{"id":46737,"date":"2024-06-17T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=46737"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:26:50","slug":"wanted-lakeland-man-caught-after-his-phone-rang-while-he-was-hiding-in-the-ceiling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/06\/17\/wanted-lakeland-man-caught-after-his-phone-rang-while-he-was-hiding-in-the-ceiling\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted Lakeland man caught after his phone rang while he was hiding in the ceiling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says they arrested a wanted man after removing him from a ceiling on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to officials, a disturbance was reported in the area of US 98 North and Duff Road in\u00a0Lakeland. However, when deputies arrived, the man accused of causing the disturbance had already left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sheriff’s office says the man was identified as 38-year-old Joshua Garrett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to authorities, deputies went looking for him after learning that he was wanted for violation of probation (burglary, false info to a pawnbroker, and trafficking in stolen property).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PCSO says deputies went to a business nearby where Garrett worked. They were able to confirm that Garrett went inside and was never seen leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After quickly searching the building, deputies suspected that he was hiding in the ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to officials, a few ceiling tiles were disturbed, and they could hear Garrett’s phone ringing. Deputies say they also spotted a hand sticking out from under the insulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sheriff’s office says Garrett was booked into the Polk County Jail on his warrant and additionally\u00a0charged\u00a0with resisting and felony criminal mischief (for causing about $1,000 worth of damage to his employer’s ceiling).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Polk County Sheriff’s Office says they arrested a wanted man after removing him from a ceiling on Saturday afternoon. According to officials, a disturbance was reported in the area of US… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[8830],"class_list":["post-46737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-wanted-lakeland-man-caught-after-his-phone-rang-while-he-was-hiding-in-the-ceiling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46739,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46737\/revisions\/46739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}