We had a father come in with his 17 year old son last week. A couple of weeks prior the son did something to irriate his father and the father told him he was not allowed in his house. The son lives with his mother at a different lcoation. Welllll, dad goes out of town for the weekend and comes home to find almost $10,000 missing from his safe.
I have to say the father is pretty smart because he went to the kid's school and used his key to go into his car and found all sorts of new merchandise paid for in cash. Of course the kid said it was his friends. The father moved the vehicle to another location and then spoke to him before taking him to the pd.
We may never know who took that money. That is a lot of cash to be missing OUCH!
Monday, June 27, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Sex on the Beach isn't just a drink anymore
Well, the patrons and employees of Caddy's which is a waterfront restaurant/bar where families go to eat, drink and play on the beach, had a show with their meals today. I received the first call from a patron/resident that said two people were on the beach "making love." This is how I actually dispatched the call. Aww, it sounds so sweet and innocent. The next call I received was from one of the managers that said there were people having sex, you know, doing the wild thing on the beach. I already had the units (police units, that is) on the way there. In the mean time I was trying to adjust the cameras that are down on the beach to find this "romantic" or "horny" couple. I actually saw them, but I didn't realize it at the time. Now, no It's not because I don't know what that looks like, it's just I was expecting missionary style, guy on top, etc. I was thinking this mainly because it was 7:21 pm and still really daylight out with children around, not to mention about 60 people outside eating. Wellllll, apparently that's what he was doing too. He had a shirt over his head to conceal what he was doing. However, she had her legs up (this was told to me afterward, I didn't actually witness that part).
I really hope it was the best sex they ever had because they are both being slapped with felonies for lewd and lascivious in front of children.
While they were both in the tank (our holding cells) we had a guy threatening on of the hotel maintenance men. He was a Marchman Act. Those of you who don't know what that is, it's a person who is so far intoxicated that they can not care for themselves. We take them to the county jail to be placed in the drunk tank. He apparently crapped and pissed himself. He also got to ride with the other 2 in the sheriff's transport van. That must have smelled good.
The girl from the sex on the beach was on the bottom of the van some how and put her legs up so that her crotch faced the camera. She had taken off her bottoms to her bathing suit while in our cell and shoved them in the toilet, so she went to jail without skivvies.
Her grandfather came in to ask what happened and her father called on the phone. The officer was very diplomatic saying that she was arrested for L & L but wouldn't elaborate. How embarassing for them.
I really hope it was the best sex they ever had because they are both being slapped with felonies for lewd and lascivious in front of children.
While they were both in the tank (our holding cells) we had a guy threatening on of the hotel maintenance men. He was a Marchman Act. Those of you who don't know what that is, it's a person who is so far intoxicated that they can not care for themselves. We take them to the county jail to be placed in the drunk tank. He apparently crapped and pissed himself. He also got to ride with the other 2 in the sheriff's transport van. That must have smelled good.
The girl from the sex on the beach was on the bottom of the van some how and put her legs up so that her crotch faced the camera. She had taken off her bottoms to her bathing suit while in our cell and shoved them in the toilet, so she went to jail without skivvies.
Her grandfather came in to ask what happened and her father called on the phone. The officer was very diplomatic saying that she was arrested for L & L but wouldn't elaborate. How embarassing for them.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
Themes
In this politically correct era, which I think is such a load of CRAP! There are stereotypes and or themes. There are theme nights and theme people. I used to have theme nights more often when I worked for St Pete PD, but we have them here too.
Here are a couple of examples of the people.
Women, blonde and over 40 that get arrested. They come in angry and are placed in the cell. They yell, use horrible profanity and tell the male officers that they are either pigs, or need to get laid. Then they start the crying. Sobbing in fact. Then they get quiet and then they get nasty again, hitting the door of the cell.
White males late teens to 30 years of age. Usually skinny or lean and muscular. Generally don't have on shirts when arrested but have many tattoos. They seem okay when brought in, but once they are unhandcuffed and placed in the cell, it's like satan has entered into them and they go berserk. Some will do the donkey kick on the door with bare feet. Others will hit it with their heads and hands. This actually hurts me to watch and listen too. I have audio and visual from my office and it echoes when they do it. I'm surprised that none of them have knocked themselves out. One almost did, but he fell onto the sink and bounced back up.
Black males in the drug areas (south St Pete) wear what we called the uniform. They either had dreds or a do rag, white wife beater shirt (tank shirt, used to be known as a guinney t) and long shorts, either jean or black, socks and sneakers or socks and slides.
As far as the themed nights, those are really strange. Like I said, I had more of them in St Pete, but we do have them here too. We will have a night of all dui's or domestic batteries, etc.
Here are a couple of examples of the people.
Women, blonde and over 40 that get arrested. They come in angry and are placed in the cell. They yell, use horrible profanity and tell the male officers that they are either pigs, or need to get laid. Then they start the crying. Sobbing in fact. Then they get quiet and then they get nasty again, hitting the door of the cell.
White males late teens to 30 years of age. Usually skinny or lean and muscular. Generally don't have on shirts when arrested but have many tattoos. They seem okay when brought in, but once they are unhandcuffed and placed in the cell, it's like satan has entered into them and they go berserk. Some will do the donkey kick on the door with bare feet. Others will hit it with their heads and hands. This actually hurts me to watch and listen too. I have audio and visual from my office and it echoes when they do it. I'm surprised that none of them have knocked themselves out. One almost did, but he fell onto the sink and bounced back up.
Black males in the drug areas (south St Pete) wear what we called the uniform. They either had dreds or a do rag, white wife beater shirt (tank shirt, used to be known as a guinney t) and long shorts, either jean or black, socks and sneakers or socks and slides.
As far as the themed nights, those are really strange. Like I said, I had more of them in St Pete, but we do have them here too. We will have a night of all dui's or domestic batteries, etc.
No cruisers in the parking lot = slammed
Well, I overslept but actually made it to work on time with time to spare. I can't believe I missed both of my alarms. At least I got some good sleep.
When I got to work there were no cruisers in the parking lot and that is usually an indication that it's busy. At the very least one cruiser is there with the Sgt doing paperwork, but they were ALL gone.
I got in and it took about 10 minutes for the other dispatcher to be able to get up so I could get in. Of course we had two 911 calls come in while I was waiting to sit down.
Stupidly I heated up my "breakfast" which consisted of roasted country ribs and chicken with potatoes, carrots and onions. I had to heat it up 2 times because we had two calls going on with lots of x29p's which is a warrant check for a person. After about an hour and a half I finally finished the meal.
We had a woman hit her boyfriend with a table. Her criminal history was from 3 states and I needed a fork lift to pick it up off of the printer. She was in the cell crying to someone on the phone. I am like, really? You've been arrested over 100 times and you're crying? Interestingly enough, she had never been arrested for battery, so it was a misdemeanor not a felony.
The other call they were on was a fight (that was from the two 911 calls). Lots of people to run.
We arrested on both calls. The guy who hit the other guy got a little squirrely and then of course started kicking the cell door. Typical, skinny white male about 22 years old, no shirt and big attitude.
Since then we had a missing woman who showed up before we arrived, which almost always happens here. A car alarm that was sounding off for about half an hour that went off before we got there, but came back on while we were there. That happens a lot too. A drunk male sleeping at a pool and a drunk female that was trying to lay down in the street when our complainant called.
Now, we have this sniveling female who was arrested for dui stating that she can not believe that she was being arrested when she was only 100 feet from her residence. She said, I could see you arresting someone that was a low life, but not me. Okay then. Now she is asking for our most popular officer that puts the make on any female around. She is saying, please call him, please call him. She is going to call him to make sure that he knows that what's happening to her is just wrong. *stomps foot*
We are half way through our shift. I may have more stuff later.
When I got to work there were no cruisers in the parking lot and that is usually an indication that it's busy. At the very least one cruiser is there with the Sgt doing paperwork, but they were ALL gone.
I got in and it took about 10 minutes for the other dispatcher to be able to get up so I could get in. Of course we had two 911 calls come in while I was waiting to sit down.
Stupidly I heated up my "breakfast" which consisted of roasted country ribs and chicken with potatoes, carrots and onions. I had to heat it up 2 times because we had two calls going on with lots of x29p's which is a warrant check for a person. After about an hour and a half I finally finished the meal.
We had a woman hit her boyfriend with a table. Her criminal history was from 3 states and I needed a fork lift to pick it up off of the printer. She was in the cell crying to someone on the phone. I am like, really? You've been arrested over 100 times and you're crying? Interestingly enough, she had never been arrested for battery, so it was a misdemeanor not a felony.
The other call they were on was a fight (that was from the two 911 calls). Lots of people to run.
We arrested on both calls. The guy who hit the other guy got a little squirrely and then of course started kicking the cell door. Typical, skinny white male about 22 years old, no shirt and big attitude.
Since then we had a missing woman who showed up before we arrived, which almost always happens here. A car alarm that was sounding off for about half an hour that went off before we got there, but came back on while we were there. That happens a lot too. A drunk male sleeping at a pool and a drunk female that was trying to lay down in the street when our complainant called.
Now, we have this sniveling female who was arrested for dui stating that she can not believe that she was being arrested when she was only 100 feet from her residence. She said, I could see you arresting someone that was a low life, but not me. Okay then. Now she is asking for our most popular officer that puts the make on any female around. She is saying, please call him, please call him. She is going to call him to make sure that he knows that what's happening to her is just wrong. *stomps foot*
We are half way through our shift. I may have more stuff later.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Transients galore
Good grief with the tranisents tonight. In an hour period we had 3 calls at 2 hotels and 1 bar about tranisents bothering customers. Actually at the bar he was asleep in a little cubby behind the bar. One transient was at all 3 places. He is such a little scuzzball. He's only a year older than I am but looks about 65 or 70. I've met some of the other transients who are pretty nice. scuzzball has a "wife" who is a female tranisent that he bangs down. She is 10 years older than him and was gone for a couple of months. She was trying to clean up her act, but she's back as of today. When she was gone, scuzzball was a nasty s.o.b. but now that his main squeeze is back, when they aren't fighting, he should be very content.
Monday, June 13, 2011
HEeeeerrreee We Gooooo!!!!!
I didn't think it would take me this long to post something, but I wanted it pretty fresh in my mind. I wish I had thought of this before Memorial Day because that weekend had a lot of good stories. Trouble is I can't remember them right now. This last weekend however has given me some good material. So hold on, 'cause here we will go....
Let me just tell you for future reference that everytime I go into work, I spray it down with Lysol spray and then use a Clorox wipe to finish it off. I do this not because I am a germ freak, but we eat at the console, put our feet up and whatever else. In our department dispatchers work one at a time, which is different from larger departments like St Pete (my former job) where they have 4 dispatchers on and 2-11 call takers on at one time.
That said, I didn't get to finsish cleaning my console and didn't get my eye glasses on before it was busy. It took me about 30 minutes until I got my glasses on.
My first call was a man that was hystercial and said a guy in a vehicle tried to run him down on the beach. I had one officer go to that and then it happened. All hell broke loose. First the Sgt that was on Sunset Beach asked me to call for a boat because there were reckless wave runner's in the swim zone. That sounds easy enough, but I had to call the Sheriff's office first and they didn't have one, then had to call FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife) and it takes time.
Right after he asked me to do that he said that there was a fight on the beach and he needed a couple of units. That turned into a couple of more units and call other agencies to send units. There were about 500 people at a rap party and it was getting out of control. I called St Pete Beach and they were just about to send someone when they had a stabbing, so they couldn't come. I had already called PCSO (Pinellas County Sheriff's Office) and requested 2 units so I called back to request 2 more. After all was said and done those units called for more and we had 14 PCSO deputies and 7 of our officers at this event. The fight dissapted on its own and the officer's were able to guide the people out of Sunset Beach without anyone being arrested or hurt.
During this time which was just over an hour I had to monitor the main radio channel and LE1 which is a channel where our officer's and the deputies could communicate on the same frequency. I also had to do my regular stuff, answer the phones, write on my log of things going on and enter information into the computer. And run people and tags if needed. I still had the one officer patrolling the rest of the city. I had a few phone calls telling me how the officer's should be doing their jobs. One man in particular was really annoyed that one of the officers was just filming the crowd and not "doing" enough. He did for documentation purposes to show how big the crowd was and their demeanor. I actually kept my cool for the most part but was very and I mean very firm. I said sir, the officer's are trained to do their job and I trust their judgement. I am not at the scene so I can't determine what is right or wrong and I am not trained like they are and neither are you. He said, "I think..." I cut him off and said sir, everyone has an opinion, let the officers do their job. If you have a problem with how they do their job or you want information as to why they did things the way they did, call the chief of police in the morning. He kept trying to tell me what he thought and I finally beat him down to where he said, alright I'll call the chief. Don't call me when you know there's crap going on and tell me what you think, because I really couldn't give a damn what you think! My main concern is, are my officer's safe and then is the public safe!
More later....
Let me just tell you for future reference that everytime I go into work, I spray it down with Lysol spray and then use a Clorox wipe to finish it off. I do this not because I am a germ freak, but we eat at the console, put our feet up and whatever else. In our department dispatchers work one at a time, which is different from larger departments like St Pete (my former job) where they have 4 dispatchers on and 2-11 call takers on at one time.
That said, I didn't get to finsish cleaning my console and didn't get my eye glasses on before it was busy. It took me about 30 minutes until I got my glasses on.
My first call was a man that was hystercial and said a guy in a vehicle tried to run him down on the beach. I had one officer go to that and then it happened. All hell broke loose. First the Sgt that was on Sunset Beach asked me to call for a boat because there were reckless wave runner's in the swim zone. That sounds easy enough, but I had to call the Sheriff's office first and they didn't have one, then had to call FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife) and it takes time.
Right after he asked me to do that he said that there was a fight on the beach and he needed a couple of units. That turned into a couple of more units and call other agencies to send units. There were about 500 people at a rap party and it was getting out of control. I called St Pete Beach and they were just about to send someone when they had a stabbing, so they couldn't come. I had already called PCSO (Pinellas County Sheriff's Office) and requested 2 units so I called back to request 2 more. After all was said and done those units called for more and we had 14 PCSO deputies and 7 of our officers at this event. The fight dissapted on its own and the officer's were able to guide the people out of Sunset Beach without anyone being arrested or hurt.
During this time which was just over an hour I had to monitor the main radio channel and LE1 which is a channel where our officer's and the deputies could communicate on the same frequency. I also had to do my regular stuff, answer the phones, write on my log of things going on and enter information into the computer. And run people and tags if needed. I still had the one officer patrolling the rest of the city. I had a few phone calls telling me how the officer's should be doing their jobs. One man in particular was really annoyed that one of the officers was just filming the crowd and not "doing" enough. He did for documentation purposes to show how big the crowd was and their demeanor. I actually kept my cool for the most part but was very and I mean very firm. I said sir, the officer's are trained to do their job and I trust their judgement. I am not at the scene so I can't determine what is right or wrong and I am not trained like they are and neither are you. He said, "I think..." I cut him off and said sir, everyone has an opinion, let the officers do their job. If you have a problem with how they do their job or you want information as to why they did things the way they did, call the chief of police in the morning. He kept trying to tell me what he thought and I finally beat him down to where he said, alright I'll call the chief. Don't call me when you know there's crap going on and tell me what you think, because I really couldn't give a damn what you think! My main concern is, are my officer's safe and then is the public safe!
More later....
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Where to begin
I think it's kind of funny that I have started a new blog and haven't put anything in it yet. I have been a little busy. I will start soon.
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