Robert Payne

The girl’s mother alerted police that day after finding a note from Robert W. Payne to the girl.

In it, he offered her the Xbox and to let her play with his cell phone, according to a police report.

When questioned by detectives, Payne, 26, told police he had exposed himself to the girl on four different occasions and performed a sex act on himself. He also said he once touched the girl’s backside through her clothes.

According to the report, Payne admitted he was attracted to the girl and had a “fascination” with her, which he attributed to being abused himself as a child.

Payne is being held in the St. Lucie County jail in lieu of $125,000 bail. He faces one charge of molestation and four counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition.

Samuel Jenkins

On Friday night police received an anonymous call that a man was swinging a bat at a woman on Lennard Road. When officers arrived, they couldn’t find either person.

The next day, police were called to St. Lucie Medical Center, where a 22-year-old woman told investigators her younger brother, Samuel Jenkins, had hit her with a bat the night before.

The woman reported she and her brother were at a home in the 1600 block of Lennard when she blamed Jenkins, 19, for breaking her cell phone. Jenkins became upset, she said, retrieved the bat and struck her several times. He later left with other relatives, she said.

According to doctors, the woman suffered no broken bones and was discharged from the hospital the same day she came in.

Jenkins was arrested Saturday and on Monday afternoon was being held in the St. Lucie County jail in lieu of $25,000 bail.

PORT ST. LUCIE — About 20 Koi fish were reported stolen from a man’s back yard pond on Sunday.

The man told police he had gone into his yard on Dragon Street that morning and noticed that at least 20 of the fish were missing from his pond.

The man said the fish had a total value of about $600.

He also said he had had other Koi fish stolen before, about two months ago. He said that at that time, the thief shot out one of his spotlights.

PORT ST. LUCIE — A 15-year-old teen faces a charge of aggravated battery for shooting a BB gun at his mother’s backside.

The teen’s mother told police she and boy were arguing Wednesday afternoon when he cursed at her. In an effort to discipline him, the mother struck him twice in his arm, she and boy said. Then the boy shot her with the BB gun, he told police.

Neither the teen or his mother requested medical treatment.

Police said they have had to show up at the family’s home on Aires Lane several times in the past because the boy, who is on probation, is unruly and disrespects his family. Earlier that afternoon, the teen punched a flat-screen television during an earlier argument, the mother said.

The boy was arrested on a second-degree felony charge.

By ANA X. CERON and DAPHNE DURET
Palm Beach Post Staff Writers

Manuel Morales

He did.

After receiving a call shortly before 1 a.m. that Morales was armed with a knife and could possibly kill the five other people in his house on Southeast Croquet Street, police asked Manuel to let them inside the back bedroom where he had barricaded himself. He didn’t.

So Officers Matthew Cuba and Albert Riccardi forced open the door and saw Morales pointing straight at them what they believed was a rifle.

Cuba fired his Taser, narrowly missing him before Riccardi fired at the man twice.
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By LAURA GREEN
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
A Port St. Lucie Police officer responding to a domestic call shot and killed a man who police say was armed and a threat to the officers.
At about 1 a.m. Sunday, Manuel Morales’ sister called police to the home at 1513 SE Croquet Street to help her brother, Public Information Officer Tom Nichols said.
When police came to the home where Morales had locked himself in a bedroom and refused to come out, they broke in.
“Manny was armed and he failed to comply with our commands,” Nichols said. “The officers felt their safety was in jeopardy.”
Officer Albert Riccardi shot Morales twice in the left torso and is now on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure, he said. Nichols did not have the full name of the other officer in the room.
Morales was taken to a trauma center where he died.
Nichols would not identify the weapon Morales was holding. Police are still investigating, he said.

Matilda Nunez

Matilda Nunez, 60, was leaving the Wash-N-Go car wash on Port St. Lucie Boulevard on Tuesday afternoon when she hit a bicyclist crossing the driveway, police said.

The 16-year-old bicyclist was carrying a passenger and both were throw from the bike. The bicyclist landed partly in front of the car before dragging himself to a grassy shoulder, police said.

Witnesses told police the woman was talking on her cell phone when the crash happened.
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Matthew Beider

The mother, 56, told police her son, Matthew Beider, had asked her to pick her up from a bar.

When they got to their home on Southwest Pisces Terrace, the woman said Beider was angry because he didn’t have money to purchase drugs.

He became agitated and threatened to kill her as he fiddled with a pocketknife, the woman said. At one point he also pinned both her arms behind her back, she said.
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Edward Farren

Michelle Farren

Martin County Sheriff’s Deputy Edward Farren, 41, allegedly pushed his wife to the ground after an argument on Saturday night.

His wife, Michelle Farren, had spent the night at her husband’s Port St. Lucie home after he called her and asked her to come over, the woman told police.

Michelle Farren said she showed up at his house despite a restraining order that he has against her because she wanted to be with their three children.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — A man was shot after a fight between a teen and a woman ended up with the man’s girlfriend accidentally firing a gun at him, police said.

Port St. Lucie resident Curtis Mock, 19, was taken to Lawnwood Regional Medical Center with serious but not life-threatening injuries.

Nineteen-year-old April Lipko and Alyssa Dolan, 17, were at Dolan’s home in the 1200 block of Southwest Santiago Street when they argued, according to police.

Dolan left her kitchen to retrieve a shotgun, which she then pointed at Lipko and her boyfriend, 18-year-old Christopher Wilson, police said.

Wilson and Lipko left, and once outside Wilson said he’d be calling authorities to report that Dolan had threatened to shoot them, police said.

Mock, Dolan’s boyfriend, swiped the phone from Wilson, which Wilson retrieved when he said he wouldn’t call 911, according to police.

Wilson began to back out of the driveway in his truck and Mock started walking back toward the house when Dolan discharged the gun and shot Mock in his right arm.
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