MARTIN COUNTY — A Port St. Lucie man claimed he severely injured himself and broke into a woman’s home to call 911, according to an arrest affidavit.

Joshua Burdette Sauls, 25, of the 200 block of Southeast Prima Vista Boulevard, said he was in the 5700 block of Southeast Lamay Drive in Stuart when he injured his left leg above the knee about 9 p.m. Monday, the affidavit said. Sauls said he opened the unlocked front door of a home on Lemay, grabbed a cordless phone and stepped back outside to call 911. A woman inside the home was in a back bedroom and told the Martin County Sheriff’s Office she didn’t hear Sauls enter.
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Thomas Butt

Thomas A. Butt, 57, dialed the emergency line that night to report that two men were raping a woman behind the Bank of America on U.S. 1.

When Martin County Sheriff’s deputies arrived, they didn’t find anyone except Butt, who was crouching down behind some bushes, according to a sheriff’s report. Butt told deputies the attackers were by a telephone pole but deputies said they found no one there.

Dispatchers told the deputies that Butt had called two other times that night to make false reports. In one call, he reported a burglary in progress but when deputies investigated they found that it wasn’t true, the report states. But also called to report a disabled vehicle on Interstate 95 that might be blocking the road.

Butt faces charges of making a false report using 911, loitering and resisting arrest.

Juan Gaspar-Montijo

While out on patrol just before 3 a.m. on Sunday, a Martin County Sheriff’s deputy found Juan Gaspar-Montijo, 21, talking on his cell phone with a distraught look on his face.

When the deputy asked if he needed help, Gaspar-Montijo didn’t respond, according to a sheriff’s report.

The deputy called 911 and a dispatcher told him Gaspar-Montijo was looking for a ride from the 14700 block of Southwest Martin Luther King Boulevard to his home in the 16500 block of Southwest Indian Mound Drive — about three miles away.

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FORT PIERCE — An apparent spat involving sardines and Vienna sausages erupted into a beating and ended with a 43-year-old local man going to jail, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.

The victim on Sunday told investigators she went to visit her ex-boyfriend, Maxie L. Davis, 43, who lives in the apartment behind hers, and they watched television.

The victim said Davis, of the 3500 block of Sloan Road, went out and she popped open a can of sardines and some Vienna Sausages, a popular canned wiener product. (more…)