PANAMA CITY — Sometimes it doesn’t take long for a deputy to realize he is on one of those calls that is going to end with someone in custody.

Such was likely the case last week when a deputy responding to a prowling and loitering complaint found a man “stumbling in the roadway wearing shorts which were around his knee area and a jock strap exposing his butt to the general public.” The man appeared to be under the influence of an unknown narcotic, the deputy wrote, and refused to speak to him other than to say, “They are going to get me. No one is safe. I cannot trust anyone.”

The deputy spotted what appear to be “fresh needle track marks” on the man’s inner arm and also noted the man’s clothes and belongings were wet.

EMS was called and the man told paramedics “that a shirt would make his chest stop hurting,” the deputy wrote.

The original caller told the deputy she had let her dogs out around 6:30 a.m. and they began barking at a man “wearing only ‘ripped up underwear.’ ”

She said he saw her and ran. The man, who could not offer a reason for being on the woman’s property (which is surrounded by a 6-foot-high fence) was charged with loitering and prowling.