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Crime
Teenager Reported Missing Has Been Located
Police
Suspect In Custody In Connection With Teen’s Death
Police have located a teen- ager who was previously re- ported missing. He left home after an argument last Thurs- day.
According to the Hillsbor- ough County Sheriff’s Office, 13-year-old Dantevius Jones became involved in an argument with his grand- mother, Ms. Loretta Hamp- ton. During the course of the argument, Jones walked away.
Ms. Hampton told police he had done that five or six times before, but usually came back. When he hadn’t re- turned in a reasonable amount of time, Ms. Hampton con- tacted police.
Ms. Hampton told police
Drive-By Shooting Leaves One Teen Dead, Another Wounded
Carjacking
According to St. Petersburg Police, two 17-year-old males were shot Saturday night, one fatally in what is being called a drive-by shooting.
Police said one of the 17- year-olds wounds were not considered to be life threaten- ing, and he was reported to be in stable condition. The other teenager was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The identities of the teen- agers were not released, and police said according to a pre-
liminary investigation, the teenagers were passengers in a vehicle when another car pulled next to them and the occupants fired several shots.
The two wounded 17-year- olds were dropped off in an alley and police were called at 9:36 p.m. The car the teens were in was recovered at an- other location, police said.
Police have not released the identity of the suspects, a mo- tive for the shooting, or given a description of the vehicle.
Tampa Police are investigat- ing a shooting that took place last Wednesday in the 3000 block of Tampa Street.
Police said the victim suf- fered non-life threatening in- juries, and a suspect is in custody. Police also said the two knew each other and were involved in an argument.
The names of the shooter and victim were not released.
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DANTEVIUS JONES ... Reported Missing
Jones takes prescribed med- ication twice a day and had left it behind.
After being located, he was returned home.
Tampa Police are investigat- ing a carjacking on 9th Street and East Hillsborough Avenue that occurred at 1:34 a.m. Sun- day.
A 2003 Black Ford Explorer, Florida Tag 161-2PM was stolen.
Police said the victim is homeless and lives in her car. The suspects reportedly pulled her from the SUV, and beat her up before stealing the vehicle. She suffered minor injuries and was hospitalized.
The vehicle was last seen traveling north on 9th Street. The suspects are described as two Black males, 15-to-17 years old.
DREW ALLEN REED .....being held in connection with Tyler Lord’s shooting death.
St. Petersburg Police report that a 27-year-old man has been taken into custody in con- nection with the shooting death of a teenager.
Police said Drew Allen Reed surrendered to detec- tives at his attorney’s office Tuesday afternoon. He report- edly refused to speak to them, but he did turn over a car he said he was driving the night of December 17th when 17-year- old Tyler Lord was found shot to death in an alley.
TYLER LORD .....found shot to death in an alley close to his home.
Reed is currently being charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Inves- tigators said Reed and Lord were both armed during an en- counter that led to Lord’s death.
Detectives have met with Lord’s family and told them the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
The case has been referred to the State Attorney’s Office to determine what, if any, addi- tional charges could be filed.
Investigating
Police
Investigating
Shooting
Officer Charged
St. Petersburg Man
With Lewd
Sherman Chester was sentenced to life in prison with- out parole on drug charges in 1992. His judge objected to the mandatory sentence, saying Chester didn’t deserve it, but there was no legal way he could keep from giving it to him.
On December 18th, Presi- dent Barack Obama com- muted Chester’s sentence and he will be released in 2016.
Chester was raised by his grandmother in St. Petersburg and grew up playing football. After graduating from high school, Chester moved to Tal- lahassee and enrolled in a local community college.
Chester reportedly used cocaine for the first time in high school and did it with friends recreationally as a young adult. Later, he said a friend encouraged him to start selling cocaine, and he started out selling small amounts.
In 1989, Chester was pulled over by an officer and arrested when they found a baggie with cocaine residue in it. He was given two years pro- bation. In 1991, Chester was caught with a quarter gram of cocaine, marijuana and para- phernalia. Still on probation for his 1989 offense, Chester was sentenced to two years of
Commutes Sentence Of
Man Stabbed While Breaking Up Fight
Battery And Lewd
Pinellas Park Police re- ported that a man was wounded early Sunday morn- ing when he tried to intervene in an argument at a mobile home park.
Police said Alex Ashley, 27, has been hospitalized with a non-life threatening knife wound to the chest and back.
Police were called to a dis- turbance at 1:25 a.m. at Sunny Rest Mobile Home Park, 3920 78th Avenue, and when they arrived they found Ashley suffering from stab wounds.
The suspect, David James Cash, 26, reportedly became involved in an argument with a friend of Ashley’s over the use of an extension cord that was being used to give power
DAVID JAMES CASH
to Cash’s residence.
The argument escalated into
a physical fight, and when Ashley tried to intervene, he was stabbed.
Cash was arrested and is facing charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
RANDY VELEZ
On December 22nd, Polk County Sheriff’s Office Special Victims Unit detectives ar- rested 27-year-old Randy Velez, a Bartow Police Officer, for one count lewd battery and one count of lewd molestation.
The charges came after Velez’s wife reported to police that her husband had allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old girl.
At the request of the Bartow Police Department, detectives conducted an investigation. During the investigation, Velez reportedly confessed to having sex with the girl.
SHERMAN CHESTER
house arrest and one year of probation.
In April 1992, Chester was indicted along with nine co-de- fendants. He was convicted and held accountable for just under 4 kilograms of heroin and 57.4 kilograms of cocaine.
Because of Chester’s two prior drug convictions, his sen- tence was enhanced to a mandatory life term with pa- role. Under the federal sen- tencing guidelines, Chester would have received 235 to 293 months in prison and would have been home by now. How- ever, under the federal three strike mandatory sentencing law, Chester’s judge was forced to give him a life sen- tence without parole.
Molestation
Uncle Sandy Says...
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