Saturday, September 6, 2008
Gregory S. Pound is a write in candidate for Pinellas County Sheriff.
Seems Pound was at a convention-watch party hosted by Rep. C.W. Young at the Hilton on Lake Carillon Parkway.
During the party, Pound was speaking to Beverly Young and she found his conversation to be offensive. So the staff of the Hilton asked Gregory Pound to leave. He refused to do so.
Needless to say the police was called. Pound still refused to leave. Pound was later arrested. He now faces a misdemeanor charge of trespassing after warning.
Now if being arrested isn’t bad enough during your campaign for office of Sheriff, Pound has also been Baker Acted as well.
Apparently a court appointed psychologist evaluated Pound and then reported to a county judge and the decision was made to send Pound to a mental facility for further evaluation under the Baker Act.
Maybe he needed to be Baker Acted, maybe the stress of being a write in candidate for sheriff was too much for him to handle.
Now I was just joking when I said that was one way to eliminate the competition. Being arrested for trespassing after notice is not an easy task. I have seen the police trespass people before (at the ER I worked at) and they gave the person every opportunity to leave without arrest.
They would be served a no trespass notice and the police would help them make arraignments for transportation, call a friend, help them off the property before they ever got to the point of arrest.
So sadly Pound did not take any opportunity to leave before he got arrested.
Maybe he will get the help he needs while spending his time at the mental facility.
Sadly I don’t have a lot of faith in the Baker Act process as I posted before, so I don’t see a lot happening there.
Anyway, this gives the voters something to think about when deciding who to vote for.
2 comments:
"Being arrested for trespassing after notice is not an easy task."
When I witnessed one it seemed a very easy task. I was at a convenience store my mother worked at and a man was waiting in line with other early morning people to pay for his things and they recognized him from the previous night. They called the police without his knowledge, the police arrived and arrested him on the spot. The guy had been drunk the night before and didn't even remember the No Trespass notice. He sat in the backseat of the police car crying.
It seemed very matter of fact to me. I would think your version of the patient law enforcement offering them a ride, giving them opportunity to leave, etc., may very well be the exception rather than the rule.
Well if he was there the night before and served with a notice of no trespass, then they would arrested on the spot.
The issue here is he had every option to leave before the police were ever called and he failed to do so. He failed to leave even after the police arrived.
Hince, it resulted in a no trespass notice being issued
He still failed to leave and then was arrested for trespassing.
Theres a big difference in what you are talking about.
That man was already served a notice the night before and drunk or not, he had been served notice.
And for him to return to the property was criminal trespass.
So we are talking about 2 very different issues here.
Thanks for the comment,
Jakester
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