Artavious Warren

A Port St. Lucie man is accused of punching another man in the face, then pulling a gun out while the two were in a heated argument over ice slushies, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office.

Artavious Warren, 36, was in an argument Sunday night at an empty lot along State Road 715 with his roommate about “ice slushies” kept in their shared home, the police report states.

During the argument, Warren punched the victim in the face, leaving a cut on his lip. Warren then pulled a chrome handgun from a black backpack, the victim and a witness told police.

The victim ran and contacted police, and officers later spotted Warren, who fled and dropped the backpack, according to police. Officers found the fully loaded chrome handgun inside the backpack.

Warren admitted to hitting the victim in the face, but denied possessing a firearm, the report states.

Records show that Warren has been sentenced to time in state prison on four occasions since 2003 — twice for driving with a suspended or revoked license, once for felony battery and most recently for possession of a concealed weapon by a convicted felon. He was released from prison in November.

Warren, who now faces charges of battery, aggravated assault with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, remains in Palm Beach County Jail awaiting $16,000 bail.

A fight between two employees at a West Palm Beach hardware store left one man with a stab wound and a second man in jail, according to an arrest report.

Batchelor

Brian P. Batchelor is facing a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after he allegedly stabbed a fellow employee Friday in the abdomen. Batchelor was let out of the Palm Beach County Jail on Saturday on supervised release.

West Palm Beach police were called to Hall Hardware on 2750 S. Dixie Highway where they met with the 49-year-old victim. The man said he was arguing with Batchelor, 30, when Batchelor allegedly pulled out a small pocket knife. The victim attempted to push Batchelor away but was stabbed in the process, the report said.

Batchelor denied stabbing the victim and told police he was acting in self-defense, the report said.

The victim was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center, where he was treated for a wound measuring 3 centimeters by 1 centimeter.

A West Palm Beach man is facing dozens of charges after he allegedly found a credit card at the Palm Beach Outlets mall and used it to buy items ranging from cologne to chocolate truffles, according to an arrest report.

Chapin

Stephen Chapin is facing 22 counts of fraudulent use of a credit card and 22 counts of second-degree petit theft. Chapin, 28, is being held in the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $1,000 bail.

Chapin, an employee of Express Factory Outlet in the mall located at 1731 Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard, allegedly admitted to West Palm Beach police that he found the credit card in a courtyard near the Nike store. Chapin told police he first used the card last Thursday to pay an AT&T bill of $64.

Over the next few days, Chapin rang up charges to buy gym shorts ($24.99), a pair of Vans ($63.59), sunglasses ($114.95), a gold watch ($132.45) and various other items, the report said. Chapin allegedly used the card to charge around $1,000 in purchases.

“At the end of the confession, Chapin stated that he knew it was wrong to use another person’s credit card and regrets the decision that he made,” the report stated.

A Boca Raton woman involved in a car accident was arrested Monday in Broward County for allegedly driving under the influence.

Nichols

But for Colleen Nichols, that was only the beginning of her problems.

While Coral Springs police were investigating Nichols for DUI, the 28-year-old told officers she had left her 3-year-old daughter at home unsupervised.

A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to Nichols’ home in suburban Boca Raton. A neighbor allowed deputies entry into the home and the 3-year-old was found sleeping in her bedroom, the report said. A small dog was also in the residence.

The arrest report notes that the girl’s bed had no rails making it possible for the child to “possibly walk out of the residence.”

Nichols’ husband arrived at the home while deputies were there. The man appeared “confused” and “surprised” when told about his wife’s situation, the report said.

Nichols is facing one county of child neglect and was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Wednesday after posting a $3,000 bond. It was not immediately known what charges she faces in Broward County.

A man arrested in West Palm Beach on Sept. 2 is getting some national exposure for his alleged indecent exposure.

King

Jefferson King, who is homeless, according to a police report, was arrested at a Burger King at 1210 N. Dixie Highway after he was seen by a female customer allegedly touching himself inside the restaurant.

A mug shot taken at the Palm Beach County Jail shows the 33-year-old King looking wide-eyed into the camera.

Bill Maher

King’s mug shot and his arrest was featured during the “New Rules” segment of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher on Sept. 11.

King is facing a charge of indecent exposure of sexual organs. He pleaded not guilty during a court appearance Sept. 3 and was released Sept. 4 to the Jerome Golden Center for Behavioral Health. King was ordered to stay away from Burger King.

Chappelle

PALM CITY – A 28-year-old West Palm Beach man faces charges after he allegedly drove to Martin County this week to sell heroin and crack cocaine to undercover deputies.

Mark Chappelle made the 40-mile drive Tuesday, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said.

His buyers were members of the sheriff’s special investigations section. After the drug transaction, a team of deputies moved in and took Chappelle into custody. At the time of his arrest, Chappelle was in possession of more heroin, crack cocaine, a THC lollipop and a Bersa S.A. .380 caliber pistol. the sheriff’s office said.

Martin County Sheriff’s deputies say these items were recovered during an undercover drug bust. (Photo provided)

He was booked into the Martin County Jail, where he remained late Wednesday in lieu of $270,000 bail.

Chappelle has a lengthy criminal history that includes prior convictions for drug possession, assault on a law-enforcement officer, shooting into a dwelling and aggravated assault with a firearm on a police officer, the sheriff’s office said.

Martin County Sheriff’s deputies say these items were recovered during an undercover drug bust. (Photo provided)

Following Tuesday’s arrest, Chappelle faces various charges for drug and weapons possession.

A student at Park Vista High School was being questioned by school police Thursday morning after a gun was found on campus, a Palm Beach County School District spokeswoman said.

School district police are investigating and the student faces disciplinary action from the school, school district spokeswoman Kathy Burstein said.

Burstein said she could not confirm what disciplinary action the student might face.

The student’s name, age and classification were not disclosed.

Ernesto Sanchez

Ernesto Sanchez shot a West Palm Beach man in the thigh because his crack dealer asked him to kill the man, West Palm Beach police report.

Sanchez, 53, is facing an attempted murder charge for shooting a man in the doorway of his apartment on Broadway near 34th Street. The victim told police that Sanchez and one other unidentified man threatened him while walking to his car 5 a.m. Aug. 1. They demanded money, but the victim refused, the report states.

The victim fled back to his apartment, but once he reached the door, he turned around and Sanchez shot him in the thigh, police said. The men fled, the victim told police.

The next day, police were contacted by a friend of Sanchez who said that Sanchez called him, admitting that he murdered someone on Broadway, according to police.

Police picked up Sanchez Thursday for possession of drug paraphernalia on 24th Street and Spruce Avenue . He was found with a crack pipe in his car, which he said belonged to a friend.

When police questioned Sanchez about the Broadway shooting, he admitted to wounding the man, only because “a crack dealer, who he only knew from purchasing drugs, told him to shoot” the victim, the report states.

Sanchez said he shot the man in the femur because he “didn’t want to kill him,” reads the report.

The crack dealer, who Sanchez could not identify, handed Sanchez a gun while he was attempting to buy crack and asked him to shoot a man who owed him money, Sanchez told police.

Sanchez is being held on $100,000 bail in Palm Beach County Jail.

King

FORT PIERCE — A Fort Pierce woman attempted to get on a Greyhound bus Friday before being arrested in connection with a shooting from last week at a Jamaican restaurant, police said.

Officers took Diahann King, 47, into custody after receiving a tip, city police said.  King had been wanted for allegedly shooting Deforrest Swoope on Sept. 11 at the The Spot restaurant on Avenue D.

Swoope, 31, of Fort Pierce, was taken to a hospital to be treated for injuries.

According to probable-cause arrest affidavit, King was attempting to board a Greyhound bus in Fort Pierce when she was apprehended by officers from the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force.

She faces charges of attempted first-degree murder and shooting a deadly missile.  King reportedly told officers that, prior to the shooting, she got into an argument with a man who then threw liquid in her face.

According to the report,  King told officers she pulled a gun from her purse and fired one shot in the man’s direction. She said she left, but was not immediately aware that someone had been hit.

King was being held without bail Friday night at the St. Lucie County Jail.

Sargeant

RIVIERA BEACH —  A 35-year-old man faces multiple charges after he allegedly threatened another man with a gun during an argument last week.

Police say that Ivan P. Sargeant and a 36-year-old man argued about an unidentified woman.  Sargeant went to a paint and body shop on Avenue K Thursday evening to confront the other man, according to a probable-cause arrest affidavit.

The accuser told police he hid inside a garage bay while Sargeant paced back and forth in front of the business and repeatedly shouted “I’m going to shoot you!”

Sargeant allegedly tossed the gun into a vehicle as officers arrived at the scene. A witness confirmed the accuser’s account, police said.  An officer looked inside a Mercedes and saw the grip of a pistol protruding from under a seat, police said.  The gun reportedly had been reported stolen out of Fort Lauderdale.

Sargeant was taken into custody, but refused provide his account of what happened, the affidavit said. He was released from the Palm Beach County Jail Saturday on $14,000 bail.

Sargeant has been convicted six times on felony charges, most recently in 2011, police said.

Court records show that Sargeant in 2011 was sentenced to one year in prison for burglary and grand theft.

Bailey

RIVIERA BEACH — A man hoping to score a free case of beer was arrested last week for allegedly threatening a store clerk who denied his request.

Police arrested Austin Bailey, 57, of Riviera Beach Friday on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal mischief.  He was wanted in connection with an April 25  incident at a convenience store in the 100 block of West 19th Street.

Police say Bailey threatened a store clerk with a sledgehammer and then damaged the clerk’s car after being told that he had to pay for the beer.  Bailey argued that he was owed for miscellaneous work done around the store, according a probable-cause arrest affidavit.

Bailey periodically had done cleaning around the store and mopped the floors, police said.

According to the affidavit, Bailey left the store after the argument and returned a short time later with the sledgehammer.  He then threatened the clerk and demanded money, police said.  Bailey allegedly motioned as if he was going to hit the clerk with the sledgehammer, then walked outside.

He reportedly  bashed the windshield of the clerk’s car before leaving the property.  The entire incident was caught on surveillance video, police said.

Bailey was being held at the Palm Beach County Jail Monday in lieu of $16,000 bail.

Bianchini

LAKE WORTH — A 43-year-old Boynton Beach woman is facing charges after she allegedly crashed her car into a tree and tried to drive off with a child in her care still inside.

Bonnie Jo Bianchini was arrested Saturday on charges of DUI, child neglect and resisting without violence. She was being held at the Palm Beach County Jail Monday in lieu of $2,000 bail.

Bianchini was driving the child to a birthday party when she crashed into a tree near the Congress Pointe Shopping Plaza in suburban Lake Worth, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office said in an arrest report made public Monday.

A manager at a nearby Wendy’s restaurant heard the collision and walked over to check on the driver. The restaurant manager later told sheriff’s deputies she saw the driver, later identified as Bianchini, attempt to drive off with the child still inside.

The manager told Bianchini to turn off the vehicle and get out of the car, the report said. She then got the child out of the car.  The child called her grandparents and asked them to pick her up.  The girl’s grandmother later alleged that Bianchini attacked her.  She was treated at the scene for scratches on her arm.

Deputies responding to the call noted that Bianchini struggled to maintain her balance. She needed assistance as a crash investigator walked her back to her car, the report said.

She was taken into custody after deputies determined her to be impaired. Bianchini refused to submit to a breath test or roadside sobriety tests, the arrest report said. She was taken to a blood alcohol testing facility, but again refused the breath test, deputies said.

A Palm Beach Gardens woman was arrested Friday after she was observed by witnesses allegedly driving on two flat tires and smashing into a mailbox with two young children in the vehicle, according to an arrest report.

Marshall

Anna Marshall is face two counts of child abuse without great bodily harm and DUI with property damage. Marshall, 40, was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Saturday after posting a $6,000 bond.

When Palm Beach Gardens arrived at the intersection of Glencarin Road and Ryder Cup Boulevard, they found Marshall walking away from her vehicle carrying a 1-year-old child with a 9-year-old child walking behind her, the report said.

The report states that the front and rear passenger tires on Marshall’s SUV were flat and off their rims. Marshall told police she did not know how the tires became flat and appeared “confused” and “unaware of the seriousness of the situation,” according to the report.

“Marshall had a hard time pronouncing words,” the arresting officer wrote on the report.

A witness told police he followed Marshall after noticing her driving “erratically” and swerving off the road. The SUV hit a mailbox, causing the passenger side mirror to break off, the witness said.

The relationship between the children and Marshall was not detailed in the arrest report. The children were turned over to a family member.

Marshall agreed to complete a roadside sobriety test, but her blood alcohol level was not available.

A night of drinking turned violent Saturday in Lake Worth, leaving a woman with a busted lip that required seven stitches, according to an arrest report.

Wingo

Donald Wingo, of Lake Worth, is facing a charge of aggravated battery causing bodily harm or injury. Wingo, 45, remains in the Palm Beach County Jail in lieu of $3,000 bail.

The 38-year-old victim told Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies she was drinking with Wingo at her home when she asked him to leave. The two began to argue and Wingo allegedly threw a full can of beer that hit the woman on the left side of her lip. The cut went through the women’s lip and required treatment at JFK Medical Center.

Wingo lives a few doors down from the victim on the 3400 block of Sapphire Road.

The woman told deputies that Wingo has been aggressive with her in the past. A deputy wrote on the arrest report that Wingo was intoxicated and did not remember the incident.

Shaquille Reynard Jacques

Police linked a 20-year-old accused of stealing a car at gunpoint to the crime by calling the victim’s stolen cellphone found in the carjacker’s pocket, West Palm Beach police report.

The victim was parked in front of the Norton Museum on South Dixie Highway on Friday night when two men, one holding a black handgun, approached his brown Nissan Altima, the police report states. One of the men was later identified as Shaquille Reynard Jacques.

Jacques and the unidentified man stole the car and drove it north on Dixie for a short distance before fleeing on foot, the police report said. When police found the car, the victim reported an iPhone missing.

An officer on Parker Avenue later spotted Jacques, who fit the description of one of the carjackers, according to police. Police found an iPhone in Jacques’ pocket and called the victim’s phone number to confirm it was stolen.

Jacques admitted to police that he was involved in the car theft, but gave police three false names, according to police.

Records show that Jacques is awaiting trial on an arrest in mid-August for resisting arrest without violence and threatening a public official.

Jacques now faces charges of robbery with a firearm, grand theft and giving false identification to law enforcement. He is being held without bail in Palm Beach County Jail.

Onia Jones

An argument between two West Palm Beach neighbors escalated when one beat the other with a baseball bat, police report.

Onia Jones, 22, crossed 8th Street near Tamarind Avenue into her neighbor’s yard Saturday evening, bat in hand, while the two argued. She swung once at the 44-year-old woman’s hand, then several times at her head, West Palm Beach police report.

The victim knocked the bat from Jones’ hands and defended herself, tussling with Jones in the front yard until the victim’s husband broke up the fight, a police report states.

Jones bit the victim as least twice, according to police.

Jones told officers that the argument began at a local store earlier that day, although the report doesn’t mention what the neighbors argued about. Jones told police that she didn’t throw the first punch and merely defended herself, adding that kids from the neighborhood may have thrown her bat onto the victim’s yard, the report states.

Jones later admitted to swinging the bat at the victim’s hand, but not her head, according to police.

Jones has no previous criminal history in Palm Beach County. She faces an aggravated battery charge and was released from Palm Beach County Jail Sunday on $1,500 bail.

DELRAY BEACH — City police Wednesday night were investigating a shooting incident just west of the Delray Beach Tennis Center.

The incident happened shortly before 6 p.m. on Northwest Seventh Avenue north of Atlantic Avenue, near Northwest First Street.

There were no fatal injuries,  Delray Beach police spokeswoman Dani Moschella said. City paramedics took one person to Delray Medical Center.

That person was treated and later released from the hospital, Moschella said.  The shooting remained ...

Almazan

A Loxhatchee man faces multiple charges after being accused of pointing a pistol at passing  traffic while driving on Interstate 95 this week.

Reynaldo Almazan, 41, was arrested Monday after being stopped by police in Delray Beach. He was released from the Palm Beach County Jail Tuesday after posting $10,000 bail.

He faces various drug and weapons related charges. According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, drivers on southbound I-95 reported someone pointing a pistol at traffic near the Lantana Road exit.

A trooper searched for the suspect’s vehicle and later learned that it was seen exiting at Atlantic Avenue in Delray Beach. Delray police stopped the van and detained Almazan until the FHP arrived. The trooper searched Alamazan’s car and allegedly found a Smith and Wesson .38 special revolver loaded with four rounds, two spent rounds, a leafy substance that tested positive for marijuana and several different types of white pills.

Grinnon

RIVIERA BEACH — A 19-year-old man made threats against officers who arrested him this week for illegally having a gun, city police said.

Officers arrested Montrez J. Grinnon, of Riviera Beach,  Monday after finding him carrying a black 9 mm Glock, according to a probable-cause arrest affidavit.

Police say Grinnon was uncooperative after being taken into custody and made threats from his holding cell.

“I shoulda pop some rounds off at y’all. Next time, I’m gonna aim at y’all,” the affidavit quotes Grinnon as saying to the officers.

An officer was responding to a fire call shortly before 6:30 p.m. Monday when the officer noticed a group of males standing in the 200 block of West 29th Street.  The officer saw a man, later identified as Grinnon, remove a handgun from his waistband and run into a residence, according to the affidavit.

The officer continued to the fire call to assist another  officer, but not before noting Grinnon’s description.

Once the fire was contained, officers returned to the area where Grinnon was observed. Grinnon saw the officers and attempted to run into a residence, police said. He was ordered to the ground and arrested.

Grinnon previously was convicted for burglary in 2013 and did not have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, police said. He faces one count each of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and corruption by threat to a law-enforcement officer.

He was released from the Palm Beach County Jail on Wednesday on $30,000 bail.

More than a year after three teens were gunned down in a Mangonia Park apartment, their families continue to hold out hope to catch their killer. They believe one of the ways to do that is to continue to increase the Crime Stoppers reward.

Friday night, the families of Carley Chapman and her two 17-year-old friends, Se’Sawn “Shawn” Danford and Martavious Brown, who were found shot to death on Aug. 4, 2014, will come together at Pascalli’s Italian restaurant in Loxahatchee for a night of food and music to raise money, according to Paula Stewart, Carley Chapman’s stepmother.

For more than a year after the triple homicide, The Crime Stoppers award remained at only $1,000. That amount was upped to $10,000 in early September because of efforts by the families.

“We’re still going,” Stewart said Thursday.

She said the raised around $3,000 from a yard sale earlier this month in Palm Beach Gardens, but they aren’t done yet.

Randy Chapman, Carley’s father, told The Palm Beach Post that even with all the money raised, he and his family think it will take around $25,000 for someone to come forward with information.

“The more money they can get offered as a reward, maybe somebody will say, ‘You know what? I can make a new life with $25,000,'” Chapman said. “I think that’s the only thing that’s going to make a difference. That’s what we’re shooting for.”

What: “Peace in the Streets” fundraiser to increase the Crime Stoppers award for the Mangonia Park triple murder. Live music and food, 18 and up.
Where: Pascalli’s Italian Restaurant 7070 Seminole Pratt Whitney Rd, Loxahatchee 33470
When: 8 p.m. – 1 a.m. Friday