STUART — A Palm City man, who was driving without a license when he was involved in a fatal traffic accident in 2000, was arrested Saturday morning for driving on a suspended license.

Charles E. McComas, 24, was stopped on the west side of the Palm City Bridge about 10 a.m. Saturday, after a Martin County deputy’s radar registered his vehicle travelling at 54 mph in a 35 mph zone. (more…)

HOBE SOUND — Kobie O. Gary, son of famed local lawyer Willie Gary, and Hobe Sound resident Steven A. Shepherd did not make any statements to investigators before being released on $10,000 bail each late Tuesday.

Kobie Gary, 30, and Shepherd, 33, were arrested Tuesday after investigators found more than 250 marijuana plants growing at the home where Shepherd lives in the 7200 block of Southeast Mulberry Drive. The relationship between the men wasn’t known.

Investigators stopped Kobie Gary as he walked out of the grow house’s front door and got in a Chevrolet Tahoe, according to the arrest affidavit. (more…)

FORT PIERCE — Police arrested a 45-year-old man accused of burglarizing a church in late September, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.

Eric L. Teal, of the 600 block of South Sixth Street, faces charges including burglary, petit theft and giving a false name to a law enforcement officer.

Teal’s arrest Friday came less than a month after an employee at the First United Methodist Church of Fort Pierce in the 600 block of Orange Avenue told police he noticed a DVD/VHS player and a DVD player missing.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A 19-year-old man accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl was arrested Thursday morning on a felony charge, an arrest affidavit states.

Joseph John Waller, of the 1000 block of Southwest Coleman Avenue, was arrested just after 2 a.m. on a charge of lewd or lascivious offense committed upon a person under 16.

The victim’s mother found Waller trying to hide under the victim’s bed when she checked on her daughter between 1 a.m. and 1:10 a.m., police said.

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FORT PIERCE — A woman accused of throwing a table leg through the window of her home after her boyfriend refused to buy more beer faces a felony charge, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.

The boyfriend told police Tuesday night his long-time live-in girlfriend, Andrea Elizabeth Bathgate, got angry because the beer supply was exhausted and asked him to purchase more.

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FORT PIERCE — A 22-year-old man accused of robbing a Riverside Bank at gunpoint Wednesday morning was taken into custody about 10 minutes later, police said.

Armed with a silver-colored handgun, Terry B. Delion entered the bank in the 2200 block of Okeechobee Road about 9:05 a.m., police said. He immediately pointed the weapon at the tellers and demanded money, police said.

“One of the employees there pushed a panic alarm indicating that there was a robbery,” Detective David Cuti said. “Many road patrol officers responded to the scene.”
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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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FORT PIERCE — A 49-year-old man was arrested after bringing a revolver and two knives in a backpack into the police station Monday morning, according to an affidavit released Tuesday.

Keith Dale Parrish, of the 3300 block of South Seventh Street, faces a charge of felony carrying a concealed weapon.

Parrish entered the police department about 8:20 a.m. and asked to talk to a detective about an earlier robbery.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 69-year-old Fort Pierce man learned the hard way there are no clothing-optional beaches in St. Lucie County, according to St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.

Joseph Robert Romano, of the 1000 block of Century Drive in Fort Pierce, has been charged with loitering/prowling after two women on Friday saw him sitting without clothes on Walton Rocks Beach.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a woman walking through security at the St. Lucie County Courthouse was found to have marijuana in her purse.

The sheriff’s office reports that 21-year-old Chantel Marissa Johnson was entering the courthouse Tuesday morning when a private security officer ran her purse through a scanning device. The scanner found a razor, a knife, scissors and padlock, which led to the officer to emptying out the purse. That’s when he found a small bag of what appeared to by marijuana. A field test confirmed it.

Johnson was arrested by deputies at the courthouse and charged with possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana. She was later released on $500 bail.