Background: The auto parts store in Forsyth, Ga. where Jonathan Navas was allegedly heard “barking” (Google Maps). Inset: Jonathan Navas (Monroe County Detention Center).
A Florida man was arrested at an auto-parts store in Georgia after he was heard “barking like a dog” for more than an hour.
According to an incident report obtained by Law&Crime from the Forsyth Police Department, the owner of an Advanced Auto Parts store in Forsyth called police to report a white male who had “been at the store for over an hour and was barking like a dog.” When officers arrived and confronted the man, who was identified as 29-year-old Jonathan Navas, they asked him what was going on. He responded that “he had no idea that he was causing any issues,” the incident report says.
Forsyth police officers asked Navas for some identification, and he told them that his drivers license was in his car in the parking lot outside. Navas was then escorted out of the store.
Upon arriving at Navas’ car, officers say they spotted “a clear baggie containing syringes” on the passenger seat, one of which was filled with a clear substance. A search of the car commenced, which also resulted in the recovery of another baggie. This one contained “a clear crystal substance,” according to the incident report. A field test conducted by the officers revealed that the substance was methamphetamine.
Navas was subsequently placed in custody. After getting more of his identifying information, police found that there was a warrant out for his arrest in his home state of Florida. Dispatchers from Monroe County confirmed the warrant while Navas sat in the back of a squad car.
When Navas was asked by one of the officers what the substance in the syringe was, Navas allegedly stated that it was “blood.”
The baggies were confiscated by police as evidence and Navas was brought to the Monroe County Detention Center. The incident report noted that Florida was ready to take Navas back.
