The "Only In Florida" Police Blotter - Living Proof That Hell Is Other People

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I know I know a bit sad but I have to admit this is fun.

Google 'Florida man' plus your birthday so for example 'Florida man march 27'

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Well my birthday is a holiday which usually involves a lot of alcohol & explosives, so I can only imagine

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Florida Barbershop Owner Shoots Masked Gunman Who Was Angry Over Haircut

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Florida Barbershop Owner Shoots Masked Gunman Who Was Angry Over Haircut: Police
Andre J. Ellington

A Melbourne, Florida barbershop owner allegedly shot and injured a masked gunman who turned out to be a disgruntled customer who was upset about his haircut.

On August 28, 24-year-old Palm Bay resident Marlon Mascoe entered New York Hair Barbershop while other customers were being serviced. Mascoe then allegedly pointed a firearm at several people, according to Melbourne Police. The owner of New York Hair Barbershop allegedly shot Mascoe in the hip and apprehended him until Melbourne Police arrived at the barbershop.

Mascoe has been charged with aggravated assault with a firearm.

Melbourne Police Lieutenant Ryan Schorer spoke to Florida Today regarding the shooting. Schorer stated Mascoe had no intentions of robbing the barbershop at all.

"The investigation revealed that it wasn't related to a robbery," Schorer said to Florida Today. "It was actually related to a prior haircut transaction he was unhappy with or an interaction inside the business."

Additionally, Schorer told Florida Today that Mascoe is currently being treated at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne.

Across America, there have been numerous barbershop crimes involving patrons and owners.

On July 16, a Detroit woman took matters into her own hands after attacking and detaining a customer after he stole her car.

Over the course of three days, 32-year-old Bianca Chambers tracked her car through its GPS system after it was stolen in front of a local department store.

Chambers ended up finding her car at 7 Days West Barbershop and confronted the alleged thief by attacking and detaining him until police arrived.

"I slashed all the tires and I thought that he was gonna take off and I didn't know how long it was going to take for the police to pull up," Chambers told Fox 2. "I refused to let him pull off again."

On May 31, an Illinois barber allegedly shot and killed a customer after he refused to pay for his haircut.

Deshon McAdory, 40, allegedly killed 31-year-old customer Christian McDougald at Studio 914 barbershop. McAdory's attorney Anthony Burch told the Chicago Tribune that his client acted in self-defense.

"A person came into the store who's clearly the aggressor. He got a haircut, argued about not wanting to pay. There was an argument that ensued outside. As [McAdory] is retreating into the store, he is approached by the aggressor and fired one shot," Burch said to the outlet.

McAdory was held on a $250,000 bond and charged with first-degree murder.

Newsweek has reached out to New York Hair Barbershop for further comments.

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Six-Hour SWAT Standoff With Armed Teen on Roof Interrupted by Naked Woman on Golf Cart

https://toofab.com/2021/09/08/six-hour-swat-standoff-with-armed-teen-on-roof-interrupted-by-naked-woman-on-golf-cart-in-of-course-florida/

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Model posed on Instagram by dad's casket. She wasn’t prepared for the backlash.




Oct. 27, 2021, 10:37 PM BST / Updated Oct. 28, 2021, 4:03 PM BST
By Wilson Wong
A social media influencer defended herself Wednesday after she was criticized for sharing photos of herself posing in front of her father's open casket.

In the photos, Jayne Rivera, 20, was wearing a fitted, black one-sleeve blazer dress as she stood by her father’s coffin, which was adorned with an American flag. She posed with her hands in prayer in one picture.

Rivera, of Florida, told NBC News in an interview that she “understood the negative reception,” but clarified that the photos were taken “with the best intentions in a manner my father would have approved with had he still been alive.”

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Rick & Morty already covered this. Probably where she got it from

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Republican primary winner is ex-felon who never applied for the right to hold office

usually I wouldn't post a political article in this thread... but this is such a classically Florida clusterfuck that it totally belongs here......


miamiherald.com
Republican primary winner is ex-felon who never applied for the right to hold office
Corbin Bolies


Jason Mariner appears in a campaign video posted on YouTube on Aug. 16, 2021. Image via screen grab from Mariner For Congress/YouTube

The winning Republican in this week’s congressional primary in South Florida is a convicted felon who did not go through the state’s process to restore his civil rights after his imprisonment, interviews and records show. That step is required under Florida law for a candidate to hold political office.

Jason Mariner, 36, of Palm Beach Gardens, an advertising executive and self-described “America First” conservative candidate, won Tuesday’s GOP primary with 58 percent of votes in the heavily Democratic 20th Congressional District.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the election’s outcome would be challenged. The general election will be Jan. 11. Democrats have held the seat — one of the most Democratic districts in Florida — for more than two decades.

Mariner had served roughly two years total in the Palm Beach County Jail over 2007 and 2012 on charges that included felony theft, burglary, cocaine possession, obstruction and violently resisting arrest, records show. He was open during his campaign about his criminal background, telling voters, “Before running for Congress, I ran from the law.” He also promised he would be tough on crime.

Under new clemency rules Gov. Ron DeSantis announced earlier this year, ex-felons are automatically entitled to have their rights restored — including the right to hold political office — but must submit to a formal process administered by the Florida Commission on Offender Review and Office of Executive Clemency. Under a constitutional amendment that Florida voters approved in 2020, ex-felons can register to vote once they serve their prison terms and pay any court fines.

Mariner confirmed Thursday in an interview he did not go through the process to restore his right to hold office. “No, nothing,” he said. He said later he was confident he was a lawful candidate. “No, it’s not going to be an issue,” he said.

Mariner said he followed the same process as other candidates and noted he was a registered voter. “As I am not an attorney or official in state government, it is not really my place to answer your legal or procedural questions about Florida law, applicable scenarios, etc., or advise you legally,” he said in an email.
No evidence that he applied

Florida records this week did not include any evidence that Mariner’s rights had been restored. Mariner signed a sworn statement in August he sent to the Florida Division of Elections attesting that he was qualified to run for Congress in Florida.

“All forms of clemency, should they be granted, would be searchable in that database,” said Angela Meredith, a spokeswoman for the Florida Commission on Offender Review. She said privacy rules prohibited her from discussing Mariner’s case specifically.

The new clemency rules describe restoring the civil rights of ex-felons — including the right to hold public office and serve on juries — “automatically upon processing and without a hearing,” but also specify that, “A clemency application is required for the restoration of civil rights.”

It wasn’t clear whether Mariner could retroactively apply to restore his rights after he already won this week’s congressional primary — as long as his right to hold political office was restored prior to Jan. 3, 2023, when the 118th Congress would convene in Washington.

The press secretary for Republican Gov. DeSantis, Christina Pushaw, said Thursday that, in response to questions from a reporter, lawyers in the governor’s office were trying quickly to determine whether the state’s rules requiring restoration of civil rights would apply to a Florida candidate for federal office.

A spokesman for Florida’s secretary of state’s office, which is responsible for ensuring candidates are eligible to run, did not return phone calls or emails over two days this week.

Mariner on Tuesday night defeated Republican Greg Musselwhite, a former pipe-fitter and welding inspector who also lost the election in 2020 to incumbent Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., who died earlier this year. Over two months, Mariner’s campaign committee raised $22,553 and spent $18,310 ahead of the two-person primary, including only modest support from the Republican Party.

Musselwhite laughed Thursday when asked about Mariner’s eligibility. He said he was unsure whether he would contest the outcome. He said he trusted Florida’s officials to confirm his opponent was qualified to run for office.

“I guess I trusted the system a little too much,” he said. He later added: “Best case, they call another special election. Worst case, there will be no Republican on the ballot.”

On the Democrats’ side, election officials were recounting ballots Thursday after Dale V.C. Holness led Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick by only 12 votes, or two-tenths of a percentage point, out of more than 49,000 votes cast.

Ex-felons have to follow specific process

The deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, Neil Volz, which supported passage of the constitutional amendment and pushed for the new clemency reforms earlier this year, acknowledged that ex-felons under the new rules must submit to a process before they can legally hold political office.

“The nightmare scenario is, someone is eligible but the government bureaucracy is holding hostage the ability for them to move forward with their lives,” said Volz, who had been monitoring Mariner’s political campaign because of his criminal past.

It wasn’t clear why no one raised questions about Mariner’s eligibility as a candidate until after he won the primary. The supervisor of elections for Palm Beach County, where Mariner first registered to vote in March 2020, said the state Division of Elections in Tallahassee — under the secretary of state — was supposed to determine whether federal candidates are eligible.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel endorsed Mariner in the Republican primary and noted that he had regained his right to vote through the constitutional amendment, but its endorsement did not specify whether it had confirmed that Mariner could hold office if elected.

Mariner is the manager of Adskinz LLC, a small advertising firm in West Palm Beach he started in 2017 and pays drivers to affix logos and slogans to their vehicles on behalf of paying advertisers. The U.S. government in April forgave a $24,700 loan it provided to Adskinz under a program to help small businesses during the pandemic.

In his email Thursday, Mariner described himself as “a father, businessman, someone who has turned their life around, and now as a U.S. congressional primary race winner,” and said he understands those who try to overcome past struggles.

Police in Delray Beach said they watched Mariner buy crack cocaine at a home in April 2012, and he tried to swallow it when an officer pulled over his car for speeding moments later, according to court records. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 months in prison and fined $2,792.

In December 2011, Delray Beach police said Mariner stole a Greyhound Bus sign they found in his apartment and accused him of stealing four brass urns from a cemetery and selling them for $30.

In May 2014, police in Riviera Beach said Mariner spit at and tried to punch another driver, and damaged the other driver’s pickup, during a road rage incident in front of a Dunkin’ Donuts.

Mariner also has a history of traffic violations, including tickets accusing him of speeding 93 mph on Interstate 95 last year and careless driving earlier this year. His license was suspended during the summer until August, just before he began campaigning for Congress.

This story was produced by Fresh Take Florida, a news service of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. The reporter can be reached at corbinbolies@freshtakeflorida.com.

This story was originally published November 4, 2021 2:34 PM.

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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/motorcyclist-cooked-alive-after-being-tasered-by-police-at-petrol-station/ar-AAXsCi3?ocid=UE03DHP&li=BBoPWjQ

Motorcyclist 'cooked alive' after being 'tasered by police' at petrol station


A Florida motorcyclist is fighting for his life after he was tasered by a police officer at a petrol station which sparked a "horrific explosion" that "cooked" him alive, his lawyers have said.



Jean Barreto suffered third-degree burns over 75% of his body during the incident on 27 February as he filled up his dirt bike at a Wawa petrol station in Orlando, the NeJame Law firm said in a statement on Wednesday.

An Osceola County sheriff's deputy is accused of tackling the 26-year-old from behind, knocking him and his motorbike to the ground and spilling petrol, the statement said.

At least three other officers arrived at the scene, and one of them used his stun gun on the motorcyclist, sparking a "fireball" and "engulfing almost his entire body in flames and approximately half of the other deputy's as well".

"This fireball, caused by the reckless, foolish, unnecessary and deadly tasing leading to the horrific explosion, engulfing the two of them and injuring two other deputies with minor burns," the lawyers said.

They said the motorcyclist "is still undergoing potentially lifesaving but excruciatingly painful treatment" and "he is without skin on most of his body, his skin having been burned off".

The lawyers said he was to be placed in a medically induced coma over the next couple of days, as he undergoes further new treatment at Orlando Health, which has been growing tissue taken from a 4-inch patch of unburned skin for grafting.

"While being cooked alive, Mr Barreto sustained third-degree burns on approximately 75% of his body, front and back from his feet to the bottom of his neck," they said.

NBC News affiliate WESH reported the sheriff's office said in February that the incident started when police received calls about a group of motorcyclists pointing guns at people.

Mr Barreto is alleged to have fled from an attempted traffic stop, and officers said they later found him at the Wawa petrol station.

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Florida man and woman crash into FedEx truck during sex act

Florida man and woman crash into FedEx truck during sex act
Byron Hurd
Fri, June 3, 2022, 10:29 AM

Well, there's really no way to put this delicately. A Florida driver distracted by receiving intimate services from his passenger lost track of his surroundings and crashed head-on (it only gets worse from here, folks) into a FedEx delivery vehicle in Ft. Lauderdale on Thursday, resulting in "injuries to his private area," WPLG Local 10 reports.


The driver and passenger were apparently driving northbound in an SUV on North Ocean Boulevard when the driver became distracted by his passenger's performance and crossed the center line, striking the delivery van as it traveled southbound near the intersection with Northwest 19th St. Neither occupant of the FedEx vehicle was injured; the only package harmed was the one being attentively gift-wrapped by the passenger of the SUV.


Aerial footage of the aftermath showed both SUV occupants being treated at the scene, pants around their ankles. Other reports indicate that the driver and his passenger were both injured in the collision, which happened while the deed was being done. Despite suffering perhaps the most predictable consequence in the world, the driver appears to have gotten lucky twice over, and the resulting injuries were not reported to be reproductively catastrophic.

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So.... in other words, she might have bit down, but not bit it off?

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Man bitten by gator he mistook for dog in Florida, deputies say

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Man bitten by gator he mistook for dog in Florida, deputies say
Samantha Dunne

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. – A man was bitten by an alligator he thought was a dog Tuesday morning in Sarasota County, deputies told WTSP-TV.

The incident occurred around 12:30 a.m. at Warm Mineral Springs Motel on South Tamiami Trail in North Port, according to a report from the Tampa station.

Investigators said the man was walking outside the motel overnight when he spotted a dark figure that “appeared to look like a dog with a long leash,” a sheriff’s office spokesperson wrote in an email to WTSP-TV.

Deputies said the alligator bit the man’s right leg as he tried to escape, the station said. The man flagged down a deputy who was in the area for an unrelated call, according to WTSP-TV.

The man was taken to a hospital, and the gator was captured, the station reported.

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What breed of dog remotely resembles a gator??

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fox13news.com
Father, son shoot at person they thought was burglar after neighbor brings package delivered to wrong address
Ken Suarez
4 minutes

Published October 17, 2022 12:56PM

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. - A doorbell camera alerted a father and son that someone was outside the door of their Winter Haven apartment. They armed themselves and went out to find who they suspected of burglary and ended up firing seven shots into the car of a woman who was parked outside of her own apartment.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said there was never a burglar. The person who triggered the doorbell camera was a neighbor returning a package that was delivered to his address by mistake.

It all started when the Colonacosta home’s doorbell camera alerted a 15-year-old resident that someone had been outside the door. The teen peeked out of the door to see who was there, and then went to get a firearm.

Meanwhile, his father, Gino Colonacosta, grabbed his cane and a loaded semi-automatic handgun. Gino and his teen son left the house, both carrying loaded weapons.
Surveillance video shows deputy shot in bulletproof vest

The Polk County Sheriff's Office released surveillance video from a nearby home of a shooting that could have been tragic for a deputy and his family, but wasn't thanks to a bulletproof vest, a St. Michael’s medallion and the "good Lord," according to Sheriff Grady Judd.

Sheriff Grady Judd said the two split up. Gino Colonacosta walked around his apartment building and his son checked the perimeter of the building.

Gino reportedly found a vehicle with tinted windows in the parking lot in front of the building. Assuming the person inside was a burglar, he approached and started demanding the person get out.

Polk sheriff shows case of father and son accused of shooting at woman in parked car

The woman inside, who had just returned home and was checking messages on her phone before going inside, put her vehicle in reverse to try and get away from the apparently random, armed person yelling outside of her car.

As she quickly backed up to flee, the teen heard a commotion and ran toward his father.

When the vehicle passed by the teen, he began shooting at the passenger side.

The victim swerved, hitting a parked vehicle, which then hit another parked vehicle.

As the victim drove away, Gino and his son continued to shoot at the car. One bullet went through the empty child seat in the rear of the vehicle.

The victim was able to get to a nearby gas station and call for help.

Gino Colonacosta fired two shots and his teen son fired five during the incident.

Gino Colonacosta is being charged with contributing to the delinquency or dependency of a child, possession of firearms by minor under 18 prohibited, attempts, solicitation, and conspiracy, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, attempted felony murder, culpable negligence, discharging firearm in public or on residential property, improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms.

His 15-year-old son is charged with possession of firearms by minor under 18 prohibited, attempts, solicitation, and conspiracy, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, attempted felony murder, culpable negligence, discharging firearm in public or on residential property, and improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms.

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