Police Demand I Show Receipts For Wrapped Presents
My child’s mother and I have had a volition relationship, police have been called plenty of times. Christmas we have done together every year.
This year while I was unpacking the gifts in the house while the mother and child were away. Someone called 911 to report me stealing and breaking in. I had only brought in two big presents by the time the police arrive and knock on the door.
The police wanted proof I was allowed in the house, and apparently could not get in contact with the mother to confirm Im allowed to be there.
So I decide to leave, and the second I open my car door to leave four officers surround me and ask me to produce receipts for everything in my car.
At this point there maybe like 20-30 wrapped gifts.
I ask them to identify anything they can see and I will gladly produce a receipt. The only thing visible was wrapping paper.
They then tell me I’m being detained while they investigate a burglary.
I turned around and offered my hands behind my back and told them that I’m trying to leave, and if I’m not in handcuffs within ten seconds I’m getting in my car and going.
I gave them a countdown. They said have a good night, I said merry Christmas. And left.
I received a call about two hours later from a police supervisor telling me that if I return to that location I will be trespassed.
I tried to explain to him that I pay rent there, I have keys, and my lease agreement is inside the house and most of my work clothes/belongings. He tells me I don’t live there anymore and that I cannot have two homes (I also have my own leased apartment). When I ask if he wants to see the rent receipts he tells me directly that my “rent is in lieu of child support”
To be clear, child support has not ever been established.
I could only produce a picture of the agreement which is a year old. And he pretty much said that I could have altered it.
I show him mail being sent to my name to the address and he tells me that anyone can do that and it doesn’t prove anything.
When I called the police for a stand by to get my belongings they told me they would not do so unless I was arrested and had a Court ordered from a judge.
So now all my stuff is locked behind a door I have keys to, but I’m trespassed from.
I’ve tried to speak to the mother but she seems like she’s the one who called 911 now with her reaction.
How can I get my belongings from where I rent, and I’m confused about the police telling me I cannot have two leases in Florida.
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