Monday, May 13, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
School buses rolled out about 40 minutes later than usual May 3 at McLane Middle School in Brandon, where a chemical spray released earlier in the day, in a school hallway, injured 93 people, including 37 who were transported to the hospital with what were reported to be "very minor injuries." While a press conference was being held outside the school, after the final school buses left for the day, a 12-year-old student was being detained in the principal's office, according to Major Clyden Eisenbergy of the Hillsborugh County Sheriff's Office. "At this time we have a 12-year-old student who we're questioning as a suspect in this case," Eisenberg said. "There's evidence to suggest that this 12-year-old student dispersed this agent." The …
Monday, May 6, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A man is charged with beating a dog to death during a burglary at a Sarasota automotive shop, authorities said Monday. The 61-year-old suspect was seen on surveillance video beating the dog with a tire iron at John's Automotive, 1815 Snug Harbor Pl., the Sarasota County Sheriff's Office reports. The business owner had reported the 4-year-old mastiff, "Ashton," missing on Sunday morning, officials said. Later that day, the owner reviewed surveillance video and saw the beating by a man he later identified as 52-year-old Kevin Koscielniak, an employee who was asked to leave a day earlier after causing a disturbance. Investigators say Koscielniak climbed over a barbed wire fence, killed the dog, and wrapped it in a blanket. The man cut the …
Monday, April 29, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
A 13-year-old girl accused of breaking into a New Port Richey business with someone else and doing more than $10,0000 in damage there was arrested Monday, April 22. The girl broke into Wash Tub Laundry, 6051 Massachussets Ave, on Jan. 29 at around 4 a.m. with another girl, according to a New Port Richey police report. Once inside, a girl used “some type of edged weapon” to cut all the water hoses that deliver to six washing machine units, according to the report. A hard and steady flow of water was unleashed. Ceiling tiles, washing machines, electrical components, insulation and paperwork were damaged. A Sarasota office manager is charged with practicing medicine without a license after authorities say she performed a painful procedure …
Monday, April 15, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
The parents of Cole and Chase Hakken returned from Cuba in the early morning hours of April 10. Upon arrival, they were booked into jail on a host of charges related to last week’s kidnapping of their two young sons. A week ago at this time a manhunt for the Hakkens began after Joshua, 35, was accused of breaking into his mother-in-law’s Carrollwood area home, tying her up and taking his two young children by force. His flight with the children, Chase, 2, and Cole, 4, would take him into Pinellas County’s Madeira Beach where he had a sailboat waiting. From Madeira beach, the Hakken family sailed to Cuba. The government there cooperated with the U.S. State Department and swiftly remanded the elder Hakkens and their two young children into …
Monday, April 1, 2013
We compile the odd, unusual "oh my gosh" police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
Chamberlain High School history teacher Phillip G. Kornell thought he was arranging to meet an underage girl via the Internet, but it turned out to be an undercover detective from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. When Kornell showed up for the in-face introduction, he was arrested – one of 35 people charged in Operation Green Shepherd II, according to the sheriff’s office. Kornell, 40, was arrested March 20 and charged with a sexual offense on a victim age 12-15, according to Manatee County jail records. Police are looking for two Bradenton men who they say have been peddling fraudulent cruise packages to unsuspecting victims. Dale Lucas, 25, and Todd Kelley, 22, have been passing themselves off as representatives of "a well known …
Monday, December 10, 2012
We compile the odd, unusual and ‘oh my gosh’ police items from throughout the Tampa Bay region.
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Instead of the beer she was looking for, a woman visiting a St. Petersburg man this week found four kittens wrapped up in sandwich bags in his freezer, St. Pete Patch reports. One of the kittens didn't make it, but the three others are doing fine and recovering at the SPCA Tampa Bay, Largo Patch reports. As for the man, 49-year-old Rodney J. Blanchard, he was arrested and charged with four counts of animal cruelty, plus one count of battery for pushing the woman. And to top it off, Blanchard's son was charged with attempted murder this week. Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies say the same thief struck a Kmart in Brandon three times on three separate days in November, Brandon Patch reports. The alleged thief used the same trick to …
Jimmy James
1:36 pm on Thursday, April 4, 2013
Kornell needs to go back to high school and learn that what he did is a No-No since he didn't learn it then. :) more ›