FORT WALTON BEACH – A man said he was on the premises of a fast-food restaurant because he was trying to get items that were left off his order earlier that day. Unless those items were in other people’s cars in the parking lot, lawmen believe he was prowling.
He also was targeted with drug charges.
On Jan. 25 an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy dropped by the Chik-Fil-A on Beal Parkway to check out a report of a man wearing a camouflage jacket behaving suspiciously in the parking lot. He found the man, identified as 28-year-old Richard Francis Hawthorne of Crestview, and questioned him.
Hawthorne said he’d come to the restaurant earlier in the day and didn’t get a complete order, so he was trying to recover those items.
The restaurant manager said a witness told her Hawthorne was trying to open vehicle doors in the parking lot. She also said she couldn’t locate any order he’d placed in the restaurant’s computer system.
When deputies searched Hawthorne they found a syringe, spoon, and 1½ tablets of Oxycodone hydrochloride. Hawthorne told lawmen those items were for his B-12 injections.
He was charged with loitering or prowling, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, and drug equipment possession or use.
His court date is March 12.
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Chik-Fil-A lurker busted for drugs
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