We got this from our local newpaper on January 9,2010.
NAPLES — A Collier County man who was involved in the March shooting death of a teenager during a possible burglary of the man’s Willoughby Acres home has been jailed on a charge of possessing a short-barreled shotgun.
Collier County jail records showed Saturday that Sterlin Misener, 45, was arrested on a warrant when he turned himself in Friday at the Collier County Sheriff’s Office station in East Naples.
Misener listed his address in the Friday arrest report as the 3000 block of Seventh Avenue S.W. in Golden Gate Estates.
The arrest report doesn’t specifically say that the warrant is related to the shooting death that occurred around 4 a.m. on March 20. A copy of the arrest warrant wasn’t immediately available.
Misener shot and killed 19-year-old Patrick Hutchison with a sawed-off shotgun after reports say he caught the teen exiting the family’s camper that was parked in the driveway at 91 Willoughby Drive in the North Naples subdivision.
Misener’s bond was set at $5,000.
The arrest report said the Sheriff’s Office contacted Misener, owner of Sterlin’s Building, and he was booked into the jail around 5:45 p.m. Friday after he turned himself in on the arrest warrant.
The March break-in wasn’t the first at the Willoughby Acres home.
In October 2008, two young men wearing black masks aimed a gun at him after breaking into his home and binding his wife with plastic ties, then ordered him to his garage.
No shots were fired during that October 2008 invasion and deputies arrested three of the four alleged robbers that night after receiving a 911 call from the Miseners’ teenage sons.
Although one teen involved in the break-ins called the Miseners’ home a “grow house,” sheriff’s investigators said at the time they investigated the allegations and found no evidence to back the claims.
“It is not a drug house or a house in which drugs are sold,” Misener’s Naples attorney, Jerry Berry, told the Daily News in March. “I have no idea why people start rumors, but there is absolutely no evidence to support the rumors. The Sheriff’s Office has investigated this and found no evidence to support the rumors.”