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Florida Cops Declare Child’s Bike Thief ‘Scumbag of the Week”

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Cops say this dirtbag has a special place in jail reserved for him

DELTONA, Florida — It’s a honor no one should want.

A Florida sheriff has declared a man caught on camera stealing a child’s bicycle the “Scumbag of the Week,” and is seeking the public’s help to catch the thief.

“Let’s make our community better by arresting guys who steal kids’ bikes,” said Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood.

The department released a still image taken from surveillance camera footage of a white man with tattoos on both arms taking off with the bicycle from a home in Deltona.

“If you recognize this person, or notice a similar grown man riding around on a child’s bicycle, please call us in Deltona at 386-860-7030,” the department said.

Chitwood — who has made frequent use of the word scumbag in referring to particular brand of crook — began naming a scumbag of the week in late May, declaring that the term is an acronym for  “suspected criminal unconcerned with morals or goodness.”

 

 

Florida Clerk Uses Stolen City Funds to Pay for Butt Lift Surgery

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Natwaina Clark allegedly began stealing for Gainesville’s coffers within months of starting work as a clerk there

GAINESVILLE, Florida  — Here’s one way to land your butt in jail.

A Florida city staff assistant has been charged with running up nearly $92,000 in credit card purchases on the city dime, including $8,500 on a Brazilian butt lift, officials say.

Natwaina Clark, 33, began working for the city of Gainesville in August 2015 as an assistant to the parks and cultural affairs manager, police said. During that time, she was entrusted to use city credit cards to make purchases for the departments.

But police say that within a few months of being hired, Clark began running up personal charges on the card. By the time she was arrested in March 2017, she had run up $91,598 in personal expenses and the city departments had overrun their budgets, police said.

She was charged with fraud and has seen been released on bond.

A subsequent review of city accounts released this week, revealed that Clark had spent $8,500 of city money to get butt lift surgery, $2,400 to pay her cable and internet bills, $1,000 at CVS, $739 on food and $600 on a big screen TV.

She also moved $41,000 into her PayPal account to use as spending cash on top of her $33,500 annual salary, the Gainesville Sun reported.

Clark explained her lavish spending to co-workers by claiming to have a boyfriend who liked to spend money on her. In one instance, Clark sent herself a bouquet of flowers, using the company card, that she claimed was from her boyfriend.

Most shockingly, the report also discovered that Clark had been previously arrested in similar circumstances in Orlando. There, she was charged with illegally selling employee information to a third party while working in the human resources department of Hughes Supply, a plumbing wholesaler.

Clark pleaded no contest in that case and was sentenced to probation.

 

 

 

Florida Man Busted After Calling 911 for a Lift to Hooters

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MERRITT ISLAND, Florida — He was looking for a ride to Hooters, but got a lift to jail instead.

A Florida man was charged with misusing the 911 system when he called asking for a ride from sheriff’s deputies to the local Hooters.

Jonathan Clayton Hinkle, 28, allegedly told dispatchers that his elderly grandmother was suffering from a stroke in the Hooters parking lot in Merritt Island and he needed help getting there to assist her.

Hinkle then said he was running to the eatery as fast as he could, but asked if a patrol car could be dispatched to give him a lift, the Brevard County Sheriff’s office said.

Jonathan Hinkle

Deputies gave him the lift, but then were unable to locate the grandmother anywhere near the Hooters. When they finally found her three hours later, she told deputies that she had never been in any distress and hadn’t called Hinkle for help.

They then tracked Hinkle down and arrested him. The department said they will seek restitution of $222 for the wasted manpower.

Hinkle has numerous prior arrests for burglary and parole violations, records show.

 

 

Porn Star Charged With Beating Boyfriend in Post-Sex Brawl

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PINELLAS PARK, Florida — An adult film star is facing battery charges after allegedly roughing up her boyfriend during a post-sex fight, cops said.

Lauren Kaye Scott, who goes by the screen name Dakota Skye or Kota Skye, is accused of smacking her boyfriend in the face after he complained that she wouldn’t get off the phone and leave his house after they had sex, according to Florida police.

The boyfriend, Robert Anderson Jr., whom Scott has dated for six months, suffered swelling and a cut to his lower lip in the fight, the Pinellas Park police said.

Scott, 23, was charged with domestic battery. She was later released on her own recognizance and ordered to have no contact with Anderson.

Scott later wrote on Twitter: “Innocent until proven guilty.”

According to the criminal complaint, Scott listed her employer as “porn industry.” She has appeared in dozens of adult films dating back to 2013, including “Anal Buffet 10,” “Sex Kittens 2,” and “Rump Raiders 6.”

In 2015, she was a nominee for Best New Starlet at the Adult Video News awards.

“I can’t imagine doing anything else for a living,” she told AVN. “Awards are always nice, but being able to do what I love and give back to the people who love it are reward enough.”

In a handwritten motion, Scott told the judge that Anderson and his relatives were harassing her and asked that she be allowed to travel to Los Angeles where she lives with her husband, Zachary Lecompte-Goble, who has worked as a booking agent for ultra-right wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos.

 

Florida Gun Battle Erupts as Bandit Tries to Rob Armed Pizza Delivery Guy

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Priest Jordan had a craving for cash

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — He picked the wrong pizza guy to mess with.

A man who tried to rob a pizza man at gunpoint was treated to an extra topping of whoop ass when the delivery pulled a gun of his own and fired back, cops said.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s office says Priest Jordan approached the delivery man as he entered a business on Saturday after handing off some pies and pulled a gun.

“I seen them give you the money, but I’m not going to kill you because you might have kids,” Jordan said, according to the criminal complaint.

Cops say the driver handed over $91 in cash and the keys to his car but that Jordan wasn’t finished. Just before he was ready to drive off, cops say Jordan hopped out and opened fire on the deliveryman who then pulled out his own gun and fired back.

No one was hit in the exchange.

Jordan then took off on foot. Cops zeroed in on their man when one officer reviewed surveillance tape and recognized Jordan. He was picked up the next day.

He faces charges of aggravated battery, armed robbery and attempting to elude cops.

 

Florida Dealer Flashing Cash on Facebook Live Captures Drug Raid on Camera

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Breon Hollings before and after cops stormed his house

JACKSONVILLE, Florida — This guy wishes it had been Candid Camera.

Police stormed into an alleged Florida drug dealer’s house as he broadcast himself on Facebook Live counting fats stacks of cash and boasting about how much money he had.

The video begins with 22-year-old Breon Hollings joyfully flipping through handfuls of bills and declaring to his audience: “It don’t stop, man. It don’t stop.”

But about a minute into his showing off, officers outside Hollings’ Jacksonville house began shouting over a loudspeaker, “This is the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office. We have a warrant.”

Soon after a series of loud bangs can be heard and flashes of light seen coming from another part of the house as Hollings darts out of the room and isn’t seen again.

Later, a body-armor clad cop wanders into the room, stares into the camera and turns it off. Cops told WFTV-TV that the raid had been planned in advance and the raid being caught on camera was purely coincidental.

Police say Hollings was arrested for possessing cocaine and paraphernalia for selling drugs and was held on $425,000 bond.

White Man Shouting Racial Slurs Slashes Black Man With Machete

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Anthony Hammond

CLEARLAKE, California — A white man spouting racial slurs at people in a California parking lot has been charged with viciously hacking a black man with a machete, cops said.

Anthony Hammond, 34, is accused of haranguing people in the parking lot of his apartment complex over the holiday weekend before rushing back to his home to grab a large machete, Clearlake police said.

He then returned to the parking and while continuing to yell racial slurs at the victim slashed him on the shoulder, causing serious injury, cops said. He was rushed to a nearby hospital.

Hammond then allegedly ran back to his apartment triggering a standoff with cops as officers formed a perimeter around the building.

Looking through the window, cops say they watched as Hammond attempted unsuccessfully to hide himself inside a refrigerator. He then fled to the rear of the apartment and when cops spotted an empty pistol case, investigators say they believed Hammond was likely armed.

For several hours, refused to leave the home, but eventually gave himself up without a fight. Cops recovered the machete but found no gun in the home.

Police say that while being transported to the Lake County Jail, Hammond threatened to kill an officer and his family upon his release from jail.

Hammond was charged with aggravated mayhem, battery with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, felony resisting executive officer, hate crime, battery on a person, and two outside agency felony arrest warrants.

Brooklyn Rapper Busted in Miami Parking Spot Fight That Ends With 2 Dead

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Jeffrey Alexander

MIAMI BEACH, Florida — A teenage Brooklyn rapper was charged with fatally shooting a man in an argument over a parking spot that ended with a second man being shot to death by police, authorities said.

Jeffrey Alexander, 19, who goes by the rap name of 22GZ, was in town over Memorial Day weekend to perform a concert and was among a group of four men driving in a white BMW along Ocean Drive in South Beach when the fight broke out.

Cops say the bloody altercation began when the driver attempted to parallel park in a spot that was too small, striking a parked gold Buick Regal several times, the Miami Herald reported.

Despite it being clear the BMW wouldn’t fit, police say the driver  “began force pushing the Buick back in an attempt to move the Buick.” That led the Buick’s owner to come forward and ask how many times the BMW driver intended to strike his car.

An argument ensued, and Alexander — who had stepped out of the vehicle to help direct the car into the spot — hopped back into the passenger seat where the driver handed him a handgun, cops said.

The driver then yelled at the Buick’s owner, identified as Ladarian Tyrell Phillips, 30, of Homestead, Florida, and his friend to “step the f— back,” cops said.

Alexander then fired two to three shots, striking Phillips in the back and his pal in the leg, police said. Phillips later died.

The BMW driver then sped off, leading arriving police on a chase that stretched over several city blocks before the sedan struck two police cars and still continued to keep going. About a block later, police officers opened fire on the BMW, striking and killing one of the passengers inside.

A video recorded moments after the police shooting shows cops screaming at one of the vehicle’s passengers to “get on the ground,” before dragging him away. Another man is pulled from the car and laid on his back.

Alexander was later booked into a Miami-Dade County jail and charged with murder and attempted murder. In a jailhouse phone call with friends that was posted on his Facebook page, Alexander said he didn’t do it.

“Don’t let that news fool you, I’m innocent,” he said.

Joker Look-Alike Hauled in On Gun Charges

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MIAMI — They didn’t need to call Batman to bust this joker.

Cops in Miami had no trouble at all taking in a man accused of pointing a gun at passing cars whose face tattoo and dyed green hair gave him an uncanny resemblance the joker character in the Batman movies.

Lawrence Patrick Sullivan, 29, was stopped Tuesday night with a loaded handgun in his pocket after residents had called to complain that a man had been brandishing a gun at motorists, cops said. He was easy to track down due to his facial tattoos.

The police report states that Sullivan told the cops that he had “a gun in my pocket,” but that he didn’t have a concealed weapons permit, “cause it’s expensive.”

Sullivan was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and he was released on $5,000 bond.

He told cops he works as a tattoo model.

Sullivan questioned why he was charged with a felony.

“The gun’s in my name, it’s not a dirty gun. Why they gonna charge me with a felony?” Sullivan told WTVJ-TV after being released.

When reminded he didn’t have a permit for the gun, Sullivan responded, “F**ck the permit. We live in America.”

Cops Bust Steven Tyler Look-Alike Who Dressed as Woman to Evade Police

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OCALA, Florida — This dude indeed looks like a lady.

A fugitive wanted on gun charges dressed up as woman to evade police, but bore a striking resemblance to Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler when cops eventually tracked him down.

Marion County Sheriff’s deputies had been searching for Woodrow Dyer, 38, last week to arrest him on gun possession charges but he got away.

The following day, cops caught up to him dressed in women’s clothing and wearing long scarf wrapped around his head in an effort to fool police as he drove through town in a friend’s car.

DUDE LOOKS LIKE A LADY!!

The ruse didn’t work as it was clear to deputies that Dyer was just a unshaven dude wearing women’s clothes.

“Any resemblance to Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is purely a coincidence,” the department said in a statement.

After cops pulled the vehicle over, a police dashboard camera recorded Dyer hop out of the car and flee into the woods where he was caught by a police dog named Tipster, the sheriff’s office said.