He proceeded to tell me I missed a court appointed sample collection. Knowing I hadnt, I asked what was the sample I was suppose to give and he said you know the sample you guys give. I asked where this was supposed to be given and he said where I register. I told him I didnt register in Hillsborough he immediately was confused said oh ya then you need to go to Pinellas. By this time I was for sure this was a scammer and was pissed that he had gotten my anxiety up in the beginning. as they say knowledge is power so I decided to have a little fun with him. We went back and forth a little bit and he said oh I must be one of those smart ones who thinks they know the law.

He asked if I was refusing to five the sample and I said no and which he said he was stay on the line until I got down to the Pinellas Sheriffs department. Oh he had told me before that when I got there I would immediately be arrested. So being the smart ass that I am I asked him how is he going to stay on the phone and also notify them to arrest me which he gave me a stupid reason. He said I had to go right now and I said no because I was at work. I had to work so that I could pay for bail and an attorney if I was going to be arrested. I then asked him if I called some of the Detectives I know down there they would know about this and I named off a few I know, one I even babysat when he was a kid. The scammer didnt have any answers for me and finally hung up. I called back and gave them my name again and was again hung up on.

I felt pretty good by now so I text the detective who handles my file but never got a response which was kind of depressing. I had hoped they would want to the details to try to stop this.

I tell my story so that maybe one person wont fall prey to them.

Yea I get that. I recently moved out of state. When I came to register for the first time I found that I was sent to the wrong county sheriff by Florida and more impressively Florida still had me listed on paper. I gladly showed my termination papers signed by the judge. And one last thing, in this state I register once a year but have monthly residence checks. So yeah it sticks with us.

To true my brother

Truth

Thank you, I am blushing lol

Believe it or not, a friend I had who was a deputy in another department stood by me even after I told him it was best to not get involved because some of the accusations might be true. I had people I never thought would stand by me and others that changed their phone #’s just so I would not call them as a character witness.

When I was on the job, there were three main types of officers. Two of the types I can name the officers and the middle one I cannot.

Type
#1 The officers who made mine and others around them, lives misrable (I can name even 40 years later their names)

#2 The officers or department employees who treated me with respect and honest 100% down home truth, justice and the American way. ( I can only name 3 of them 40 years later)

#3 Those quiet, boring, plain or hide in the shadows, people who were nice but but shy or not people persons ( I can picture them in my head but couldn’t name a single one) They just didn’t stand out .

But to say all law enforcement are jerks is crazy. Since being on the registry I had a deputy who after pulling me over and learning I was on the registry, still let me pray for him. I held his hand and prayed protection and blessing over him.

Then I have had officers I had contact with for being in a park detain me for hours harassing me searching for any little thing to haul me in for.

The first county I lived in they used Police detectives for registration. That was horrible and I moved away. Where I am now they use civilian employees and so far if you treat them with respect, they do the same. I have yet to have any issues with them. Having said that, I have seen jerks registering just giving the employees grief like they had personally put him on the registry.

The old saying, the one who makes the most noise gets noticed. That is NOT always the best thing.

BWJ

It seems that the right judge has no issues with us getting off probation early, I had the same fortune. But if we stay out of trouble for 31 years past our incident, we still have to have lifetime registration four times a year? And all because it was ruled as non punitive in nature. As my Ex girl friend The church lady use to say “Well isn’t that special”.

That good to your constitutional rights.

Your situation sounds very similar to mine, and it socks. If it is of any help to you, I had my probation terminated early. I’ll say this for all of us registrants, stay positive and have a goal. Through endurance we conquer.

No law enforcement in the United states is going to release warrant information over the phone. If they did that, every person with a warrant would call and verify, then take off. As former law enforcement, I 100% agree with that stance.

Luckily, in Florida you can go on the FDLE website and search for outstanding warrants. Having said that, I do not know what time frame they are added to their site so do not expect it to be posted right away.

I have looked on there before when I thought I had a warrant. Nothing was there so I went down to the sheriff’s office and spoke in person and was told no warrants. The reason was, I kept getting cards on my front door from the Sheriff’s office stating they needed to speak to me. I finally found out they wanted to check our security cameras for an incident that happened in the neighborhood.
When I spoke to them finally, they said if my cameras were working they would need to get a copy of the video and I politely told them to contact the alarm company as I have no way of providing that. ( I actually do but they never help me when I am victim of a crime so pack sand )

Brandin

Previously I had compared that to something that has happened to me on several occasions. A lady down the street had her car broken into and 4 patrol units and a crime scene van showed up and spent hours investigating.

A few months later, the windows in my house were shot out. I was told to make a report online. I even told them, even though it doesn’t matter but I am former law enforcement. I ended up having to do the online report. I am sure it went through the shredder or the “Not important file” as months later, even with badgering, no detective ever followed up even though it was promised.
The dispatchers have the info of where all registered persons live so I am assuming that is the first information they see and perhaps a note pops up saying “Low priority address”. And yet sometimes when I get an address verification, the suddenly have the staff to send 3 officers to check on me? In what World does that make sense?

Bwj ,Unfortunately I am still dealing with probation And have to deal with it for several more years. When I first got out I was living in a mobile home owned by a former probation officer who had 2 people in each room ,her rules were crazy we were not allowed to have any visitors on the property were not allowed to have pets were not allowed to change the AC/ heat twmp settings. We had probation come in once a month for they’re visit they would come at like 3:00 am wake everybody up then walk thru the house looking in all the rooms . then on Halloween 3 probation officers and 3 deputys would come in and search everybody search the house and look at everybody cell phones it was Usually right at 6:15 since we had to be home by then. I seen several get violated at the house. It was always on the sheriffs list to come check when they were bored