Nyaira Ronnie Thomas, 20, has bonded out of jail, LPD says. She was charged with criminal use of an ID, forgery and grand theft in connection with the use of a fake ID to pay for $11,025 in plastic surgery. Source: Bay News 9
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North Lakeland Man Arrested in Alleged Cockfight Operation
Source: The Ledger
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Lawyer: Climate of Intolerance Emboldened Man Who Killed Wife and Her Girlfriend
Source: Tampa Bay Times
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Double Murder/Suicide Claims Two Lake Gibson Middle Staffers
Lisa Fuillerat, 51, a sixth-grade math teacher, and Samara Routenberg, 39, an assistant principal, were shot multiple times at Routenberg’s Brandon home by Fuillerat’s estranged husband, who turned the gun on himself after killing the two women. Source: Tampa Bay Times
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Gang Breaks Into Urban Appeal, Steals $56K of Clothes
The same store was targeted recently by somebody who left rocks painted with swastikas, an act many on social media called a hate crime because the owners are Muslims. Police told The Ledger they’d like to talk with the perpetrator, but don’t consider the rock incident a crime. Source: Fox 13 News
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46 Weapons Stolen from Guns Galore; Second Break-in in Two Months
The store has no video surveillance system. Said Sheriff Grady Judd: “They broke in with relative ease, as they did again this weekend. Is it too much to ask, Guns Galore, to harden your store and make it a little more difficult for your firearms to be stolen and transferred to the criminal marketplace?” Also: […]
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Akins, 78, Sentenced to 10 Years in DUI Manslaughter of Bicyclist Levy
Ronald Akins was on his way home from Cleveland Heights Golf Club in September 2013 when his car veered into the bicycle lane around Lake Hollingsworth and struck Byers Levy, 59, who was training for a 150-mile charity cycling event. Source: The Ledger
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Swastika-Painted Rocks Left at Minority-Owned Business
“I want to react with peace,” said Alo Shalaby, 27, who with his brothers co-owns Urban Appeal, a clothing store on Kentucky Avenue downtown. “Every community has its trash can. I’m not going to judge a community by its trash.” The Shalaby brothers, born in the U.S., are of Muslim heritage. Police are treating the […]