Only in Florida 8/21/2013

       Stuffing a purloined item down your pants to hide detection is nothing new. People have be caught trying to get away with all kinds of things by showing their desired item down their pants when they think no one is looking. An Orlando man is being sought after he used this method to procure something a bit more lively than a CD or a DVD. The currently unknown man is wanted for walking out of a pet store with a pair of puppies shoved down his pants.

     The unknown man can be seen on security camera footage entering the pet store with another man, a woman, and a small toddler. Using the woman and the toddler, as well as the large crowd in the store, as distractions, the puppy thief, relied on the other man to serve as his lookout. While no one was looking, the man stuffed a pug puppy, valued at $800, down the front of his pants, walked out of the store, and stowed it in their getaway car. Perhaps feeling emboldened by his success, the man reentered the store and managed to stuff a miniature dachshund down his pants and walk away again.

     The man and his accomplices were all set to go for the trifecta when the owner of the establishment unwittingly scared off the puppy snatchers. At the time of the theft, the owner was unaware of what had been happening. Only later did he discover the missing puppies. Currently the police have received some tips, but no one has been arrested yet.


Other news in brief:

'It's (breast) time, I'll take everything off,' in Fort Pierce! - I think she may have had a little bit too much liquid courage.

Newlywed accused of choking wife in bathtub, report says - Ah, young love.

Woman yanked out, kept victim's hair, police say - Sometimes you need to have something to mark your accomplishments.

Only in Florida 8/13/2013

     Social media is being used more and more to broadcast the big moments in our lives. These days, it's normal to announce your engagement on Twitter, or your child's birth on Facebook. However, there are some things that still should not be broadcast to the world at large. A man from Miami provided and example of what not to share when he shot and killed his wife, then posted pictures of her body on Facebook.

     Thirty-one year old Derek Medina, of Miami posted the pictures of his wife's corpse shortly after 11 AM, Thursday, August 8th. Along with the pictures he also posted in a message to his friends, "Im going to prison or death sentence for killing my wife love you guys miss you guys takecare Facebook people you will see me in the news".

     In an apparent attempt to provide a reason for his actions, Medina also wrote, "My wife was punching me and I am not going to stand anymore with the abuse so I did what I did I hope u understand me". All of this was followed with, "Rip Jennifer Alfonso", which was his wife's name.

     The couple had a far from perfect marriage, Medina and his wife had divorced and remarried in the span of three months last year, after only being together for a couple of years. According to the neighbors, the murder came as a complete shock. None of the neighbors felt that Medina was a violent man, at most, they just saw him as being a little odd.

     A neighbor of Medina's, 33-year-old Yoshi Dade, said Medina had approached him while he was working out at the apartment complex over a year ago. Dade said Medina told him he was part of the neighborhood watch and that he had a concealed weapons permit, claims that officials haven't been able to verify. "He would walk around here and kinda patrol the area. He was always telling me there was a lot of stuff going on around here," Dade said. While he thought the incident was strange, Dade only saw Medina a few times after that. Other neighbors only said that Medina was a very quiet person who would never say hello.

     Medina was also a budding blogger and self published author. However, some of the titles of his books are a bit unusual to say the least. The title of one of his books is, "World Just Ask Yourself Why We Are Living a Life Full of Lies and How I an Emotional Writer Made All of My Professional Dreams Come True Blocking Society's Teachings", is one such example. Another of his books is, looking back, ironically titled, "How I Saved Someone's Life and Marriage and Family Problems Thru Communication". On his blog, Medina has a story on his blog about  how he fought off a "demon ghost" that was trying to attack his wife. A story which surely must somehow tie into his book called, "Humans Who Are Gifted and Can See The Supernatural Spirit Ghost World We Live in Called Ghost Haunted Adventures".

     Fortunately, Medina saved the police a manhunt. He turned himself in to police a few hours after he made the posts. Medina has been charged with first-degree murder and the judge has ordered him held without bond.


Other news in brief:

Man puts gun to wife’s head during fight over laundry soap - That's one way to win an argument I guess?

Man practices tae kwan do on light pole - He reportedly heard light pole say something about his mom.

The Hunger Games Summer Camp is a Terrible Idea - Sure, lets let kids act out their violent fantasies on each other, what could it hurt?

   



 

Only in Florida 8/6/2013

       Alcohol can make people to strange inexplicable things. Recently, a Daytona man had a bit to much to drink, and decided to take a very early morning drive. The man, one Leon J. Lovelady of Daytona, however, had to overcome a few hurdles blocking him from his cruse around town.

     First of all, he didn't have a licence. However, the alcohol must have been whispering in Lovelady's ear that he didn't need to worry about such a minor technicality. Ignoring his first problem, Lovelady went about solving his next one. To go on his midnight ride, he actually needed to have a car. Lovelady solved that predicament, when he procured the keys to his visiting sister's Chevy Blazer.

     With everything going swimmingly so far, Lovelady made one last stop before he left. Apparently not content to go out by his self, Lovelady woke up both his four year old and his eight year old nephews to take them along for the ride.

     At some point things took a turn for the worse, which inevitably happens when one goes out drunk driving, and the SUV wound up with it's nose stuck in a water filled ditch. As police approached the vehicle, one of the two siblings could be seen holding an empty vodka bottle. Lovelady, clearly intoxicated, told the officers, “that he had a couple of shots of gin just prior to the crash.”

     While, the two children were unharmed in the accident, they were a little shaken up by all that had happened prior to it. The children told officers, “Uncle Leon was trying to hurt us, driving fast, turning the music up loud, and almost hitting stuff.”

Lovelady racked up a string of charges on his little jaunt. He was charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle, no valid driver's license, driving under the influence and two counts of child abuse.

Other news in brief:

Report: Woman tears up clothes; man responds with cane - Spare the rod, spoil the wife (rolls eyes and shakes head).

Florida Keys Man Calls 911 to Report False Kidnapping After Girlfriend Moves Out -  Desperate times call for desperate measures. 

'I asked her to stop and let me out and she wouldn’t. She kidnapped me' - Yeah, sure she did.

Only in Florida 8/1/2013

     We all have times where we lose our tempers. Often when this happens we say or do things that we regret later when fog of anger has lifted. One man, Quinn Patrick Evans, will probably have quite some time to regret the actions he took on July 21st.

      The 24-year Boynton Beach man has been charged with kidnapping after he allegedly held his girlfriend captive for about 11 hours. According to the police report, Evans "just lost it" when he discovered that his live in girlfriend of six months, had cheated on him with another man.

     Furious, Evans reportedly "choked the woman, slammed her against a wall and struck her three times with a bull whip". The police report also states that Evans threw a mirror at the woman, which shattered and proceeded to cut her. He also held a knife to her chest, telling her that she should die for being unfaithful.

     At some point in the 11 hour ordeal, Evans tied the woman up with a "nylon sex strap", holding her hostage in their bedroom. He only released the woman from her restraints so that she could take a shower. Seeing her chance, the woman alerted one of their roommates, only to be dragged out of his bedroom by her hair. The roommate called one of his friends, and they came to the woman's rescue, holding down Evans while the woman made her escape. Evans, angered even more by the roommate and the roommate's friend's interference, confronted the friend outside of his apartment with with a hunting knife. Fortunately the two men were able to restrain Evans again and take the knife from him.

     Both Evans and the woman had to be treated at a local hospital. The woman sustained, "several cuts to her chest, a swollen right eye and other injuries", police said. Evans was also wounded some time during his struggle with the roommate and the roommate's friend, receiving a cut to his hand that required treatment at the same hospital.


Other news in brief:

Man says he'll leave park when they clean the sewage from the water - He just wanted his home cleaned up.

Man says girlfriend hit him so hard he 'spit up blood' - That is not a wake up call you want to have.

Woman accused of leaving girls, 7 and 8, at movies while she went drinking at Blue Martini in CityPlace - Hey, children are rough. Momma needed a drink.

Only in Florida 7/25/2013

      The old phrase, "throw the baby out with the bath water" is obviously meant to be taken figuratively. No one would want to throw their child, right? While most people would see this as common sense, one parent apparently missed the memo.
   
     Ashley Taylor Wright, 23, of Pensacola, was enjoying a day of shopping at the Santa Rosa Mall with her husband and two children. While they were in Dillard's, Wright decided to try and get a bit more for her money and placed two pairs of jeans and a shirt, worth more than 260 dollars, in her baby's stroller.

     The pilfering parent made it all the way to her car before she was stopped by an Okaloosa County sheriff's deputy. As he approached, Wright yelled at her husband to leave, and the officer attempted to get her to exit the vehicle. In response, she grabbed her child's carrier, with the baby inside, and told the deputy, "You will have to shoot through the baby to get me.”

     With no other solution presenting itself, Wright decided that the only way out was to make a run for it. As she did, apparently seeking a distraction, she threw her 14 pound infant at the deputy. Fortunately the child was unharmed. Wright, however, was not so lucky. As she ran from the deputy, she stumbled and fell, which gave him the chance to catch up. In a last ditch effort to escape, Wright tried to fight with the deputy on the ground. However, she lost the battle and was taken into custody. After her capture, the deputy noticed that Wright had suffered a cut on her head which required treatment at a local hospital.

     After being released from the hospital, Wright was charged with petty theft, child abuse without great bodily harm, resisting an officer without violence, and placed on $7,000 bond.


Other news in brief:

Police: Shoplifter's fight over 99-cent chips gets him robbery charge - Mother knows best

Mom angry daughter didn’t want to be baptized with her - Mother: You will get dunked, and you will like it!

Police say barefoot UPS employee tried to hide stolen cellphones in boots - Maybe he wanted to be called the barefoot bandit?

Flagler woman accused of battering boyfriend - She may be small, but she is fierce.

Police: Man shoves woman out of moving minivan after argument over beer on his way to rehab - They tried to make him go to rehab, but he said, "no, no, no".

Only in Florida 7/22/2013

     Everyone dreams about doing something out of the ordinary, and Jenna Conti is no exception. The dreams most people have are pretty down to earth, such as getting a novel published, landing a great job, or buying the home they have always wanted. Conti's dream, on the other hand, is a bit out of the ordinary; she wants to be a mermaid. Not a real mermaid mind you, but one of the ladies who put on the mermaid show at the Florida Aquarium. To help her accomplish her goal, Conti purchased a custom made silicon mermaid tail to wear her communities public pool. However, Conti's plan has run into a bit of a snag.

     At first, the staff who ran the pool allowed her to swim with her custom tail. But when she returned for a second dip in the pool, she was told that, because of a rule barring swim fins, she would not be allowed to swim with her tail on. Hoping to be allowed as an exception to the rule, Conti brought forward a request to her home owners association's board, the FishHawk Community Development board. Unfortunately for her, the board voted to maintain the ban on swim fins, and by doing so, banning Conti from the pool while she has on her tail.

     Undeterred, Conti is still mulling over her options. One possible solution would be for her to become a licensed vendor with insurance, selling her time as an attraction at pool parties for children. However, Conti doesn't like the idea of charging fees, especially if the venue would be at the public pool. "To just swim with the kids, it's supposed to be for everybody," she said.


Other news in brief:

Video shows shirtless driver challenging other driver to fight - If you are going to fight someone, make sure they don't have someone with a camera near them.

Witness says man broke broomstick over girlfriend, threw bricks at her - while you have to feel bad for the poor lady who was beaten up, you also have to feel for the neighbor. All he probably wanted was a nice relaxing dip in the pool, not front row tickets to domestic violence theater.

Strip-club mom arrested on child-neglect charges - Since they knew she had 900 dollars on her, I wonder if they deliberately set her bail at 1000 dollars just to force her to stay in jail.

Police: UF linebacker Morrison arrested for barking at K-9 - This is on the edge of "Man bites dog" territory

Naked woman arrested after stepping off Lynx bus - I know it's been hot recently, but surely she could have kept something on.

Woman says boyfriend cut off her clothes with box-cutter - Nothing says I don't like your clothes like forcefully cutting them off you.

Slice and dice

Marianna man armed with sword arrested after allegedly attacking mother, girlfriend

By News Herald staff report

Published: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 16:12 PM.

MARIANNA - A Marianna man was armed with a Samurai sword, according to authorities, when he was arrested Tuesday after allegedly attacking his mother and his girlfriend.

Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home in the 5000 block of Hundred Acre Drive, where they found the man’s mother and his girlfriend had been injured in a domestic incident that turned physical. The man’s mother told deputies that her son pushed her down, and his girlfriend told deputies that he choked her and threw her to the floor, according to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.

The man had fled the home, where he lives with his mother, before deputies arrived.

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Definitely not the jaws of life

Woman bit boyfriend's penis after he refused to have sex, deputies say

By Barbara HijekFloriDUH

5:02 a.m. EDT, May 17, 2013

As Krystle M. Harrison and her boyfriend were lying in bed Wednesday evening, the 19-year-old Bradenton woman began touching him, wanting to have sex, according to an arrest affidavit from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.

The couple have been dating for about 3 years and have a child together, according to the arrest report.

After the beau turned Harrison down -- several times -- she grabbed him and bit his penis...

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There is such a thing as playful biting, and this is NOT it.

No shoes for you!

Woman says boyfriend threw her shoes in yard, slammed her

By STAFF REPORTS / Daily News 

Published: Friday, June 7, 2013 at 14:15 PM.

CRESTVIEW – A woman says her boyfriend picked her up and slammed her against a doorstep. Her boyfriend says he did no such thing, that she tripped and fell.

He was arrested...

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Yeah, she "tripped" alright.

Get a grip

Man says he put his hands on his wife's neck to make her listen

FORT WALTON BEACH – A man told a Fort Walton Beach Police officer he put his hands around his wife’s neck to make her listen. That earned him a felony battery charge.

The alleged battery happened May 15 at a Chestnut...

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     Yeah, nothing makes a person listen like the life being choked out of them (facepalm).