Hutto
WEST PALM BEACH — Troy Hutto was taken into custody in Palm Beach County on Tuesday morning after a judge revoked his bond.
Hutto, the Wellborn millionaire who is facing a manslaughter charge in the October 2020 shooting death of Lake City teen Grace Duncan in a Singer Island hotel, was present at the hearing according to court records. Judge Cymonie Rowe issued a bench warrant for Hutto’s arrest and he was remanded into custody by service of the warrant in the court room, according to court documents.
The state moved to have Hutto’s bond revoked in the case last month after two women in Suwannee County were granted injunctions for protection against Hutto in October. The women, witnesses in the manslaughter case according to Rowe’s order, accused Hutto of stalking.
During a Dec. 5 hearing on the matter, Rowe reserved the right to rule on the bond revocation to review a response filed by Hutto’s attorney, Jesse Dreicer. Dreicer claimed that his client did nothing to have his bond revoked, noting the allegations did not accuse Hutto of violence, making threats or possessing a weapon.
That ruling was issued Tuesday in a hearing that lasted one minute, according to court records.
“The court finds that defendant is intimidating witnesses in these proceedings and otherwise obstructing the judicial process by stalking witnesses in these proceedings,” Rowe wrote in an order dated Monday to revoke bond, further stating that Hutto violated the terms and conditions of his pretrial release in doing so.
“Because the court that defendant is obstructing the judicial process by stalking witnesses, the court further finds that no conditions of release will reasonably prevent the obstruction of the judicial process.”
Both Lisa Powers and Autumn Howell — who work at the Lake City gym where Duncan worked out and Hutto was a member — in their petitions for protection said Hutto continued to drive through the gym’s parking lot despite being trespassed from the facility.
Powers claimed that Hutto also was sitting outside a car wash she frequents, while Howell said she ran into him at Walmart and a gas station in Wellborn, where he asked if he knew her and offered to walk her outside.
“I am afraid of Troy,” Howell wrote in the petition. “I am afraid to go anywhere alone, I don’t go anywhere alone because of this.
“I just want him to leave me alone.”
In both petitions, which were originally filed in March 2021 with temporary injunctions in place while hearings were delayed multiple times, the women said Hutto owns guns and keeps them in his car and his backpack as well as his house.
“I am afraid of what will happen if I don’t get any protection from Troy,” Powers wrote in her petition.
Powers had originally filed for protection against stalking from Hutto in December 2020 after he allegedly threatened to kill her during an October 2020 phone call. That petition, though, was denied within days for failing to allege facts sufficient to support the injunction.
Hutto is the co-founder of the popular Salt Life logo and brand. The brand was sold to Delta Apparel in 2013 for $15 million in cash as well as two promissory notes worth $22 million.
That same year Hutto purchased 21 acres of property in Wellborn.
He is no longer affiliated with the company.