{"id":403984,"date":"2026-09-18T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403984\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T21:53:08","slug":"charges-dropped-against-state-rep-linda-chaneys-husband-after-105k-repayment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403984\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges dropped against State Rep. Linda Chaney&#8217;s husband after $105K repayment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/vlcsnap-2026-09-18-16h10m35s000.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8211; The Pinellas County state attorney has dropped state fund theft charges against William Yovic, husband of State Rep. Linda Chaney, following full repayment of owed sales taxes.<\/p>\n<p>   State Rep. Linda Chaney husband tax case <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Pinellas County state attorney filed a letter of nolle prosse last week to formally dismiss the theft of state funds case against William Yovic. Yovic, who is married to State Rep. Linda Chaney, operates a motor coach business on Ulmerton Road.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Prosecutors originally accused him early last year of owing over $100,000 in sales taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Yovic paid $105,000 back to the state to resolve the matter, according to his defense attorney, Brett Metcalf.<\/p>\n<p> Pinellas County state attorney drops charges <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Prosecuting authorities have not confirmed full details of the agreement leading to the dismissed charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">State officials have not publicly commented on whether additional civil penalties remain for the business, which is on Ulmerton Road.<\/p>\n<p> Motor coach business theft investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators initially charged Yovic early last year after alleging his company failed to remit collected state sales taxes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Defense attorney Brett Metcalf stated the agreement required Yovic to fully pay back the state before prosecutors would drop all charges.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Law enforcement officers have charged two former employees in connection with the financial disruption at the motor coach business.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Defense counsel said the accused workers &#8220;systematically stole&#8221; $400,000 from Yovic&#8217;s operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from Pinellas County court documents and prosecutor filings, as well as statements provided by defense attorney Brett Metcalf.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8211; The Pinellas County state attorney has dropped state fund theft charges against William Yovic,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-403984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}