{"id":3362,"date":"2012-11-24T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2013-11-10T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T20:07:38","slug":"suspect-drowns-detectives-recorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3362","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Drowns Detective&#8217;s Recorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3363\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/image4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3363\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3363\" title=\"Townsend\/Polk\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/image4-250x300.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/image4-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/image4.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Townsend: Not so tight himself<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Lakeland Ledger reports that suspect Patrick Townsend was arrested by the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office for possession of 32.4 grams of methamphetamine. The drugs were found in Townsend&#8217;s boxer shorts following a traffic stop. Townsend bragged to a detective, &#8220;Dude, that ain&#8217;t shit. I deal in keyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The detective recorded Townsend&#8217;s incriminating statements on a portable recorder. While handcuffed, Townsend was able to surreptitiously steal the detective&#8217;s recorder from a lobby desk. He concealed it under his arm and asked to go to the bathroom&#8230;and the device went to its watery grave.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the lobby, Townsend asked, &#8220;What are you looking for, (detective), your recorder?&#8221; After admitting to the inconvenient flush, Townsend told the detective, &#8220;Tighten up on your job, Homie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The detective complied and tightened up Townsend&#8217;s arrest history by adding Trafficking in Methamphetamine, Possession of Marijuana, and Tampering with Evidence.<\/p>\n<p>J.D. &#8220;Buck&#8221; Savage would remind us to &#8220;Watch the hands!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lakeland Ledger reports that suspect Patrick Townsend was arrested by the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office for possession of 32.4 grams of methamphetamine. The drugs were found in Townsend&#8217;s boxer shorts following a traffic stop. Townsend bragged to a detective, &#8220;Dude, that ain&#8217;t shit. I deal in keyes.&#8221; The detective recorded Townsend&#8217;s incriminating statements on a portable recorder. While handcuffed, Townsend was able to surreptitiously steal the detective&#8217;s recorder from a lobby desk. He concealed it under his arm and asked to go to the bathroom&#8230;and the device went to its watery grave. Back in the lobby, Townsend asked, &#8220;What are you looking for, (detective), your recorder?&#8221; After admitting to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=3362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[786,11,4],"tags":[585],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-detectives","category-humor","category-officer-safety","tag-polk-county-sheriffs-office"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-Se","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6249,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}