PORT ST. LUCIE — A woman faces charges after she drove through a sheriff’s barrier at St. Lucie West K-8 School Tuesday and nearly ran over a deputy’s feet before closing her van’s door on his foot, according to an arrest affidavit released Wednesday.

Christina A. Lydon

Christina A. Lydon, 47, also refused to stop when Deputy Paul McNesky tried to flag her down and wouldn’t lower her window, the affidavit stated. Lydon, of the 6100 block of Northwest East Deville Circle in Port St. Lucie, was arrested on single felony and misdemeanor charges following the 9:20 a.m. Tuesday encounter.

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FORT PIERCE — A 49-year-old man faces felony charges after touching a 12-year-old girl inappropriately on two occasions beginning in mid-September, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.

Cornelius Huskin, of the 2400 block of Keen Road, was arrested Monday on two counts of lewd or lascivious behavior in connection with the incidents and told authorities he has “demons inside him of a sexual nature.”

The girl told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s investigators the first incident happened in mid-September when Huskin touched her inappropriately. The girl said he didn’t put his hands under her clothes.

The affidavit gave this account:
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A 54-year-old Port St. Lucie man faces DUI charges after allegedly laying down his motorcycle several times on the Crosstown Parkway Friday night, according to a St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit.

Roger Dale Syner, of the 200 block of Southwest Inwood Avenue, was arrested after 8 p.m. and charged with a traffic felony for DUI and a misdemeanor for refusing a breathalyzer test. It was the fourth DUI in Syner’s lifetime and third in 10 years, according to the affidavit.

A witness driving behind Syner watched him drop his motorcycle at least three times while he was speeding eastbound, according to the affidavit. He told officers he had just enough to drink.
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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Authorities announced Monday they made three arrests after three Storm Grove Middle School students were hospitalized when they became ill from snorting crushed Roxycodone pain pills and using other drugs.

The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office said one of the sick students, a 13-year-old girl, named students at the school who were providing prescription drugs and marijuana to her and others, Sheriff’s spokesman Deputy Jeff Luther said.

The Sheriff’s Office charged Halee Marie Webb, 14, of the 100 block of Harris Drive, Sebastian, and Jacob Scott Martin, 13, of the 100 block of Midvale Terrace, Sebastian, each with felony distribution of a controlled substance. Another 13-year-old girl had a juvenile affidavit filed against her for misdemeanor possession of marijuana, Luther said.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A 28-year-old man accused of driving over his ex-girlfriend’s foot during a weekend child exchange faces a felony aggravated battery charge, according to recently released records.

The victim told police on Saturday she met her ex-boyfriend, Brian Jarrette Haddon, in the parking lot of police headquarters for a child exchange. She has a 19-month-old girl and 5-week-old twin boys with Haddon.

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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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SEBASTIAN — City Council candidate Joseph Scozzari is trying to avoid any last-minute surprises by explaining why, 31 years ago, he became a convicted felon.

Scozzari said he was a 17-year-old single father who owned and operated pony rides in New York. He and a group of four others decided to take nine saddles from a vacant barn. The saddles belonged to some judges and attorneys and the young Scozzari and the others ended up arrested.

Scozzari said the others could afford lawyers, but he had a public defender who told me he was facing some time in prison if convicted of burglary.
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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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A Sebastian woman remained in custody Tuesday in Brevard County after she roughed up and robbed someone she was partying with and threatened to arrest him, though she is not a law enforcement officer, according to an incident report.

Dawn Leigh Kravis, 31, of the 1000 block of Roseland Road, Sebastian, was charged with robbery with no weapon, kidnapping and false imprisonment of an adult and fraudulently impersonating a law enforcement officer in the commission of a felony. She was being held at the Brevard County Detention Center in lieu of $48,000 bail.

A 53-year-old man who lives in the 9100 block of U.S. 1, Micco, called the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office about 6 a.m. Saturday and said Kravis had robbed him, the report said. He told deputies he had been partying most of Friday and early Saturday with Kravis and another woman, the report said.
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FORT PIERCE — A 22-year-old man accused of forcing a teen girl to perform a sex act on him before raping her at his mother’s home faces felony charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Monday.

The 16-year-old girl told police Sunday she met Timothy E. Mitz, of the 2800 block of Avenue H, about three to four weeks ago and engaged in “semi-consensual” sexual activities during that time.

She told investigators she was at Mitz’s mother’s residence on the 700 block of South 29th Street and went to sleep about 3 a.m. Sunday.
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