Christine, are you still "helping" out my family? Yeah?
It smells of you and your daughter with all THAT HIDING.
There is a price to pay and I doubt you have the moxie.
Spreading your legs at the right time won't cover it.
I am considering taking you in to federal court where we can yank your husband's partner, Robert O'Neill into the court room and hash over some items I have uncovered.
I can trace everything back to you. Everything.
You fucking CUNT.
You won't walk away unscathed. Hope your stolen mansion was worth your time in prison.
Oh, that's right. Hubby keeps your name off it. One assumes there is some paper lying about that takes care of that, however.
Hubby keeps your name off it in the event you are caught at what you do.
You have been caught. Robert instigated it along with his closet supporter.
And, you will pay the price. I don't care about them You're the cunt with the repeat activity who continually tried to slither into my home.
You sexualize CHILDREN and murder animals while posing as a fucking whatever you pose as.
To me you smell like an IRA whore.
And I know you fed him arsenic.
Funny you're the ONLY ONE in that house who is not losing your hair.
Maybe you are a serial killer.
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Hernando deputy issued DUI summons, placed on leave
By Melvin Backman, Times Staff Writer
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BROOKSVILLE — Hernando County sheriff's Deputy David Feger has been issued a summons on a charge of driving under the influence, and Sheriff Al Nienhuis has placed Feger on administrative leave without pay.
The summons stems from an April incident in which another motorist called 911 to report that Feger was driving erratically, Col. Michael Maurer said at the time. The motorist followed Feger, 35, to his Spring Hill home and saw him leave his personal vehicle and enter the house.
Deputies arrived shortly after and interviewed Feger, but could not ask him to submit to sobriety field tests because they did not see him driving.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt. Donna Black deferred questions to the State Attorney's Office about why Feger was issued a summons rather than being arrested.
Assistant State Attorney Donald McCathran said Feger was issued a summons for DUI based on the statements of witnesses who recalled seeing Feger leave a bar impaired and driving erratically.
McCathran said it was unusual, but not unheard of, for suspects in DUI cases to be issued a summons in lieu of an arrest. He said he signed off on the summons because he does not expect Feger to miss his hearing.
Feger had been given a letter of reprimand in early 2009 and was required to submit to random drug screenings after an internal investigation determined that he had reported for duty one morning within eight hours of drinking alcohol.
Feger said he had drunk a third of a bottle of whiskey and passed out between midnight and 1 a.m., according to a report.
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username1991 Jun 7, 2011 12:21 PM Yesterday allegations/accusations/he said/she said - lead to another lawyer $$$ windfall. so far sheriff office lawyers, state lawyers, union lawyer and personal lawyer working this one. 5+ bagger when judge intervenes. and don't forget the cost associated with all the other gov't personnel who got involved. a stern warning was warranted, and thats all. all the lawyers feel, after all, its just - taxpayer money. great taxpayer $$$ ripoff system the lawyers created for themselves.
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Report Abuse 2 5 Wilsonite Jun 7, 2011 7:53 PM Yesterday this guy WILL skate,...mark my words Reply
Report Abuse 1 2 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 8:02 PM Yesterday We are very lucky this man didn't kill someone. He's a known drunken driver in this county. He frequents bars and lets it be known his "whores" will give him a ride home. This is not the first time he's been stopped for DUI that I know of. Last time he was lucky and literally cried his way out of that ticket. He's also admitted that he abused pain pills. He's truly deserving of the charges and his many years of crimes are catching up with him. I'm happy he's been charged. Drunk drivers kill innocent people and he took an oath to protect people of just that, not violate the law. Reply
Report Abuse 0 3 EquinsuOcha Jun 7, 2011 12:22 PM Yesterday Why is it that police are treated with different standards than regular citizens? If this was anyone else, they would have done more than interview him, they would have made him blow a breathalyzer and submit to screening at the station. So much for equal protection!
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Report Abuse 3 6 nc Jun 7, 2011 1:09 PM Yesterday take that drunk driver off the streets. Reply
Report Abuse 0 5 elainec Jun 7, 2011 2:28 PM Yesterday Oh heck, take the drunk out of the Sheriff's Office. Normal drinkers do not drink 1/3 of a bottle of whiskey and pass out. Maybe they can let him return after 6 months of having papers signed at AA. Reply
Report Abuse 0 4 cholouno Jun 7, 2011 1:26 PM Yesterday It really is time to end all of the Police Industry perks. These guys are allowed to sit in AC comfort, turn off their GPS to spend the afternoon doing lunch, drink and drive, HUGE Benefit packages, create high-speed pursuits in residential neighborhoods, and act like total D-Bags all at the taxpayer expense. The police snivel about how dangerous their job is but yet it is not mandatory for them to wear a bullet proof vest because they get to fat and uncomfortable. On top of that every week they are honoring themselves including Memorial Day. SLASH THOSE HUGE BENEFIT AND PENSION PACKAGES!!!! Reply
Report Abuse 2 7 ididso Jun 7, 2011 12:36 PM Yesterday EquinsuOcha.
Read the article again.
You can't go to someones home and make them take a test if you didn't see them driving.
If they came to your door would you feel the same way.
Why the conspiracy theory?
He is protected by illegal search and seizure, and similar laws,
even if is a deputy.
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Report Abuse 5 9 socfan Jun 7, 2011 1:02 PM Yesterday Exactly right, just like any other citizen. Reply
Report Abuse 2 4 cholouno Jun 7, 2011 1:32 PM Yesterday Yank this D-Bag officer out of his FAT CUSHY job and YANK HIS PENSION!!!! It's time the Police realize they are above the law. Speaking of FAT CUSHY jobs how is Jeremiah Hawkes, the general counsel PASCO Sheriff's and son of the most crooked judge in Florida doing these days? Reply
Report Abuse 0 7 cholouno Jun 7, 2011 1:33 PM Yesterday I mean "Not" above the law. They obviously know they are currently above the law. Reply
Report Abuse 0 3 TruthSensor Jun 7, 2011 12:48 PM Yesterday ididso...Read the article again...
Feger had been given a letter of reprimand in early 2009 and was required to submit to random drug screenings after an internal investigation..RANDOM DRUG SCREENING.....he fialed to comply when they came to the door...he can be fired...
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Report Abuse 2 5 socfan Jun 7, 2011 1:03 PM Yesterday It said he "was" required. Usually conditions like that Do Not last two years. Reply
Report Abuse 2 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:59 PM Yesterday And this drug screening he bragged about. He's told people he was taking pain pills and the test used did not detect them. He's a bad apple. Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 RAYZORBLADE Jun 7, 2011 12:52 PM Yesterday People are such busy bodies. How do you let some blue hair follow you home? Don't they drive like ten miles an hour?
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Report Abuse 4 1 nc Jun 7, 2011 1:11 PM Yesterday kinky hairs do. Reply
Report Abuse 1 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:58 PM Yesterday They were two young girls, who he stumbled up to their car to flirt with them, while they still had 911 on the phone. He just a disgusting looking man with a large girth. YUCK. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 buckeyes Jun 7, 2011 1:08 PM Yesterday he should have worked at clear channel you can all the dui's you want and still have a job
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Report Abuse 0 4 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:57 PM Yesterday The only other experience this guy has is working in a convenience store. He then went to seven months at the academy and got his badge and gun to cover up his own crimes. How do I know this? I've known this man since he worked at the Jiffy Store and got the name "Jiffy Dave" in the community. Reply
Report Abuse 0 3 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:08 PM Yesterday OMG. what a loser. I find it INCREDIBLE how much more education I have than people who are "in authority". How DARE they claim someone should be armed and able to contol situations (or themselves) due to being in a course (no matter how intense) for seven months. Wow. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:10 PM Yesterday noproblem, one of the sheriffshe gave free coffee to probably befriended old jiffy and insructed him on the amt of dope and such he could have if he became a sheriff. LOL !!!! get a badge; PARTAY !!! it's not funny at all I know. It's very dangerous. Reply
Report Abuse 1 0 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:11 PM Yesterday Clear Channel is the propaganda channel for the State's attorney's Office. The on DJ is ober's neighbor and his wife works there. THEY DO WUT THEY WONT. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Dogboy Jun 8, 2011 11:34 AM About 2 hours ago So is that demonstration of spelling your superior education coming through? Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 FLORIDABADBOY Jun 7, 2011 2:23 PM Yesterday This man can not be charged with DUI because he was out of sight
while in his home. He could say he drank while in the house.
He won't even get a traffic ticket.
He may lose his job if he has a weak union.
I think he nees a desk job for 6 months to prove
he is ready to go back on the streets.
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Report Abuse 2 4 pascoproud Jun 7, 2011 2:46 PM Yesterday I hope the union is weak, us voters elect a high Sheriff to reign in all his deputies when the need is apparant, us voters (The Majority) do not have to cowtoe to police union wishes (The Minority), I like knowing that a citizen can call on his/her elected high Sheriff to convey his/her grievances about any deputy that is working for the PUBLIC with the PUBLICS money funding their pay and pension. Unions have forgotten that when they organize to protect their own interest by having one body other than OUR SHERIFF decide their fate, the outcomes are funded by PUBLIC MONEY! Police need to follow the chain of command and if they still are not happy they can access the court system to ask for an opinion just like "civilians" have to do. You said he deputy wont even get a traffic ticket, the article clearly stated he got a traffic summons! We all know that had he been a "civilian" he would have been arrested Reply
Report Abuse 1 2 DennisPurdy Jun 7, 2011 3:33 PM Yesterday Your local problem isn't the police union. It's how we hire our cops. We only hire from the LEO certificate mills, the badge and gun freaks that have no business in any position of authority. They are so afraid of the public that they move in packs and can only strike as a gang. They must back each other up, because no one else would. They lie constantly, "for the better good". And they don't even want to investigate them selves. So they send out Sgt. Kathleen Reid to tell us what the truth is. She wouldn't know the truth if it bit her in the butt. Reply
Report Abuse 1 5 DennisPurdy Jun 7, 2011 6:29 PM Yesterday You are forgetting witnesses. You think they won't go back to the bar where he drank and look at his usage and time. Now he might be able to claim that he wasn't driving, but then he would need to explain the method of travel from the bar to the home and find someone to say they were the one's that drove. I think his bosses would just as soon be rid of the guy. Now, 399 to go. Reply
Report Abuse 1 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:56 PM Yesterday Dennis they already said they were going to speak to those in the bar he was in, unlike what they didn't do when Deputy Michael Stegner killed himself in an agency issued car after a night out of drinking and partying - and I'm not so sure that David Feger wasn't with him that night. I do know that they were quite good friends. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 truth10 Jun 8, 2011 9:05 AM About 4 hours ago The problem with witnesses is that the event happened in April and was not acted upon in a timely manner. How convenient. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 DennisPurdy Jun 7, 2011 3:34 PM Yesterday One down, 399 to go.
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Report Abuse 0 2 pascoproud Jun 7, 2011 3:56 PM Yesterday I do not and have not worked as a cop ever, but I do work within the criminal justice system and as such I "get" what most dont, to wit, what is Reality vs. what should be or is perceived to be facts by the average neighbor. On that note I agree with alot of what you said above with the exception of any defense of unions as it appears you did in the first sentence, aside of that like I said I agree with your post. As far as Sgt Kathleen Reid, I do not know this person nor have I ever heard of her so I can not defend or attack her integrity or actions. Where does she work at? Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 DennisPurdy Jun 7, 2011 3:59 PM Yesterday She is internal affairs at Hernando County Sheriff. From everything I've seen it has been her job to cast doubt on any complaint against any deputy. She doesn't belong in her position. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 5:41 PM Yesterday Even I have heard of her and I avoid pasco like stink (nothing personal good Pasco'ians I still have lots of family there) I just avoid their problems as Hillsborough and Pinellas have their own ... SHE is the corrupt Roberto Bautiste of Tampa IAD for y'all in Pasco. He's a PIG. And very intimidating. Very sleezy and sneaky. He got hsi job because Hank Earl Carr killed recently promoted Chilly (pam bondi's bud allegedly) Not that I would trust having pam for a friend. It really weirded me out when they interviewed her after he was murdered. THEN we got Bautiste and any decent cop in Tampa was fired probably almost all of them by now. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 5:43 PM Yesterday Bautiste is IRISH believe it or nto from dirty jerz and is part of the IRA. Go see him if you don't beileve me. Go ask him about his boss Patrick Condon of West Tampa Glass. Ask him about his boss at Three Green Fields. I mean 4. LOL Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:53 PM Yesterday I could not agree more. She's horrible, Dennis. TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses, she's in Hernando, not Pasco County. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 pascoproud Jun 7, 2011 3:56 PM Yesterday I do not and have not worked as a cop ever, but I do work within the criminal justice system and as such I "get" what most dont, to wit, what is Reality vs. what should be or is perceived to be facts by the average neighbor. On that note I agree with alot of what you said above with the exception of any defense of unions as it appears you did in the first sentence, aside of that like I said I agree with your post. As far as Sgt Kathleen Reid, I do not know this person nor have I ever heard of her so I can not defend or attack her integrity or actions. Where does she work at? Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Dogboy Jun 8, 2011 11:38 AM About 2 hours ago 399 to go? How about one to go? You! Dennis, bad apples need to go. Feger should resign and save everybody the trouble. Getting rid of all law enforcement? You sir are an idiot! Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 southwest1 Jun 7, 2011 5:25 PM Yesterday When I drive my patrol car after heavy drinking, I find a snort of cocaine brings me back to suitable alertness.
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Report Abuse 2 2 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 5:49 PM Yesterday I remember you doing that all the time on routine patrol ! You DA man. I mean sometimes it made you a little surly but ... hey .. BTW they should not have even charged this guy. Clearly they are after him or he was setup becasue ... there is a VERY CLEAR FS requirement to charge with dui and they did NOT have the tenets AT ALL. They also did not arrest (HCSO ampa Police) pregnant Ivette Perez Claudio for pot possession because like many Hillsborough County judges stalker Ivette is a member of the Latin King or other Latino GANGS. Which explains how her man pedro can steal with no problem out there at MCOR which should concern you pasco citizens. A guy from South Tampa bringing hoods to your area to steal from you. He's a window-tinter and alarms and such yet EACH ARREST he has been nole proc. Kinda like a pattern, HUH?? Reply
Report Abuse 3 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 8:07 PM Yesterday I heard that he was going to use the "I was set up". He's not been set up - he was caught doing what he does at least two times a month, drive while severely impaired. When I say severely, I mean it. I've seen him drunk, get in his car, drive away. He's a danger to everyone on the road. Reply
Report Abuse 0 3 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:45 PM Yesterday For those of you who say that he should not have been charged, there were wheel witnesses who saw him, they were on the 911 call when he approached the two young girls car to flirt with them and he's a known drunk in every bar in Hernando County. He is truly one bad apple, and yes, I do know him. As for Kathleen Reid Dennis is right, she's very corrupt and she covers up (not too well either) to make citizens look like the liars. He's got many complaints that were unfounded, complaints that disappear after one year from HCSO. He himself bragged to me about this. He's not a good man, an ugly man he is, both inside and out. He's one who became a cop to cover up his own crimes and this is not the first time he's been DUI and been stopped. He was lucky enough to be let go, with no public knowledge of it - however the guy who was with him has a huge mouth and loves telling that story.
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Report Abuse 0 3 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:01 PM Yesterday Oh, please understand ... I'm not saying he shouldn't have been charged, I'm saying that according to the FStatutes the case should go away. (observation period) Just read it and you'll see what I mean. I agree he's a POS especially after haering more. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 10:15 PM Yesterday He can be charged. There were wheel witnesses that placed him behind the wheel and they were on 911 when he approached them severely impaired, then he refused to cooperate when the cops arrived. HCSO has another employee who was charged due to wheel witnesses and she was convicted. He can be and has been charged and I can almost bet he's not going to lawyer up too well, unless he's union. Knowing people who know him now, he's not financially stable enough to do it, and he darn sure better admit the the crime he was caught doing. If he doesn't I've lost all respect for him - oh wait, I have not one ounce of respect for him prior to this!! I can tell you all a story of what he did to a good friend of mine on Thanksgiving Day, it would knock all of your socks off and his nosiness resulted in the lack of investigation of her nephew being robbed while he laid in a diabetic coma. He stuck his nose in a case he was not even on and violated quite a few laws doing so. He needs fired now Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:50 PM Yesterday Research Emily Vernon, another HCSO deputy who her co-workers let go but the SAO charged.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/article975493.ece
http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/jul/22/sheriffs-finance-director-charged-dui/
"No one was hit or injured, but there were several close calls, investigators say. Among them were the four "wheel witnesses" that came forward last week and prompted the reopening of the case. Up until then, Vernon was not charged because no one could place her behind the wheel."
"Arriving deputies and witnesses said Vernon was "dancing in the road," lying face down on the ground, stumbling and that she could hardly pronounce her name.
The crash occurred at 11:24 p.m. The traffic deputy who would be responsible for a DUI arrest, Giselle Mulverhill, showed up 1 hour and 24 minutes later at 12:48 a.m., records show."
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Report Abuse 0 2 elainec Jun 7, 2011 10:09 PM Yesterday Re: Mulverhill's arrival time. I think it would take me an hour and 24 minutes to figure out where Istachatta was. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:51 PM Yesterday Sorry she's not a deputy, she is still the finance director at HCSO. Difference between her and David Feger? She kept her job and he'll surely be fired. He's a known bad apple, not just on the job but by lots of people in the community.
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Report Abuse 0 2 elainec Jun 7, 2011 10:04 PM Yesterday Also, I think a finance director can skate with a suspended a driver's license. Not so for a deputy. Feger is one guy who shouldn't have a weapon, either. Here's an article about both of them: http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article986803.ece. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 10:20 PM Yesterday Great article with them both in it. About Jiffy Dave: "According to another internal investigation report released this week, a deputy also received a written reprimand after it was found that he had been drinking in the eight hours before coming to work. Deputy David Feger came to work Dec. 16 smelling of alcohol and was promptly sent home by his supervisors, according to the report. Feger later admitted to drinking from a bottle of whiskey the night before coming in to work and said he had already sought out counseling." I encourage you to seek any assistance you feel may be necessary," said Maj. Alan Arick in a letter to Feger." Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:18 PM Yesterday I remember emily. She has a LOT OF PULL ...
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Report Abuse 0 0 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 10:20 PM Yesterday Nugent told the press that he could not fire her because she "knew too much" and he did not care what the public thought. Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:29 PM Yesterday Clarification: I remember when that happened with miss thang emily. they do the same thing in hillsborough in spades. They had the one guy who was falsifying DUIs and they never went back and corrected the records of his victims and they caught the sheriffs giving other sheriff rides home. Sheriffs here used to be very decent. They would sometimes give CITIZENS a ride home ... some for political reasons but once a friend of mine when he drove his car up on the curb more or less drunk when his father had died unexpectedly the week before. He really was distraught and crying when they found him which does NOT excuse his actions. He could have hurt someone. But they did take him home and have his car towed for him.
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Report Abuse 0 0 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:30 PM Yesterday Now they are more or less nazis and crazies and a few good men and women fighting the good fight while being forced to turn their heads...
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Report Abuse 0 0 truth10 Jun 8, 2011 9:13 AM About 4 hours ago There are sins of commission and sins of ommission. The good can not turn their heads. Reply
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 1:03 PM Less than a minute ago I agree. My younger folks agree. They turn their head and then they turn bad.
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Report Abuse TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:30 PM Yesterday Geez, I hope he doesn't come over HERE and apply. They would snap him up in a heartbeat .....
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Report Abuse 0 0 sporttyy Jun 8, 2011 8:54 AM About 5 hours ago There is " No Such Thing" as Internal Affairs within the Hernando County Sheriff's Office. Anybody that has lived in this county knows that as 100% fact. What's needed is for a real Governor of the State to intercede and have all reviews done randomly case by case in counties away from Hernando County. That was straighten out the good ole boys and bad apples within five years. The best advice is: NEVER SPEAK to a COP, Period!
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Report Abuse 0 0 kiwibaby02 Jun 8, 2011 9:26 AM About 4 hours ago Ok, I do understand where people are coming from. Also, I do not condone driving drunk/impaired. BUT, the thought of possibly getting a DUI because a neighbor says they saw me driving drunk scares the hell outta me. I do not agree with that at all. Reprimand him for having alcohol in his system going to work. But I don't think it's right to get him for DUI just because someone said so.
That opens the door to lots of problems. What if your neighbor is ticked off at ya and decides to call police, say they're following you as you're driving erratically like you're drunk. Police go to your home and you now get a DUI because someone said so... That's just not right.
Shoot, if I see someone driving 45 in a 30, can they get a speeding ticket for 50% over the limit? Just wondering...
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Report Abuse 0 1 DennisPurdy Jun 8, 2011 11:34 AM About 2 hours ago This is our argument against the red-light cameras. The camera company is actually issuing tickets as a private citizen that has not taken any oath. The ticket is against the owner of a car, not the driver. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Dogboy Jun 8, 2011 11:52 AM About 2 hours ago So why do you feel that this principle applies to one scenario and not the other? You have a personal axe to grind with law enforcement. You are inconsistent and oblivious to reality. I'm personally tired of reading your drivel. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 DennisPurdy Jun 8, 2011 12:53 PM About 1 hour ago The fact is that the arrest is being made on probable cause. There is not even an investigation of the red-light camera law. This officer will get due process. He will be tried in a criminal court, not a referee. I'm being totally consistent. I'm glad you're tired of my drivel. I'm going to keep it up till the sheriff's offices clean up their act. The helicopter pilot needs to be prosecuted. And Deputy Fairie@$$hole needs to be fired. The Sheriff needs to pull his government center security back to the court rooms and let the citizens carry on government business without having their fourth amendment rights violated. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Dogboy Jun 8, 2011 11:46 AM About 2 hours ago Exactly. That is why we have laws and due process. Is he guilty? Probably, otherwise HCSO wouldn't risk the lawsuit for the suspension. There is a reason we are a nation of laws and order. Are you taking note DennisPurdy? We as a society don't want the above scenario where a neighbor can make up a charge and you get arrested for it. We feel it is more important to make sure the innocent don't get punished even if it means some who are guilty get to walk away. Otherwise, we would have anarchy and we don't want that now do we? Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 DennisPurdy Jun 8, 2011 12:59 PM About 1 hour ago When I was the police chief back in Michigan, the POAM had been trying to years to get a clause into contracts to protect officers from baseless complaints. So when I negotiated the contract with my officers I put in a clause requiring all complaints be sworn before a judge, just like a criminal complaint. We had one complaint after that the commission asked that I investigate. I simply pointed out the clause in the contract. That was the end of it. Now as far as my complaints against the deputies of Hernando and Marion counties, I would be more than happy to sign a complaint in front of the chief judge of any court. I have degrees in the discipline, years of experience in the discipline, and the HCSO is NOT a professional LE organization, far from it. Reply
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 1:11 PM Less than a minute ago Dennis, Michigan still needs you ... Florida is a swamp that may never recover but thanks for trying.
A brief aside: If you look up Condon in the Urban Dictionary the definitions (like that of most members of the Irish Republican LOSERS) is : NO NUTS.
Patrick when did the IRA become a bunch of slobbering boobs with no stones crawling under peoples' cars and terrorizing women and children?
The price will be five million now. And keep your slithering crackheads out of my yard. Does your employee actually ooze grease and crack as he slithers about or is that just my imagination?? Patrick, WHY are ALL the employees I find associated with west tampa glass involved in drug distribution or heroin arrests? One unfortunate thing for you and mr. xavier gonzalez is the prior documentation of rollick-donnini stalking my family before she slithered into their hood to abandon her children every evening with her sheriff buddy wannabe CO wed to the dope he found at his jail job miss bessie (cow)
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 1:16 PM Less than a minute ago Although I am sure Ms. Rollick-Donnini enjoys the same protection as the other dealers in the hood (perez-claudio, ivette) from the sheriff GEE she still can't sling dope on a trike AND stay home with her children which poses a problem, now doesn't it?
By Melvin Backman, Times Staff Writer
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BROOKSVILLE — Hernando County sheriff's Deputy David Feger has been issued a summons on a charge of driving under the influence, and Sheriff Al Nienhuis has placed Feger on administrative leave without pay.
The summons stems from an April incident in which another motorist called 911 to report that Feger was driving erratically, Col. Michael Maurer said at the time. The motorist followed Feger, 35, to his Spring Hill home and saw him leave his personal vehicle and enter the house.
Deputies arrived shortly after and interviewed Feger, but could not ask him to submit to sobriety field tests because they did not see him driving.
Sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt. Donna Black deferred questions to the State Attorney's Office about why Feger was issued a summons rather than being arrested.
Assistant State Attorney Donald McCathran said Feger was issued a summons for DUI based on the statements of witnesses who recalled seeing Feger leave a bar impaired and driving erratically.
McCathran said it was unusual, but not unheard of, for suspects in DUI cases to be issued a summons in lieu of an arrest. He said he signed off on the summons because he does not expect Feger to miss his hearing.
Feger had been given a letter of reprimand in early 2009 and was required to submit to random drug screenings after an internal investigation determined that he had reported for duty one morning within eight hours of drinking alcohol.
Feger said he had drunk a third of a bottle of whiskey and passed out between midnight and 1 a.m., according to a report.
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username1991 Jun 7, 2011 12:21 PM Yesterday allegations/accusations/he said/she said - lead to another lawyer $$$ windfall. so far sheriff office lawyers, state lawyers, union lawyer and personal lawyer working this one. 5+ bagger when judge intervenes. and don't forget the cost associated with all the other gov't personnel who got involved. a stern warning was warranted, and thats all. all the lawyers feel, after all, its just - taxpayer money. great taxpayer $$$ ripoff system the lawyers created for themselves.
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Report Abuse 2 5 Wilsonite Jun 7, 2011 7:53 PM Yesterday this guy WILL skate,...mark my words Reply
Report Abuse 1 2 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 8:02 PM Yesterday We are very lucky this man didn't kill someone. He's a known drunken driver in this county. He frequents bars and lets it be known his "whores" will give him a ride home. This is not the first time he's been stopped for DUI that I know of. Last time he was lucky and literally cried his way out of that ticket. He's also admitted that he abused pain pills. He's truly deserving of the charges and his many years of crimes are catching up with him. I'm happy he's been charged. Drunk drivers kill innocent people and he took an oath to protect people of just that, not violate the law. Reply
Report Abuse 0 3 EquinsuOcha Jun 7, 2011 12:22 PM Yesterday Why is it that police are treated with different standards than regular citizens? If this was anyone else, they would have done more than interview him, they would have made him blow a breathalyzer and submit to screening at the station. So much for equal protection!
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Report Abuse 3 6 nc Jun 7, 2011 1:09 PM Yesterday take that drunk driver off the streets. Reply
Report Abuse 0 5 elainec Jun 7, 2011 2:28 PM Yesterday Oh heck, take the drunk out of the Sheriff's Office. Normal drinkers do not drink 1/3 of a bottle of whiskey and pass out. Maybe they can let him return after 6 months of having papers signed at AA. Reply
Report Abuse 0 4 cholouno Jun 7, 2011 1:26 PM Yesterday It really is time to end all of the Police Industry perks. These guys are allowed to sit in AC comfort, turn off their GPS to spend the afternoon doing lunch, drink and drive, HUGE Benefit packages, create high-speed pursuits in residential neighborhoods, and act like total D-Bags all at the taxpayer expense. The police snivel about how dangerous their job is but yet it is not mandatory for them to wear a bullet proof vest because they get to fat and uncomfortable. On top of that every week they are honoring themselves including Memorial Day. SLASH THOSE HUGE BENEFIT AND PENSION PACKAGES!!!! Reply
Report Abuse 2 7 ididso Jun 7, 2011 12:36 PM Yesterday EquinsuOcha.
Read the article again.
You can't go to someones home and make them take a test if you didn't see them driving.
If they came to your door would you feel the same way.
Why the conspiracy theory?
He is protected by illegal search and seizure, and similar laws,
even if is a deputy.
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Report Abuse 5 9 socfan Jun 7, 2011 1:02 PM Yesterday Exactly right, just like any other citizen. Reply
Report Abuse 2 4 cholouno Jun 7, 2011 1:32 PM Yesterday Yank this D-Bag officer out of his FAT CUSHY job and YANK HIS PENSION!!!! It's time the Police realize they are above the law. Speaking of FAT CUSHY jobs how is Jeremiah Hawkes, the general counsel PASCO Sheriff's and son of the most crooked judge in Florida doing these days? Reply
Report Abuse 0 7 cholouno Jun 7, 2011 1:33 PM Yesterday I mean "Not" above the law. They obviously know they are currently above the law. Reply
Report Abuse 0 3 TruthSensor Jun 7, 2011 12:48 PM Yesterday ididso...Read the article again...
Feger had been given a letter of reprimand in early 2009 and was required to submit to random drug screenings after an internal investigation..RANDOM DRUG SCREENING.....he fialed to comply when they came to the door...he can be fired...
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Report Abuse 2 5 socfan Jun 7, 2011 1:03 PM Yesterday It said he "was" required. Usually conditions like that Do Not last two years. Reply
Report Abuse 2 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:59 PM Yesterday And this drug screening he bragged about. He's told people he was taking pain pills and the test used did not detect them. He's a bad apple. Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 RAYZORBLADE Jun 7, 2011 12:52 PM Yesterday People are such busy bodies. How do you let some blue hair follow you home? Don't they drive like ten miles an hour?
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Report Abuse 4 1 nc Jun 7, 2011 1:11 PM Yesterday kinky hairs do. Reply
Report Abuse 1 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:58 PM Yesterday They were two young girls, who he stumbled up to their car to flirt with them, while they still had 911 on the phone. He just a disgusting looking man with a large girth. YUCK. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 buckeyes Jun 7, 2011 1:08 PM Yesterday he should have worked at clear channel you can all the dui's you want and still have a job
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Report Abuse 0 4 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:57 PM Yesterday The only other experience this guy has is working in a convenience store. He then went to seven months at the academy and got his badge and gun to cover up his own crimes. How do I know this? I've known this man since he worked at the Jiffy Store and got the name "Jiffy Dave" in the community. Reply
Report Abuse 0 3 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:08 PM Yesterday OMG. what a loser. I find it INCREDIBLE how much more education I have than people who are "in authority". How DARE they claim someone should be armed and able to contol situations (or themselves) due to being in a course (no matter how intense) for seven months. Wow. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:10 PM Yesterday noproblem, one of the sheriffshe gave free coffee to probably befriended old jiffy and insructed him on the amt of dope and such he could have if he became a sheriff. LOL !!!! get a badge; PARTAY !!! it's not funny at all I know. It's very dangerous. Reply
Report Abuse 1 0 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:11 PM Yesterday Clear Channel is the propaganda channel for the State's attorney's Office. The on DJ is ober's neighbor and his wife works there. THEY DO WUT THEY WONT. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Dogboy Jun 8, 2011 11:34 AM About 2 hours ago So is that demonstration of spelling your superior education coming through? Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 FLORIDABADBOY Jun 7, 2011 2:23 PM Yesterday This man can not be charged with DUI because he was out of sight
while in his home. He could say he drank while in the house.
He won't even get a traffic ticket.
He may lose his job if he has a weak union.
I think he nees a desk job for 6 months to prove
he is ready to go back on the streets.
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Report Abuse 2 4 pascoproud Jun 7, 2011 2:46 PM Yesterday I hope the union is weak, us voters elect a high Sheriff to reign in all his deputies when the need is apparant, us voters (The Majority) do not have to cowtoe to police union wishes (The Minority), I like knowing that a citizen can call on his/her elected high Sheriff to convey his/her grievances about any deputy that is working for the PUBLIC with the PUBLICS money funding their pay and pension. Unions have forgotten that when they organize to protect their own interest by having one body other than OUR SHERIFF decide their fate, the outcomes are funded by PUBLIC MONEY! Police need to follow the chain of command and if they still are not happy they can access the court system to ask for an opinion just like "civilians" have to do. You said he deputy wont even get a traffic ticket, the article clearly stated he got a traffic summons! We all know that had he been a "civilian" he would have been arrested Reply
Report Abuse 1 2 DennisPurdy Jun 7, 2011 3:33 PM Yesterday Your local problem isn't the police union. It's how we hire our cops. We only hire from the LEO certificate mills, the badge and gun freaks that have no business in any position of authority. They are so afraid of the public that they move in packs and can only strike as a gang. They must back each other up, because no one else would. They lie constantly, "for the better good". And they don't even want to investigate them selves. So they send out Sgt. Kathleen Reid to tell us what the truth is. She wouldn't know the truth if it bit her in the butt. Reply
Report Abuse 1 5 DennisPurdy Jun 7, 2011 6:29 PM Yesterday You are forgetting witnesses. You think they won't go back to the bar where he drank and look at his usage and time. Now he might be able to claim that he wasn't driving, but then he would need to explain the method of travel from the bar to the home and find someone to say they were the one's that drove. I think his bosses would just as soon be rid of the guy. Now, 399 to go. Reply
Report Abuse 1 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:56 PM Yesterday Dennis they already said they were going to speak to those in the bar he was in, unlike what they didn't do when Deputy Michael Stegner killed himself in an agency issued car after a night out of drinking and partying - and I'm not so sure that David Feger wasn't with him that night. I do know that they were quite good friends. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 truth10 Jun 8, 2011 9:05 AM About 4 hours ago The problem with witnesses is that the event happened in April and was not acted upon in a timely manner. How convenient. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 DennisPurdy Jun 7, 2011 3:34 PM Yesterday One down, 399 to go.
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Report Abuse 0 2 pascoproud Jun 7, 2011 3:56 PM Yesterday I do not and have not worked as a cop ever, but I do work within the criminal justice system and as such I "get" what most dont, to wit, what is Reality vs. what should be or is perceived to be facts by the average neighbor. On that note I agree with alot of what you said above with the exception of any defense of unions as it appears you did in the first sentence, aside of that like I said I agree with your post. As far as Sgt Kathleen Reid, I do not know this person nor have I ever heard of her so I can not defend or attack her integrity or actions. Where does she work at? Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 DennisPurdy Jun 7, 2011 3:59 PM Yesterday She is internal affairs at Hernando County Sheriff. From everything I've seen it has been her job to cast doubt on any complaint against any deputy. She doesn't belong in her position. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 5:41 PM Yesterday Even I have heard of her and I avoid pasco like stink (nothing personal good Pasco'ians I still have lots of family there) I just avoid their problems as Hillsborough and Pinellas have their own ... SHE is the corrupt Roberto Bautiste of Tampa IAD for y'all in Pasco. He's a PIG. And very intimidating. Very sleezy and sneaky. He got hsi job because Hank Earl Carr killed recently promoted Chilly (pam bondi's bud allegedly) Not that I would trust having pam for a friend. It really weirded me out when they interviewed her after he was murdered. THEN we got Bautiste and any decent cop in Tampa was fired probably almost all of them by now. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 5:43 PM Yesterday Bautiste is IRISH believe it or nto from dirty jerz and is part of the IRA. Go see him if you don't beileve me. Go ask him about his boss Patrick Condon of West Tampa Glass. Ask him about his boss at Three Green Fields. I mean 4. LOL Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:53 PM Yesterday I could not agree more. She's horrible, Dennis. TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses, she's in Hernando, not Pasco County. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 pascoproud Jun 7, 2011 3:56 PM Yesterday I do not and have not worked as a cop ever, but I do work within the criminal justice system and as such I "get" what most dont, to wit, what is Reality vs. what should be or is perceived to be facts by the average neighbor. On that note I agree with alot of what you said above with the exception of any defense of unions as it appears you did in the first sentence, aside of that like I said I agree with your post. As far as Sgt Kathleen Reid, I do not know this person nor have I ever heard of her so I can not defend or attack her integrity or actions. Where does she work at? Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Dogboy Jun 8, 2011 11:38 AM About 2 hours ago 399 to go? How about one to go? You! Dennis, bad apples need to go. Feger should resign and save everybody the trouble. Getting rid of all law enforcement? You sir are an idiot! Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 southwest1 Jun 7, 2011 5:25 PM Yesterday When I drive my patrol car after heavy drinking, I find a snort of cocaine brings me back to suitable alertness.
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Report Abuse 2 2 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 5:49 PM Yesterday I remember you doing that all the time on routine patrol ! You DA man. I mean sometimes it made you a little surly but ... hey .. BTW they should not have even charged this guy. Clearly they are after him or he was setup becasue ... there is a VERY CLEAR FS requirement to charge with dui and they did NOT have the tenets AT ALL. They also did not arrest (HCSO ampa Police) pregnant Ivette Perez Claudio for pot possession because like many Hillsborough County judges stalker Ivette is a member of the Latin King or other Latino GANGS. Which explains how her man pedro can steal with no problem out there at MCOR which should concern you pasco citizens. A guy from South Tampa bringing hoods to your area to steal from you. He's a window-tinter and alarms and such yet EACH ARREST he has been nole proc. Kinda like a pattern, HUH?? Reply
Report Abuse 3 1 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 8:07 PM Yesterday I heard that he was going to use the "I was set up". He's not been set up - he was caught doing what he does at least two times a month, drive while severely impaired. When I say severely, I mean it. I've seen him drunk, get in his car, drive away. He's a danger to everyone on the road. Reply
Report Abuse 0 3 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:45 PM Yesterday For those of you who say that he should not have been charged, there were wheel witnesses who saw him, they were on the 911 call when he approached the two young girls car to flirt with them and he's a known drunk in every bar in Hernando County. He is truly one bad apple, and yes, I do know him. As for Kathleen Reid Dennis is right, she's very corrupt and she covers up (not too well either) to make citizens look like the liars. He's got many complaints that were unfounded, complaints that disappear after one year from HCSO. He himself bragged to me about this. He's not a good man, an ugly man he is, both inside and out. He's one who became a cop to cover up his own crimes and this is not the first time he's been DUI and been stopped. He was lucky enough to be let go, with no public knowledge of it - however the guy who was with him has a huge mouth and loves telling that story.
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Report Abuse 0 3 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:01 PM Yesterday Oh, please understand ... I'm not saying he shouldn't have been charged, I'm saying that according to the FStatutes the case should go away. (observation period) Just read it and you'll see what I mean. I agree he's a POS especially after haering more. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 10:15 PM Yesterday He can be charged. There were wheel witnesses that placed him behind the wheel and they were on 911 when he approached them severely impaired, then he refused to cooperate when the cops arrived. HCSO has another employee who was charged due to wheel witnesses and she was convicted. He can be and has been charged and I can almost bet he's not going to lawyer up too well, unless he's union. Knowing people who know him now, he's not financially stable enough to do it, and he darn sure better admit the the crime he was caught doing. If he doesn't I've lost all respect for him - oh wait, I have not one ounce of respect for him prior to this!! I can tell you all a story of what he did to a good friend of mine on Thanksgiving Day, it would knock all of your socks off and his nosiness resulted in the lack of investigation of her nephew being robbed while he laid in a diabetic coma. He stuck his nose in a case he was not even on and violated quite a few laws doing so. He needs fired now Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:50 PM Yesterday Research Emily Vernon, another HCSO deputy who her co-workers let go but the SAO charged.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/article975493.ece
http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/jul/22/sheriffs-finance-director-charged-dui/
"No one was hit or injured, but there were several close calls, investigators say. Among them were the four "wheel witnesses" that came forward last week and prompted the reopening of the case. Up until then, Vernon was not charged because no one could place her behind the wheel."
"Arriving deputies and witnesses said Vernon was "dancing in the road," lying face down on the ground, stumbling and that she could hardly pronounce her name.
The crash occurred at 11:24 p.m. The traffic deputy who would be responsible for a DUI arrest, Giselle Mulverhill, showed up 1 hour and 24 minutes later at 12:48 a.m., records show."
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Report Abuse 0 2 elainec Jun 7, 2011 10:09 PM Yesterday Re: Mulverhill's arrival time. I think it would take me an hour and 24 minutes to figure out where Istachatta was. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 7:51 PM Yesterday Sorry she's not a deputy, she is still the finance director at HCSO. Difference between her and David Feger? She kept her job and he'll surely be fired. He's a known bad apple, not just on the job but by lots of people in the community.
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Report Abuse 0 2 elainec Jun 7, 2011 10:04 PM Yesterday Also, I think a finance director can skate with a suspended a driver's license. Not so for a deputy. Feger is one guy who shouldn't have a weapon, either. Here's an article about both of them: http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/article986803.ece. Reply
Report Abuse 0 2 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 10:20 PM Yesterday Great article with them both in it. About Jiffy Dave: "According to another internal investigation report released this week, a deputy also received a written reprimand after it was found that he had been drinking in the eight hours before coming to work. Deputy David Feger came to work Dec. 16 smelling of alcohol and was promptly sent home by his supervisors, according to the report. Feger later admitted to drinking from a bottle of whiskey the night before coming in to work and said he had already sought out counseling." I encourage you to seek any assistance you feel may be necessary," said Maj. Alan Arick in a letter to Feger." Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:18 PM Yesterday I remember emily. She has a LOT OF PULL ...
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Report Abuse 0 0 NoProblem Jun 7, 2011 10:20 PM Yesterday Nugent told the press that he could not fire her because she "knew too much" and he did not care what the public thought. Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:29 PM Yesterday Clarification: I remember when that happened with miss thang emily. they do the same thing in hillsborough in spades. They had the one guy who was falsifying DUIs and they never went back and corrected the records of his victims and they caught the sheriffs giving other sheriff rides home. Sheriffs here used to be very decent. They would sometimes give CITIZENS a ride home ... some for political reasons but once a friend of mine when he drove his car up on the curb more or less drunk when his father had died unexpectedly the week before. He really was distraught and crying when they found him which does NOT excuse his actions. He could have hurt someone. But they did take him home and have his car towed for him.
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Report Abuse 0 0 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:30 PM Yesterday Now they are more or less nazis and crazies and a few good men and women fighting the good fight while being forced to turn their heads...
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Report Abuse 0 0 truth10 Jun 8, 2011 9:13 AM About 4 hours ago There are sins of commission and sins of ommission. The good can not turn their heads. Reply
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 1:03 PM Less than a minute ago I agree. My younger folks agree. They turn their head and then they turn bad.
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Report Abuse TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 7, 2011 9:30 PM Yesterday Geez, I hope he doesn't come over HERE and apply. They would snap him up in a heartbeat .....
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Report Abuse 0 0 sporttyy Jun 8, 2011 8:54 AM About 5 hours ago There is " No Such Thing" as Internal Affairs within the Hernando County Sheriff's Office. Anybody that has lived in this county knows that as 100% fact. What's needed is for a real Governor of the State to intercede and have all reviews done randomly case by case in counties away from Hernando County. That was straighten out the good ole boys and bad apples within five years. The best advice is: NEVER SPEAK to a COP, Period!
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Report Abuse 0 0 kiwibaby02 Jun 8, 2011 9:26 AM About 4 hours ago Ok, I do understand where people are coming from. Also, I do not condone driving drunk/impaired. BUT, the thought of possibly getting a DUI because a neighbor says they saw me driving drunk scares the hell outta me. I do not agree with that at all. Reprimand him for having alcohol in his system going to work. But I don't think it's right to get him for DUI just because someone said so.
That opens the door to lots of problems. What if your neighbor is ticked off at ya and decides to call police, say they're following you as you're driving erratically like you're drunk. Police go to your home and you now get a DUI because someone said so... That's just not right.
Shoot, if I see someone driving 45 in a 30, can they get a speeding ticket for 50% over the limit? Just wondering...
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Report Abuse 0 1 DennisPurdy Jun 8, 2011 11:34 AM About 2 hours ago This is our argument against the red-light cameras. The camera company is actually issuing tickets as a private citizen that has not taken any oath. The ticket is against the owner of a car, not the driver. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Dogboy Jun 8, 2011 11:52 AM About 2 hours ago So why do you feel that this principle applies to one scenario and not the other? You have a personal axe to grind with law enforcement. You are inconsistent and oblivious to reality. I'm personally tired of reading your drivel. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 DennisPurdy Jun 8, 2011 12:53 PM About 1 hour ago The fact is that the arrest is being made on probable cause. There is not even an investigation of the red-light camera law. This officer will get due process. He will be tried in a criminal court, not a referee. I'm being totally consistent. I'm glad you're tired of my drivel. I'm going to keep it up till the sheriff's offices clean up their act. The helicopter pilot needs to be prosecuted. And Deputy Fairie@$$hole needs to be fired. The Sheriff needs to pull his government center security back to the court rooms and let the citizens carry on government business without having their fourth amendment rights violated. Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Dogboy Jun 8, 2011 11:46 AM About 2 hours ago Exactly. That is why we have laws and due process. Is he guilty? Probably, otherwise HCSO wouldn't risk the lawsuit for the suspension. There is a reason we are a nation of laws and order. Are you taking note DennisPurdy? We as a society don't want the above scenario where a neighbor can make up a charge and you get arrested for it. We feel it is more important to make sure the innocent don't get punished even if it means some who are guilty get to walk away. Otherwise, we would have anarchy and we don't want that now do we? Reply
Report Abuse 0 1 DennisPurdy Jun 8, 2011 12:59 PM About 1 hour ago When I was the police chief back in Michigan, the POAM had been trying to years to get a clause into contracts to protect officers from baseless complaints. So when I negotiated the contract with my officers I put in a clause requiring all complaints be sworn before a judge, just like a criminal complaint. We had one complaint after that the commission asked that I investigate. I simply pointed out the clause in the contract. That was the end of it. Now as far as my complaints against the deputies of Hernando and Marion counties, I would be more than happy to sign a complaint in front of the chief judge of any court. I have degrees in the discipline, years of experience in the discipline, and the HCSO is NOT a professional LE organization, far from it. Reply
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 1:11 PM Less than a minute ago Dennis, Michigan still needs you ... Florida is a swamp that may never recover but thanks for trying.
A brief aside: If you look up Condon in the Urban Dictionary the definitions (like that of most members of the Irish Republican LOSERS) is : NO NUTS.
Patrick when did the IRA become a bunch of slobbering boobs with no stones crawling under peoples' cars and terrorizing women and children?
The price will be five million now. And keep your slithering crackheads out of my yard. Does your employee actually ooze grease and crack as he slithers about or is that just my imagination?? Patrick, WHY are ALL the employees I find associated with west tampa glass involved in drug distribution or heroin arrests? One unfortunate thing for you and mr. xavier gonzalez is the prior documentation of rollick-donnini stalking my family before she slithered into their hood to abandon her children every evening with her sheriff buddy wannabe CO wed to the dope he found at his jail job miss bessie (cow)
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 1:16 PM Less than a minute ago Although I am sure Ms. Rollick-Donnini enjoys the same protection as the other dealers in the hood (perez-claudio, ivette) from the sheriff GEE she still can't sling dope on a trike AND stay home with her children which poses a problem, now doesn't it?
Christine DeCamp Colin Breen and Robert O'Neill tactics ..
.... practiced on another unsuspecting family .... (among hundreds I've heard maybe thousands)
(luckily I videotaped ALL OF THIS including the shifts to greenw dear liz and the ulterior plan and especially the participation by IAD folks' relatives) ... but read on sweeties, seems a pattern has emerged .. now you are well and truly fucked.
.... Colin will lose LOTS MORE HAIR over this one ... why is your whole family but you losing hair chrissy? Why are your ONLY FRIENDS meth-dealing or otherwise innocent teenagers whom you sexualize and introduce to drugs??? WHORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Father on trial in Pinellas County accused of stalking adult daughter
By Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Friday, June 3, 2011
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In spring 2010, Dennis Hobbs wore face paint and a wig to spy on his 18-year-old near an abuse shelter she lived in, police say.
LARGO — Dennis Hobbs is a father who wanted to keep tabs on his 18-year-old daughter because he worried that she was skipping school, smoking and having sex with her boyfriend.
But when St. Petersburg police found Hobbs one night in spring 2010, he was inside his car dressed in black, wearing face paint and a wig, near the abuse shelter where his daughter had gone to live. Inside the car was a loaded gun and detailed notebooks recording her activities.
So, in an unusual case, Hobbs was charged with stalking his own adult daughter and this week went on trial.
It's a strange case because of the goofy wig and the face paint, but in other ways it relates to an issue every parent faces — how far do you go to direct a child, even an adult child?
Defense attorney Denis de Vlaming said Hobbs was simply concerned for a wayward child and wanted to prevent her from making bad choices. He said it would have been a crime for him not to help her.
But Assistant State Attorney Theodora Komninos said Hobbs crossed the line into a criminal case of stalking, and detailed how Hobbs kept approaching and bothering his adult daughter long after she asked him to stay away.
"What this case is about is control and limits," she said.
For her part, daughter Lyndsay Hobbs, now 20, testified that after she learned how her father was dressed in the disguise and near the shelter where she was staying, "I felt more scared for my life than I've ever been."
She said the incident made her fear that "I could have been kidnapped that night and sent anywhere in the world."
Hobbs is 60, and retired after working in computer programing and other technical matters for AT&T. He has no criminal record in Florida. He and his wife now live in Texas, but returned for the trial.
Lyndsay Hobbs is an artist who studied at the highly regarded Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota. But according to testimony this week, her father was concerned about her behavior when she was as young as 16.
He found a birth control pill in her room, disapproved of her boyfriend, believed she had been drinking and discovered risque comments she made on Facebook, which even she now acknowledges were inappropriate. She also was charged with shoplifting.
But prosecutors say Hobbs went too far. He came to see her at her job at a CVS against her will, and came uninvited more than once to her boyfriend's family's house, where she stayed for a time, witnesses testified. Lyndsay Hobbs testified that she got a temporary injunction against her father "because he would not leave me alone." She moved into an abuse shelter to get away from him, and because "I felt more safe there."
But he hired a private investigator and found her. He even knew somehow that she had bought a scooter while at the shelter, even though she never told him that.
He also wanted her to leave Ringling and move along with his wife to Texas, saying she could continue her studies there.
After Hobbs was arrested, police arranged for his daughter to make a secretly recorded phone call to him.
On the rather scratchy recording, which was played in court, she said she was scared of him because he kept stalking her. He denied stalking and said she had been lying.
"I just want to live my life," she said.
"You want to live a life of sex and drugs," he said. He told her he loved her.
"I think you want someone you can control," she said.
The case is expected to go to the all-female jury this afternoon.
Curtis Krueger can be reached at (727) 893-8232 or ckrueger@sptimes.com.
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hcb Jun 2, 2011 4:04 PM About 6 days ago This has to be made up - no police force actually spent time and money in secretly recording him and then charging him with stalking. No prosecutor really thought he "went too far" or that he was a danger. With all the deal making with really serious criminals, THIS one goes to trial? The judge didn't wonder why someone didn't just tell dad he was overreaching and his daughter is an adult so he should back off? All of these people listen to the girl worry she "could have been kidnapped and sent anywhere in the world?" THIS is how we minimize invasive government? No - this is a prank by the prosecutor and police to see if the Times really does any fact checking. If not, all you PIs tracking cheating spouses better be watching your steps.
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Report Abuse 9 7 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 3, 2011 4:15 AM About 5 days ago Thanks, hcb. I always thought this one was too weird. Maybe daughter is dipping into scientology. devlaming will fix it. Reply
Report Abuse 1 1 conehead Jun 3, 2011 10:09 AM About 5 days ago Don't forget, she'd already gotten a restraining order on the freak before he pulled his little "Special Ops" mission to "save his daughter". Sometimes, its nice to see the police act before somebody gets hurt. If that's the way he treats an adult child, I feel sorry for his wife. No telling what kind of hell she lives in. Reply
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 10:54 AM Less than a minute ago Sorry conehead, I disagree. Just because she doesn't want him to come to her job doesn't mean he CAN'T. If I read right that was before the restraining order? The rest sounds hooey. Sounds like maybe boyfriend or someone has court connections and she was in a BAD crowd which served as witnesses for some reason. My family couldn't get a restraining order when a guy SHOT at them who was already arrested for a prior murder, fleeing to elude and other stuff and subsequently for strangling his wife... so the whole thing sounds OFF. I doubt the gun was for her. The shelter was probably in a bad hood and/or he alwasy carried. I just don't think her story is plausible ..
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Report Abuse Jethro Bodine Jun 2, 2011 4:07 PM About 6 days ago dysfunctional family values......sounds like a "before and after" answer on Wheel of Fortune but it isn't
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Report Abuse 0 7 gwm56 Jun 2, 2011 4:26 PM About 6 days ago I don't know if he was a concerned dad or a Stalker, I do know he was one ugly Women.
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Report Abuse 1 7 Tilted1 Jun 2, 2011 4:50 PM About 6 days ago psycho control freak.
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Report Abuse 3 9 chet Jun 2, 2011 4:58 PM About 6 days ago I'd like to be on this jury.
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Report Abuse 2 6 SS Jun 2, 2011 5:06 PM About 6 days ago Creeper.
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Report Abuse 1 7 ididso Jun 2, 2011 5:14 PM About 6 days ago A wig and make up, and his high priced lawyer wants everyone to think that he is just a concerned father?
The guy is a nut.
He should be laughed out of the court room, (that goes for his client too).
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Report Abuse 2 9 Phoenix Jun 2, 2011 5:18 PM About 6 days ago - She is 18 and legally an adult.
-If she was living with him, he has he right to establish rules.
-If he is paying money to support her - he can just say "18, she moved out, I don't have to support her" and see a lawyer.
-Not living with him - he has no right to interfere or "stalk", unless he is paying her support.
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Report Abuse 5 5 Tilted1 Jun 2, 2011 5:30 PM About 6 days ago newsflash Einstein....even if he was giving her $ for living, that doesn't give him the right to interfere or "stalk". Reply
Report Abuse 0 11 mscolt1911 Jun 2, 2011 5:35 PM About 6 days ago This is a classic stalker, obsessed with a woman who happens to be his daughter. Usually when I read this type of story,it's after the incest has come to light and the girl murdered.
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Report Abuse 3 11 pjb863 Jun 2, 2011 5:50 PM About 6 days ago There are parents out there like this. They feel that because they brought you into the world, they own you - for as long as they live. While I never had an experience this bad with mine, it was bad enough: running credit checks at least once a year, even though I'd never accepted any money from them after turning 18, running criminal background checks, hiring detectives to have me followed when I was in my late 20's. After the man who fathered me died, I found the dossiers he'd been keeping on me and my siblings containing the above and much more. What a sicko!
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Report Abuse 0 7 TinaMarie Jun 2, 2011 7:55 PM About 6 days ago Its like something you see in a sitcom. Dad is so worried about his girl that he disguises himself and follows her around. Except for the gun! Now its an episode of Criminal Minds.
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Report Abuse 1 5 RDaniels Jun 2, 2011 10:08 PM About 6 days ago You watch too much tv. Reply
Report Abuse 2 1 TinaMarie Jun 2, 2011 11:07 PM About 6 days ago Lighten up. Its a joke! So many nasty grumpy people here. Reply
Report Abuse 1 3 luvstpete Jun 2, 2011 8:29 PM About 6 days ago He's a religious zealot nut. The very worst kind.
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Report Abuse 3 5 Gov_Tilt_Head Jun 2, 2011 9:32 PM About 6 days ago He's a religious republican zealot nut. The very worst kind.
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Report Abuse 4 6 History Buff Jun 2, 2011 10:13 PM About 6 days ago I hope she gets councelling. What a nightmare that his obsession forced her to flee and into hiding.
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Report Abuse 1 4 TpaBayNative Jun 2, 2011 11:39 PM About 6 days ago If a Restraining Order didn't stop him from stalking his daughter, I don't think counseling will do it. He's got some issues that overpower good reasoning and I have a strong feeling it's his religion. Who knows how far he will go to instill his religion in his daughter. He needs to be locked up somewhere, either jail or a mental institution to protect his daughter.
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Report Abuse 0 2 TpaBayNative Jun 2, 2011 11:42 PM About 6 days ago And how is it a private investigator will take a job to hunt someone down when there's a protective order against his client? He had to know that his client couldn't be around her, if not, then he should have.
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Report Abuse 0 2 Censorshipsucks Jun 2, 2011 11:47 PM About 6 days ago Being a father myself I have to say there is a time to let go. One word sums this story up for me... twisted.
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Report Abuse 0 4 ShellBell54 Jun 3, 2011 5:31 AM About 5 days ago deVlaming is just another over priced "dirt bag" lawyer who will defend wife beaters and child abusers if the price is right. He'll get this sick twist off too, just like he has numerous others. How he sleeps at night is beyond me.
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Report Abuse 3 1 CrazyIvan Jun 3, 2011 6:03 AM About 5 days ago I really am riding the fence on this. I DO believe the dad may have gone a bit overboard. But, I also believe one has to ask the question, "When a kid turns 18, do you stop being concerned about their direction in life?" The fact that she got arrested, at one point, for shoplifting, gives us a hint that this young lady may well have been rather dysfunctional and the father quite --- and legitimately -- concerned.
I once had a tenant who, after some time, threw her boyfriend out because he was "too controlling". Shortly after he left, she had succeeded in turning my property into a drug den with people coming and going all hours of the night, much to the consternation of the neighbors who complained to me. Things are not always as they appear....
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Report Abuse 3 1 conehead Jun 3, 2011 10:20 AM About 5 days ago So, what are you suggesting? That the boyfriend should have stayed with the girl to control her life and keep her on the straight an narrow? You really think that's an option? I can see why your moniker is "Crazy". Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Fuglybedelia Jun 3, 2011 7:46 AM About 5 days ago Sounds like he was a creepy "pledge your virginity to me" daddy. Just a soundproof basement away from years of "protecting" her from the world.
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Report Abuse 1 1 Eugenics Jun 3, 2011 7:55 AM About 5 days ago Why do fathers completely forget about their own sexual past when it comes to their teenage daughters? They completely forget about being a teenager and trying to screw every girl they could get their hands on. I'm sure 99% of men out there were sexually active with other 16 yr olds when they were 16.
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Report Abuse 0 1 conehead Jun 3, 2011 10:28 AM About 5 days ago Please rephrase your comment to "some fathers". Reply
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 10:58 AM Less than a minute ago thank you, conehead. Hey eugenics, maybe it's the memories of "some" fathers' sexual pasts which lead them to be over protective. boink
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Report Abuse redpill Jun 4, 2011 3:20 PM About 4 days ago Because we decided to let 18-year-old people vote, we then took the further step and said that 18 was now the age of majority rather than 21 as it had been. Many people are 18 while still in high school. I think the notion of them being adults is foolish.
This man may have gone further than most would, or would feel comfortable seeing others do, but he had reasons to be concerned about his daughter's behavior. Nothing I have read here makes me certain his motives were not well intentioned, despite his unconventional ways.
I remember a wise person saying that you are never finished raising your children. They may be adults, but they are still your children. Of course the wise parent understands that a child who is older and has been living on their own is different than a young kid. Had this person been 40, I would look at it differently.
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Report Abuse 0 0 smartone Jun 5, 2011 8:52 PM About 3 days ago RedPil, you are more intelligent than most; the media even when trying to get it correct, make so many incorrect statements that bias the story. I sat through over half the testimony, and not once heard evidence that the daughter saw her heard her father do the things stated, she was told by the police and or media. At 18 when these things happened; she was still a young person swayed by what a police officer may tell her at 11 PM at night, she did not see it, she heard it. Last what I heard is a family since 16 years old, taught her to smoke, drink, have sex with the mother full knowledge unknown to the girls parents, and later drugs, they clearly dispised the father and mother and bombarded the girl with that feeling for four years. Seems the girl did not have a chance, she is a victim but not from her father.
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 10:59 AM Less than a minute ago Oh, that sounds exactly like what Christine DeCamp Breen did to my family member. Drug and sex compliments of the Irish Republican Army. She even provided the residence .... wish we could know the boyfriend's family's names. NOW. Sounds like they targeted this family ...
(luckily I videotaped ALL OF THIS including the shifts to greenw dear liz and the ulterior plan and especially the participation by IAD folks' relatives) ... but read on sweeties, seems a pattern has emerged .. now you are well and truly fucked.
.... Colin will lose LOTS MORE HAIR over this one ... why is your whole family but you losing hair chrissy? Why are your ONLY FRIENDS meth-dealing or otherwise innocent teenagers whom you sexualize and introduce to drugs??? WHORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Father on trial in Pinellas County accused of stalking adult daughter
By Curtis Krueger, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Friday, June 3, 2011
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In spring 2010, Dennis Hobbs wore face paint and a wig to spy on his 18-year-old near an abuse shelter she lived in, police say.
LARGO — Dennis Hobbs is a father who wanted to keep tabs on his 18-year-old daughter because he worried that she was skipping school, smoking and having sex with her boyfriend.
But when St. Petersburg police found Hobbs one night in spring 2010, he was inside his car dressed in black, wearing face paint and a wig, near the abuse shelter where his daughter had gone to live. Inside the car was a loaded gun and detailed notebooks recording her activities.
So, in an unusual case, Hobbs was charged with stalking his own adult daughter and this week went on trial.
It's a strange case because of the goofy wig and the face paint, but in other ways it relates to an issue every parent faces — how far do you go to direct a child, even an adult child?
Defense attorney Denis de Vlaming said Hobbs was simply concerned for a wayward child and wanted to prevent her from making bad choices. He said it would have been a crime for him not to help her.
But Assistant State Attorney Theodora Komninos said Hobbs crossed the line into a criminal case of stalking, and detailed how Hobbs kept approaching and bothering his adult daughter long after she asked him to stay away.
"What this case is about is control and limits," she said.
For her part, daughter Lyndsay Hobbs, now 20, testified that after she learned how her father was dressed in the disguise and near the shelter where she was staying, "I felt more scared for my life than I've ever been."
She said the incident made her fear that "I could have been kidnapped that night and sent anywhere in the world."
Hobbs is 60, and retired after working in computer programing and other technical matters for AT&T. He has no criminal record in Florida. He and his wife now live in Texas, but returned for the trial.
Lyndsay Hobbs is an artist who studied at the highly regarded Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota. But according to testimony this week, her father was concerned about her behavior when she was as young as 16.
He found a birth control pill in her room, disapproved of her boyfriend, believed she had been drinking and discovered risque comments she made on Facebook, which even she now acknowledges were inappropriate. She also was charged with shoplifting.
But prosecutors say Hobbs went too far. He came to see her at her job at a CVS against her will, and came uninvited more than once to her boyfriend's family's house, where she stayed for a time, witnesses testified. Lyndsay Hobbs testified that she got a temporary injunction against her father "because he would not leave me alone." She moved into an abuse shelter to get away from him, and because "I felt more safe there."
But he hired a private investigator and found her. He even knew somehow that she had bought a scooter while at the shelter, even though she never told him that.
He also wanted her to leave Ringling and move along with his wife to Texas, saying she could continue her studies there.
After Hobbs was arrested, police arranged for his daughter to make a secretly recorded phone call to him.
On the rather scratchy recording, which was played in court, she said she was scared of him because he kept stalking her. He denied stalking and said she had been lying.
"I just want to live my life," she said.
"You want to live a life of sex and drugs," he said. He told her he loved her.
"I think you want someone you can control," she said.
The case is expected to go to the all-female jury this afternoon.
Curtis Krueger can be reached at (727) 893-8232 or ckrueger@sptimes.com.
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hcb Jun 2, 2011 4:04 PM About 6 days ago This has to be made up - no police force actually spent time and money in secretly recording him and then charging him with stalking. No prosecutor really thought he "went too far" or that he was a danger. With all the deal making with really serious criminals, THIS one goes to trial? The judge didn't wonder why someone didn't just tell dad he was overreaching and his daughter is an adult so he should back off? All of these people listen to the girl worry she "could have been kidnapped and sent anywhere in the world?" THIS is how we minimize invasive government? No - this is a prank by the prosecutor and police to see if the Times really does any fact checking. If not, all you PIs tracking cheating spouses better be watching your steps.
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Report Abuse 9 7 TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 3, 2011 4:15 AM About 5 days ago Thanks, hcb. I always thought this one was too weird. Maybe daughter is dipping into scientology. devlaming will fix it. Reply
Report Abuse 1 1 conehead Jun 3, 2011 10:09 AM About 5 days ago Don't forget, she'd already gotten a restraining order on the freak before he pulled his little "Special Ops" mission to "save his daughter". Sometimes, its nice to see the police act before somebody gets hurt. If that's the way he treats an adult child, I feel sorry for his wife. No telling what kind of hell she lives in. Reply
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 10:54 AM Less than a minute ago Sorry conehead, I disagree. Just because she doesn't want him to come to her job doesn't mean he CAN'T. If I read right that was before the restraining order? The rest sounds hooey. Sounds like maybe boyfriend or someone has court connections and she was in a BAD crowd which served as witnesses for some reason. My family couldn't get a restraining order when a guy SHOT at them who was already arrested for a prior murder, fleeing to elude and other stuff and subsequently for strangling his wife... so the whole thing sounds OFF. I doubt the gun was for her. The shelter was probably in a bad hood and/or he alwasy carried. I just don't think her story is plausible ..
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Report Abuse Jethro Bodine Jun 2, 2011 4:07 PM About 6 days ago dysfunctional family values......sounds like a "before and after" answer on Wheel of Fortune but it isn't
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Report Abuse 0 7 gwm56 Jun 2, 2011 4:26 PM About 6 days ago I don't know if he was a concerned dad or a Stalker, I do know he was one ugly Women.
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Report Abuse 1 7 Tilted1 Jun 2, 2011 4:50 PM About 6 days ago psycho control freak.
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Report Abuse 3 9 chet Jun 2, 2011 4:58 PM About 6 days ago I'd like to be on this jury.
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Report Abuse 2 6 SS Jun 2, 2011 5:06 PM About 6 days ago Creeper.
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Report Abuse 1 7 ididso Jun 2, 2011 5:14 PM About 6 days ago A wig and make up, and his high priced lawyer wants everyone to think that he is just a concerned father?
The guy is a nut.
He should be laughed out of the court room, (that goes for his client too).
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Report Abuse 2 9 Phoenix Jun 2, 2011 5:18 PM About 6 days ago - She is 18 and legally an adult.
-If she was living with him, he has he right to establish rules.
-If he is paying money to support her - he can just say "18, she moved out, I don't have to support her" and see a lawyer.
-Not living with him - he has no right to interfere or "stalk", unless he is paying her support.
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Report Abuse 5 5 Tilted1 Jun 2, 2011 5:30 PM About 6 days ago newsflash Einstein....even if he was giving her $ for living, that doesn't give him the right to interfere or "stalk". Reply
Report Abuse 0 11 mscolt1911 Jun 2, 2011 5:35 PM About 6 days ago This is a classic stalker, obsessed with a woman who happens to be his daughter. Usually when I read this type of story,it's after the incest has come to light and the girl murdered.
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Report Abuse 3 11 pjb863 Jun 2, 2011 5:50 PM About 6 days ago There are parents out there like this. They feel that because they brought you into the world, they own you - for as long as they live. While I never had an experience this bad with mine, it was bad enough: running credit checks at least once a year, even though I'd never accepted any money from them after turning 18, running criminal background checks, hiring detectives to have me followed when I was in my late 20's. After the man who fathered me died, I found the dossiers he'd been keeping on me and my siblings containing the above and much more. What a sicko!
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Report Abuse 0 7 TinaMarie Jun 2, 2011 7:55 PM About 6 days ago Its like something you see in a sitcom. Dad is so worried about his girl that he disguises himself and follows her around. Except for the gun! Now its an episode of Criminal Minds.
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Report Abuse 1 5 RDaniels Jun 2, 2011 10:08 PM About 6 days ago You watch too much tv. Reply
Report Abuse 2 1 TinaMarie Jun 2, 2011 11:07 PM About 6 days ago Lighten up. Its a joke! So many nasty grumpy people here. Reply
Report Abuse 1 3 luvstpete Jun 2, 2011 8:29 PM About 6 days ago He's a religious zealot nut. The very worst kind.
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Report Abuse 3 5 Gov_Tilt_Head Jun 2, 2011 9:32 PM About 6 days ago He's a religious republican zealot nut. The very worst kind.
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Report Abuse 4 6 History Buff Jun 2, 2011 10:13 PM About 6 days ago I hope she gets councelling. What a nightmare that his obsession forced her to flee and into hiding.
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Report Abuse 1 4 TpaBayNative Jun 2, 2011 11:39 PM About 6 days ago If a Restraining Order didn't stop him from stalking his daughter, I don't think counseling will do it. He's got some issues that overpower good reasoning and I have a strong feeling it's his religion. Who knows how far he will go to instill his religion in his daughter. He needs to be locked up somewhere, either jail or a mental institution to protect his daughter.
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Report Abuse 0 2 TpaBayNative Jun 2, 2011 11:42 PM About 6 days ago And how is it a private investigator will take a job to hunt someone down when there's a protective order against his client? He had to know that his client couldn't be around her, if not, then he should have.
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Report Abuse 0 2 Censorshipsucks Jun 2, 2011 11:47 PM About 6 days ago Being a father myself I have to say there is a time to let go. One word sums this story up for me... twisted.
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Report Abuse 0 4 ShellBell54 Jun 3, 2011 5:31 AM About 5 days ago deVlaming is just another over priced "dirt bag" lawyer who will defend wife beaters and child abusers if the price is right. He'll get this sick twist off too, just like he has numerous others. How he sleeps at night is beyond me.
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Report Abuse 3 1 CrazyIvan Jun 3, 2011 6:03 AM About 5 days ago I really am riding the fence on this. I DO believe the dad may have gone a bit overboard. But, I also believe one has to ask the question, "When a kid turns 18, do you stop being concerned about their direction in life?" The fact that she got arrested, at one point, for shoplifting, gives us a hint that this young lady may well have been rather dysfunctional and the father quite --- and legitimately -- concerned.
I once had a tenant who, after some time, threw her boyfriend out because he was "too controlling". Shortly after he left, she had succeeded in turning my property into a drug den with people coming and going all hours of the night, much to the consternation of the neighbors who complained to me. Things are not always as they appear....
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Report Abuse 3 1 conehead Jun 3, 2011 10:20 AM About 5 days ago So, what are you suggesting? That the boyfriend should have stayed with the girl to control her life and keep her on the straight an narrow? You really think that's an option? I can see why your moniker is "Crazy". Reply
Report Abuse 0 0 Fuglybedelia Jun 3, 2011 7:46 AM About 5 days ago Sounds like he was a creepy "pledge your virginity to me" daddy. Just a soundproof basement away from years of "protecting" her from the world.
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Report Abuse 1 1 Eugenics Jun 3, 2011 7:55 AM About 5 days ago Why do fathers completely forget about their own sexual past when it comes to their teenage daughters? They completely forget about being a teenager and trying to screw every girl they could get their hands on. I'm sure 99% of men out there were sexually active with other 16 yr olds when they were 16.
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Report Abuse 0 1 conehead Jun 3, 2011 10:28 AM About 5 days ago Please rephrase your comment to "some fathers". Reply
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 10:58 AM Less than a minute ago thank you, conehead. Hey eugenics, maybe it's the memories of "some" fathers' sexual pasts which lead them to be over protective. boink
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Report Abuse redpill Jun 4, 2011 3:20 PM About 4 days ago Because we decided to let 18-year-old people vote, we then took the further step and said that 18 was now the age of majority rather than 21 as it had been. Many people are 18 while still in high school. I think the notion of them being adults is foolish.
This man may have gone further than most would, or would feel comfortable seeing others do, but he had reasons to be concerned about his daughter's behavior. Nothing I have read here makes me certain his motives were not well intentioned, despite his unconventional ways.
I remember a wise person saying that you are never finished raising your children. They may be adults, but they are still your children. Of course the wise parent understands that a child who is older and has been living on their own is different than a young kid. Had this person been 40, I would look at it differently.
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Report Abuse 0 0 smartone Jun 5, 2011 8:52 PM About 3 days ago RedPil, you are more intelligent than most; the media even when trying to get it correct, make so many incorrect statements that bias the story. I sat through over half the testimony, and not once heard evidence that the daughter saw her heard her father do the things stated, she was told by the police and or media. At 18 when these things happened; she was still a young person swayed by what a police officer may tell her at 11 PM at night, she did not see it, she heard it. Last what I heard is a family since 16 years old, taught her to smoke, drink, have sex with the mother full knowledge unknown to the girls parents, and later drugs, they clearly dispised the father and mother and bombarded the girl with that feeling for four years. Seems the girl did not have a chance, she is a victim but not from her father.
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TampaCopsProtectDrugHouses Jun 8, 2011 10:59 AM Less than a minute ago Oh, that sounds exactly like what Christine DeCamp Breen did to my family member. Drug and sex compliments of the Irish Republican Army. She even provided the residence .... wish we could know the boyfriend's family's names. NOW. Sounds like they targeted this family ...
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