FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Adam Joseph Stone, who was at the Broward County main jail on Wednesday, has a history of violence, according to court records. Broward County judges gave him a chance for years, but the Florida Department of Corrections recently had enough.
In 2019, a Broward County woman asked the court for protection against him. Broward County Circuit Judge Michael G. Kaplan, a domestic violence division judge, signed a restraining order on July 15, 2019, and there was a related one-year ejection from all Seminole Casinos.
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Detective Tammy McConnell, of the Seminole Police Department, reported none of this stopped Stone from showing up at the Seminole Coconut Creek Casino on Nov. 26, 2019, to harass the domestic violence victim.
McConnell also reported the woman feared for her safety.
“The defendant has access to firearms and has made threats,” McConnell wrote in her request for an arrest warrant.
Coconut Creek Police Department officers arrested Stone on Nov. 27, 2019, at an equestrian farm for aggravated stalking after an injunction, violation of an injunction, and trespassing. There have been three other warrants for his arrest in the case since.
In 2021, Stone got in plenty of trouble in Marion County with cases of possession of meth, fraudulent use of identification, and trafficking in stolen property. Broward County Circuit Judge Peter Holden issued an arrest warrant on Nov. 18, 2021, after he failed to appear in court.
In 2022, Stone was dealing with legal troubles in Marion County when he was sentenced in the Broward County case to three years of probation for aggravated stalking after an injunction, and one year of probation for violation of an injunction and trespassing.
In 2023, Sumter County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested him for riding a motorcycle without a valid endorsement and for meth possession. He allegedly had meth in his wallet and was carrying a glass pipe.
“The subject’s actions show that he needs a stricter form of community supervision,” Samantha Monts, a correctional probation officer, wrote in a violation report about Stone.
As a result of the probation violation, Broward County Judge George Odom, Jr. issued a warrant for his arrest on Feb. 13, 2023, and ordered that he return to court by July 11, 2023.
Correctional officers released him from the Hamilton Correctional Facility, a state prison in Jasper, Hamilton County, and Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies booked him at the main jail.
Odom ruled Stone was to be on drug offender probation until Aug. 30, 2025. The status includes surveillance, random drug testing, and treatment conditions.
Wilfredo Borrero, a correctional probation officer, reported Stone had violated his modified probation on March 24. Broward County Circuit Judge Peter Holden issued a warrant for his arrest on April 17.
Borrero accused Stone of failing “to remain confined to his approved residence” in Ocala “except for one-half-hour before and after approved employment.”
Borrero also reported that Stone had not kept a log of his daily activities, and accused him of lying about riding his motorcycle to the probation office.
Borrero then recommended that a Broward County judge revoke his probation and that he be sentenced to the maximum prison sentence since he absconded from supervision and failed to complete treatment.
“Based upon his past and current performance on supervision it is doubtful that additional community supervision will change his behavior,” Borrero wrote in his violation report.
The judge’s warrant was served on Tuesday and BSO deputies booked Stone at the main jail in Fort Lauderdale where he remained without bond on Wednesday evening.