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Neighbors cry foul when sewage truck overturns

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:02:00 -0500

Ewwwww!

About 100 gallons of waste spilled from the All Star Toilets sewage recovery tanker that hit a utility pole and rolled over in a Pembroke Pines neighborhood, Fire Rescue spokesman Tom Gallagher said, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

A Pembroke Pines street cleaner truck "vacuumed up" all the sewage, he said.

The foul odor dissipated after the waste was removed and the truck was towed away.

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Photo: A sewage truck rollover accident spilled about 100 gallons of waste in Pembroke Pines. (Tom Gallagher, courtesy)

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Inmate escaped from hospital bathroom, found wandering streets in shackles and white gown

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:54:00 -0500

An inmate from the Volusia County Branch Jail escaped from a Deland hospital where he sought treatment, but was later found in a patient's gown and shackles, a police official said this afternoon, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

Michael Burke, 23, an Volusia County inmate, had gone to use the bathroom but managed to give the guard the slip and "just walked out of the hospital," according to Deland police.

DeLand police officers said Burke had entered a garage, where he found a knife that he was carrying.

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Photo: Volusia County Sheriff's Office

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Cops: Woman said she 'lost her mind' during rampage

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:39:00 -0500

Love isn't always an easy ride.

Especially if this red-hot momma is your main squeeze.

Courtney Godwin told Vero Beach cops she "lost her mind" after her boyfriend called her and asked her for a ride to work, but then got a lift from someone else, according to a recently released affidavit states, reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCPalm.com in Stuart.

So the 24-year-old woman showed up at his workplace, beat him and also hurled a jack, a chair and rocks at him — before she tried to run him over with her car, according to the report.

May this dude always walk the straight and narrow.

Get the DUHtails and arrest affidavit at Will Greenlee's Off the Beat blog for TCPalm.com in Stuart.

Photo: Indian River County Sheriff's Office

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Cops: Man fondled, exposed himself to girls near school bus stop

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:27:00 -0500

Cape Coral Police say Zachary Elder, 18, 'fessed up to exposing himself to two teen girls walking home from their school bus stop, reports WINK News in Fort Myers.

He reportedly licked his lips and masturbated as he drove past a 14-year-old last month. Recently he approached another teen, 17, in his car and offered her pot and Roxycodone pills — while masturbating, according to the report.

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Grandma stabbed 93 times, shot with crossbow — grandson arrested

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:17:00 -0500

Gloria Helfrich, 67, was stabbed almost 100 times, struck in the face with a pipe wrench and shot in the back of her head with a crossbow, according to Lake Wales authorities, reports the Orlando Sentinel.

The suspect: her grandson, Jasper Aristotle Smiddie, 19, who lived with his granny.

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Photo: Polk County Sheriff's Office / February 8, 2012

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UF report: Volusia County still shark bite capital of the world

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:47:00 -0500

Although shark attacks in the U.S. declined in 2011, worldwide fatalities (12 deaths) reached a two-decade high, according to the University of Florida’s International Shark Attack File report released today, reports the University of Florida News.

Florida led the states with a total of 11 attacks. Additional U.S. attacks were recorded in Alabama (2), North Carolina (4), California (3), Texas (2), South Carolina (2), Hawaii (3), and Oregon (2), according to the report.

And, once again, Volusia County led the state with six attacks in 2011, keeping its reputation as shark bite capital of the world intact for another year.

Why Volusia?

The reports suggests the higher numbers of shark-human interactions could be the result of recreational use of the waters there by both Floridians and tourists, especially surfers.

Here are some tips to reduce your chances of a shark encounter.

Check out the 2s011 Worldwide Shark Attack Summary

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Photo: Magnus Bråth's photostream

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Report: Homeless man attacked laundromat customer who declined his help

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:36:00 -0500

Collier County sheriff's deputies arrested Hersueen V. Pugh, 30, of Fort Myers, a homeless man who had been living in a Golden Gate laundromat, after they say he attacked a patron who declined his offer to help him with his laundry, Hersueen V. Pugh, 30, of Fort Myers is facing a battery charge, reports the Naples Daily News.

When the man refused Pugh's help, Pugh reportedly punched him in the face, which knocked him over his laundry cart, the report stated.

Pugh then tried to make a clean break but was later caught.

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Photo: Collier County Sheriff's Office

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Cops: Registered sex offender exposed himself to kids at Walmart

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:26:00 -0500

Robert Johnathan Walyus, of Orlando, is accused of approaching two kids in the toy aisle at a Titusville Walmart and exposing himself to them, reports Florida Today in Melbourne.

The store's surveillance video caught all the action.

According to the FDLE's Sexual Offenders and Predators database, Waylus had been convicted twice before for exposing himself to kids under the age of 16 in both Seminole and Orange Counties.

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Photo: Surveillance photo from Titusville Walmart / Titusville Police Department
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Cops: Man said he tried to kill cat that made him fail online test

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:12:00 -0500

Maybe he was playing a game of cat and (computer) mouse.

Marvelle Stephon Rucker, 21, allegedly admitted to cops that he tried to kill his girlfriend’s cat by suffocating it with a pillow — all because he said it made him fail an online test, reports The Gainesville Sun.

The girlfriend told officers she found the cat unresponsive when she got home from work. She also said Rucker poked her in the face for 10 or 15 minutes until a roommate intervened, according to the report.

Although Rucker 'fessed up to poking the woman in her face, he told the cops it wasn't a crime, as long as he was not beating her.

Off to the pokey for Rucker...it doesn't sound like it was the first test Rucker had ever failed.

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Photo: Alachua County Sheriff's Office

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Deputies: Man took crack pipe to courthouse

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:59:00 -0500

Have a court date with the judge?

Then act respectfully and dress appropriately.

And leave your dope at home.

As Stanley B. Ramos, 32, passed through security at the Manatee County Courthouse, guards found a crack pipe in plain view in his backpack, according to an arrest affidavit, reports the Bradenton Herald.

After Ramos made his court appearance for a previous drug paraphernalia charge from last New Year's Eve, he was then arrested again.

He's not the only dope to try to smuggle drugs and contraband into a courthouse.

Polk County: Man busted for throwing out bag of pot at courthouse

Bay County: Man brings pot pipe, handcuff keys into courthouse, deputies says

Manatee County: Three women take their drugs — to drug court

Martin County: Woman goes to courthouse prepared: She's got her knife, razor, weed....

St. Lucie County: What a dope: Look what he took through courthouse security

Broward County: Man showed up for court date wearing crack cocaine jacket

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Photo: Manatee County Sheriff's Office

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Man tried to set wife ablaze, critically burned himself instead | Video

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:45:00 -0500

They say love is a burnin' thing.

While chasing his wife of 25-years with a jug full of gasoline, Matthew Wong, 50, inadvertently splattered gasoline all over himself, reports WTSP News-10 in Tampa Bay.

As Wesley Chapel man tried to torch the apartment where his wife was seeking refuge, his plan backfired and he torched himself.

The couple had been separated since October.

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Man with military-style combat knife accused of peeping into woman's window

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:37:00 -0500

A 47-year-old woman told deputies that she woke up and opened her bedroom blinds to find a man looking into her bedroom in Fort Myers, reports The News-Press in Fort Myers.

Responding deputies found Jose Gabriel Serrano, 35, at the rear of the residence, who fought a deputy's effort to place him in custody, according to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office report.

The deputy reportedly found a black military-style combat knife in Serrano's pocket.

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Photo: Lee County Sheriff's Office

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Man upset with trashed trailer put gun to woman's head, fired

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:28:00 -0500

Here's a nightmare: A man with a gun having a temper tantrum in a mobile home park.

After firing multiple shots at the feet of a 35-year-old man in in the Moon Lake Estates area of New Port Richey, Cecil Lambert pressed his gun to a woman's head and pulled the trigger, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, reports the Tampa Bay Times.

Luckily, the gun didn't fire.

Lambert, 57, told investigators he came to the house to gather some of his stuff from a travel trailer and, upon seeing the trailer in disrepair, "lost it," according to the report.

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Photo: Pasco County Sheriff's Office

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Accused thong thief busted

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:15:00 -0500

Valentine's Day is around the corner.

And it looks as though one women is getting ready to celebrate.

Jahaneil Jamelia Thompson, 19, selected nine pairs of thong panties valued at $74.50 from a Macy's in Jensen Beach and walked out of the store without paying for them, according to Sheriff's Office arrest affidavit, reports Will Greenlee in his Off the Beat blog for TCPalm.com in Stuart.

Maybe this sweetheart will get a brief sentence.

Get the DUHtails and arrest affidavit at Will Greenlee's Off the Beat blog at TCPalm.com in Stuart.

Photo: Martin County Sheriff's Office

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Report: Special ed student set on fire by another student | Video

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:08:00 -0500

A student at a New Port Richey middle school is accused of taking a can of Old Spice body spray and lighting the spray stream on fire. The student then allegedly aimed the fire stream at another student in a restroom, reports WTSP News-10 in Tampa Bay.

The special education student's pants were briefly set afire and hair on his arm was singed, according to the report.

The school resource officer told WTSP News that the attack on the special education student was not targeted, it was done more for "entertainment."

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