Crime this Week
Crime this week in Baker
Baker County
Brotherly love lands two in jail
Questioning turned physical for Baker County Deputy W. Limbaugh when he and Deputy J. Peterson observed three guys walking toward CVS just before 5:00 a.m. Wednesday. When they stopped and questioned them, 20-year-old Stephen Fountain kept interrupting. Deputy Limbaugh then arrested Fountain for interfering with an investigation.
The police report states that as he was being arrested. Fountain became aggressive as he was being handcuffed. As Deputy Limbaugh was dealing with him, Fountain’s 16-year-old brother grabbed the back of his shirt collar stating "Let go of my brother" and grabbed the officer in a bear hug.
The juvenile complied after Deputy Peterson threatened to Taser him. Stephen Fountain was touch-tased to assist the arrest.
Sisterly love, not so sweet
This time it wasn’t family against outsiders, but family against family or more to the point, a fight with sister against sister that led to the arrest of two Sanderson women. Chana Lucinda Himle, 30, and Ashley Nicole Tanner, 18, were arrested for domestic battery after they got in a physical altercation after drinking. Charges are also being filed through the State Attorney’s Office on David Himle, Chana’s ex-husband, for battery during the fight. The child abuse hot line was contacted due to a minor child being present at the scene.
Child molester caught
An Okeechobee County man was arrested in Baker County after fleeing from the investigation of sexual battery charges in his hometown. Eddy Howard Oliver II, 39, of Ft. Drum, was on the run from four counts of sexual battery on a child under 12 years old and was camping at Ocean Pond in Baker County.
Oliver fled South Florida after finding out that Okeechobee deputies were about to arrest him. He borrowed a car and fled north. The car’s owner reported it missing after becoming aware of the charges facing Oliver and worked with police to locate him.
He arranged a meeting with Oliver to exchange vehicles at the CITGO in Sanderson just off of Interstate 10. Baker County deputies were waiting and arrested Oliver without further incident.
Love hurts
A 20-year-old Glen St. Mary woman was arrested for domestic violence after police were called twice to an altercation on Franklin Street. Amanda Sherry McCune assured officers that the fight was over after the first visit, but deputies were called back to the residence a few hours later to find the victim, a 21-year-old man with several large scratches on his chest and arms and a possible dislocated shoulder.
The victim stated that McCune began throwing his clothes out the door and attacked him when he protested. She continued to push and scratch him at which time he attempted to push her away injuring his shoulder.
Booze + overindulgence = arrest
An alert sale clerk called police when an apparently inebriated customer was driving away. Officer Mizell saw Marjorie Ann Christmas, 53, leaving at an accelerated speed. At Officer Mizell attempted to pull her over, she saw her weave across the roadway several times before finally stopping.
Christmas admitted she had "about four Rum and Coke’s" and said she was not drunk, but on her way to work. According to the police report, she seemed dazed and repeatedly tried to hand Officer Mizell her insurance card, arguing it was her vehicle registration. She failed the normal field sobriety tests and was charged with DUI.
Two days later Officer Mizell was on routine patrol traveling west on U.S. 90 approaching Wildcat Drive, when she saw a person staggering in the middle of the road. Barry Joseph Mitchell, 24, of Jacksonville, stated he had to get to Baldwin to go to church. Mitchell smelled like alcohol, his clothing was wet and soiled and he didn’t know where he was.
He told Deputy Mizell he was a trained killer and not to place handcuffs on him or he would kill. He was handcuffed and taken to jail.
Moon over Macclenny
While at the BP station, Melvin Mann, who was not wearing a shirt, unfastened his pants and pulled them and his underwear down to his ankles "mooning" a crowd outside of Mac’s Liquors on Macclenny Avenue. What Mann, 26, didn’t realize is that Sgt. Greg Burnsed had just arrived.
Mann and apparent side-kick Nicholas Byram, 25, had been taunting people at both the bar and BP station trying to get someone to fight. Byram was also driving extremely recklessly in the BP parking lot. Both were arrested for disorderly conduct.
