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Man Busted for Pulling Assault Rifle at McDonalds After Being Told No Ice Cream

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Jerry Henry

DELRAY BEACH, Florida — Some people just don’t know how to take no for answer.

A man landed in jail for whipping out a replica assault rifle a Florida McDonald’s after being told he couldn’t have ice cream because the machine was out of order.

Jerry Henry was in the drive thru lane with a pal, Michael Delhomme when they were told ice cream was unavailable.

Frantic employees watched on security video as Henry hopped out of the passenger seat and pulled a replica AR-15 rifle from the trunk as Delhomme moved towards the drive thru window, WPLG-TV reported.

Store workers called 911 as they ran to hide from what the thought was an incoming gunman.

Henry later admitted that Delhomme had told him to get the “stick” from the trunk and that he had put the fake gun between his legs as they pulled up to the window.

He was charged with improper exhibition of a firearm.

KKK Prison Guards in Florida Convicted in Plot to Murder Black Inmate

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From left: Charles Thomas Newcomb, David Elliot Moran and Thomas Jordan Driver

LAKE CITY, Florida — A pair of Florida prison guards who were secretly members of the KKK have been convicted of plotting to murder a black inmate after his release.

Prosecutors said the plot dated back to 2015, when David Elliot Moran, 49, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 45, and a third guard who had previously pleaded guilty, tried to enlist the help of an FBI informant to kill the inmate.

The men were infuriated by the inmate after he bit the third guard, Thomas Jordan Driver, 27, who, like the others, is  a member of the Traditionalist American Knights branch of the Ku Klux Klan, during a fight. The three guards believed the prisoner was infected with HIV and hepatitis.

One version of the plot involved injecting the inmate with insulin and then forcing him face down into a river with a fishing pole in his hand to make it look an accident. Another involved shooting him and chopping his body into pieces.

But the scheme was quickly foiled after recorded conversations between the three former guards and the FBI informant revealed the murder plot.

“These Klansmen plotted to murder a black inmate after he was released from prison, but swift action and clever investigative tactics on behalf of investigators foiled their plot and may have saved a life,” said Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said.

At the time of the murder conspiracy, Driver and Moran were guards at the Department of Corrections Reception and Medical Center in rural north Florida. Newcomb was a former correctional officer who had been fired in 2013 for failing to meet training requirements.

Driver pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder in March and was sentenced to four years in prison.

The head of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Frank Ancona was shot and killed in Missouri earlier this year and his body dumped by a river. His wife and son-in-law have been charged in his death.

 

Florida Gangster Gets 6 Years for Setting Off Gun While Taking Strip Club Selfie

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Rorn Sorn was a little too amped up in the Champagne room

 

TAMPA, Florida — In most cases, an accidental discharge at a strip club won’t land you behind bars.

But a Florida gangster has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison for accidentally shooting a .40 caliber handgun in the restroom of a St. Petersburg strip club while taking a selfie, authorities said.

Rorn Sorn, 34, went to Club Lust in December with a pal and went into the restroom. A guard then heard a gunshot a few minutes and spotted Sorn and his friend leaving the room, federal prosecutors said.

When the guard asked if they had fired a gun, Sorn responded: “It was an accident, man. I as just trying to take a selfie.” Club employees spotted a bullet hole in the bathroom mirror that went through the wall into the ladies’ room.

A search revealed that Sorn was carrying the gun, marijuana and Xanax pills. Sorn, who is a member of the Asian Pride Gang, had numerous prior convictions, including for burglary and attempted first degree murder, which makes it illegal for him to carry a gun.

As a result, Sorn pleaded guilty to illegal firearms possession in April.

Couple Hurt When SUV Carrying Propane Tank Explodes After Wife Lights Cigarette

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ORLANDO, Florida — When they tell you not to smoke around propane tanks, they’re not kidding around.

Two people narrowly escaped being turned to ash on Sunday when a propane grill they were transporting in their car blew up after the wife lit a cigarette, Orlando police said.

As it turned out, the couple had the grill tucked into the back of their Kia Sorrento with the gas on and flowing. A quick light of her smoke blew the top off the car and sent the windshield flying.

The car then crashed into a pole.

The couple, who were not identified, were taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Florida Man Claims Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar Ordered Him on Liquor Shop Rampage

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Mathew Horace Jones apparently has a thing against liquor stores

CRESTVIEW, Florida — A man outraged by a new liquor store being built, stole a forklift and completely trashed the construction site, later telling cops “his name was Alice Wonderland” and he was acting on orders  from “a hookah-smoking caterpillar.”

Mathew Horace Jones, 32, allegedly caused $100,000 in damage to the liquor store being built on the grounds of the Walmart in Crestview, Florida, during this Saturday night rampage, police said.

Jones is accused of breaking into the site and swiping an extendable forklift parked there and using it to completely destroy the project. Police said they received multiple 911 calls, some of which described Jones “throwing cinder blocks off the scaffolding.”

When cops arrived, they say Jones aimed the forklift at them and only stopped after they drew their guns. They say Jones told them “his name was Alice Wonderland and he was told to commit the offenses by a hookah-smoking caterpillar.”

He later admitted who he was and told cops he did because Walmart was “building a place to sell alcohol and he had a problem with it.”

The building’s contractor told cops that Jones left in his wake $40,000 in scaffold damage, $15,000 in smashed blocks and mortar, a trashed $15,00 forklift and $7,500 mixer. Police say Jones also destroyed a fire hydrant and water meter.

The contractor estimated it would cost $60,000 in labor costs to clean up the site and rebuild what was destroyed.

Jones, who was on probation for robbery, was charged with felony grand theft, use of a motor vehicle to damage property, criminal mischief; and violation of felony probation. He was held without bail.

Florida Man Charged With Dumping Injured Woman in Bushes to Avoid Golf Cart DUI

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Cops say Timothy Foxworth admitted leaving the woman because he was afraid of being charged

WILDWOOD, Florida — A man dumped an injured woman in bushes on the side of a road after she fell off the golf cart he was driving, and then fled the scene without calling for help because he was afraid of getting charged with drunk driving, police said.

Timothy Jacob Foxworth, 36, of North Carolina was visiting his parents in Florida and had taken his father’s golf cart to go to a nearby bar, Wildwood police said.

He later left the bar with a 51-year-old woman and as he was driving with her along a state road, she fell off the cart, WKMG-TV reported.

The woman suffered a life-threatening injury and was unable to stand up or walk, but instead of calling for help, police say Foxworth dragged her into the bushes along the median and drove off.

Fortunately for the woman, witnesses spotted the incident and called for help. Police credited their action with greatly increasing “the victim’s chances of survival.”

Cops say they later found Foxworth driving the golf cart, wearing a shirt smeared with blood. They say he told officers that he had panicked because had had been driving drunk.

He was charged with DUI and hit and run. Foxworth was released on $25,000 bond.

Drug Dealer Arrested After Calling Cops to Report His Drugs Had Been Stolen

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FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Now, that’s just making things too easy for police.

A Florida drug dealer effectively turned himself in when he called cops to say that someone had broken into his car and made off with his cocaine.

Th Okaloosa Sheriff’s office says David Blackmon, 32, of Fort Walton Beach, called police Sunday morning to report that someone had stolen and bag of coke and a pile of cash from his car.

Blackmon freely admitted to the responding officers that he was a drug dealer and that about $50 and a quarter ounce of coke has disappeared from the vehicle.

Upon closer inspection, the officer found another bag of coke sitting on the floor of the car, as well as a crack pipe and crack rock  on the center console.

The cash wasn’t found.

Blackmon is charged with possession of cocaine, resisting arrest without violence, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Florida Man Busted Trying Smuggle Cocaine Stuffed in Cookie Monster

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This Cookie Monster was caught trying to smuggle a large quantity of cocaine

MARATHON, Florida — In this case, C is for cocaine.

Florida police busted a man smuggling nearly a third of a kilo of cocaine stuffed inside a Cookie Monster doll, authorities said.

Police in Key West pulled over Camus McNair on Wednesday after a deputy noticed his license plate was obscured and his Dodge’s windows were so dark that the officer could not see inside.

Cops say when McNair rolled down his window, the smell of marijuana came wafting out of the vehicle. That prompted a further search during which investigators discovered the Cookie Monster inside a backpack.

The officer noticed the doll seemed heavier than expected. He then noticed a slit down the side and upon further inspection, discovered 314 grams of cocaine.

Camus McNair

McNair was charged with cocaine trafficking and possession of drug equipment, He was held without bail at the Monroe County jail.

Instagram Model Busted For Attacking Cops in Nude Hotel Rampage

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CLEARWATER, Florida — A smoking hot Instagram model was arrested for allegedly attacking police in the buff after they tried to get her to leave a Florida hotel where she had been causing a disturbance.

Brissa Dominguez-Garcia, 25, is accused of kicking several officers and trying to bite and spit on others as they attempted to escort out of the Edge Hotel in Clearwater early last Wednesday.

According to the police report, when officers arrived on the scene after receiving a call from the night manager, they found Dominguez to be totally nude. An officer offered her a towel to cover up, but she used it instead to whip him in the face, the report said.

She then kicked three patrolmen, and attempted to bite and spit on one officer, who she then “mule kicked” when he got too close, Clearwater police said.

The 5-foot-4, 130-pound Dominguez hails from Mexico and gave police a home address in California. She has amassed 74,000 followers on her Instagram page where she regularly posts photos from around the world highlighting her ample derriere and curvaceous figure.

At the same time she was arrested , Clearwater cops also  took in a 25-year-old Florida man who was stumbling around naked in the hotel’s lobby. It is unclear if or how the man–who was “uncooperative and intoxicated”–was connected to Dominguez.

Man Kept Wife’s Corpse in Freezer for 8 Years to Collect Her Social Security

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TAMPA, Florida — That’s just cold.

The survivors of a dead Florida retiree agreed to pay the government the proceeds of the sale of the man’s condo after it emerged he had secretly kept his dead wife’s corpse in a freezer for eight years so he could continue to collect her social security benefits.

Prosecutors say that in all, Allan Dunn had collected $92,088 in benefits from when his wife Margaret died in 2002 until his own death in 2010.

But instead of alerting officials that his wife had passed away, Dunn stuffed her body in a freezer in the couple’s Sun City Center home and continued to collect her social security checks. The truth emerged after he died.

Upon his death, his only asset was the condo he and his wife shared and his heirs — who were unaware that he had covered up his wife’s death and kept her stashed in the freezer — agreed to waive their rights to inherit the property and to hand over the proceeds from a sale.

The unit was sold and after paying back taxes, sales costs, and cash owed to the condominium association, the remaining $15,743.14 were handed over to the government.