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Press Release
April 28, 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 May 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
On 04/20/2008 deputies received information that Thomas
Wayne Chavous w/m 42 had some stolen property and was attempting to sell it.
They located the property and found that it was a stolen pump; Chavous was
arrested for grand theft and violation of probation.
On 04/22/2008 James Danny Dady w/m 54 was arrested for
violation of probation on a Franklin County Warrant.
On 04/25/2008 a vehicle that was involved in an
altercation in the Overstreet area was stopped on Highway 98. The driver
Brandon Michael Chehardy w/m 18 was arrested for DUI.
On 04/25/2008 Bobby Lynn Tipton w/m 36 was arrested on
a warrant for failure to pay child support.
On 04/25/2008 Gulf County Deputies went to Bay County
Sheriff’s Office and arrested Norma Beth Bisson w/f 51 on charges of DUI
with serious bodily injury, DUI Manslaughter, DWLSR and fleeing and
attempting to elude, these charges are in connection with a fatal crash on
01/31/2008.
On 04/26/2008 James Burton Clark w/m 29 was arrested
for DWLSR.
On 04/26/2008 deputies responded to a call of an
intoxicated female at a local business that had gotten into a customer car
and refused to get out. When the deputy arrived he arrested Teresa Diane
Dowell w/f 41 for disorderly conduct.
On 04/27/2008 a vehicle driven by James Norman Lassiter
w/m 26 was stopped for a traffic violation, while the deputy was speaking
with Lassiter he admitted to having some marijuana in his back pocket.
Lassiter was arrested for possession of less than twenty grams of marijuana
and possession of drug paraphernalia.
On 04/27/2008 a vehicle driven by Russell Allen Wood
w/m 37was stopped for a traffic violation, while speaking with Wood the
deputy noticed what appeared to be crack cocaine in his hand, Wood was
arrested for possession of crack cocaine.
On 04/27/2008 deputies responded to a domestic
disturbance in the Wewa area, upion talking with the victim she alleged that
Donald Wayne Brake Jr w/m 23 had thrown her to the ground and struck her
several times with a closed fist. Brake was arrested for aggravated domestic
battery.
During the week of 04/21/2008 – 04/28/2008 Gulf County
Dispatchers handled 329 calls for service, including 38 calls for emergency
medical service and one grass fire.
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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