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MARTIN COUNTY — A South Fork High School resource deputy used a stun gun on an unruly student Tuesday, according to an arrest affidavit.
Markee Deshawn Felton, 18, of the 8400 block of Southeast Comus Street, Hobe Sound, was charged with resisting arrest with violence and disruption of a school function. He was being held at the Martin County Jail in lieu of $2,750 bail. (more…)
PORT ST. LUCIE — A 23-year-old man linked to two robberies last year in Stuart was arrested Tuesday in Port St. Lucie on drug and other charges, according to officials and records released Wednesday.
Seth Pusieko was one of three people quickly identified in a November robbery outside a pharmacy in the 600 block of Colorado Avenue near downtown Stuart, police said. Police also say he was wanted in connection with a June robbery with similar circumstances at the same location. (more…)
By WILL GREENLEE
PORT ST. LUCIE — A 57-year-old local man was arrested Tuesday after threatening to blow up a mortgage company in north Florida and saying he’d hire someone to “put a bullet” in a company representative’s head, according to records released Wednesday.
Portik was arrested and taken to the St. Lucie County Jail.
John Andrew Portik
John Andrew Portik, of the 8000 block of Kiawah Trace, who said he was calling for one of his employees, faces a felony threaten to discharge a destructive device charge following the incidents.
A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office investigator Tuesday was dispatched to American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc., where an employee took a call from a person identifying himself as Portik, a Jacksonville Sheriff’s report states. The call had been transferred from an office in Texas.
Portik was calling on behalf of one of his workers in Arizona and was “upset” that American Home Mortgage wasn’t assisting with the worker’s “mortgage problems,” the report states.
“The subject told (the mortgage employee) that he has been noted as crazy, owns a ‘skip-tracing’ company, suffers from PTSD, and is disabled,” the Jacksonville Sheriff’s report states. “He said he had no problem ‘…blowing all of your (backsides) up.”
A Jacksonville investigator determined Portik called different numbers for the business, and in one case talked to a representative in India.
“I will hire someone in India to burn you and put a bullet in your head!” he said.
The Jacksonville sheriff’s investigator contacted St. Lucie County Sheriff’s officials, who went to Portik’s home.
Portik stated he was not getting anywhere with the people he was calling and stated “I ruffled some feathers!” Portik’s arrest affidavit states.
Asked how he “ruffled feathers,” Portik said he’s been a bill collector for 28 years and “knows the law and where the line is.”
He said he knows “how to get deep in their hearts to get an effect,” the affidavit states.
FORT PIERCE — A 27-year-old Fort Pierce man was charged with multiple drug felonies Saturday afternoon and admitted he and a partner trafficked marijuana from Texas to Florida, according to the county Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit.
Victor Tapia was arrested at his home in the 1700 block of Angle Road after officers used a search warrant to find 132 grams of cocaine and 7 grams marijuana. (more…)
FORT PIERCE — A man accused of holding a knife to the throat of a woman as she held a 4-month-old child faces a felony charge, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.
Gary Anthony Nembhard, 45, of the 700 block of Citrus Avenue, was arrested on an aggravated assault with a deadly weapon charge following the Saturday incident at his listed address. (more…)
PORT ST. LUCIE — Police Chief Donald Shinnamon has decided not to make the parents of two boys who made a bogus report of a girl being abducted Wednesday morning pay the costs of the massive effort to find the non-existent girl.
Tom Nichols, the Port St. Lucie Police Department public information officer, confirmed the decision but declined to explain Shinnamon’s reasoning. (more…)
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Authorities Tuesday filed charges against a man who allegedly punched and killed a 6-pound dog earlier this month.
Justin Dabelow, 23, of the 1300 block of 16th Court Southwest, Vero Beach, posted $7,000 bail Wednesday at the Indian River County Jail. He was charged with cruelty to animals, disposal of bodies of dead animals and abandonment of an animal.
Dabelow told the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office on Nov. 7 he was at his home and removing his girlfriend’s Yorkshire terrier from its crate when it bit him on his hand. He punched the dog and it went unconscious.
Later, he and his girlfriend checked on the dog and found it was dead, according to an incident report. Dabelow took the dog’s body and tossed it into the woods behind his home, the report states.
By Lamaur Stancil, TCPalm.com
FORT PIERCE — A man suspected of being the “Red Striped Bandit” was arrested following a Monday armed robbery and is thought to be involved in a series of similar crimes stretching back to 2007, according to an affidavit released Tuesday by police.
Cedrick T. Beckwith, 26, of the 800 block of Georgia Avenue, faces a robbery with firearm charge in connection with the Monday evening incident at the Ramallah Food Market in the 3000 block of Orange Avenue. (more…)
PORT ST. LUCIE — A 44-year-old man who threw darts at patrons of Mickey Finns bar and returned to the establishment after being kicked out was arrested, according to a recently released affidavit.
The bartender “cut off” serving drinks to Scott D. Leonard, of the 100 block of Southeast Todd Avenue, late Sunday or early Monday “due to Mr. Leonard’s behavior as he was throwing darts at other patrons.” (more…)
FORT PIERCE — About $200,000 worth of marijuana was seized Thursday during a grow house bust by the Fort Pierce Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, according to a police news release.
Police with the DEA arrested and charged Michael Philip Carty, 44, and his wife, Tiffany Dawn Carty, 32, both of the 1100 block of Granada Avenue, with cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana with the intent to sell and possession of drug paraphernalia. As of Thursday evening, both were in St. Lucie County Jail in lieu of $10,500 bail. (more…)
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