PANAMA CITY — Authorities arrested a sex offender Tuesday morning for violating his probation after he called Sheriff Frank McKeithen to complain officers were monitoring him too closely, according to a Bay County Sheriff’s Office press release.
A warrant was issued by parole and probation for Horace Wood, 45, in response to a violation of the terms of his probation. Wood failed to comply with all instructions given him by his probation officer and did not carry his monitoring device at all times.
Wood was stopped by the BCSO Warrants Division Tuesday morning on U.S. 231 in front of the Youngstown Motel and taken into custody.
Wood had made contact by telephone Monday with McKeithen. Wood complained that BCSO deputies were checking up on him too much. Sheriff McKeithen stated “that phone call didn’t last very long,” according to the release.
Wood has been taken to the Bay County Jail for violation of probation for lewd and lascivious sexual battery on a child.