And … we have this moron …. Fails At Killing Sleeping Wife, Succeeds At Breaking His Neck June 18, 2013

A gun malfunction may have spared a Bradenton woman from a worse fate after police report she was shot in the face by her husband Friday.

Steven Pinel was formally charged with attempted murder Sunday for the non-fatal shooting of his wife Friday night. Pinel reportedly was unable to fire additional rounds after the first shot, said Bradenton Police Chief Michael Radzilowski.

“There was an issue,” Radzilowski said Sunday afternoon, not wishing to elaborate further. “All we are saying is that he had a problem with the gun and she was able to flee.”

Pinel allegedly shot his wife in the face the 4800 block of 51st Street West at 11:49 p.m. Friday while she was sleeping , Radzilowski said.

“She told a neighbor that he had hit her in the face with the gun, but actually he had shot her and she didn’t know it because she was sleeping,” Radzilowski said. “It must have felt like a massive blow, like a punch, which is why she thought she had been hit with a blunt object.”

The wife’s injuries were not life-threatening and she remains hospitalized, Radzilowski said. The small caliber bullet that hit her in the face “did significant damage.”

“It just didn’t render her unconscious,” Radzilowski added.

Pinel later wrecked his vehicle in a ditch along State Road 70 near Interstate 75, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, and tried unsuccessfully to hijack the vehicle of a passerby, who stopped to offer assistance after the crash.

Witnesses said the driver of the vehicle in the ditch pointed a gun at them before the driver ran off.

“I expect there will be charges coming from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office regarding Mr. Pinel’s pointing of a gun at those people,” Radzilowski said.

Deputies arrested Pinel at 3:20 a.m. Saturday while he was walking through the Tara subdivision went of I-75. He was taken to a local hospital under guard.

The Bradenton Police Department reported Pinel likely suffered a broken neck in the accident that sent his vehicle into the ditch.

Radzilowski said at 11 a.m. Sunday, Pinel was well enough to be transferred from Manatee Memorial Hospital to the Manatee County jail.

“We don’t know the motive for this,” Radzilowski said. “Our detectives are working on it.”

Pinel is being held with no bond.

And …. more and more bizarre …. Boat captain grabbed machete; crew jumped overboard

A Sunday boating trip down the Ocklawaha River ended with four people abandoning ship after they said the vessel’s operator got upset and went for a machete.

It was unclear what set off Rex Crews, 51, but it was enough that the four passengers on the boat, including Crews’ daughter, decided it was safer in the water, according to Marion County Sheriff’s Office reports.

The four were picked up by a passing boat and the sheriff’s helicopter was able to spot Crews’ boat near Moss Bluff. Crews docked the boat and ran into the woods. He was eventually caught by Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers and charged with boating under the influence.

Crews was booked into the Marion County Jail, from which he was released Monday morning after posting a $500 bond.

And dumber than dumb ….. Man accused of bringing boy, 6, to drug deal

The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man who brought a six-year-old boy with him as he and a friend drove to a north Sarasota home to buy drugs.

Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a white pickup truck just after 10:00 p.m., Friday night. The vehicle had just left a residence at Dixie Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., and ran a stop sign as it left the area. When deputies approached the vehicle they found Fallon Miller, DOB 2/10/81 (driver, no permanent address), passenger Gregory Wagner, DOB 4/28/65, 3735 Aloha Drive, Sarasota, and the child sitting between them.

Deputies noticed Miller had put crack cocaine in her mouth in an attempt to conceal the drugs and after a short struggle the small white was collected as evidence. Miller admitted hiding a crack pipe beneath the child and acknowledged her driver’s license was suspended.

The area where the drug deal occurred has had a number of narcotics-related violent crimes recently and Wagner knowingly put the six-year-old child at risk. Wagner is charged with Child Abuse and being Principle to Possession of Cocaine. Miller is charged with Possession of Cocaine, Tampering with Evidence, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Driving While License is Suspended.

Deputies called a family member to take custody of the child and reported the incident to DCF. This is Wagner’s 17th arrest in Sarasota County and Miller’s 22nd local arrest.

And … even more dangerous …. Boy, 9, found loaded Glock in movie theater bathroom

A 9-year-old boy found a loaded handgun inside an Ybor City movie theater bathroom on Father’s Day.

The gun was a Glock 26 9-mm.

“My son opened the door and immediately said dad there’s a gun in the bathroom,” recounted Wesley Noland, the boy’s father.

Noland was at the Muvico theater in Centro Ybor with his two sons to see the new Superman movie.

He said the weapon was sitting on top of the toilet paper dispenser.

“When I was in the bathroom there were two other fathers and three kids and the theater was very busy and the place was full of kids and families.”

Noland, an ex-Marine who has a Concealed Weapons Permit, said he immediately secured the handgun and called police.

On Monday, he told 10 News his biggest fear was that the wrong person could have found the handgun.

“That the gun could have been picked up by a child, or it could have been picked up by a convicted felon or a rowdy group of teenagers or something like that. But in any case, it could have been used in a crime or accidentally discharged and it could have killed somebody in the theater — worst of all a kid.”

Police now have the gun and are searching for its owner.

But even if the owner had a permit and left it by mistake, the person could still face charges.

“We believe that this would meet the standard of willful and wanton disregard for the safety of others, to leave a loaded weapon where a child — and in this case a 9-year-old found the gun — that certainly put others at risk and we’re just thankful that a very responsible abiding law abiding citizen found the gun and did the right thing,” said Tampa Police Spokesperson Laura McElroy.

“I think the gentleman should be punished. He should have to answer for what he did. He put a lot of people’s live in jeopardy yesterday,” said Noland.

“Like what my dad said, if a kid could pick that up then [someone] could have gotten killed or shot on Father’s Day which could have been like a horrifying fact,” added Zane Noland, the boy who found the gun.

Noland said the theater manager told him the owner returned about 90 minutes after they called police. But authorities had already left with the gun.

When reached for comment about the incident, Muvico’s Chief Operating Officer James E. Herd, Jr. issued a statement to 10 News saying:

“We are currently investigating the incident along with our risk management consultants and the appropriate law enforcement department. Safety is of the utmost priority at Muvico Theaters and we take all incidents seriously.  We continue to monitor and enhance our procedures and work closely with our management, as well as our risk consultants to ensure the safety of our guests and employees at all times.”

God … these people are getting weird .. Man ran to woman walking outside while fondling and exposing himself

A Fort Pierce man allegedly exposed and fondled himself while he ran toward a woman as she was walking along a street and grabbed her clothes, according to an arrest affidavit, reports TCPalm.com in Stuart.

The woman kicked the stranger, later identified as Nafredrick Altwon Robinson, 20, before calling the cops, who found him a short time later, according to the report.

Thank goodness.

Kids sold $8 items that charity scammers bought at dollar stores June 17, 2013

Last Wednesday deputies responded to a Spring Hill neighborhood concerning a report about kids that were soliciting door-to-door, according to a news release from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office.

While soliciting at one home, one of the kids had reportedly asked a resident for a drink of water.

The juveniles told residents that they were representing a non-profit youth organization based in Orlando called “Aware and Active Youth Corp.” that was created to offer extra-curricular activities to its members, the release stated.

When deputies arrived on scene they found two very thirsty kids.

And no wonder they were thirsty.

The kids had been dropped off in the area five hours earlier at1:100 p.m. with no food, water or means of communication. The kids had no idea where they were, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The deputies took the two kids to a District Office while detectives investigated the situation.

The detectives found that nine juveniles ranging in age from 12 through 15 were transported to Spring Hill from Orlando to sell items door to door. Two young adults, Kendy Senat, 22, and  Terrence Trey Holiday, 21, were responsible for the juveniles and had given them cue cards to read to “customers” regarding the “non-profit organization” and funding the youth group, the release stated.

The group had been pocketing all of the money, with the juveniles turning over most of the earnings to Senat and Holiday, detectives said.
Each item the kids had sold cost a resident $8.00, with the juvenile keeping just $2.25 and turning $5,75 over to Senat and Holiday,according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The items had been allegedly purchased from dollar stores.

The kids allegedly told detectives they would normally work 8-12 hours daily and would earn between $5 to $50 per day.

When detectives contacted the parents of each kid, they told detectives his or her child was at a youth convention in Tampa with Senat and Holiday, according to the report.

They were lied to as well.

An investigation found that the group collected nearly $500 from numerous residents in Hernando County.

Senat and Holiday were both charged with Organized Fraud and nine counts of Child Neglect.

Planned genital slicing …… that calls for a police response June 16, 2013

A man accused of flashing a kitchen knife and threatening to chop off his neighbor’s penis was arrested in a late night Fort Pierce flap.

The case of the apparent planned penis pruning played out around 9:30 p.m. May 28 in the 2300 block of South 29th Street, according to a recently released police report. Lavontae Jamar Roberts, 19, was arrested in connection with the incident.

The 28-year-old victim told Fort Pierce police a loud banging on his apartment wall continued for hours and repeatedly woke his 3-month-old daughter. The 28-year-old victim decided to nicely ask the neighbor to stop with the banging.

The 28-year-old victim got no response after knocking on the neighbor’s door. He knocked some more before the neighbor made a comment.

“Stop knocking on my door you (female genitalia) (buttocks) cracker!” the neighbor is quoted as saying.

The victim yelled to please stop banging, noting it’s waking the 3-month-old baby.

The neighbor came out and flashed a kitchen knife, saying he planned to lop off the victim’s penis and “kill him and everyone in his house.”

It could be argued the average male would oppose having his penis chopped off.

Meanwhile, the victim said he called police.

“The neighbor then told him that if he called the police and they showed up he was going to kill him and he promised to God that if he got arrested and went to jail he was going to get him back by coming for him and his cracker (buttocks) family,” a report states.

The victim’s brother-in-law also told police the neighbor had a knife; made the penis cleaving threat; said he’d “kill all of them” and referred to them as “crackers.”

Roberts, of the 2300 block of South 29th Street in Fort Pierce, was arrested on charges including assault with intent to commit a felony and resist officer obstruct without violence.

Masseur accused of rubbing client …….. the wrong way

A DNA test led to the arrest Wednesday of a Fort Lauderdale massage therapist accused of performing a sex act on a sleeping client, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said.

Scott Lloyd Price, 55, was a massage therapist at the Center for Wellness, 4001 N. Ocean Drive in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, according to the arrest report.

The customer arrived for a massage Nov. 11 and told detectives that after dozing off, he awoke to find Price performing oral sex on him. The customer said he immediately flipped onto his stomach as Price left the room, the report stated.

The customer was taken to a sexual assault treatment center, where a DNA sample was taken. The sample was identified as the DNA of another man. Investigators subsequently obtained a DNA sample from Price, which matched the sample taken from the client, detectives said.

The arrest report did not make it clear whether Price is still employed at the center.

You look awfully foolish if you accuse a man of not being a cop when he’s in full cop uniform June 14, 2013

A drunk man who was shouting profanities at children and others on the beach was arrested after he resisted an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s deputy.

The incident occurred May 26 on the beach at The Boardwalk. A woman approached the deputy and told him a man was yelling profanities at kids and other people, and pointed him out.

The deputy approached the man and noticed he reeked of alcohol. He also had trouble standing. As he spoke with the deputy, he continued cursing people, so the deputy told him he was trespassing and had to leave. The man allegedly replied, “I ain’t f—— leaving and you can’t make me.” When he was told a second time to leave, the man said, “F— you, you’re not a cop.”

The deputy was wearing his uniform.

When the man was told to put his hands behind his back he said, “No,” and when the deputy tried to grab his wrist, the man pulled away.

He was charged with trespassing and obstruction without violence.

Man stabbed brother over spilled beer, missing mac & cheese June 13, 2013

A 49-year-old man was arrested in Deltona late Tuesday on suspicion of stabbing his brother in a fight that started over some missing macaroni and cheese and spilled beer.

Randy Zipperer was arrested on charges of aggravated battery and obstructing an officer without violence.

[Warning, content may be graphic: 911 call

According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, a witness said Zipperer was at his home on Danforth Avenue when he became upset because he couldn’t find his mac and cheese.

His 47-year-old brother went to help look for the food and accidentally knocked over Zipperer’s beer, the witness told deputies.

The brothers then got into an argument and Zipperper got a knife from the kitchen and stabbed his brother in the stomach, deputies said.

Deputies said the brother had a small puncture wound on his stomach and found blood leading from the kitchen to the bedroom.