Monday, March 4, 2013
Kevin Mahaffey of Dunedin was charged with possession of crack cocaine.
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office stopped 50-year-old Kevin Mahaffey for a "bicycle infraction" just after 9 p.m. on Feb. 25. According to the arrest affidavit, as the deputy was asking for consent to search Mahaffey, he handed over a white plastic tube, which had .4 grams of cocaine inside. Mahaffey, of Roanoke St., was charged with possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Three days prior to his cocaine arrest, Mahaffey was arrested by deputies on a DUI charge. Deputies said Mahaffey admitted to smoking the cocaine about one hour before being stopped. The affidavit said Mahaffey claimed the cocaine was given to him "by an unknown subject of a debt that was owed to him." Sign up for the free Dunedin Patch email …
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Two Dunedin men are accused of taking valuable electronics, clothing and jewelry during a string of neighborhood knock-and-nab burglaries between Feb. 7 and 13, according to Clearwater Police.
Two Dunedin men are accused of taking valuable electronics, clothing and jewelry during a string of neighborhood knock-and-nab burglaries between Feb. 7 and 13, Clearwater Police say. Clearwater Police arrested Skylar D Jones, 19, and Tyler Louis Zerin, 18, both of Duncan Loop in Dunedin, on Feb. 14, and charged them each with four felony counts of burglary of an unoccupied dwelling for incidents in Clearwater and Dunedin. Arrest records indicate that Jones and Zerin were seen knocking on the door of a home on Powderhorn Drive, off of Union Street in Clearwater, around 10 a.m. on Feb. 13. When no one answered, the men went through a gate to the back yard, entered the home through an unlocked door and took a Sony Playstation, an iPad, games…
Monday, January 28, 2013
Sheriff's Bob Gualtieri warned residents during the Pinellas County Sheriff's first of many quarterly appearances at City Hall Jan. 24 that not everything going on in south Dunedin is as it seems.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri stood before Dunedin officials Jan. 24 and discussed what he knows to be on residents' minds. What's being done about crime on Dunedin's south side? He told residents not everything is as it seems and followed with a warning to think twice before breaking the law. "The other thing that we’ve done ... is asked the residents to be patient with us," Gualtieri said. "Because there may be a lot of things going on, and some of the things you’re seeing, and some of the things they don’t see that I can tell you that we do have in the south part of the city now — and I’m not going to share much about it other than to say it's there — we do have significant undercover law enforcement activity going on. "So those…
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Pinellas County Sheriff's detectives are investigating an armed robbery at the Union Street Munchee's late Tuesday in Dunedin.
Pinellas County detectives are searching for two people suspected of robbing the Union Street Munchee's late Tuesday. Authorities report that two suspects, at least one of them armed, entered Munchee's at 614 Union St. at about 9:35 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15. They ordered one clerk to lay on the ground at gunpoint and a second clerk to walk behind the counter, demanding money from the cash register. Both the clerks complied, said Cecilia Barreda, Pinellas County Sheriff's spokeswoman. She said one of the suspects struck the clerk over the head with a gun and he fell to the ground, sustaining a small cut to the head. The victim was later treated at the scene by Dunedin Fire paramedics. Barreda said that the suspects exited Munchee's with an …
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Friday, January 4, 2013
In response to a December request from Dunedin city leaders, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office agreed to attend commission meetings on a quarterly basis, the City Clerk's Office reports.
Residents should hear from law enforcement officials more often in 2013. This comes in response to a December request from city leaders asking the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office for more face time at public meetings. A verbal agreement was made with the Sheriff's Office to have a someone attend Dunedin commission meetings on a quarterly basis (on the second meeting of the month), at no additional charge to the city, the City Clerk's Office reported Thursday. Sheriff's spokeswoman Cecilia Barreda explained that the Sheriff's Office is committed to addressing the needs and concerns of the cities it patrols. Barreda said the Sheriff received the city's request on Dec. 19, the same day a Dunedin Patch story about Mayor Dave Eggers request …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Mayor Dave Eggers told commissioners that he wants the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office to appear regularly at Dunedin city commission meetings in light of recent concerns for neighborhood crime on the south side.
Recent rumblings from southside residents concerned about neighborhood crime got Mayor Dave Eggers thinking about the city's relationship with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. "That's the largest contract in the city," he said to commissioners during a Dec. 6 public meeting at City Hall. " ... And nobody really has any interaction here with them," he said, referring to public discourse on the dais. Eggers consulted the commission about having Nancy Duggan, the city's Pinellas County Sheriff's Office liaison, ensure law enforcement reports regularly at Dunedin's city meetings — whether it be every other month or every third month. "It gives the Sheriff (Office) an opportunity to show his face to the residents of the city," Eggers said…
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office netted 10 unlicensed contractors offering home repair services through Internet and newspaper ads during a two-day sting operation on Roanoke Street in Dunedin.
A two-day sting in Dunedin netted 10 unlicensed contractors offering home repair services via Internet and newspaper listings, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a press conference in Largo on Friday. Most of the trucks and cars had no business names on them. The one vehicle with a name on it, had a "fake" license number on it, Gualtieri said. Pinellas County Sheriff's Office deputies combed through home-repair listings on Craiglist, Angie's List and The Seminole Beacon, and made 38 phone calls to several contractors offering a variety of roofing, plumbing, air-conditioning and electrical services. The advertisements did not contain the contractors' license numbers, Gualtieri said. Eight unlicensed contractors showed up on Wednesday and …
Charlie Martin
1:06 pm on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
what specifically is a "bicycle infraction" ? can they do it to me when i travel by bicycle? more ›