The 69-year-old Palm Coast resident and client of Charles W. Hines, 42, told police Wednesday that he’d requested Hines’s presence at his Woodlawn Drive house for an hour of sex in exchange for $200. But once there, Hines, his alleged victim claimed, stayed for four hours instead, against the client’s will, and became belligerent and violent.
The client claimed he told Hines to leave several times, but Hines refused, that Hines had allegedly choked him, and thrown his phone across the room when he first tried to call for help. By the time the victim called 911, he was telling the dispatcher that the suspect was “very strong,” “psychotic,” was holding him down on his bed against his will and that he–Hines–was trying to kill him.
Deputy George Hristakopoulos responded to the Woodlawn Drive house to find the victim outside and a black VW registered to a woman in Fernandina Beach parked outside. Hines, 42, is a resident of Grand Park Boulevard in Fernandina Beach, a coastal town 100 miles north, just south of the Florida-Georgia border. Joined by another deputy, Hristakopoulos got the client’s consent to enter his house and remove Hines.
Hines was in the master bedroom, naked, drunk, and refusing to obey Hristakopoulos’s multiple requests that he put on some clothes and speak to him about the incident. Hristakopoulos notes in the arrest report that he asked Hines four times to get dressed and calm down, only for Hines to to yell and throw things around the room.
So Hristakopoulos took out his Taser, raised his voice and pointed the Taser at Hines’s naked chest, ordering him to put his hands behind his back and walk out of the bedroom. Again Hines refused according to the arrest report.
“I physically pushed him out of the bedroom,” Hristakopoulos reports, “where Deputy Crosbee successfully placed him into handcuffs,” and proceeded to physically push him out of the house and to the front yard, as Hines kept refusing to leave on his own. Hristakopoulos explained why he did not fire the Taser: “Due to the fact that Mr. Hines did not make any overt attacking motions towards us, the fact that we outnumbered him, and the fact that we were certain he did not have weapons on his person, I opted against using any force at this time.”
But Hines, once outside the house and as soon as he laid eyes on his client, “began screaming, cursing and pulling away from law enforcement once again,” Hristakopoulos wrote. He did so for so long that neighbors gathered at the intersection of Woodhaven and Woodlawn, and at least one more call to 911 was placed because of the commotion.
It took several minutes to get Hines from the front lawn into Hristakopoulos’s patrol car, during which time Hines allegedly continued to curse and at one point yelled, “I’ll kill everyone in jail.”
“At no point was any force beyond what was absolutely necessary to place Mr. Hines under arrest used against him,” Hristakopoulos reports. “No intermediate weapons, ‘take down’ maneuvers, or pain compliance was used against Mr. Hines at any time.” Pain compliance is a police euphemism for force, namely the use of force on a person’s joints or pressure points to cause pain enough to cause the individual to comply. The Taser “was pointed at Mr. Hines several times in order to gain compliance, but was never ‘sparked’ in any way,” Hristakopoulos reported.
Another deputy documented with photographs the redness around the client’s throat, and got a statement from him that he had been allegedly sexually battered by Hines.
Hines was charged with battery on a person 65 or older, a felony, resisting arrest, tampering with a witness and disorderly conduct, the latter three misdemeanors. He posted $6,500 bond and was released.
Though prostitution is theoretically illegal, neither the client nor Hines were charged with prostitution-related crimes.
William says
This place is a freak show !!!!
THE VOICE OF REASON says
I wish I were in 8th grade again, I’d say something about the guy being 69.
But I won’t do that.
NortonSmitty says
This is just a sad example of underachievement. I mean even if this guy has a long history of being a male whore and his convictions prevent him from running for office he still is more than qualified to make a good living as a Tallahassee lobbyist. The lazy bum.
Anonymous says
Why no legal consequences for the prostitution?
Mark says
I know of the 65 plus year older man. I know he has brain cancer, lung cancer, and a weakened heart. What occurred was not what was to happen. The man no longer can satisfy women (ED) and sought only oral and not what happened very brutally
jadobi says
Prostitution is a misdemeanor. A person cannot be arrested on the spot for various misdemeanors, prostitution being one, unless the arresting officer observes the crime, which is merely the offer of money in exchange for sex. That’s why there are prostitution operations that target both the John and the prostitute.
theevoice says
prostitution is theoretically illegal?? say what!!!!!!!!!
I wonder says
Why is prostitution illegal? Should be regulated and taxed. Would be much safer that way for all.
carol says
I second that motion!!!
snapperhead says
It’s not illegal. You just have to get elected before you can screw the public. :-)
m&m says
The client got what he paid for. If you play with the bull you get the horn.
groot says
Deputy Hristakopoulos earned his money, that’s for sure. Check the victim and the offender for AIDS/HIV.
FlaglerBear says
Deputy Hristakopoulos certainly gets around. He’s the star of Flagler County. I think he should run for Sheriff, but only if he shortens his name to “Tako” or “Poulos”.
Ray Thorne says
Its concerning to me that his name pops up so often because its an indication of the crime in the area of Palm Coast that he works.
Ben Dover says
Ain’t love grand?
CarleyB says
What a flippin circus..!
David B says
Prostitution the oldest profession. Why not legalize it ? Save us taxpayers a whole bunch of money.
David S says
Really!
Eugene Hartke says
The john must be a VIP if the police are not releasing his name.
FlaglerLive says
Eugene, the police did release his name. FlaglerLive will not. Prostitution may be considered a crime. We do not consider it one.
NortonSmitty says
Rumsfeld! (For you old timers)
SW says
more than our fair share of wackos in this lil Town
NortonSmitty says
No, I think we got the usual amount of nut jobs. I don’t know if it’s because they get more press here or what, but it is Florida. Why we so surprised?
bob says
1cor6-9 no homosexuals shall enter the kingdom of heaven. repent before it is too late
The Prez says
Is there any way to find out if he was convicted?
FlaglerLive says
The felony charges were downgraded and transferred to county court before all charges were dropped.