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Tuesday 08-26-2008 2:16pm ET
 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A man wanted on charges of sexually assaulting a Jacksonville 4-year-old in May and believed to have fled the state was located and arrested last week in Virginia Beach, the U.S. Marshals Office announced on Monday. Earlier this month, the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office asked for help from the U.S. Marshals Regional Task Force for help locating Jeffrey Michael Mitchell, who officials said always wears black clothing and believes he is a vampire. Federal agents said Mitchell was so consumed with this belief, he capped his teeth so that he would appear as a vampire and referred to himself as "Draven."
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TEEN ASSAULTS MOTHER AND BROTHER OVER COMPUTER CHANGES
PALM BAY, Fla. -- A 15-year-old was taken into custody after police said he chased his mother with a knife and beat his brother with a sugar cane over a change in computer privileges.
The teen was charged with aggravated assault and battery after police were called to a home on the 200 block of Silver Oak Road to investigate a disturbance, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. The teen was arrested Sunday and taken to the Juvenile Detention Center in Sharpes.
Police said the boy was on the home computer when he grew angry over changes to the system. Police said the teen then threw several objects and picked up a knife and a stick of sugar cane.
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Butter-hungry man pulls knife at church buffet
OCALA – Ocala police officers arrested a man Sunday morning who they say pulled a knife on members of a church congregation who would not give him butter in the morning buffet.
Frankie Lewis, 48, wanted to get some butter in the buffet line at Four Square Church at 118 N.W. Tuscawilla Ave., police spokeswoman Sgt. Angy Scroble said. When he could not get any, he pulled a knife on members of the congregation and said he would cut them.
As he put the knife back in his pocket, a church member hit him with a wooden board, Scroble said. Lewis then fled on a bicycle where officers in the area quickly caught him.
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Monday 08-18-2008 12:29pm ET
Grandmother Tries To Sell Newborn Baby
A Florida woman is working to get custody of her baby, a child her mother tried to sell.
Brandy Moore's mother, Tracy Martin, offered to sell the two week old boy for $2,000 and a car after passing the boy off as her own.
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Orlando Walmart Credit Card Scam
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A mysterious box with an antenna found hidden inside a Wal-Mart was a planted spy camera set up to beam customer credit card numbers to thieves in the parking lot, police said.
Officers evacuated the Wal-Mart store located on Turkey Lake Road near Sand Lake Road Thursday night after someone noticed the box wrapped in black tape near a counter.
The bomb squad was called to the store and no explosives were found.
When officers investigated the box, they found it contained a spy camera set to capture credit card numbers as people used them inside the business.
Deputies said the images were apparently beamed to a van in the store's parking lot.
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Friday 08-15-2008 2:40pm ET
 Co-worker Sees Dead Body In Backyard - Thinks Nothing Of It
FORT LAUDERDALE - The Broward Sheriff's Office has arrested a man accused of fatally stabbing his housemate and leaving the body to rot in their backyard.
Samuel Nesbitt, 48, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Richard Isaac, 54, sheriff's spokeswoman Keyla Concepcion said.
A co-worker told investigators he had gone to the house to pick up Isaac, saw a body in the backyard and didn't think anything of it.
When he returned a few days later and the body was still there, the worker called 911.
"He thought it was like a homeless person or someone out back, sleeping," sheriff's spokeswoman Keyla Concepcion said.
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 Florida College Students Using Food Stamps As Financial Aid
In a down economy, some Florida college students have found a new form of financial aid: food stamps.
The number of Sunshine State students receiving stamps was up 44 percent in July compared to the same time in 2007.
That's about twice the rate of increase for food-stamp recipients in the population as a whole.
Statewide, 54,116 students were receiving the stamps, including 10,506 in Miami-Dade alone. Broward had another 4,311, according to figures from the state Department of Children & Families. Monroe had 51.
The numbers reflect a nationwide trend.
''It's pretty much impossible to get by anymore without some help,'' said John English, a Palm Beach Community College student who has received stamps. English, 20, said he was in a halfway house when he moved to South Florida from Ohio. And signing up for the stamps wasn't hard.
''I got in easy,'' he said. ``But then I got a job that paid a decent amount, and I couldn't qualify for food stamps anymore.''
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 11 Year Old Robs A Walgreens - Rode His Bike To The Store
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An 11-year-old boy was taken into custody after police said he robbed a Walgreens store with what looked like two handguns.
Officers said the 11-year-old boy rode his bicycle to the store on Kirkman Road near Raleigh Street at about 3:30 a.m., walked in and demanded money from the clerks using two BB guns.
One of the workers in the Walgreens called 911 while the robbery was still in progress.
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Saturday 08-09-2008 3:11pm ET
Teen From Internet Video Attack Arrested Again POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- One of the teenage girls involved in the "animalistic" videotaped beating of a cheerleader was arrested again and charged in connection with separate alleged attack on an ex-boyfriend. Mercedes Nichols, 17, was arrested for violating a restraining order filed by her ex-boyfriend on Valentine's Day. According to the victim, Nichols stabbed him several times with a pen.
Girl Tricked Into Having Sex With A Man - By Her Boyfriend A Fort Pierce woman says a hairy chest helped her realize her sex partner was no longer her boyfriend,tcpalm.com reports. It was dark when the 18-year-old was having consensual sex with her boyfriend. Then he suddenly needed something from the bedroom closet. Her boyfriend “returned to the bed - at least she thought it was him,” according to the cop report. But the young woman said this guy had a wider, hairy chest. When she went to the bathroom she saw a second taller man head back into the closet and realized that was a pal of her boyfriend - Click Here For The Full Story
Friday 08-08-2008 2:57pm ET
 Deltona Teenager Stabs Father Over A Haircut
DELTONA, Fla. - Volusia County deputies arrested a 15-year-old boy, accusing him of stabbing his father with a miniature sword because he didn't want to get a haircut.
The teen was arrested Monday at the family's home on South Tanner Court in Deltona. His father attempted to get the teen to cut his hair and asked him to get ready.
The boy responded by throwing a box of seashells at his father. When the man tried to discipline his son, the teen pulled out a 10-inch sword and stabbed him in the hand, according to a Volusia County sheriff's report.
The teen told investigators he didn't feel bad for stabbing his father and that he "gave him more than one warning to stay away from me," the report said.
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 Customer Steals McDonald's Employee's Shirt
The employee took Devalle’s order at the drive-through, but Devalle, 37, complained it was incorrect. The employee repeated the order, but Devalle then took issue with the dollar amount. The argument escalated, and when Devalle pulled up to the drive-through window, the employee refused him service. Eventually the employee put his arm in front of his face to indicate he wasn’t going to serve Devalle, but Devalle hit it out of the way. The employee then punched Devalle in the face. Devalle responded by reaching into the drive-through window and trying to pull the employee outside. As Devalle continued to pull, he tore off the employee’s shirt. Devalle took the shirt and sped away in a green Honda. The employee got the car’s license plate number and called police.
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 56 Miami Government Workers Arrest In OxyContin Bust
Fifty-six government employees -- including a police officer, a felony court clerk, two corrections officers and 27 school bus drivers and attendants -- were arrested in a scam that used health insurance information to fraudulently obtain prescriptions for the painkiller OxyContin, authorities said Wednesday. Arrested as "recruiters" in the alleged OxyContin scam, are, clockwise: Janice Currington; Dwonvalyn Johnson; Barbara Miller Benaby; Guyton Wynell; Marcella Pierce; and Wanda McNeal. Sixty-two people were arrested in total and all face charges including racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering and grand theft, according to the Miami-Dade state attorney's office.
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 Woman Drives With 3 Year On Top Of Her Car - Sees Nothing Wrong With It
Lake Worth - A Lake Worth woman was arrested last night when deputies responded to a Marathon grocery store Tuesday evening to reports she was driving around the parking lot with a small child on the roof of her car.
Brenda Bouschet, 54, told deputies she didn't understand why she was wrong to place the three-year-old girl on the roof of the car and drive her white 2006 Lexus around the parking lot of Publix in Marathon.
Bouschet said she was just giving the child some air and letting her have fun. Numerous onlookers called Sheriff's Office dispatchers at 6:40 p.m. because they were afraid the child would fall off the roof of the car.
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 Florida Man Charged In Hiring A Hitman To Kill An IRS Agent
From a criminal complaint filed against Florida businessman Randy Nowak:
Randy Nowak, owner of RJ Nowak Enterprises, has taken substantial steps to hire an individual to have IRS Revenue Officer Christine Brandt killed in a "murder for hire" plot .... Nowak has agreed to pay an undercover FBI agent (UC) posing as a hit man $20,000 to have IRS employee Brandt murdered, and in fact has already paid the UC $10,000 as a down payment. ...
Nowak sought to kill the IRS employee because she was auditing Nowak and Nowak stood to lose $4,000,000 that he had hidden offshore. ... Nowak asked the UC, "How much more would it cost me to have that building severely damages?" The UC replied, "the IRS building?" Nowak stated, "yes." ... The UC said that would costs "a big chunk."
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