BRIAN Littrell is suing a Florida sheriff’s office over repeated trespassing issues on his property.
The Backstreet Boys singer filed the lawsuit in Walton County, asserting that numerous sunbathers have illegally entered his property to “antagonize, bully, and harass the Littrell family.”
In spite of multiple “No Trespassing” signs and the presence of chairs, umbrellas, and tables marking the start of the property boundary, individuals continue to intrude onto Littrell’s private beach, as stated in the lawsuit.
As a result, Littrell explained that he engaged security services and sought assistance from the sheriff’s department to deter the intruders. However, “the sheriff has refused to come to the subject property to enforce the law and remove the trespassers, to charge the trespassers, or to take any action, at all, thereby refusing to do their duty.”
The lawsuit adds that Littrell filled out a Walton County Trespass Authorization Form, which allowed deputies to warn and prosecute trespassers.
The sheriff’s office received several calls from staffers for Littrell’s BLB Beach Hut, LLC, about trespassers; however, no action was taken, according to the lawsuit.
“The Sheriff is openly defying BLB’s requests for assistance to protect its constitutionally protected property rights, and its deputies have been overheard on two separate occasions, stating that the Sheriff was proud that his sheriff’s office had not written any citations for trespassing onto the private property of BLB and other surrounding property owners,” read court documents.
The lawsuit also stated that a deputy was heard saying in May that he “doesn’t agree with private beaches” on bodycam footage when responding to a trespassing incident on the property.
An alleged incident on June 5 involved a trespasser supposedly taking legal documents related to the dispute out of the property manager’s hand “and scattered the papers into the wind across the beach,” according to the lawsuit.
That day, Littrell said his company reached out to the sheriff’s office twice about the “aggressor,” but the department “refused to send any officer.”
The lawsuit claimed that when BLB reached out to the sheriff’s office for the third time to request an office, “the 911 operator simply hung up on BLB personnel rather than dispatching the officer that was requested more than an hour prior.”
Littrell claimed that the department is “openly defying” his requests for assistance, claiming that deputies overheard on two separate occasions saying that the sheriff was “proud of not issuing any citations for trespassing on the property.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Littrell said that he and his family bought the home on the private beach to be able to vacation in quiet.
“Unfortunately, we had no idea that there was already a battle which had been happening for years.”
He added that since buying the home, he and his family have been targeted by people who don’t normally frequent the beach or live in the area.
“These people, the ones who insist on trespassing in what is actually our backyard, who started this fight, have to pass several scarcely populated public beach areas to get to our property,” Littrell claimed.
He claimed that the alleged trespassers were people who believed that anyone who had achieved success and “managed to live the American Dream must be bad people,” adding that he had given law enforcement all the evidence they needed to take action.
“They will not do the job they were hired to do when hired and sworn in under oath to … protect the citizens and enforce the law,” said Littrell.
A spokesperson for the department told local CBS affiliate WSTP-TV that it doesn’t comment on pending litigation.
“The Walton County Sheriff’s Office prides itself on handling every situation, call for service, or interaction with professionalism using a customer service approach,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
“This has always been our philosophy and will remain so moving forward.”
The U.S. Sun has reached out to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office for comment.
