St. Petersburg police say a woman stabbed a man after an argument over which TV program to watch Monday night.According to the police department, Delois Holley went to David Richard Marion’s apartment to watch The Closer, but he wanted to watch Monday Night Football. In retrospect, I would have killed…
According to an online St. Pete Times story, Clearwater Police Department (CWPD) detectives seized more than eighty (80) computerized gaming machines and a new car last week after executing a search warrant at what authorities called an illegal gambling operation on U.S. Highway 19 North in Clearwater. The search and…
According to a story in the St. Pete Times “Bizarre Florida” online section, a Pasco woman arrived home at 1:00 a.m. Wednesday to find a strange man naked, bloody and passed out on her sofa. Vickie Bankowski, 56, slipped outside with one of her dogs and called 911. A second…
According to an online story in today’s St. Pete Times, a Spring Hill man was arrested Saturday after workers at a grocery store reported seeing him stuff steaks down his shorts and leave the store.Mark Belkola, 51, was at the Publix at 4158 Mariner Boulevard when he was seen in…
As I was scanning BayNews9.com for a good criminal law article to blog about, I came across the following story in their “Strange News” column: A Pennsylvania woman is accused of illegally accepting workers’ compensation payments while working as a stripper. Forty-three (43) year-old Christina Gamble waived a preliminary hearing…
Sometimes, in my never-ending quest for a good story to blog about, you run across something that is just too good to make up. Usually, these types of stories occur in Pasco County. This one (below) is no different. Enjoy, courtesy of today’s St. Pete Times.A New Port Richey man…
According to a humorous story in today’s St. Petersburg Times, a St. Pete resident, who was arrested on charges of Felony Battery and DUI early Friday morning, made the following last-ditch offer to the cops on his way to the Pinellas County Jail (otherwise known as the “Sheriff Coats Motel”):…
Sara Lou Kenny, 20, of New Port Richey, needed some clean urine to pass a drug test so, authorities say, she tried to smuggle the urine from her friend’s 4-year-old son past a probation officer and pass it off as her own.It didn’t work!!! Kenney was arrested Friday at a…
Sometimes, good police work requires that you get down and dirty. Earlier this week, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Rene Valencia, a 24-year-old entrepreneur (i.e., “drug dealer”) charged with Attempting to Sell Heroin and Cocaine near Weston Park allegedly swallowed his drugs rather than face the consequences of getting caught red-handed. However,…
In another “only in St. Pete type of case,” the St. Petersburg Police Department said that a St. Petersburg woman took a TV dispute too far Tuesday night when she stabbed and scalded her boyfriend over American Idol. According to the St. Pete Times, this is what happened: Police arrested…