Archive for the ‘Family Values’ Category
August 19th, 2010
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Author: A 28-year-old man tried to sell his in-laws’ Hudson home — without their permission, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.
A report states Louis A. Dunbar collected payments on the home from the buyer from June 16 till July 29 for a total of $1,000.
“The money was from the victim to the defendant to secure the residence for a final sale,” the report says.
Dunbar is charged with scheme to defraud and was being held in the Pasco County jail in lieu of $10,000 bail.
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SPRING HILL — In a case the Hernando County sheriff has called "absolutely bizarre," a 21-year-old man was arrested Monday, reported tampabay.com, after his brother's body was found buried in the family's yard.
The 7-minute call to the Hernando County's Sheriff's Office Monday from the sister of Sean and Stanley Eckard was the first indication authorities had of an unfolding family tragedy on Peoria Street.
"My brother killed my brother,'' a sobbing woman tells a 911 dispatcher. "And he's in the f---ing back yard, in the dirt.''
Hernando County Sheriff Richard Nugent said the mother, Donna Eckard, saw Stanley digging a hole in the yard at 3 a.m. Saturday. When she asked him what he was doing, he said he was burying his ex-girlfriend's clothes because he was tired of seeing them, according to Nugent. But 19-year-old then Sean Eckard didn't come home.
"The last time anybody saw him was Friday night," the sister said in the 9-1-1 call. "I said, 'Mom, we need to dig up that hole. What's in that hole?'"
Samuel Eckard went out back, the Sheriff's Office said, and dug into the hole, where he first uncovered his son's arms and legs. The remains were not dismembered, said Sgt. Donna Black.
Deputies exhumed the body Tuesday. They waited a day so they would have enough daylight to dig up the body and collect evidence. The autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Read more here. | Hear the 911 call.
Pictured: Stanley Eckard, 21
When Armstrong arrived, she asked her daughters who they were going to fight, then instructed them to "take off their earrings and get ready for the fight," an arrest report shows.
One daughter is 15. The other's age is unknown, a Sheriff's Office spokesman said.
Full story here.
Times staff
A medical helicopter took Shirone Turner, 27, to Bayfront Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies found Turner with several stab wounds and a collapsed lung. Deputies say Turner and his 18-year-old half-brother, Stanley Jones Jr., were arguing at their home before Jones grabbed the scissors.
Deputies arrested Jones on a charge of domestic aggravated battery, and he was also charged with introduction of contraband after deputies found a bag of marijuana in his pocket as he was being processed at the Land O'Lakes jail, according to sheriff's reports.Times staff
A medical helicopter took Shirone Turner, 27, to Bayfront Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies found Turner with several stab wounds and a collapsed lung. Deputies say Turner and his 18-year-old half-brother, Stanley Jones Jr., were arguing at their home before Jones grabbed the scissors.
Deputies arrested Jones on a charge of domestic aggravated battery, and he was also charged with introduction of contraband after deputies found a bag of marijuana in his pocket as he was being processed at the Land O'Lakes jail, according to sheriff's reports.Times staff
Even after all the witnesses had testified, much remained a mystery about a night when cash rained and punches flew.
It was a beautiful white wedding at the Rusty Pelican. Markeith Brown and Tasha Johnson exchanged vows. Then deep into the party, at about 9 p.m., police said trouble began.
Someone took issue with the groom, who was throwing dollar bills onto the dance floor as kids scurried to gather them — "makin' it rain," defense attorney Marc Gilman called it.
A juror stifled a laugh.
Eventually, guests ended up four miles away, at the Residence Inn on Boy Scout Blvd. The groom's father, Andrew Thompson, was there. So was his grandmother, Mary Wright, when a fired-up Dean arrived with her boyfriend.
See full story here.
Times staff
The Hernando County Sheriff's Office said Joshua Corona, 18, and his 16-year-old brother were arguing Wednesday afternoon in their Siam Drive home over a television when the younger brother grabbed Joshua Corona's arms to keep him from taking the set.
Corona grabbed his younger brother by his neck and tried to get him in a choke hold before banging his brother's head on a window ledge, the sheriff's report said.
When Corona went outside, the younger brother grabbed a BB rifle and fired at Corona, injuring his right wrist and chest, according to the report. Corona grabbed a BB rifle and shot back, the report said, shattering a sliding glass door.
Both brothers were arrested on charges of domestic battery.
Times staff
CLEARWATER — Police say a drunk man fatally shot his dog Tuesday
night and tried to bury it in the back yard before passing out.
About 6:20 p.m., police went to 2483 Whitman St. after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots. They found Yuriy Solovyev, 46, lying down in the yard with a dead 9-year-old chow nearby.
Officers learned that Solovyev was arguing with his wife earlier in the evening. When she left the house, he started drinking until he was extremely intoxicated, police said.
Solovyev fired his gun, shooting his dog multiple times and killing it; one bullet bounced off Solovyev's fence and went through a neighbor's window, but no one was injured, police said.
Police said it appeared that Solovyev was burying his dead dog when he passed out.
He was taken to a local hospital for medical evaluation before being charged with felony animal cruelty and the improper discharge of a firearm, police said.
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From Tampabay.com
WESLEY CHAPEL — Deanne Elsholz said her husband urinated on the bathroom floor. David Elsholz just wanted to go back to sleep.
Deputies who arrived at their mobile home said the place was cluttered with Natural Light beer cans, and both husband and wife appeared to be drunk.
“What are you doing?” Deanne, 44, asked David, 50, when she heard his urine spraying the floor, according to what she told authorities. She said her husband then slapped her about the head with a towel and, in retaliation, she threw a glass from her night stand at his face. It hit him in the nose, a report states, and blood poured down his chest and arms.
Then, Deanne “ran into the bathroom and slipped on David’s pee,” the report states. She told deputies David kicked her in the ribs while she was on the ground, and she crawled to get her phone and called 911.
“David told her he didn’t want to argue and he just wanted to sleep.” Then she hit him with the glass, he told authorities.
Deanne was deemed the aggressor in the brawl and arrested. She is charged with domestic battery — something David has been charged with twice in recent years, according to the Pasco Sheriff’s Office. Deanne is being held without bail in the Land O’Lakes jail.
Times staff
A 49-year-old Pinellas County woman was arrested Sunday after she dangled her 1-year-old grandson off a second floor balcony, police said.
Joann Royster was arrested about 7 p.m. on a charge of felony child abuse.
According to Largo police, Royster was intoxicated and involved in an argument with a neighbor when she held the child over the balcony and “moved him as though she was going to drop him from the second floor.”
Royster denied the allegation.
Times staff