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Crime
Police Rule Double Shooting Murder-Suicide
National News
Tampa Police responded to Harbour Island Sunday, after receiving a call of gunshots being fired. When officers ar- rived, they discovered two people dead in hotel room at the Westin Hotel, 725 Harbour Island Blvd.
According to police, the call came in at 11:46 p.m., Sunday. When officers entered the room, they discovered the
bodies of Ms. Marie Lind- sey, 23, and 32-year-old Jay Gordon Stevens. Both of Bradenton, and both had cele- brated their birthdays the day before.
Police said the preliminary investigation revealed that Stevens shot Ms. Lindsey and then turned the gun on himself, inflicting a fatal wound. The investigation is continuing.
Workers Of
Freezer Sentenced To Life
Elderly Couple Charge With Sinkhole Fraud
PHILADELPHIA, PA -- In a letter to U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, a Pennsylvania attorney claims that at least 80 African-Americans and other minority employees at Ameri- can Airlines in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. were the vic- tims of racial discrimination.
The letter from the Philly- based Mildenberg Law Firm, which represents maintenance, catering and baggage workers, customer service agents and an aircraft mechanic, calls for a De- partment of Justice investiga- tion into the charges. The law firm accuses managers at Amer- ican Airlines in Philly and D.C. of using the n-word and other offensive nicknames for areas where mostly African-Ameri- cans worked such as “jungle,” “ghetto,” “Darfur,” “Black Pan- ther break room,” and “choco- late break room,” the report says. The employees also com- plain that the terminal where they worked had racially segre- gated break rooms, control rooms, teams and job assign- ments, the report says.
A spokesperson for American Airlines denied the allegations of racism in a written statement.
DETROIT, MI ---- Mitchelle Blair, the Detroit woman who killed two of her four children and stuffed their bodies in the freezer, was sen- tenced to life in prison Friday and told the judge, "I don't re- gret none of this. ... I don't feel no remorse for the death of them demons."
According to the New York Daily News, Blair, 36, will have no chance of parole. She has shown no remorse since the children's bodies were dis- covered by an eviction crew in March.
The children were killed and left in the freezer for years. Blair reportedly killed her "13-year-old daughter, Stoni, in 2013 and 9-year-old son, Stephen, in 2012." Blair claimed that the two children were caught sexually abusing her younger children, al- though the Daily News points out that she never filed a police report over the alleged as- saults.
Blair pleaded guilty to first- degree murder in June, and
The U. S. Attorney’s Office has returned an indictment against a Spring Hill couple. They were indicted for sinkhole fraud.
According to the indictment, Glen Jasen, 64, and his wife, Kathryn Jasen, 63, were in- dicted for wire fraud, which is a federal felony.
According to the indictment, the Jasens owned a home in Spring Hill, where they de- tected a sinkhole on the prop-
erty. They filed a claim with Citizens Insurance Company, but instead of repairing the sinkhole with the money they received, the Jasens kept the money.
Officials said they then put the home up for sale, lied about the existence of the sinkhole, and about having filed a claim about the sinkhole. If convicted of the charge, they are facing 20 years in prison.
Mitchelle Blair in court to hear her sentence.
during her trial she confessed to torturing the children be- fore killing them, stating that the "she poured scalding water on the victims, beat them with sticks and put trash bags over their heads," according to the Daily News.
Wrong Way Driver Charged With DUI, Drug Charges
Workers Accuse
Mom Who Killed Her Children
American Airline
And Put Them In The
Discrimination
A 39-year-old man was ar- rested after he was observed traveling in the wrong direc- tion on East Fowler Avenue. He was charged with driving under the influence and pos- session of cocaine.
According to police, Marvin G. Benitez was approaching I-275 when a deputy observed the car traveling in the wrong direction. The deputy success- fully stopped Benitez and completed his investigation. Benitez was arrested and booked into the Hillsborough
KKK And Black Group Clash In Front Of S.C. Capitol
Video Captures Couple Using Stolen EBT Card
This man and woman were seen on surveillance footage using a stolen EBT card.
KKK members fly Confederate flags in front of the South Carolina State Capitol.
MARVIN G. BENITEZ
County Jail.
St. Petersburg Police detec- tives are seeking the public’s help in identifying a man and woman seen on a surveillance video using a stolen EBT card that was taken in a purse snatching last month.
On June 30th, a woman was walking in the 200 block of 32nd Street North when police said she was approached by a
man and woman riding bicy- cles. The victim told police the man snatched her purse and he and the woman fled.
Later surveillance video cap- tured a man and woman at a Family Dollar Store, 1701 4th Street, South, using the stolen EBT card.
Anyone with information is asked to call (727) 893-7780.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A sea of Confederate flags held by screaming Ku Klux Klan members fluttered in front of the South Carolina Statehouse Saturday, just as a counter rally featuring African flags on the other side of the Capitol wrapped up.
The Loyal White Knights of the Klu Klux Klan, based in North Carolina, vowed to protest the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse last week — and made good on that promise.
About 50 members de- scended on the Capitol steps waving the rebel banners — at least one of which included a Nazi symbol — and immedi- ately began shouting racial
slurs at attendees of an earlier "Countering the Attack on Black Unity Rally." Those pro- testers were moved behind barricades, a distance away from the Statehouse steps, where they yelled back at the pro-Confederate flag group
Within about an hour, everyone was ushered away from the Capitol by dozens of law enforcement officers, many outfitted in bullet-proof vests, helmets and camou- flage. At least one physical scuffle broke out, and some people who got a hold of a Confederate flag tore it into several pieces.
About 2,000 people were at the Statehouse at the peak of the two rallies, according to
the South Carolina Depart- ment of Public Safety. The de- partment said five people had been arrested after the KKK members showed up for of- fenses including disorderly conduct, simple assault and breach of peace. Additional of- ficers were on scene at that time.
The earlier rally, including members of Black Lawyers for Justice and Black Educators for Justice, a Florida organiza- tion with links to the New Black Panther Party, began with about 200 people gath- ered around a podium and re- sponding to passionate speakers shouting, "Black power!"
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