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 ...