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Fisherman finds brick of likely cocaine snorts some then...
Boater finds brick of likely cocaine, snorts some, dies
Friday, July 29, 2011 04:16 PM EDT
Keysnet.com
A Merritt Island videographer died in a Miami hospital Thursday after he snorted an unknown substance -- possibly cocaine -- from a brick he found floating off the Middle Keys, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office says.
Thomas Swindal, 53, and his brother Kenneth were trolling in about 200 feet of water on Wednesday when, Detective Mark Maison said, they found what they believed to be a kilo of cocaine and brought it aboard the boat, tossing it into the bait well.
They kept on fishing and, Kenneth Swindal told detectives, he looked back a short time later and saw his brother open the package and ingest some of its contents.
He said about an hour and a half later, Thomas Swindal began to run around the boat, throw things in the water and even gaffed the engine, which fell off the boat and sank.
He continued acting strangely, running around with knives and pliers, so Kenneth Swindal threw all the sharp objects, as well as the package, off the boat.
Because they had no means of communication -- Thomas Swindal had tossed their cell phone off the boat -- and the boat lost its engine, the brothers climbed to the top of the boat and began signaling for help. A nearby vessel responded and called for help. The state Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded and transported the two to shore, where they were met by paramedics.
Thomas Swindal was taken to Fishermen's Hospital and later transferred to South Miami Hospital, where he died Thursday. An autopsy is planned.
The Sheriff's Office says never, ever bring aboard your boat "any object [you] suspect to be contraband." And, the agency says, "it certainly is never safe to ingest any substance if you do not know what the substance is or what the potency of the substance might be."
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Woman chasies ex-boyfriend with machete
Woman accused of chasing boyfriend with machete near West Palm Beach
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Cynthia Roldan
The Palm Beach Post
9:26 p.m. EDT, July 29, 2011
A 22-year-old suburban West Palm Beach woman was arrested on Thursday for allegedly chasing and cutting her former boyfriend with a machete after she hit him with a wooden stick and bit his arm, according to police.
Ana Celly Rodriguez De Jesus is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report, a deputy was dispatched to the 1000 block of Cynmar Drive, in suburban West Palm Beach, around 7 p.m. on Thursday in reference to a domestic battery.
When the deputy arrived, an unidentified 20-year-old man said that he had been involved in an argument with his ex-girlfriend, Rodriguez, over money. He said that Rodriguez hit him with a wooden stick, scratched his face and bit his arm, police said.
He said Rodriguez grabbed a machete and chased him outside, where she cut his arm. The deputy noted that man had scratches to his face, a bite mark on his arm and a 3-inch cut where he claimed to have been struck with the machete.
Rodriguez told the deputy, however, that the fight turned physical when her ex-boyfriend pushed her 3-year-old child to the floor.
In a police report, she admits slapping, hitting and chasing the man with the machete. She said her ex-boyfriend also hit her with a wooden stick.
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Obama's lead in 2012 presidential election vanishes
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Al Sharpton Hustles His Way to NBC News Gig
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Serial Butt Slasher Pursued In Virginia
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Woman Robs Convenience Store of $94 Gets 18 Years in Prison
Woman Robs Convenience Store of $94, Gets 18 Years in Prison!
Bladerunnaz Records
July 27, 2011 at 3:00pm
Connie Murray will spend the next 18 years behind bars, with no chance at parole, after she robbed a convenience store last August of $94 in cash.
On Friday, a jury found 40-year-old Connie Murray Dumas guilty of armed robbery and possession of a pistol during a violent crime, a release from the 16th Circuit Solicitor's Office states.
The solicitor's office says Dumas entered the One Stop convenience store on Albright Road on August 9th, pointed a small automatic pistol at the clerk and demanded money. The robbery was caught on the store's security camera.
Dumas was able to get away with $94 in cash from the store, the solicitor's office states, but a witness was able to give police a description of Dumas and her vehicle. She was pulled over a short time later by Rock Hill police.
According to the release, Dumas initially signed a confession, saying she robbed the store because her home was in foreclosure. During the trial, she recanted that confession saying she didn't commit the robbery because she had "ample available money" in a North Carolina bank account.
Throughout the trial, Dumas maintained that she didn't have a gun in the store and what was seen on camera was her car keys and cell phone.
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Student rights group targets Boca High cellphone searches
Student rights group targets Boca High cellphone searches
Marc Freeman
Sun Sentinel
Updated: 9:55 a.m. Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Posted: 9:23 p.m. Monday, July 25, 2011
A civil-rights group is calling on Boca Raton High School to stop its practice of searching confiscated student cellphones and punishing students who don’t provide access to their text messages or other content.
The National Youth Rights Association of Washington, D.C., on Monday outlined its concerns in a letter to Boca Raton High Principal Geoff McKee.
This complaint, which is the organization’s first challenge on this issue, contends the school’s practices “infringe upon the fundamental freedoms of its students and run counter to the holdings of the Supreme Court and the dictates of the Florida Legislature.”
The letter acknowledges the high school’s right to seize student phones that are viewed as “disruptive and distracting to learning.”
But administrators should not be inspecting these devices to examine photos, text messages and other content, said Jeffrey Nadel, president of the 10,000-member association, which fights for the rights of young people nationwide.
According to the youth rights group, the school also has threatened students with in-school suspensions if they refuse to provide passcodes that are needed to access the phones in the same way passwords are needed to use computers and email accounts.
“We really saw this as a particularly egregious set of circumstances,” said Nadel, who cited complaints from current and former students. “You don’t teach young people to be good American citizens by infringing on their fundamental rights.”
McKee said he had not yet seen the letter, but he promised to give it consideration. It’s true that administrators have seized and examined cellphones, he said.
“I understand the grounds for the concerns expressed, and with input from our district legal department, I intend to review our policy regarding student cellphones,” McKee said.
A 2004 state law allows students to take wireless devices to school, but Palm Beach County School Board policy says they must be turned off and put in pockets or backpacks while in class, on buses and at school events. Camera phones are prohibited.
The Boca Raton High School student handbook cites the board policy, but also adds two sentences that the rights groups blasted as “unconstitutional.”
Those lines are: “Students are responsible for the content of text messages, images, and other information on cellphones. Illicit phone contents will lead to added consequences.”
Nadel asked for that language to be removed from the handbook. It’s unclear if other schools’ handbooks have the same wording as Boca High.
McKee said the issue is making sure that the phones do not contain things like photos of test sheets or harassing text messages.
“Our focus for discipline is on inappropriate use of cellphones,” he said.
But the complaint says the school must stop after students surrender their phones, and students should not be presumed guilty of wrongdoing.
“Given that there exist no reasonable grounds to suspect any further violations of school rules or of the law, any search of the actual contents of the phone certainly would not be reasonably related to the objective of the seizure — which is to prevent disruptive conduct,” Nadel wrote.
Meanwhile, the school district continues to explore ways to remove the ban on student cellphones to take advantage of new technologies and boost achievement. Officials have said these rules, while helping to protect children from cyber-bullying and prevent high-tech cheating, are also out of touch with today's world of instant communication and contrary to federal recommendations to turn classrooms into smartphone hubs.
Administrators say they’ve been pleased with the results of pilot programs featuring smartphone or PDA-based instruction. Teachers said the technology can capture students' attention in previously unimaginable ways, with tools such as video demonstrations and personalized lessons.
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Did an alert retired cop just thwart another Fort Hood massacre?
Did an alert retired cop just thwart another Fort Hood massacre?
LA Times
July 28, 2011 | 2:26 pm
Texas police say a newly-arrested Muslim American Army private has admitted planning to attack fellow troops at the famous Fort Hood Army base in Killeen.
Following a tip from a suspicious retired policeman now working at a local gun shop, Killeen police arrested Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo Wednesday during a traffic stop.
He'll likely face federal charges after FBI agents found a large amount of bomb-making materials in his hotel room not far from the base.
The 21-year-old had gone AWOL from Fort Campbell, Kentucky after refusing deployment to Afghanistan on religious grounds and then being charged with possession of child pornography during his discharge process.
Kileen is the site of Fort Hood, scene of the 2009 massacre of 13 military personnel. Another American Muslim soldier, Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, has been charged with those killings. He faces the death penalty if found guilty in a trial set to begin in early 2012.
"Thanks to quick action by a Texas gun dealer in alerting local police to a suspicious character," Rep. John Carter said today, "and a prompt and vigorous response by the Killeen Police Department, we may well have averted a repeat of the tragic 2009 radical Islamic terror attack on our nation's largest military installation."
Abdo appeared in a local gunshop Tuesday afternoon, according to Greg Ebert, a retired police officer now working there. Ebert said Abdo purchased shotgun shells, a magazine and six one-pound canisters of gunpowder.
But he then asked Ebert numerous questions indicating little knowledge of the gunpowder.
"That's a red flag for me," Ebert said. "He should know" if he's buying that much. Ebert checked with his boss and then alerted police.
In the hotel room police say they also found uniforms with Fort Hood patches, battery-powered clocks and shrapnel.
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Man dressed like armored truck guard walks out of store with $15k
Thief dresses like armored truck guard -- and walks out of Queens check-cashing spot with $15K
Joe Kemp
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, July 28th 2011, 4:00 AM
NYPD
A man disguised as an armor truck guard said he was at the Queens check-cashing spot for a pickup. He walked off with $15,000.
A clever crook, dressed as an armored truck guard, waltzed out of a Queens check-cashing joint last week with almost $15,000 in cash, cops said.
After stepping into Lorenzo's Enterprises on 31st St. in Astoria about 10:15 a.m. Friday, the disguised bandit said he was there for a pickup and was given the load of cash, police said.
The employees never suspected the man, who was clad in a GARDA Armored Courier uniform, was a thief.
It wasn't until a few hours later, when an actual guard from the same armored truck company arrived for the cash, that the workers realized they had been had, cops said.
But the suspect - a Hispanic male, believed to be in his early 30s - was long gone. Police are investigating whether the man is a former employee or has other ties to the armored truck company.
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Brothers attack pilot at airport after getting booted off plane
Thug brothers, Jonathan and Luis Baez, attack pilot at Miami airport after getting booted off plane
Philip Caulfield
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, July 28th 2011, 2:26 PM
Miami-Dade Department of Corrections
Jonathan and Luis Baez were arrested for attacking an American Airlines pilot who kicked one of them off the plane for appearing to be drunk or high.
A pair of thuggish brothers brutally attacked an American Airlines pilot after he kicked one of them off a plane for being passed out drunk, officials said.
Jonathan and Luis Baez, both of Las Piedras, Puerto Rico, were arrested at Miami International Airport on Wednesday night for the assault, which left the pilot bruised and bloodied and delayed the San Francisco-bound flight more than two hours.
The scuffle started after a flight attendant noticed that Jonathan Baez, 27, had passed out without buckling his seat belt as the plane pulled away from the gate.
The attendant tried to wake Baez, but he was groggy and appeared plastered on booze or high on drugs, cops said.
After the attendant told the crew that Baez wouldn't buckle up, the pilot stopped taxiing and turned around, cops said.
When Baez finally came to, the attendant told him he had to get off the plane.
"He was apparently barely compliant at that point," American Airlines spokesman Tim Smith said. "He was exhibiting symptoms of intoxication. He was not walking well when he went up the aisle."
Luis Baez, 29, decided to follow his brother, and the two screamed obscenities at the pilot.
"When you fly to San Juan, I will have you killed," one of the goons shouted, according to police.
Crew members escorted the brothers off the plane, but Jonathan ran back, punched the pilot in the face and then punched a female flight attendant who tried to step in, cops said.
Luis then joined in the vicious beatdown, and the two hoodlums chased the pilot into the terminal, cops said.
Eventually, some passengers and crew members tackled the brothers and held them down until police arrived.
"There was a scuffle … so about three or four of us went out there and tackled the guys," passenger Ken Venting told KGO television. "So we just did what we needed to do to help out."
The Miami-based pilot was cut up, bruised and shaken after the attack, police said.
Another pilot showed up, and the 176 passengers and six crew members took off for San Francisco at around 11:30 p.m., two hours after the scheduled take off.
Jonathan and Luis Baez were held at Miami-Dade County jail on $9,000 bond and $12,500 bond on assault and battery charges.
"I think it's fair to say that both these gentlemen won't be flying with us again," Smith said.
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Hard liquor packaged in milk cartons
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