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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Investigators say a 27-year-old Florida man caused a crash on Interstate 95 and then stole a pickup truck from a man who stopped to help.

Florida Highway Patrol Lt. Kim Montes said in a statement that 27-year-old Zachary Searls hit a van in front of him Monday night. Searls' car then hit a tree and caught fire.

Montes says 52-year-old Felix Coffman stopped to help. When Coffman got out of his truck, Searls got in it and drove away, Montes says.

Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies say they found the truck parked outside Searls' home a short time later and arrested him. He’s charged with several offenses including grand theft of a motor vehicle, no valid driver’s license, leaving the scene of a crash with injury and resisting an officer without violence. He is being held on a $6,000 bond.

No attorney for Searls was listed in court records.

Hardawn posted:

gently caress you OP with your Twitter poo poo

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A Florida man has been arrested and charged with battery after he allegedly pushed a woman who wouldn’t let him into her house to eat egg rolls.

Police in Milton, Florida, have said in an offense report that the suspect, 44-year-old Keith Johnson, arrived at the victim’s house drunk, demanding to come in so that he could eat the Chinese foodstuff. ABC affiliate WEARTV reported that Johnson kept ringing the doorbell despite the complainant repeatedly telling him she wasn’t going to let him in and didn’t want him in her home. The victim claimed eventually that she said she would come out to give Johnson the egg rolls, which were inside the home. It is at this point, when she opened the door, that he shoved her inside. In the aftermath of the alleged battery the victim told Johnson he needed to leave. The police offense report details that she offered to leave the egg rolls by the car. The suspect has admitted to pushing the victim but also claimed she slapped him. Johnson is being held on remand at Santa Rosa County Jail on a $500 bond.

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Saturday, July 21st, 2018CLEARWATER, Fla.
(WPVI) -- Police say a Florida man was shot and killed over a parking space.

Britany Jacobs says Michael Drejka confronted her after she parked in a handicap parking spot outside a convenience store in Clearwater.

Surveillance video shows Jacobs' boyfriend Markeis McGlockton leave the store to defend Jacobs.

He shoves Drejka to the ground.

Drejka then pulls out a gun and shoots McGlockton in the chest.

The father of three died a short time later.

The Sheriff's Department is not pressing charges against Drejka because of Florida's Stand Your Ground law.

Reiche posted:

https://6abc.com/florida-man-shot-and-killed-over-parking-space/3799234/

I just put in my birthday and got this incident which I remember causing a ruckus when it happened last year. I honestly wasn't expecting to see a Florida Man story that I instantly remembered given the sheer number of incidents out there

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He shoves Drejka to the ground.

Drejka then pulls out a gun and shoots McGlockton in the chest.

The Sheriff's Department is not pressing charges against Drejka because of Florida's Stand Your Ground law.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Pushing someone to the ground and shooting them in the chest. No charges.

Pennywise the Frown posted:

Pushing someone to the ground and shooting them in the chest. No charges.

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Florida Man Claims Trump Bumper Sticker Motivated Road Rage Attack

Gregg Dunay was left beaten and bloody after he said he was the victim of a road rage attack in Pinellas County, Florida. Dunay claimed he was targeted for having a Trump bumper sticker and a Trump banner on his minivan.

He said the attack happened Wednesday when he tried to change lanes and another driver wouldn’t let him.

That’s when he said the situation escalated.

"He was cursing at me. He's saying 'F Trump,' 'F Trump's mother,' all this stuff and I just said that's why Trump is now our president, because of stuff like this," Dunay said.

Surveillance cameras then captured the suspects at a gas station parking lot down the street from where the incident started.

When Dunay stopped at the light, the other driver came out of nowhere and attacked, he said.

"I turn, and that's when he punched me," Dunay said.

The suspect then ran, leaving Dunay bloody and with no question about the motive.

"The Trump sticker and the Trump banner. That's all what it's about," Dunay said.

Kenneth City police confirmed it was definitely a case of road rage. But was it politically motivated as Dunay claims?

"That may be the case or not the case," said Chief Kevin Riley of Kenneth City police. "We're still investigating that and it will be a part of our investigation. Again, we're focused on the battery that occurred and finding the suspect or suspects."

Dunay, a huge Trump supporter, has been to eight rallies and the inauguration.

He believes that people need to accept that Trump is the president.

"He's our president," he said. "We got to get over it. You can change your mind in four years."

Bogus Adventure posted:

I think these details will help clear it up:

*Shooter was white
*Victim was black

Pennywise the Frown posted:

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A Florida woman who was arrested in February after she told deputies her name was “Blacksheep Trouble Squarepants” is in hot water again.

Tami Lynn Bonefield, 45, was arrested on Monday after she shoplifted from a beauty supply store in Largo and assaulted several employees who tried to stop her, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.

Bonefield was captured on video concealing items in her pocket and punching and kicking Silky Beauty Supply employees when confronted.

Bonefield denied stealing anything from the store, but deputies found two items on her person. They had a combined value of less than $10.

Bonefield was then arrested and placed in a law enforcement van to be transported to jail.

While in route, Bonefield engaged in conversation of a sexual nature with a boy of less than 16 years of age who was also being transported.

Bonefield proceeded to expose her breasts to the minor, according to an arrest affidavit. The sexual comments continued as she pulled down her pants and exposed her genitals. Bonefield then masturbated while looking at the victim and continuing to make sexual comments, according to a deputy’s report.

Bonefield is charged with lewd and lascivious exhibition, resisting a merchant, battery and petit theft, according to the sheriff’s office. She is held on bonds totaling $11,300 at the Pinellas County Jail.

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Florida Woman Crashes Into Home After Closing Eyes To Pray While Driving

Jesus take the wheel?

A woman in Florida who is charged with reckless driving after running a stop sign and driving her car into the side of a house told police she was praying with her eyes closed at the time of the accident.

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Taxpayer refunds are sent out in batches via an expedited electronic system, Pine explained. If a refund is red-flagged, it ought to prompt a closer examination by an IRS employee who “should have immediately and proactively stopped the refund from being issued based on the obvious discrepancy between the income reported of $18,497 and the refund generated of $980,000.”

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According to court records, Blanchett pleaded guilty in 2016 to possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer without violence, both first-degree misdemeanors. In 2014, he was charged with possession of marijuana, also a first-degree misdemeanor, but the judge withheld adjudication, so he was not convicted of a crime.

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A Florida woman is accused of pulling a knife and threatening a man who complained after she farted loudly in a Dollar General checkout line.

Shanetta Yvette Wilson, 37, of Dania Beach, is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, according to Broward County jail records. She remained in jail Wednesday in lieu of $2,500 bond.

A Broward County Sheriff’s Office complaint affidavit, obtained by the Miami Herald, said that Wilson was in line at a Dania Beach Dollar General Sunday evening when she passed gas.

John Walker, the customer next to her in line, got into an argument with her about her “farting loudly,” the affidavit said.

The court document stated that Wilson pulled a knife from her purse, “opened the knife and told the victim she was going to ‘gut’ him,” the Herald reported.

Walker told police officers he became afraid he would be stabbed when Wilson pulled back the hand holding the knife as though she would stab him with it, the document said.

The Herald reported that after Walker called 911, officers found Wilson a few blocks away and took her into custody.

JnnyThndrs posted:

Florida man charged in naked rake attack



(WFLA/NBC News) A Florida man is recovering from several wounds after fighting off a naked intruder armed with a rake.

Deputies say Maurice Castaneda, not wearing a stitch of clothes, barged into Bill and Crystal Colwell's New Port Richey home.

"Looked up and here's a naked guy in my house and I instantly start screaming 'get out of my house' and he didn't get out," Bill Colwell said.

Bill shoved him into the side yard. He said Castaneda grabbed his rake.

"He shattered it a few times, because I think the last time might have been over my head, 'cause I got a couple of lumps on my head," Bill said.

Crystal tossed her husband a hatchet, but he had a better weapon in his truck.

A hammer. “The guy bowed up and said, 'what are you going to do with that?' And Billie hit him and he just kept coming at Billie and Billie just kept hitting him,” said Crystal.
“This dude could have killed me, he would have killed me. He was aggressively coming at me. Even with weapons in my hand, he had no fear,” said Bill.

Castaneda retrieved his boxers from a nearby swamp and took off.

JnnyThndrs posted:

Florida man charged in naked rake attack



(WFLA/NBC News) A Florida man is recovering from several wounds after fighting off a naked intruder armed with a rake.

Deputies say Maurice Castaneda, not wearing a stitch of clothes, barged into Bill and Crystal Colwell's New Port Richey home.

"Looked up and here's a naked guy in my house and I instantly start screaming 'get out of my house' and he didn't get out," Bill Colwell said.

Bill shoved him into the side yard. He said Castaneda grabbed his rake.

"He shattered it a few times, because I think the last time might have been over my head, 'cause I got a couple of lumps on my head," Bill said.

Crystal tossed her husband a hatchet, but he had a better weapon in his truck.

A hammer. “The guy bowed up and said, 'what are you going to do with that?' And Billie hit him and he just kept coming at Billie and Billie just kept hitting him,” said Crystal.
“This dude could have killed me, he would have killed me. He was aggressively coming at me. Even with weapons in my hand, he had no fear,” said Bill.

Castaneda retrieved his boxers from a nearby swamp and took off.

extra row of teeth posted:

Of COURSE this took place in New Port Richey.

For those who don't know, New Port Richey is a community in Pasco county and Pasco mostly consists of a wasteland of trailers and pillheads sandwiched between the good ol'boy part of west-central FL that leads to Ocala and the actual cities in Clearwater/St. Petersburg/Tampa. It somehow combines the worst of both worlds with all of the trailer trash racist run-down rural decay poo poo you find a few minutes farther north, and all of the mouth-frothing drug fueled insanity and awful drivers you see closer to the cities further south.

bradzilla posted:

Lol no wonder it's on Live PD

Milo and POTUS posted:

How is a hammer better than a hatchet.

JnnyThndrs posted:

Maybe the dude thought he was Thor or some poo poo?

extra row of teeth posted:

Honestly? If there’s a crazy motherfucker in my house and I have to incapacitate him without a gun or pepper spray, a hammer would probably be better than a hatchet.

You’re not a medieval warrior with a weapon that gives +10 str, you are flailing around wildly against a psycho. Would you rather knock him out, or just piss him off by getting a few nasty cuts in on him that he doesn’t even feel thanks to the same pain pill street drug combo that compelled him to break into your house in the first place?

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Bay County man faces life in prison for murder of seafood vendor co-worker with a “decorative sword”

PANAMA CITY — A seafood vendor employee was convicted Thursday of murder for fatally stabbing a co-worker with a “decorative sword” over gumbo seasoning.

Orlando Ricardo Thompson, 27, was found guilty of second-degree murder as charged in the June 2015 death of 33-year-old Caleb Joshua Halley. The evidence in the case had been argued for almost two years since an argument erupted over gumbo seasoning behind Buddy’s Seafood Market, 111 State 79, and escalated into the stabbing.