PANAMA CITY BEACH -- A transient was arrested Thursday on charges of filing a false report.
The Bay County Sheriff’s Office responded to a motel on Front Beach Road on Wednesday after Brandon Wilson Farthing called 911 and reported he had been approached at the motel by a woman who offered to sell him a child. Deputies responded and Farthing told deputies woman staying at the motel approached him and attempted to sell a child to him.
Subsequent investigation concluded that Farthing had been untruthful with the information he gave on the 911 call and to the initial responding deputy. He was arrested and charged with filing a false report. The woman with the child also had two other children with her and was in desperate need of help in caring for the children.
The Gulf Coast Children’s Advocacy Center supplied the most urgent needs and the family has been assisted in reuniting with extended family to receive additional help, BCSO said. The Department of Children and Families also assisted in the investigation.