My Boyfriend & I are Being Harassed by Someone You Would LEAST Expect….

The local law enforcement officials are harassing my boyfriend & I. By harassment I mean unnecessarily following us as if we have done something wrong. Have we? No.

The irony is that they are wasting time they could be using to arrest the actual bad guys out there and solve actual criminal investigations. Instead our local Sheriff’s office has decided to launch “Project Goodwill” which to put it bluntly is just following around a group of about 20-30 people they suspect of being a part of something they really are not even involved with… Most don’t even know about it.

And those bad guys still running amuck hurting innocent citizens (your friends &family) are laughing about it. They can breathe a sigh of relief because the majority of law enforcements attention has shifted onto this small group of rather harmless individuals who have been profiled into this “group”… Drug users (not big time king pins), hard knockers and the homeless hustlers. “Dope heads” have a horrible reputation for stealing and in this particular case, thievery is the main crime law enforcement are busting heads on in the awfully-named “Project.Goodwill”.

So, let me begin what will probably end up as a.multi part or series of posts in reference to this particular course of action taken by the local enforcement officials, Walton County Sheriffs Office, or WSCO as you will often see them referred to as.

Filing a Complaint Against WCSO

Here is the first incident I reported to WCSO directly using an online complaint form.

(Some names and places have been changed for obvious reasons..)

After i told the officer i had ptsd i had to go inside and let mikes son finish talking to them the officer has the nerve to say to me “what are you bipolar too?”

Here’s what happened yesterday afternoon April 2, 2020:

I feel incredibly offended… Hurt even. This is after an encounter I just had with your sheriffs.

Background info: I live with my boyfriend at “<s>123 Blah Blah Street</s”>. The sheriffs were called here because of a supposed argument with the neighbor across the street at “456 Blah Blah Street“. This is not the first time they have called the police arguing false claims. I had heard someone yelling outside ten or so minutes before the police arrived and saw and definitely heard the neighbor “R” yelling profanities very loudly facing towards our house. I feel like they were directed to my boyfriend, “My Boyfriend”, who is the one who signed a rental agreement with “R”‘s wife, “L”. They don’t like “my boyfriend” and have called the police a couple times with false accusations to start conflict more or less because they want us to move out but we don’t have to because we are paying rent and don’t wish to move at this time.

Back to the situation today April 2, 2020, I am in tears… I cannot even believe how I was just treated! I suffer from PTSD and as a result have pretty bad anxiety. While being questioned by the officers, there was 3 of then and one more in his vehicle. None of them identified themselves but I recog ized Officer Avery and the vehicles numbers I also noted as 1753 and 2013. All of them were men. During the time these officers were asking me questions I felt anxiety building up inside of me so I openly told the officer(s) that I had PTSD. They didn’t seem to even care and continued on as though they didn’t hear what I said and couldn’t see that I was getting upset. I had began crying at this point due to my anxiety. The fact that there were 3 officers questioning me at once in the manner they were doing so made me feel ganged up on. Even more so when they started accusing me of lying. So before I said anything stupid (out of anger for them causing this unnecessary distress) I stepped inside and got my boyfriends son,”A” to finish talking to them. By then I had teams streaming down my face, I had born crying since I initially told the officers about my PTSD. Not only is it difficult to deal with the situation at hand because of my illness its quite embarrassing. I often find it difficult to have direct contact with people so I am reaching out to the Sheriffs Department over the internet via this contact form in hopes of some type of resolution.

So my question to you, now that you have background knowledge to this situation, is why are these officers from the Walton County Sheriffs Office allowed to treat people like this? Or is it just me who has been treated like this? I feel like I am in the wrong here and I want to file a formal complaint on these 3 officers. How do I do that? Can you point me in the right direction?

I understand they are just trying to do their job and want to be authoritative with questions or what have you but they were definitely more aggressive that authoritative I felt and even when I identified my illness in hopes they would change their demeanor so I could talk them without crying and having anxiety associated with their presence they didn’t seem to care. Yes, they had a job to do but I have video footage of the actual incident and was a witness, but there also seems to be some ulterior motive because they had no interest in what I had to say after I excused myself inside.

After I calmed down a bit I remember something they had asked me about so I opened the door and told them that I had something to say about what they had asked about (more specifically a video to show them of the actual incident) and one of through officers replied “What… Do you have BiPolar disorder too?” I’m sorry but that’s offensive and downright mean and left me feeling pretty much helpless.

Needless to say I didn’t go back outside to finish talking to the officers and let my boyfriends son deal with them because I had started crying again, my anxiety now was overwhelming and I had to literally calm myself down again. This is not right and I need to know what I can do about it if anything and how to do so please help me! Thank you in advance.

After all but one of the sheriffs officers vehicles left I sat outside and waited to talk to one of the officers one on one. My boyfriends son told him to wait before he left that I wanted to speak to him about the incident seeing as still hadn’t been able to at this point. Several minutes later he drives away, saying nothing to me… The officer even looks at me sitting in front of my house waiting. I give up. Thumbs down WCSO 😦

Two Documented Incidents of Harassment in only 2 Days

Fast forward to the very next late, late evening, almost early morning two days after the incident I just described to yall in pretty good detail, I, well we, my boyfriend found ourselves faced with a similar situation. And this time we even prepared for the worst!

Licensed driver? (Who doesn’t drive like a jack ass to get us pulled over) Check. Legal vehicle with tag in date and insurance up to date? Check. Party favors left at home? Check check.

So were driving along, headed towards town where THERE IS A STORE OPEN AT 2 am so we shouldn’t be hassled about being out at two o’clock in the morning either…. when we see headlights. What the fuck?

I should have stayed at the house and painted my toenails like I originally had intended to do. But no I didn’t, and now here I am once again being harassed by the WCSO.

So why did this fine officer of the law pull us over? For “license obstruction” because the license plate was in one of those plastic cases… we later found out this has never been brought up as an issue and that cover had been on the license plate for over 6 months. These officers worked hard for find any little thing even a little bit off…  they were foaming at the mouth floor do a search of the vehicle for one but they wanted to arrest someone, as many of us as they could for whatever stupid little charge that would stick. Unfortunately for them since we had prepared beforehand they failed to do either of those things and we were free to go.

It must have sat there for a good hour and half before they finally let someone drive us out of there.

Third Times a Charm

Later on, that SAME day, we get pulled over in the local convenience store parking lot AFTER we had pulled up to the gas pump and shut the car off. Same officer as both prior incidences. The problem this time? The temporary tag on the truck we were in expired THAT DAY. So technically, wouldn’t the trucks registration be valid until the day AFTER the date on the temp. tag? Hmm… again, thi traffic top was rather suspicious. 

Will This Ever End?

Apparently not for me. Two days later I am riding with some friends to the store, my boyfriend is at home sick in bed. On the way home from the store this SUV gets behind us and ia riding our ass. We turn on the road to go to my house and he turns too… then we turn on my road and he gets right behind us again so the driver of the car speeds up. And of course, WCSO just so happens to be sitting on the road I live on and blue lights us. We are literally half a mile from my house so the driver continues on and pulls in my driveway. Guess which fine member of the WCSO was conveniently staked out down the road from where my boyfriend and I live? Same guy as the last three times I was pulled over. If this isn’t some sort of harassment, I don’t know what is. 

The Man Responsible For All This?

Meet Deputy Craig Yost