FloriDUH: A lawyer’s unrequited love — bar none
The jail staff sensed there was something going on between the lawyer and the inmate whom he represented in a drunken driving case. One tipoff was the novice public defender’s frequent visits to the Lee County jail to see this inmate. The jail staff also discovered the assistant public Read More
Read More >>The great berry heist: Man steals family’s harvest
By admin at 2 September, 2010, 8:47 am
We’re not talking about BlackBerry smart phones — this is about real berries. And pound-for-pound, these berries may yield a bigger market value. Gator Ray Retherford, 26, was arrested for swiping a family’s collection of Palmetto berries in Lehigh Acres Tuesday afternoon, Read More
Read More >>Man accused of bribing ex to say it was her, not girl, in porn photos
Joseph Edmund Chiquet, 35, is set to stand trial next week on charges of lewd and lascivious battery and possession of child pornography in Manatee County. But now he has more legal woes. Chiquet has been charged with trying to bribe a woman to lie for him in his upcoming trial, reports The Read More
Read More >>Sexual pantomime gets middle-schooler expelled
A few years ago, Marcel Williams, 14, roamed football fields as a star running back for the national champion Flagler Junior Pee Wee Bulldogs. But this year he’s not seeing any football or school action at Palm Coast’s Buddy Taylor Middle School because he’s been expelled until Read More
Read More >>Boca Raton activist Jack Furnari sees change in media affecting political campaigns
The dramatic changes in the news media are having an effect on the way politics is practiced. It’s a profound change, said Jack Furnari of Boca Raton, a conservative activist who’s active in the Republican Party, serves as a political consultant for some candidates, and is a sometime-opinion Read More
Read More >>Woman gets 15 years for stealing $1.4 million — from Sheriff’s Office
Cathy Lister, 58, a former accounting associate in the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, was convicted of stealing $1.4 million over a decade that she should have deposited into an evidence trust fund account. She was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison, according to the Pensacola News Read More
Read More >>Woman gets 15 years for stealing $1.4 million — from Sheriff’s Office
Cathy Lister, 58, a former accounting associate in the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office, was convicted of stealing $1.4 million over a decade that she should have deposited into an evidence trust fund account. She was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison, according to the Pensacola News Read More
Read More >>Deputies: Son drove mom to sex appointment
Pamela J. Small, 40, and her son Lawson Wayne Bracewell III, 23, were nabbed in a prostitution sting Wednesday involving people who either placed or answered an Internet classified ad, according to arrest records. And they weren’t alone: They were among 44 people nabbed during the sting, Read More
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