Ray Cross
As the deputy and lieutenant pulled him away, Bobby Joe Belue wondered how he got to this point.
“They kill my dog, come up here and put me in jail,” he said. “I couldn’t believe [Dade County Sheriff] Ray Cross done me that way.”
The dispute began between neighbors — specifically, about animals. Belue, 70, said he got along with the Floyd family when they moved onto Trenton’s District Line Road 12 years ago. They were on property the Belues once owned, and Bobby wanted to be friendly.
But one day, he said, the Floyds’ pig escaped and lumbered through his garden, stomping his tomatoes, peppers, squash and okra. He called the Floyds and told them to get their pig, and they did. And that was that, though Belue held a bit of a grudge.
When exactly that happened is up for debate. Belue says it was only about a year ago. Dylan Ray Floyd, 21, who is a Dade County detention officer, says it happened 10 years ago.