Occasionally, this blog takes the opportunity to highlight potentially criminal situations where individuals demonstrated “what not to do.” For example, if you’re facing charges or under suspicion, running from the police is an example of what not to do. What you should do instead is get online or grab a…
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Love in the Digital Age: a Florida Woman Faces Felony Charges After Threatening to Disseminate Her Girlfriend’s Nude Images
For almost as long as there has been a World Wide Web (and later, smart devices,) there have been people posting adult and/or sexually explicit content online. When someone publishes their own images or publishes images of someone else with proper permission, that’s one thing; when they disseminate others’ images…
Criminal goes from bad to worse…
Meet 20-year-old Jarious Tremayne Mock. Thanks from a tip from the smoking gun website, we all learn a valuable lesson as to how to turn a bad day into something much worse. The night started with Mr. Mock leaving a nightclub and drunkenly shouting “F–k the police” as he saw…
Man Drives 6 Miles With Wife on Roof
Another hat tip to the Smoking Gun website who found this arrest report of a man who took his wife on the trip of her lifetime… 69-year-old Richard Addy and his wife Elizabeth were both allegedly intoxicated when they began to argue early Tuesday Morning. Richard told police he decided to…
Pinellas woman arrested, turns one bad decision into two
Our fair state and our county gets another national nod as the New York Daily News writes up a brief story about a woman who was arrested for driving under the influence as well as possession of a controlled substance. Perhaps feeling the alcohol, she soon made an offer to the…
Epic Fail: Man steals car to drive to court
From the “Not the brightest idea” file comes a CBS news report about a man who was late to his own courtdate. He did the logical thing in his mind, stealing his friend’s car to get there! 21-year-old Jorge Ramirez-Sierra, of New Jersey, stole his friend’s car so he could…
Profession? “Drug dealer”! Arrested man gets points for honesty
Do you get time off for honesty? A Florida man may soon find out after his arrest. Meet 25-year-old Robert Phillips. He may just be the most honest drug dealer in the state… His most recent arrest sounded like it was custom made for the tv show COPS. While driving…
REALLY bad Santas…meet some arrested during holiday cheer
From the Washington Post, this holiday season brought out the Christmas spirit in many criminals. Meet a few bank-robbing Santas, drunk driving elves and other Xmas bad guys… Santa robs a bank In Memphis, TN Santa got a start on his post-Christmas break by robbing a bank. The man, who…
“Weird Florida” strikes again…
From the Smoking Gun website, two quick police reports that help show how the term “Weird Florida” got its name… Just last Friday an elderly Florida woman was charged with misdemeanor battery after spraying her mentally ill adult son with Febreze, a cleaning product. Per the report the 69-year-old mother,…
St. Petersburg man arrested for cooking meth on the beach…
From your local news station wtsp, a local man was arrested for his improvised BBQ at the beach… Instead of a cookout on father’s day that included hamburgers and hotdogs, one local man decided to add a bit more punch to his grill. PCSO deputies arrested 24-year-old Charles Tapp after…