Two women apparently decided to turn their shopping trip into a wine tasting event June 19, 2013

Not the average place you would go out to have a drink. Deputies say two women were arrested Friday for drinking wine inside a Wal-Mart.

According to the arrest report, Alicia Potter and Megan Beck took wine from the shelf and started drinking it while walking around the store.

Both women were taken out of the store– as they yelled and cursed at the people nearby.

The report says that Potter was pepper sprayed because she kicked and fought deputies while they tried to put her into the patrol car.

Both were arrested for disorderly intoxication and were taken to the Naples Jail Center.

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.

Woman pulled gun on roommate. You ask why?? Well for hiding the vodka of course! June 14, 2013

A Key Largo woman was arrested Wednesday after she pointed a gun at one of her roommates after he hid her vodka from her.

When Sgt. Jason Madnick and Deputy Sydney Whitehouse arrived at the home on Second Terrace at 6:15 p.m., they found the victim standing outside. The suspect, 51 year old Kari Dangler was just going inside.

The victim told Sgt. Madnick Dangler had pointed a gun at him. He said the gun was a stainless revolver in a black holster.

Sgt. Madnick then confronted Dangler with her roommate’s accusation. She said the gun belonged to her other roommate and she’d only gone to get it so she could clean it. The gun – a stainless Colt Python – was retrieved from a bedroom.

Inside the gun was a spent bullet casing. Sgt. Madnick asked about it and Dangler said she shot the firearm the week before in the area of the pool because a frog was making noises. Sheriff’s Office records show a shots fired call in that area on June 4^th at 10 p.m. At the time, responding deputies could not find the source of the weapons fire.

Dangler was arrested. She was charged with aggravated assault and she was booked into jail.

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.

Two moms facing charges after fistfight at elementary school talent show June 6, 2013

Second graders at Lakeview Elementary School sang and danced while family and friends looked on at a talent show last week — but two moms brawling in the audience stole the show.

The women, 39-year-old Latisha James and 27-year-old Jessica Tyler, both face battery charges and have been banned from the St. Cloud school.

James and Tyler were strangers before Friday’s fight.

James, who was lucky enough to get a seat closer to the stage, was standing to get a clear view of her child’s performance but blocked Tyler’s view as she tried to take photos from a few rows back.

Tyler said she walked up to James and asked her to sit down so she could get a clear shot. But James, Tyler said, laced her refusal with profane language — although James never admitted to cursing at the woman.

Tyler briefly returned to her seat before standing again, walking in front of James and snapping a few pictures before walking back to her seat again. At this point, the stories vary.

Tyler said she walked straight back to her seat and accidentally bumped into a small child who was with James and knocked the child to the floor. Tyler said she kept walking without saying a word, the report said.

James is accused of following the woman to her seat, grabbing her by the throat and punching her several times.

According to a school staffer, Leigh Fields, when Tyler was finished taking her pictures she said something to James then returned to her seat with James in hot pursuit.

When James talked to police on Sunday,

James told investigators that when Tyler bumped her child, she confronted Tyler, who said, “I told you to move,” before pushing James on the shoulder.

James said she then grabbed Tyler by the throat and a fistfight broke out in a crowd of parents, children and friends.

James, who police spokeswoman Sgt. Denise Roberts said is thought to be the primary aggressor, was arrested Sunday night on battery charges.

Although Tyler was not immediately arrested, both women have been listed as both suspects and victims in the incident and intend to file charges against the other, police said.

For Tyler, her battery charges were passed on to the State Attorney’s Office, which will determine if she should be prosecuted.

Nearly naked footwear flinging female busted

A woman who wasn’t wearing pants got locked up after accusations she threw her shoes at a detective and threatened “to kill me and any other cop she can.”

What could be called the case of the nearly naked footwear flinging female went down around 12:45 a.m. May 24 at La Zen Nightclub in Port St. Lucie, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.

An arriving officer found an “angry white female” yelling at a detective, the affidavit states.

The “angry white female” — later identified as Kelli Jo Bullock — said she’d taken Ecstasy. She was described as “obviously” under the influence of booze.

Bullock, 21, wore neither shoes nor pants “and was standing there in her underwear that was clearly visible to all.”

Police were told Bullock was kicked out of the club but wouldn’t leave. She started yelling and swearing, eventually throwing her shoes at a detective “in an attempt to injure him.”

La Zen’s website states the establishment “features a vibrant atmosphere of Asian decor and fashion that is a reminiscent (sic) scene.” Mention is not made of a shoe throwing woman “standing there in her underwear that was clearly visible to all.”

Meanwhile, it took two investigators to load Bullock into a patrol car where she kicked and banged her head.

Bullock reported “she hates cops because we put her brother away for fifteen years,” the affidavit states.

“Kelli also said that she was going to kill me and any other cop she can if I don’t let her go,” the affidavit states. “Kelli continued to yell at me to let her go ‘or else.’”

Police did not let Bullock go, arresting her on charges including four counts of battery on officer, firefighter, EMT, etc., and single counts each of disorderly intoxication, crimes against person-harm public servant or family and resist officer obstruct without violence.

Bullock, of the 1300 block of Southwest Idol Avenue in Port St. Lucie, was taken to the St. Lucie County jail.

Man bites off ear during fight May 28, 2013

IMMOKALEE – Collier deputies said they arrested a man after they say he bit off another man’s ear during an altercation.

Collier county deputies say 24-year-old Alexis Santiago was involved in a fight in Immokalee Thursday night.

When deputies arrived, the victim was holding a blood-soaked towel to his head, and the upper portion of his ear was gone.

He told deputies Santiago bit him.

We’re told Santiago ran from the scene and lead deputies through private yards for seven blocks.

He’s charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest.

Sisters have physical row over …….. rice May 27, 2013

An apparent flap over rice between sisters erupted into a battle involving an iron, a pot and a broomstick, according to statements in a recently released arrest affidavit.

Port St. Lucie police on May 1 went to an address in the 1300 block of Southwest Bellevue Avenue after a domestic disturbance report. The sister of Marentine St Louis, 29, told investigators that she and St Louis got in a rice-related rumpus.

The sister said St Louis took her bowl of rice, and they started yelling at each other. The sister said St Louis began hitting her, and that St Louis got an iron and hit her over the head.

The siblings’ father separated them, but minutes later St Louis followed her sister, attempting to hit her with a small pot.

The sister said she went outside and St Louis locked her out. When the sister got back in, St Louis tried to jab her with a broom stick. The sister had a head injury and bite marks on her arms.

Meanwhile, St Louis told police they got in a fight. She said she “came at” her sister with a broomstick, but their father grabbed it. St Louis denied striking her sister with an iron or anything else.

Police contacted the father, who had left for work, by phone.

“He was brief with me and said they had an argument, referred me to their mother that was never home and then hung up on me,” an affidavit states.

St Louis, of the 1300 block of Southwest Bellevue Avenue in Port St. Lucie, was arrested on felony charges including aggravated battery and aggravated assault.

Just because your house overlooks a golf course doesn’t mean it will always be a golf course May 22, 2013

SARASOTA COUNTY – Realtors say it’s another sign of the housing market making a comeback — but not everyone is pleased about plans to close one of the oldest public golf courses in the area.

The Sarasota Golf Club on Palmer Road, east of Interstate 75 is shutting down next week, with plans to turn the golf course into new homes. Realtors are pleased, but others are concerned. And it’s not just golfers who are teed off.

The course has been there 53 years, but realtors say projects like this are a positive sign about the direction of the area’s economy. “The pendulum seems to have swung several months ago. All this year, we’ve been reporting sales higher than previous,” says Kathy Roberts of the Sarasota Association of Realtors.

The concept of closing a golf course to build houses isn’t new in Sarasota; it happened at Forest Lakes along Beneva Road in Sarasota — and those houses still haven’t been built.

“That’s why I bought this condo in the first place, it was next to a golf course,” says Forest Lakes resident Rick Cavanaugh. His place was next to a golf course, but now he lives next to a lot of high grass.

Back at the Sarasota Golf Club, neighbors are aware of what’s happened to other golf courses that were closed to make way for houses several years ago; and they hope the same thing doesn’t happen there.

“We don’t want a Forest Lakes or Sunrise (Golf Club) debacle behind us. We would want a nice community if that’s the way it’s gonna go,” says Gloria Dehaven, who lives next to Sarasota Golf Club.

New numbers released Tuesday show the positive trend continues in local real estate. But all this comes as bad news for those looking for public golf in Sarasota.

Refused a drink, drunken man returned to bar, attacked four with knife May 21, 2013

Who: Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Operations Bureau Support Services Bureau -Crime Scene Investigation Unit

James  Klingbeil (Arrested) DOB: 1/21/1963 Address: 110 9th Street, Belleair Beach Arrested for Attempted Murder,  two-counts Aggravated Assault and one- count Battery

Rebecca D. Schaefer (Victim) DOB: 12/24/1980 Address: 712 1st Street, Indian Rocks Beach

Nicholaus Rees (Victim) DOB: 12/24/1977 Address: 303 Live Oak Lane, Largo

Michael W. Arnold (Victim) DOB: 04/03/1987 Address: 205 Orangeview Avenue, Clearwater

Gordon Rees (Victim) DOB: 10/21/1968 Address: Live Oak Lane, Largo

What: Deputies have arrested a man after he injured four people during an Indian Rocks Beach Bar stabbing incident. Bar patrons held suspect down until deputies arrived on scene.

When: Deputies responded to the incident at about 11:11 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, 2013.

Where: Deputies responded to the Red Lion Pub located at 1407 Gulf Boulevard in Indian Rocks Beach.

Why/How: Deputies initially responded to a disturbance at the Red Lion Pub in Indian Rocks Beach. Upon arrival, deputies discovered three victims with stab wounds and the suspect, later identified as 50-year-old James Klingbeil, being held down by patrons of the bar.

According to deputies, Klingbeil had been at the Red Lion earlier in the evening for a drink. The bartender refused to sell alcohol to him as he was already highly intoxicated. A verbal altercation ensued and Klingbeil then left the bar without further incident.

Deputies say Klingbeil then walked over to the USA Grocers located at 1211 Gulf Boulevard where he purchased a fillet knife. Klingbeil then returned to the Red Lion, where he got into a verbal altercation with 32-year-old Rebecca Shaeffer (a bartender).  At some point during the altercation, Klingbeil pulled out the knife and began attacking Schaeffer with it.

According to deputies, bar patrons 35-year-old Nicholaus Rees, 26-year-old Michael Arnold and 44-year-old Gordon Rees attempted to help Schaeffer and were injured in the process. Nicholaus Rees suffered a laceration to his right forearm, Michael Arnold suffered a laceration to his hand and Gordon Rees was punched in the face by the suspect.

Deputies say eventually patrons were able to take Klingbeil to the ground and get the knife away from him.

Schaeffer was transported by air to Bayfront Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. She sustained multiple lacerations. Nicholaus Rees was transported to Largo Medical Center by his brother Gordon Rees for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. Michael Arnold transported himself to Bayfront Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Klingbeil was arrested for attempted murder, two-counts aggravated battery and battery and transported to the Pinellas County Jail without further incident.

The investigation continues.