waymon Milledge Swilley b/m was arrested
on warrants for introduction of contraband into a state prison.
On 11/27/2007 Michael Francis Griggin w/m 23 was
arrested on warrants for failure to appear from Illinois.
On 11/29/2007 deputies received a BOLO form Calhoun
County concerning a stolen vehicle. They later observed the vehicle on Hwy
71, they stopped the vehicle and arrested the driver Patty Ann Durden w/f 24
for Grand Theft Auto and DWLSR.
Gulf County Sheriff's Office
1000 Cecil G. Costin Sr. Blvd
Port St. Joe, FL 32456
(850)227-1115 or (850)639-5717
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