Using facial-recognition software, a Clearwater Police officer identified an adult woman claiming to be a minor at runaway shelter.
Judy Crockwell, a 26-year-old transient, had been arrested multiple times this year.
When she was arrested Nov. 2, she staying at Clearwater’s Safe Place posing as 16-year-old Antonia Clarke.
The arrest report from that night breaks down the events leading to her arrest.
After arriving at the shelter, Child Protective Services was called over to question “Antonia.” However, she refused to cooperate.
Clearwater police officer Francisco Micheo snapped a photo, running it through the agency’s facial-recognition software. That’s when the officer discovered the woman before him was not 16 years old as she claimed, but was, in fact, Crockwell.
Micheo then asked the woman if her name was Judy.
The officer’s question prompted Crockwell to begin yelling profanities, creating a disturbance and breaching the peace of the shelter.
Several attempts to calm her down failed. rockwell was placed into custody where she began resisting arrest by tensing and pulling away. The officer found an insurance card in Crockwell’s purse that read the name “Judy Lynn.”
Crockwell was arrested for resisting an officer without violence. After being read her Miranda rights, she returned to yelling profanities. Crockwell told the officer she wanted to grab a gun and shoot him.
A public defender was appointed to Crockwell’s case, although charges were dropped at the end of the month. Assistant State Attorney, Jennifer Menendez-Kotch, signed a notice stating the State Attorney concluded, “that the facts and circumstances revealed do not warrant prosecution at this time.”
A search for Crockwell through Florida arrest records shows four arrests in the state this year. The latest arrest was in Hillsborough County Dec. 14 for battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, and resisting an officer without violence.
She was listed as “homeless” at the time of the latest arrest.
Safe Place is located at 1615 Union St. in Clearwater.
