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Press Release
January 3, 2008
Approved by Sheriff Joe Nugent
The Gulf County
Sheriff’s Office will be conducting vehicle safety checkpoints and DUI check
points during the month of January 2008. 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 Westarm Creek, Highway 71
Dalkieth Area and Highway 71 near the Calhoun County Line.
On 12/28/2007 deputies picked up Joseph lee Cordell
w/m 31 from the Bay County Jail on a warrant for violation of probation on
an original charge of DWLSR.
On 12/28/2007 deputies responded to a disturbance in
the Stone Mill Creek area. They arrested Frank Kevin Bailey w/m on a charge
of disorderly intoxication.
On 12/28/2007 a vehicle operated by Will Edward Hale
w/m 31 was stopped for a traffic violation. Mr. Hale gave deputies
permission to search his vehicle and a quantity of marijuana was found under
the drivers seat. Hale was arrested and charged with possession of
marijuana.
On 12/29/2007 deputies responded to a domestic
disturbance in Wewahitchka. During their investigation they found that
Jerald Edward Graves jr. w/m 42 allegedly threaten the victim with a knife
he was arrested and charged with aggravated assault.
On 12/29/2007 deputies located a vehicle driven by
Jerry Mark Yarborough w/m 31 blocking both lanes of Canning Dr. The deputy
found that Yarborough was intoxicated and arrested him for DUI.
On 12/30/2007 a vehicle was stopped near Whitfield
Hill on Highway 71 for a traffic violation. Jason Edward Strimel w/m 24 a
passenger in the vehicle was arrested on a violation of probation warrant on
an original charge of DWLSR.
On 01/01/2008 a citizen called in a suspicious person
in the St Joe Beach area. A deputy responding to the call found Justan
Andrew Demand w/m 20 standing in the door a truck near the Coronado town
Houses as the deputy approached Demand started to walk away. The deputy
found that Demand had broken into three trucks in the area. Demand was
charged with three counts of burglary to a conveyance.
On 01/02/2007 Kenyatta Rashawne Thomas b/m 19 was
picked up from the Wakulla Count y Jail on a warrant for violation of
probation.
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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