Night of mayhem in Pinellas County

LARGO -- Maybe people are just really psyched for the Super Bowl. Whatever the cause, Friday night was a wild one in Pinellas County, as the jail bookings this morning attest. Here's an account of the mischief.

Deputy Tasers hospital patient

A sheriff's deputy says he really was trying to help Daniel Moore, 25, by investigating an allegation that he was a victim of assault.

Moore was being treated at Northside Hospital for a head injury last night. But with slurred speech, alcohol on his breath and bloodshot eyes, Moore began yelling, spitting and disturbing other patients as he was treated, deputies say. He had to be restrained, an arrest affidavit says.

When the deputy arrested him for disorderly intoxication, he wriggled out of an arm restraint and tried to pull off the restraints on his other arm and legs. He stopped only after the deputy tased him, the affidavit says.

He faces charges of escape, resisting arrest, and disorderly intoxication.

Prank caller to police: F--- you.

St. Pete Beach police say Omar Chehab, 44, was yelling obscenities and prank calling 911 from a pay phone near 600 Corey Ave. last night about 10:30 p.m.

Dispatchers told police that he sounded intoxicated. Officers approached him, and his response was "F--- you. No, I don't need you," they reported in an arrest affidavit. When they asked why he called 911, he gave this reason: "Because, f--- you."

That explains it.

Chehab was charged with harassing phone calls to 911 and disorderly intoxication.

No, really, it's a paperweight

The wee hours of this morning were already not going well for Jason George, 26.

The Clearwater resident with a tattoo labeling him a porn star was arrested on a DUI charge by Largo Police.

Then the officer found a pair of brass knuckles in his back pocket, an arrest affidavit says. He told the cop that it was a paper weight.

George, who was released from jail this morning, faces charges of DUI and carrying a concealed weapon.

After-party foul

Push Ultra Lounge and Red Mesa Cantina were busy hosting an after party for alt rockers Hoobastank last night when someone crashed the party.

Joshua Smith, 24, knocked over an occupied portable toilet early this morning in downtown St. Petersburg and took off running from police, an arrest affidavit states.

The officer chased him for two blocks before he was arrested.

Smith faces charges of resisting arrest and criminal mischief. He also violated probation from a charge of first-degree arson, jail records show.

Surprise package found at jail

A Pinellas County deputy stopped Johnny Toliver, 30, at U.S. 19 and Ulmerton Road after he says Toliver ran a red light.

Toliver failed a field sobriety test and was arrested for DUI, an arrest affidavit states. They also seized a stolen handgun, the arrest report says. When deputies strip-searched him at the jail, they found Xanax pills in a cellophane wrapper in the "defendant's buttocks," as they say in police jargon.

Toliver faces charges of possession of Xanax, cocaine and marijuana, driving under the influence and introducing contraband into the jail.

Street racing in Pinellas Park?

The 1997 Mercedes was speeding eastbound through the 4000 block of Park Boulevard at 3:14 a.m. today, police say.

Behind the wheel was Lee Anthony Johnson, police say. He was driving 80 mph in a 40 mph zone, trying to outpace another car, according to an arrest affidavit.

He tried to outrun police, the affidavit says, but was arrested.

Johnson faces charges of fleeing and eluding and racing on a highway.

--Stephanie Garry, Times Staff Writer

Comments

[David Weber]

Sounds like a fun night!

One question though: Where were the transvestite hookers? It's not a party until they arrive.

[THEBIGFATMAN]

Fire a few Public Officials and build more jails. and the few people left in the public service buildings if they dont want the extra work replace them.

[dale]

good examples of the really smart people here in st pete... locals too...

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My neighbor told me that she may have left her door unlocked here in downtown St.Pete...the motion detector outside the complex kept me watchful all morning..and we must NEED places for folk to "go",my Scottish Pal got a citation not long ago from St.Pete's Finest for Public Urination,then just this a.m. I read that the portapotties ARE NOT SAFE...beware the 20 something running to "GO"...he could be the type or sort of person to set fires like the one @ 1026 9 Ave. So. ...as for calling 911..who's to say who he THOUGHT he was speaking to/what he Needed...Hillbilly in the Burg

[bopeep]

strange the homeless use St Pete streets and alleys as a urinal, yet someone gets arrested for Public Urination. Sounds like he was wearing the wrong clothes. Better wear the homeless look and smell ripe

[FapFap]

Moose, your still being a good boy I see.

Rusty

[BigR]

Knocking over an occupied Porto Potty is just plain funny

[Jmlleiva]

This guys cant control themselves

[Bobcat]

Big r with all that foul crap in them they are very dirty and could cause some one to catch a virus and die so i say let you be the one they tip it on you are justa sick sob