Gnome Sweet Gnome: Woman accused of striking man with garden ornament May 24, 2013

Garden gnome used in attack, police say

A domestic dispute that involved yelling and thrown household items ended in violence Sunday when, police say, a woman clonked a man on the head with a New Orleans Saints garden gnome.

A report by Gulfport police Officer Jennifer Crowson says that at about 4:17 p.m. Sunday, Lisa D. Buckley, 47, a server at a local restaurant, arrived at her home at 5407 29th Ave. S “and began yelling at the victim.” Buckley then “threw items all around the residence and then picked up a New Orleans Saints garden gnome and struck (the victim) with it.”

Crowson reported that the victim was bleeding from the ear and the left side of his head but refused medical attention. Meanwhile, she wrote, “Buckley fled the scene prior to my arrival.”

The next day, though, Buckley called and sent text messages to the victim trying to persuade him to drop the case.

Buckley was arrested Tuesday on charges of domestic battery and harassing a victim and taken to the Pinellas County Jail, where records show she was released in lieu of $5,000 bail.

Woman jailed after allegedly shooting man on dialysis table May 22, 2013

A woman has been charged with a shooting Monday morning that wounded a patient at an Orlando dialysis center, according to police.

Shemira R. Hargrove was charged with attempted murder (domestic violence) for the 9:30 a.m. shooting at the Florida Dialysis Center of Orlando on 34th Street, according to police spokesman Diego Toruno.

The victim has not been identified or the nature of his relationship with Hargrove. Details about the shooting also have not be released.

Hargrove, 32, who had been questioned at police headquarters since the shooting, will be taken to the Orange County Jail to be booked.

In December 2000, Hargrove was charged with shooting or throwing a missile into a dwelling or vehicle and criminal mischief. The charges were dismissed.

On Monday, the victim was taken to a local hospital and was described as alert when he left the dialysis center, Toruno said.

USSS girl’s softball coach jailed after headbutting umpire

Coach arrested for battery on a sports official.

• Sunday
• May 19, 2013
• Time: 3:54 PM

• FishHawk Sports Complex
• 16210 FishHawk Boulevard
• Lithia, Florida

Suspect:

Gordon Elliott Moore DOB 08/26/1975 4324 Melbrooke Ct. Lakeland, FL

Charge:

• Battery on a Specified Official or Employee

Victim:

Stephen H. Connell DOB 01/21/1957 4235 Tennyson Way Venice, FL

Details:

On May 19, 2013 at 3:54 p.m., Stephen H. Connell, who is an umpire for USSSA, was umpiring a softball game in which the defendant, Gordon E. Moore, was the coach for Christina Girls Minor Division, 12 and under team.
After the last out of the game, Gordon Moore got into a verbal argument with the home plate umpire, Kimberly Anderson. The victim, Stephen Connell, who was working the shortstop position, noticed Moore gesturing his arms and talking loudly got between Moore and Ms. Anderson.
During the verbal confrontation, Moore bumped Connell in the chest and then headbutted him on his nose. Moore then tried to headbutt Connell a second time, but Connell moved and struck Moore once in the face with a closed fist. Moore was arrested a short time later without incident.

Mom hides son’s bottle of spiced rum; he starts breaking things May 20, 2013

FORT WALTON BEACH – A 30-year-old Fort Walton Beach man became angry when his mom hid his bottle of spiced rum and started breaking glass items in their living room, according to an arrest report.

Fort Walton Beach Police officers were told the man came home on the night of April 28 at a little after 10, and he was drunk. His mother took his bottle of spiced rum and hid it, which angered the man. He began knocking down and breaking glass items from a shelf in the living room, spreading broken glass over the living room, the officer wrote in the report.

The man’s father held him until officers arrived.

He said he’d been drinking throughout the night. When officers did a records check, they found he was on probation and shouldn’t have been drinking.

He was charged with assault and violation of probation. His court date is May 21.

Hubby posed as intruder, violently attacked his wife May 17, 2013

When Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies responded to an attack inside a Deltona home late Wednesday night, they found a 27-year-old woman with numerous bloody lacerations to her face and hands. But what didn’t make sense to investigators was her husband’s story of running an errand, with a mysterious car possibly following him, and then returning home just in time to see one or two shadowy figures bolting from his yard moments after his wife had been attacked by a masked intruder. After confronting the victim’s husband, 29-year-old Timorthy Hunter, with the inconsistencies in his account, Sheriff’s investigators discovered why Hunter’s story didn’t make sense: There were no shadowy figures in the yard. The man behind the mask who cut up his wife was Hunter himself.

By early Thursday afternoon, barely 15 hours after the attack was first reported, Sheriff’s investigators had arrested Hunter (DOB: 2/3/84) on felony charges of aggravated battery and destroying or tampering with physical evidence. Hunter was booked in to the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach, where he initially will be held without bond.

The victim told deputies that she was home with her two young children at the couple’s house at 217 Steward Terrace while her husband took their baby with him to the store. While her husband was out running an errand, the victim said that she was in bed when she heard a noise coming from the next room. All of a sudden, a man in a mask came into her room, pushed her off the bed and began slashing her with a sharp object while demanding money. The intruder then bolted out the back door of the house. Seconds later, the victim’s husband emerged at the front door, seemingly unaware that his wife had been attacked. However, he initially told deputies that he thought a car had followed him to the store. And when he pulled into the couple’s driveway, he said he spotted someone crouching down on the side of the house. Hunter said that when he went to investigate, the person ran off and there possibly was a second person as well. Then he went to the door, saw what had happened to his wife, grabbed a stick and ran out the house to look for his wife’s attacker. At least that was the initial story that Hunter told deputies.

During questioning by Sheriff’s investigator Chastity Burke and Sergeant Pat Leahy, Hunter eventually confessed to attacking his wife, saying he was mad at her for supposedly cheating on him and just wanted to scare her, but then his anger got the best of him. Hunter said he used a piece of metal to cut his wife. After the attack, he tossed the piece of metal and washed his clothes to conceal the evidence, which was the basis of the added charge of destroying or tampering with physical evidence.

Woman bit boyfriend’s penis after he refused to have sex … Alittle horney?

As Krystle M. Harrison and her boyfriend were lying in bed Wednesday evening,  the 19-year-old Bradenton woman began touching him, wanting to have sex, according to an arrest affidavit from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.

The couple have been dating for about 3 years and have a child together, according to the arrest report.

After the beau turned Harrison down — several times — she grabbed him and bit his penis, the affidavit stated.

The boyfriend then pushed Harrison away and went outside, where she continued to argue with him and scratched his chest, the deputy reported.

The boyfriend refused to complete a sworn affidavit and told the deputy that he didn’t want to “press charges” against his girlfriend, who was then taken to the slammer.

Mom accused of throwing baby onto stretcher in hospital ER …. Way to go … Mom May 16, 2013

A Fort Pierce woman was being held without bond at the  St. Lucie County Jail on Wednesday after allegedly becoming angry and throwing her 8-month-old-son onto a stretcher at Lawnwood Regional Medical Center.

Brittany Demicka Cobb, 22, was charged with cruelty to a child that could result in injury, cruelty to a child — abuse without great harm, and giving a police officer a false name, according to a Fort Pierce Police Department arrest affidavit. She also was served with a warrant in a case involving driving without a license, records show.

The baby had fallen off a bed in the emergency room, where Cobb, another woman and several children were gathered Tuesday evening, the affidavit said. The boy started to cry and a hospital nurse asked to have him examined, but Cobb refused and said she was leaving, it said.

When nurses continued to insist the baby be examined, Cobb became angry and threw him to the stretcher from a height of about 18 inches, the affidavit said. When Cobb still refused to allow the boy to be examined, a city police officer working at the hospital told Cobb he was opening an investigation and she could not leave, it said.

The Florida Department of Children and Families was called and temporarily placed the baby with his maternal grandparents, the report said.

 

Dad accused of tying son to outdoor pole for hours May 14, 2013

A Miami Beach father is facing an aggravated child abuse charge after he tied his 12-year-old son to a pole and left him for hours while he went shopping, police said.

Adolfo Guzman, 49, was arrested Sunday, according to a Miami Beach Police report released Monday.

A public defender was appointed for Guzman during a court hearing Monday where he was ordered held on $50,000 bond and ordered to have no contact with his son.

Guzman had been concerned when his son disappeared for a few hours the day before and “warned him he would tie him up if he continued to wander off,” the report said.

The boy told NBC 6 that he didn’t listen to his father, and didn’t tell him he was at a friend’s house Sunday.

“I was feeling bad because it all was my fault. He’s innocent, so it’s all my fault,” the son said.

Police said that after the son disappeared again without permission and returned home, Guzman used a bicycle cable wire lock and tied him to a concrete pole outside the family’s home.

Guzman left to go shopping and didn’t come back for a couple hours, the report said. In the meantime, witnesses flagged down police officers and told them about the tied-up child, the report said.

Miami Beach Police spokesman Sgt. Bobby Hernandez said the boy was found by a group of Jehovah’s Witnesses tied up around his ankle to a laundry pole (pictured below) in a common area of an apartment building.

 

Cosmetic surgeon accused waterboarding girlfriend over Facebook post May 12, 2013

MIAMI - A South Florida plastic surgeon is in jail after police say he tortured and tried to kill his girlfriend.

Police say Orlando Llorente was mad at his girlfriend because of something she had posted on Facebook.

He reportedly dragged her by the hair into the bathroom, forced her head in the toilet, then poured water over her head in the bathtub — similar to waterboarding.

The incident allegedly took place on April 21st inside Llorente’s apartment at the Brickell First residences in Miami.

After nearly 16 hours of being tortured, the victim convinced him to stop, freed herself and called police.

Man, 47, accused of attacking girl, 15, for being disrespectful May 11, 2013

Robert Stewart Williams III, a 47-year-old Coral Springs man, was busted by Port St. Lucie cops after they say he reportedly got into a fight with a 15-year-old girl he said was being disrespectful toward him, reports TCPalm in Stuart.

The teen ended up with a knot on her forehead and Williams had bruises and scratches on his legs, according to the report.

Now it looks like William’s self-respect really took a beating — he ended up in the slammer.