Florida man stabs half-brother to death with sword February 23, 2013

ORLANDO,  Fla. —A 26-year-old man has been arrested in connection to his younger  half-brother’s death.

Marcus Isaias, 17, was  found stabbed at a home on Ira Street in Azalea Park on Thursday. Responding  officers found Isaias in the front yard being held by his twin brother, Xavier  Isaias, who was trying to put pressure on the wound.

Marcus Isaias was taken to  a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Three people were  questioned after the stabbing, and police said they all initially lied about not  knowing who stabbed Marcus.

According to police,  Xavier Isaias eventually changed his story and said he was involved in an  argument with his uncle, Gabriel Perez, about having dogs in the house and not  cleaning up the dogs’ feces and urine.

The argument escalated,  and Marcus and Xavier’s half-brother, Michaell Chang, armed himself with a  sword. Marcus Isaias armed himself with a bat, Xavier Isaias told police.

Chang then stabbed Marcus  Isaias in the chest with the sword, according to a police report.

Orlando police arrested  Chang and charged him with second-degree murder with a weapon.

Perez also told police  that he saw Chang stab Isaias.

Police said the home is  known to them, and neighbors said police were often at the home.

Florida prisoner being flown to Nevada escapes after stabbing Miami-Dade officer at Dallas Walmart February 12, 2013

MIAMI (CBSMiami) — A Florida prisoner being flown to Nevada has escaped in the Dallas area after stabbing one of his Miami-Dade police escorts.

Miami-Dade Police detectives Jamie Pardinas and David Carrero were escorting Alberto Morales,42, to Las Vegas  when they had a layover Monday night in Houston.  Morales, who had served time in Miami for assault, burglary and sexual assault charges, was being transported to Nevada to face charges for crimes he committed there. 

Miami-Dade police Director J.D. Patterson said Morales was disruptive on the flight and the officers were informed he would not be allowed to board another flight.  Pardinas and Perrero decided to rent a car and drive to Las Vegas, nearly 1,200 miles away.

More machete madness… Enraged hubby attacked car with machete

A Palm Bay man, who police said was apparently enraged after finding his wife in a vehicle with another man, is accused of attacking the car with a machete.

Christopher G. Mordecai, 44, faces a felony charge of aggravated battery, a second-degree felony.

A police report says Mordecai found an unknown vehicle in his driveway in the 1000 block of Northeast Dolores Avenue, and his wife was inside with another man. He then went inside the home to grab a machete, police said.

Police said Mordecai attacked the vehicle with the blade, shattering the glass and showering his wife with shards. She suffered minor cuts, and did not want to pursue criminal charges, according to the arrest report.

The machete was recovered at the scene and submitted into evidence.

Mordecai was arrested and taken to Brevard County Jail.

Florida man stabs another for not giving him a cigarette February 7, 2013

Officials said the man,  who is believed to be in his 50s, was stabbed on 23rd Street and then walked  down the street bleeding and yelling for help.

“He just said, ‘help me,  help me, help me,’” said neighbor Wayne Wilks.  “He was screaming all the way  down the street.  He just collapsed down the floor.  He was bleeding  everywhere.”

The victim lived in a shed  behind a house on 23rd Street and Lee Avenue.

Orange County sheriff  investigators said a man came to the victim’s shed, knocked on the door and  asked him for a cigarette.  When no cigarette was produced, the man stabbed the  victim multiple times all over his body, authorities said.

“According the victim, a  black male not known to him approached his home, knocked on door,” said Orange  County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Ginette Rodriguez.  “They victim answered  the door and suspect asked him for cigarettes.  When the victim could not  produce cigarettes, he proceeded to stab him.”

The Orange County Fire  Department said they responded to calls about the man at about 9 a.m.  He was  found lying in the street and had multiple stab wounds to the chest.

Officials said the man who  stabbed the victim took off on his bicycle.

Investigators said they  have limited information about the attacker.

“The only information that  we have at this point is that it was a black male, about 5 feet 11 inches tall,  bald and he had taken off on the victim’s bicycle,” said Rodriguez.

78-year-old man stabbed wife to death because she wouldn’t make him a hamburger January 29, 2013

A grieving daughter is speaking out after her father is accused of killing her mother, saying she suffered years of abuse during their 52 years of marriage.

CBS4 News partner The Miami Herald reports that her father, 78-year-old Bartolo Gelsomino, became angry when his 70-year-old wife Ana Gelsomino refused to cook him a hamburger and then stabbed her to death and covered up the crime by staging a burglary to their home.

“That day it was a hamburger, another day it was eggs,” the daughter told CBS4’s Peter D’Oench in an exclusive interview. “Another day the water was too cold or too hot. It didn’t matter, anything that wasn’t right or didn’t feel right, he used it to control my mother.”

The daughter did not want to reveal her identity but she said she wanted to “speak from the heart” about her mother.

“She was my mother and my best friend and my confidante and I lived for her and I took care of her,” she said. “She was a saint. Most of all she lived for her children and that’s what got her killed.”

The daughter actually discovered her mother’s body last Monday night inside their home in the 10700 block of Southwest 146^th Court.

“I was the first one to discover my mother lying there in a pool of blood,” she said. “I understand from the Medical Examiner’s office that she was stabbed several times. My mother should have left my father a long time ago. There were years of abuse. She did not want to leave him after 52 years of marriage. It does not go away easily.”

“My mother lived through domestic violence and because of her silence my mother is now gone,” she said. “I would like everyone to know you can not keep silent and it finally happened. I don’t want my mother’s death to go down in vain. It took 52 years. Don’t let it take you that long to see if you need help. Please reach out to someone if you need help.”

The Miami Herald reports that Gelsomino confessed to stabbing his wife and lead them to a trash bin where he ditched the kitchen knife that was used.

Gelsomino is charged with second degree murder.

He will face an arraignment on February 11^th before a Miami-Dade Circuit Judge. His daughter told D’Oench that she would be there and planned to monitor the case closely.

She said, “I hope that justice will be served. I am not going to say what I think should happen to my father. I just want justice, for my mother’s sake.”

She told D’Oench that she was born in Sicily and said that her family moved to Brooklyn where her father worked in construction. She said the family moved to South Florida in 1985.

The daughter said she has three other brothers. D’Oench also spoke with two of the brothers but they declined to say anything on camera.

These two women apparently got down and dirty…in a mud hole January 25, 2013

Charlotte County Sheriff’s detectives arrested a woman Wednesday for stabbing a woman in the area of Pelican Drive and Grove Boulevard in the Charlotte Ranchettes east of Punta Gorda. Charged with Aggravated Battery with a Deadly Weapon (Knife) was Angela Denise Sutton, 27, 29068 Boyce Road, Punta Gorda.

CCSO was dispatched to Charlotte Regional Medical Center at 5:19 p.m. concerning a woman who had been stabbed. The victim said she was hanging out with friends at the “mud hole” where she and Sutton got into an argument. She said Sutton approached and pushed her, and she pushed back. The victim said Sutton then said she was going to “Gut her like a fish.” The victim said she put her hands up saying she was not worth fighting over, then Sutton pulled out a Smith & Wesson type pocket knife and stabbed her in the abdomen.

The victim said she was able to get away and was taken to the hospital; she was later released. A deputy located Sutton and took her in for questioning. Sutton said she automatically pulled her knife out of her waist band when she saw the victim walk towards her and had it ready for use. Sutton said the victim was trying to rekindle their friendship and told her to get away from her. Sutton said the victim saw her pull out the knife and warns her to stay away from her or she would cut her. Sutton then said the victim hit her in the mouth with a closed fist. Sutton stated she held her knife in a raised position and shoved it downward into the victim’s lower abdomen.

Sutton then advised she would go with a deputy to the location where she left the knife. They went to an apartment complex at 1200 Slash Pine Circle in Punta Gorda and the deputy learned Sutton lied about where she hid the knife and kept changing her story. She was placed under arrest and transported to the Charlotte County Jail where she remains on no bond.

Argument Over Radio Station Leads To Stabbing January 23, 2013

The handsome gent to the left, 58-year-old Willie Brown, was jailed Wednesday  after police say he stabbed his roomie several times during an argument over a  radio station.

According to police, Brown and his roommate, 72-year-old Abraham Shedrack,  got into a verbal altercation after disagreeing about which radio station to  listen to.

Investigators say the spat at the Palace Mobile Home Park quickly turned  violent that evening, with Brown leaving at least 10 new holes in Shedrack’s  body before it was over.

Why, yes, alcohol was a  factor. Well, alcohol and whatever it is in the water supply out there that  makes people ugly and batshit crazy.

Shedrack was taken to Bayfront Medical Center with life-threatening injuries,  officials said.

Brown was booked in the Pinellas County Jail and is being held without bail.  He has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.

While researching this story, I came across another link referring to a second  stabbing in the same mobile home park… same night, damn near the same time.  No other details were given on the second stabbing, just that someone has a new  hole in the chest and that both incidents happened just after 8:00 Wednesday  night.

It’s always a good idea to place the machete safely out of reach while you’re boozing it up January 21, 2013

The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Niceville man with striking a neighbor with a machete, causing a severe laceration to the victim’s wrist.

56-year old Buddy Fuller of 1716 26th Street is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest without violence.

The victim says he went to Fuller’s house Friday evening (January 18th) and they began drinking. The pair got into an argument and Fuller picked up

a machete and began swinging it at him. 27-year old Bruce Woolley of 26th Street was struck in the left wrist.

He was taken to Twin Cities Hospital in Niceville for treatment of the injury.

Fuller changed his story about what happened several times, and then refused to remain seated while deputies investigated and refused to get in the

patrol car, leading to the charge of resisting arrest without violence.

 

Man stabbed, forced to strip and get into a bathtub January 17, 2013

A Fort Lauderdale man stabbed an apartment visitor in the back and forced the bleeding victim to strip and get into a bathtub, police said.

Lorenzo Jones, 26, is charged with attempted felony murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment and aggravated assault with intent to commit a felony.

He was ordered held without bond in Broward County’s Main Jail on Wednesday during his first appearance court hearing.

On Saturday, Jones answered the door when the victim, Nathan Benton, stopped by a Fort Lauderdale apartment along the 800 block of Northwest Third Street to visit a friend, according to a police report.

After waiting briefly for that friend, Benton decided to leave, but Jones didn’t want him to and grabbed a 12-inch kitchen knife, police said.

It’s unclear why Jones wanted to keep Benton in the apartment, but police say Jones grew “paranoid.”

During a struggle, Benton suffered cuts on his hands, was stabbed twice in his back and hit on the head with a bottle of vodka, the report said.

Then, police said, Jones forced Benton to strip and get into a bathroom tub.

While the wounded Benton lay in the tub bleeding, Jones barricaded the apartment and sat outside the bathroom holding the knife, the report said.

Benton was able to get away and call for help after Jones eventually left the apartment, police said.

He was taken to Broward Health Medical Center and had surgery for his stab wounds, police said. A phone message left for Benton was not returned Wednesday.

Fort Lauderdale police found Jones back at the apartment Tuesday and arrested him.

According to the report, Jones admitted to investigators that he stabbed Benton.

Man fatally stabbed ……. over $10 worth of pot January 2, 2013

This evening, HCSO detectives arrested Gerardo Gabriel Rivera-Pagan (DOB 05/29/88) for the December 23rd stabbing death of Ovidio Sanchez. Rivera-Pagan was booked on a charge of 1st degree murder with a weapon. Detectives believe there were two stabbings. Sanchez, initially stabbed Luis Rivers, who has been hospitalized since the 23rd. They believe Rivera-Pagan then stabbed and killed Sanchez a short time later.

The murder was sparked by a fight in a smoke shop over ten dollars of marijuana. Ovidio Sanchez confronted Luis Rivers for the money at Angel’s Smoke Shop at 4040 W. Waters Ave. Sanchez stabbed Rivers several times. Rivers sought help at a nearby 7-Eleven and was taken to a hospital. Through their investigation, detectives determined Gerardo Rivera-Pagan was close friends with Rivers, and witnessed the first stabbing at the smoke shop. Rivera-Pagan returned a short time later and stabbed Sanchez, leaving him in a dry drainage ditch on the north side of W. Waters Ave. and N. Lois Ave.