I’ll be roughin’ it without any computer connections or even television for the next couple days. See y’all this weekend!
Archive for July 22, 2008
Man and Woman Killed, Child Injured in Shooting South of 103rd Street in Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A man and woman were killed and a child was injured in shooting Tuesday evening.
Jacksonville police were called to the 8300 block of Homeport Court just south of 103rd Street on the Westside.
According to police, two adults were killed and a 3-year-old was shot during the incident.
Source: News4Jax
First Coast News talked with a neighbor who lives across the street from the apartment complex. He told us he heard 5 – 6 gunshots.
He said he saw a truck and then saw it speed away around the corner. A few minutes later, the neighbor said the driver of the truck pulled back into the parking lot and a male passenger jumped out. He says the man went into an apartment. He heard a couple of more shots. After a short time, he said the driver of the truck took off.
If you saw or heard anything, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officers want to hear from you. You can call First Coast Crimestoppers at 1-866-845-TIPS. You don’t have to give your name and you could be eligible for a cash reward.
Source: FirstCoastNews.com
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Police responding to reports of screams and gunfire coming from a Westside townhouse Tuesday night found a man and woman dead and a 3-year-old child bleeding from the leg.
Officers found one body outside and another inside the unit in the 8300 block of Homeport Court, just south of 103rd Street about 9:30 p.m.
Neighbors told Channel 4’s Jennifer Bauer that the gunman was “out to kill.” They said he had two guns — one a shotgun — and fired dozens of shots.
“They left and then came back again,” a neighbor scared to provide her name told Channel 4. “After people were already dead, they came back again and started shooting again at them.”
They said the man was shot several times in the face and the woman was shot in the back of the head.
One witness said “he was taking his time killing.”
Police have not released the names of the victims or any suspect information. Neighbors said the gunman left in a silver pickup truck driven by a second man.
According to Lt. Pat Ivey, the toddler was hospitalized at Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center. The child’s grandmother said Wednesday morning that boy was released and back with family.
Detectives were still at the scene Wednesday, gathering evidence and interviewing potential witnesses.
Anyone with information that could help police is asked to call Crimestoppers at 866-845-TIPS. Source: News4Jax
San Francisco Protected Drug Dealing Gang Bangers from Deportation Who Murdered Family
San Francisco has recently gotten overdue censure for being the nation’s biggest psych ward masquerading as a city, showing what happens when left-wing border anarchists are allowed to run a major metropolis.
The event which dismayed even the mainstream media: an expensive city program that protected illegal alien Honduran crack dealers claiming to be juveniles from federal authorities. Around the same time, a horrific triple murder caused a Supervisor to assess the city’s gang violence as “out of control.” The common thread of such wild lawlessness is immigration permissiveness and how San Francisco has taken it to new excess.
The news that the city had, as a matter of policy, hidden foreign drug-dealing criminals away from deportation by federal immigration authorities elicited anger and outrage locally and around the U.S. When eight of the convicted Honduran “youth” were ensconced at taxpayer expense in an open-door San Bernardino County group home, they simply walked out at will. What a surprise. San Bernardino County officials are furious that they were used without notice as a dumping ground and have demanded San Francisco turn over all records surrounding the case.
Just a couple weeks earlier, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom had been enjoying a wave of local popularity as same-sex marriage became legal in the state following a court decision on the issue that Newsom championed for years. He became a gay hero in 2004 when he ordered the city to begin issuing marriage licenses and opened City Hall for gay weddings with loud local fanfare and in defiance of California law of the time.
Then the wheels started coming off the liberal limousine that Newsom imagined would transport him to higher office. The crack dealer story broke just as the greasy-haired mayor launched his exploratory committee to run for governor—and soon after the brutal triple murder had shocked the city.
On June 22, a San Francisco father and his two sons were shot down in cold blood over a minor traffic altercation by a previously-arrested MS-13 gangster. Those murdered: Tony Bologna, 49, Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16.
Danielle Bologna, the grieving wife and mother pleaded for the death penalty for the killer with District Attorney Kamala Harris, [Send her mail] who was elected despite her pledge never to seek the death penalty. The bad news for the Bologna family: Harris did not pursue execution for a cop killer in 2004, so it’s unlikely she will change now.
Do you hear that, tax payers? Your money has been used to protect criminals from the police. And then said criminals go out and murder unsuspecting citizens.
I hope that grieving widow and mother ends up owning San Francisco and every possession that idiot mayor is ever likely to possess. If I were on the jury, the city would not even have the funds left to pay attention.
Are liberals just naturally stupid?
Jacksonville Woman Shot at Work by Boyfriend Dies at Shands Hospital
JACKSONVILLE, FL — A mother who was shot at her work Friday morning has died from her injuries.
Police say Floacia Brookins was shot as she walked into work at Crowley in Talleyrand around 6 a.m. Friday.
Investigators say the man who shot her killed himself during a standoff at a home on the Northside Friday afternoon.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office says SWAT teams found James Lawson Williams III, dead of a gunshot wound in the home on Oaklawn Road, which is near Dunn Avenue and Armsdale Road.
Williams had barricaded himself inside the home for several hours following the shooting of his ex-girlfriend in Talleyrand.
A witness told a friend that he saw a man drive into the parking lot where he started arguing with a woman before shooting her.
Source: First Coast News
So very, very sad for her family members. My heartfelt sympathies go out to them in their time of loss.
Missing Toddler’s Mom’s Car Smelled of Decomposition
Source: First Coast News
ORLANDO, FL (AP) — A sheriff’s detective says a car driven by the mother of a missing 2-year-old Florida girl smelled of decomposition when investigators recovered it.
Casey Anthony’s Pontiac was towed after being parked for days at an Orlando check-cashing business. Anthony’s mother testified in court Tuesday that her daughter and granddaughter hadn’t been home in weeks.
Cpl. Yuri Melich says it appeared that a stain, some dirt and 2-year-old Caylee’s hair were in the trunk.
Casey Anthony has been charged with child endangerment, making false official statements and obstructing a criminal investigation, but wants to be released on bond. Police say the 22-year-old has lied to them.
Casey Anthony’s family says she was a good mother and never hurt Caylee.
My definition of “good mother” does not include having a toddler missing for 5 weeks and not reporting it. My feeling based on the mother’s demeanor at her arrest when the story first broke was that Caylee was dead, and her mother knew it.
Mental Health Counselor Jailed for Trolling for Juveniles Over the Internet
Authorities in Pinellas County have arrested a 78-year-old mental health counselor accused of arranging for the sexual abuse of two juveniles.
Charles J. Friedlander of Fort Myers was charged with seduction of a child using the Internet and traveling to meet a minor.
According to jail affidavits, Friedlander used an Internet chat room to solicit another person to engage in physical and sexual abuse of the two children, ages 10 and 11. Friedlander spoke with a person that he believed to be the children’s parent. It was, in fact, a Pinellas sheriff’s deputy.
Friedlander then traveled to Pinellas County with the intent of physically and sexually abusing the two children, the affidavit said. He brought with him unspecified “implements” of physical abuse.
Friedlander drove up from Fort Myers on Monday for a prearranged rendezvous and was arrested, authorities said. The arrest culminated a monthlong investigation that involved the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Friedlander was released from jail this morning on $20,000 bail. He did not immediately return phone messages.
Source: TampaBay.com
He brought “implements” of physical abuse, intended to physically and sexually abuse two minors, and he’s OUT ON BAIL? What about if he had other rendezvous set up?
Pay As You Go Express Lanes Proving Challenging in Miami
MIAMI – Pay-as-you-go express lanes may be coming to Florida’s gridlocked highways if a $278 million transportation experiment works here.
It’s a big if.
Crews have installed seven miles of slender, 42-inch poles to create two new High Occupancy Toll lanes on northbound Interstate 95 in Miami. The state’s plan is eventually to create a 21-mile Miami-to-Fort Lauderdale zone that will give drivers who are willing to pay for it a 50-mph commute on a traffic-jammed highway that carries 280,000 motorists a day.
But even before the first toll is imposed, Miami’s notoriously impatient and aggressive drivers are veering in and out of the new lanes like Olympic skiers on a slalom course.
On the first day, accidents tripled. Tie-ups and tempers flared. Dozens of the 1,700 skinny “candlestick” barriers that separate the inner two HOT lanes from four local lanes were mowed down like blades of grass. Hundreds more of the white pop-up poles, set 20 feet apart, were scuffed and nicked by drivers who jumped into the express lanes to avoid congestion or jumped out to get to their exit.
“What were they thinking?” said Jesus Urdaneta, a banker from Venezuela. “This might work in the Midwest or the Northeast but not in Miami.”
Similar “congestion-priced” express lanes, sarcastically called “Lexus Lanes” by critics, are popular in states such as California, Minnesota and Colorado. Miami’s will be the first in the Sunshine State. Tolls, deducted electronically by SunPass, may vary from 25 cents to $2.50 for the initial seven miles, rising and falling with traffic volume.
And if they work here, look for HOT lanes all over the state, including on Interstate 4, Central Florida’s most congested road.
Source: OrlandoSentinel.com
I figure that those roads have already been paid for by our gas taxes. Screw ‘em.
FDA Now Looking at Jalapenos as Source of Salmonella
Florida growers, who account for nearly half of all fresh tomatoes consumed nationwide, have estimated that the FDA’s monthlong warning against their crop cost them millions of dollars in lost sales.
The detective work that led to the Texas border town started with investigators questioning a cluster of people who became ill after eating at the same restaurant, then tracking the produce they had consumed. Agricola Zaragoza, which reportedly had about $600,000 in sales last year, did not return a call for comments.
The FDA said all other samples from the distributor had tested negative for salmonella, but samples are continuing to be analyzed. In addition to jalapenos, the distributor also handles tomatillos.
Though jalapenos are not grown commercially in Florida, there are commercial operations elsewhere on the East Coast. Asked why the FDA would extend its warning to non-Mexican jalapenos, Acheson said peppers contaminated in Texas could easily cross-contaminate peppers further along the distribution chain. “We’ve got to protect the public health with the science we have today,” he said. “We’re pushing this investigation hard and fast to narrow it as quickly as possible.”
Source: TampaBay.com
While nice that they have a place to START LOOKING, it is sad that Florida tomato growers lost millions because the FDA was looking in the wrong place.
Monkeys Escape by Learning to Swim
LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — How many wildlife trappers does it take to catch 15 monkeys running loose in central Florida?
As of Friday, ten monkeys have been caught since their escape in April from the Safari Wild preserve. Another five remain on the loose in Polk County.
Wildlife officials say trappers know where the monkeys are, and the search will continue until the remaining monkeys are captured.
The bunch escaped their island home by swimming across a pond — something they’re not supposed to be able to do. Officials say the social but calm Patas monkeys are of no threat to people.
Source: FirstCoastNews.com
Previous information here:
I don’t approve of private wildlife “parks” that are so unsecure that animals can and do escape into the surrounding countryside. I certainly don’t approve of trading in exotic animals. Luckily, the monkeys that escaped are fairly benign.
Mother of Missing Toddler Wants to be Released from Jail to Help Search
From the story:
During a news conference Monday, defense attorney Jose Baez said Anthony is “willing to cooperate fully” with law enforcement. But her assistance, he said, should be used to help find Caylee and not to prosecute his client.
Sounds to me like he’s looking for immunity for his client in exchange for the whereabouts of the little girl.
