Magistrate issues 30-day orders for multiple Pinellas County properties; fines set for noncompliance

The special magistrate issued orders requiring multiple property owners to bring homes and lots into compliance within 30 days, citing minimum housing, trash-and-debris, outdoor-storage and related code violations.

Officer B. Hughes and Dee Duvall presented evidence in separate matters. For the property at 5233 Jasmine Circle (owner Renee Rodriguez Alies) the magistrate ordered compliance by Aug. 19, 2026, and set fines at $250 per day per violation with assessed costs of $2,231.91. In the Del Elkin matter the magistrate found the structure unsafe based on an engineering letter, ordered compliance in 30 days and imposed fines of $100 per day and costs of $240.01. Justin Nevius’s fire-damaged property was ordered into compliance within 30 days with fines of $200 per day and costs of $312.78; Kevin Rollinson was ordered to cure minimum-housing and outdoor-storage violations within 30 days with fines of $100 per day and costs of $222.46.

Magistrate Fuller repeatedly framed these as compliance orders: "I'm going to find that there is a violation... order the property to be brought into compliance within 30 days," and warned that continuing violations will trigger daily fines. Most respondents were not present in the hearing room; the county entered photos, notices and engineering letters into evidence and the magistrate admitted the exhibits where there were no objections.