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Press Release
January 10, 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 01.04/2008 Elizabeth Ann Mann w/f 26 was arrested on
multiply warrants from Bay County for Grand Theft and Uttering Forged
Instruments.
On 01/04/2008 deputy observed Darcell Devon Williams at
a local fast food restaurant, knowing he had a warrant for violation of
probation he stopped and arrested Williams.
On 01/05/2008 deputies responded to a physical
disturbance in the Wewahitchka area, upon their arrival they found that the
victim had been stabbed in the shoulder area. They also found that the
suspect had attempted to burn the victim’s truck by kicking lit logs under
the truck. They located the suspect James Steven Crumbley w/m 47 and
arrested him for aggravated battery and arson.
On 01/08/2008 Leroy Penny Brake turned himself in on a
warrant for Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
ON 01/05/2008 Investigators attempted to stop a vehicle
driven by Thomas Peel White w/m 42, he is a suspect in several burglaries in
the Wewahitchka area. White stopped his vehicle in a yard on Luke Ford Road
and ran into the woods. K9 units from the Sheriffs Office and Gulf
Correctional Institute responded to the location and searched for White.
Several hours later a hunter saw White cross a road on a hunting lease at
the end of Luke Ford Road, his foot prints were located on a dirt road and
the K9 unit from the prison located him in the woods several minute later.
White was arrested on a violation of probation warrant from Alabama,
resisting without violence and several traffic violations, further charges
are expected to be filed.
On 01/08/2007 Anthony W Parks b/m 34 was arrested on a
child support warrant form Indian River County as he was being released for
Gulf Correctional Institute.
On 01/09/2008 deputies were dispatched to a disturbance
call in the Wewahitchka area. As he approached the area he observed Alice
Renee Causey w/f 36 driving away from the area. He followed the vehicle and
stopped it for several traffic violations. While talking with Alice Causey
he noticed the odor or an alcoholic beverage about her person. Alice Causey
was arrested for DUI, battery on a law enforcement officer, harassing or
teasing a police dog and violation of a condition release.
On 01/09/2007 deputies observed Germaine Marlon Givens
b/m 35 riding a bike on Martin Luther King Blvd, after a short chase he was
arrested on six warrants for sale of crack cocaine.
On 01/09/2008 Jessie Dean Brown b/m 27 was arrested on
warrants for failure to pay child support.
During the week of 01/03/2008-01/10/2008 Gulf County
Dispatchers received 365 calls including 41 calls for emergency medical
services and 1 structure fire. Gulf County Deputies had 274 calls during
that time period including serving 55 civil papers, 41 traffic stops in
which 7 citation and 34 warning were issued. They responded to 37 calls from
citizens with questions or concerns, 24 disturbances, 5 criminal mischief
complaints, 4 burglaries, 4 reports of alleged child abuse and 104
miscellaneous calls for service.
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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