{"id":386,"date":"2018-05-02T15:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T19:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clearwatercriminallawyer.net\/?p=386"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:31:42","slug":"backyard-brawl-with-cops-lands-florida-man-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criminalattorneyclearwater.net\/blog\/backyard-brawl-with-cops-lands-florida-man-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Brawl with Cops Lands Florida Man in Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Florida appeals court recently took up a unique case<\/a> about a fairly common occurrence:\u00a0 a call to the Department of Children and Families ending in an arrest.A defendant was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence, stemming from an incident in his backyard in Santa Rosa County. His wife had called the Department of Children and Families earlier in the day, saying that she feared for the safety of herself and her five-year-old child. Although DCF officials would normally respond to the call, they requested police assistance because of DCF\u2019s previous history with the defendant. DCF had been called to the house multiple times, according to the court, and he had threatened to harm them. During the latest call, the court said the defendant wife told DCF he said he\u2019d dismember them if they entered his home.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the court described what the cops and a DCF employee encountered when they went to the house: \u201cThe home was a fortress. [The defendant] had erected a number of barriers, including a sharp, padlocked, picket-style fence around the front yard. He had equipped the home with customized locking doors and opaque, inoperable windows.\u201d<\/p>\n

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