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.
