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  • Florida Man Kidnaps DoorDash Driver, Rapes Her, Then Opens Fire On Her Family When They Come To Rescue Her

    Florida Man Kidnaps DoorDash Driver, Rapes Her, Then Opens Fire On Her Family When They Come To Rescue Her

    A Florida man has been arrested after kidnapping and raping a DoorDash driver, and then opening fire on her family when they attempted to rescue her, Law And Crime reported.

    On April 18th, at around 11 P.M., Joseph Killins held the victim at gunpoint and made her drive to his apartment, where he forced himself onto her. While she was there, the victim’s family checked her cellphone location and rushed to find her.

    “The victim’s family, who had been tracking her phone, arrived and rescued her from the car,” a member of the Tampa Bay Police Department explained. “Killins responded by firing multiple times.”

    The next day, Killins attacked a woman in the same apartment complex. He punched her multiple times in the face, threw her into the ground, and then took off with her backpack.

    On April 21st, investigators were able to locate Killins at the Tampa Inn, where he was immediately arrested. For the first case, Killins has been charged with armed kidnapping, robbery with a firearm, armed sexual battery, and aggravated battery with a weapon. In the second case, the suspect has been charged with robbery and assault. He is now being held at the Orient Road Jail.

    “This criminal is now off the streets thanks to the tireless efforts of every Tampa Police Department employee and the assistance provided by members of our community,” Interim Chief Lee Bercaw said in a statement. “My thoughts remain with the victims. I hope this arrest brings them a sense of comfort knowing that he will now face justice for the crimes he chose to commit.”

  • Florida Man Accepts Plea Deal After Infant Dies From Being Forcefully Thrown Against Wall Multiple Times

    Florida Man Accepts Plea Deal After Infant Dies From Being Forcefully Thrown Against Wall Multiple Times


    A Florida man has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison after brutally killing his 2-month-old daughter in 2020, Law And Crime reports.

    On December 11th, 2020, infant Scarlet Strahm was taken to an emergency room after her mother saw she was having a seizure. After tests proved that the child was suffering from an internal brain bleed, the child’s father, Steven Michael Strahm, told police that he had accidentally dropped her. Scarlet’s mother had been at work during the time the incident occurred.

    The University of Florida Child Protection Team later determined that Scarlet had sustained both “abusive head trauma indicative of physical abuse” and a fractured knee indicative of physical abuse and medical neglect. While being questioned by authorities, Strahm confessed to forcefully throwing the 2-month-old against a wall “4 or 5 times” and intentionally dropping her on her head. Sadly, Scarlet never recovered, and she died two weeks later.

    Last month, Strahm pleaded guilty to one count each of second-degree murder and aggravated child abuse as part of a plea deal. In exchange for pleading guilty, prosecutors dropped a child neglect charge. He has since been sentenced to spend 23.5 years in a state correctional facility.

    “You broke me. You took the best part of me away and you broke me,” the child’s mother said in a statement. “I never got to hear her giggle. I never got to watch her crawl or hear her first words or watch her take her first steps. She should be two and a half and probably be the most amazing person now but I’ll never know.”

  • Woman Confesses to Stealing $2.8 Million from Holocaust Survivor in Twisted Roman Scheme

    Woman Confesses to Stealing $2.8 Million from Holocaust Survivor in Twisted Roman Scheme

    A Florida woman confessed to stealing $2.8 million in life savings from an 87-year-old holocaust survivor she met online, NY Post reported. 

    Peaches Stergo reportedly convinced the elderly victim to deposit lump sums of money into her bank account on numerous occasions. The two reportedly met in 2017 on a dating website. Stergo initially started by asking the victim to borrow money to pay her lawyer who she claimed withheld funds from an injury settlement, according to the feds per the Post. 

    The 36-year-old woman is accused of using the funds to support her lavish lifestyle. According to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, Stergo purchased

    “a house in a gated community, a Corvette, a boat, lavish vacations and designer items, including Rolex watches,”

    they said in a Friday news release. Stergo went on to collect 62 checks totaling almost $3 million from the elderly man, reports reveal. She drained the man of his saving which eventually caused him to lose his apartment. 

    Stergo pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison. She will also have to pay $2.8 million in restitution and relinquish the more than 100 luxury items she obtained including designer clothes, purses, and lots of jewelry, reports state. 

    “Peaches Stergo stole the life savings from an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor who was just looking for companionship.  This conduct is sick – and sad,”

    US Attorney Damian Williams said in a statement.

    “… Thanks to the hard work of the FBI and this Office, Stergo is being held accountable for her fraud.”

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Parents Shocked When Teacher Was Allowed to Work For Weeks After Allegedly Telling Assistant Principal That She Wanted To ’Shoot Some Students’

    Parents Shocked When Teacher Was Allowed to Work For Weeks After Allegedly Telling Assistant Principal That She Wanted To ’Shoot Some Students’

    According to Fox, a middle school teacher from Florida was allowed to work for several weeks after informing the Fox Chapel Middle School assistant principal that she wished to shoot some students. The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office told Fox 13, that officials extracted firearms from the teacher’s home after she confided in the assistant principal claiming that she was  

    “having bad thoughts”

    and

    “[wished] to shoot some students.”

    The school official informed a school resource officer about the comments made by the unidentified teacher. The teacher told the guidance counselor that she was angry because she

    “learned about a social media post where people were talking negatively about her sexual orientation.”


    The teacher went on to reportedly tell the guidance counselor that she

    “immediately stated she would never harm a student [and] stated that she does not want to harm herself.” 

    The day that the guns were taken from the teacher’s home, a judge approved a permanent Risk Protection Order. Administrators revealed that initially, the teacher was allowed to return to work. However, a spokesperson for the Hernando County School District said they followed the threat assessment protocol. 

    The spokesperson said,

    “What the report shows is that a team of professionals made up of school, district, and law enforcement personnel followed all steps of the district’s threat assessment protocol to ensure this teacher was no danger to themselves or others.” 

    In another statement released on Thursday the school district revealed that the educator will be removed from

    “all student contact,”

    and the teacher’s return date is to be determined as they carry out an investigation. 

    Parents disagreed with the initial decision of allowing the unnamed teacher to work after her complaint. One parent, Mike Martini, said,

    “Anybody that makes a comment like that should not be working in a school. If a student made that comment there would be charges pressed. The child would be expelled.” 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts? 

  • Florida Man Arrested After Throwing Chicken Wings At His Wife During Argument

    Florida Man Arrested After Throwing Chicken Wings At His Wife During Argument

    A Florida man is now facing an assault charge after a heated argument about his alleged infidelity led to him throwing a box of chicken wings at his wife, The New York Post reported.

    On Sunday night, police were notified about a domestic disturbance in a home in Wildwood, Florida. When officers arrived, a woman with sauce “under her chin/neck area as well as on the thin shoulder strap to her shirt” and a baby in her arms explained that she wanted to be taken somewhere safe.

    According to police reports, Robert Francis Audette asked his wife for money so he could have a night out with friends, but she refused, stating that the money would be used on a mistress. Audette denied the accusations, and became irate, eventually throwing a cardboard box containing takeout chicken wings at the victim. The suspect’s wife then locked herself inside of their bedroom and refused to let him in.

    “When the victim didn’t open the door, the defendant is heard yelling ‘I’m about to beat your f****** a**’ and began violently banging on the door,” police documents report. Despite there being audio evidence of the incident, Audette denies that he threatened to harm his wife.

    The 38-year-old was arrested and has been charged with with simple assault, a misdemeanor. The next day, he was bonded out and released from the Sumter County Detention Center.

  • Florida Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Setting Up Student Brawls In The Classroom

    Florida Teacher Arrested For Allegedly Setting Up Student Brawls In The Classroom

    A Florida middle school teacher is accused of hosting fighting matches between students during class, per the NY Post. 

    Police arrested 23-year-old, Angel Footman,  a sixth-grade teacher at Griffin Middle School in Tallahassee after several students reported that she was

    “encouraging”

    one-on-one matches in the classroom. According to WCTV Footman instructed students to squabble for

    “30 seconds”

    as she sat at her desk and watched. Reports claim Footman even laid out ground rules telling students to refrain from recording, be quiet, and don’t pull each other’s hair. 

    According to court documents obtained by WCTV, students said they would schedule their brawls to take place in Footman’s classroom.

    A video recording shows Footman telling students the rules for the fights, the outlet reported. The teacher admitted to not reporting various altercations and not submitting reports of misconduct but claims to have had no involvement in organizing the fights.

    She was taken into custody but has since been released. She is charged with four counts of

    “contributing to the delinquency of a minor,”

    and is to be arraigned on the charges early next month, reports reveal. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • High School Teacher Terminated After Making Students Write Their Own Obituaries

    High School Teacher Terminated After Making Students Write Their Own Obituaries

    An Orlando high school teacher, Jeffrey Keane, who teaches psychology has been fired after teaching a lesson that ended in students writing their own obituaries, reports say. 

    According to Fox 35, the Dr. Phillips High School teacher made students write their own obituaries to teach gun safety. Keane requested that the class place themselves into an active shooter incident, which would help them write about dealing with morality as if they were going through a theoretical occurrence. 

    Keane explained,

    “If they died 24 hours from now, what would they do differently, than they did yesterday? And that’s to show them what’s important in the world. It wasn’t to say, you’re gonna die and let’s stretch you out.”

    He went on to tell the news outlet that at the bottom of the lesson plan, he implemented a disclaimer to reassure students that

    “this is in no way to upset you.”

    A student who was frustrated with the lesson told a counselor. The counselor spoke with a supervisor, which subsequently led to the teacher’s termination. 

     “When they said you have the option to resign without violating your contract, I said, ‘I didn’t do anything wrong.’ I said, ‘If I did, tell me what it is. They said, ‘We can’t do that.’ I said, ‘In that case, since I don’t know what I did wrong, you can go ahead and terminate me without cause,’”

    said Keane. 

    #Clique, did this teacher take it too far?

  • Strip Club Staff Members Arrested After Officials Learned They Hired 15-Year-Old Dancer

    Strip Club Staff Members Arrested After Officials Learned They Hired 15-Year-Old Dancer

    It looks like three Florida strip club staff members and the owner was apprehended after allowing a teen girl to work as a stripper at the club for multiple years, according to court records, reports Fox. William Sierer, the owner of Flash Dancer in Orlando, Florida, as well as three other managers including Jonathan Johnson, the general manager, Kimberly Sinclair, the assistant manager, and Paul Devalle, the manager, were all taken into custody and charged with human trafficking of a child under 18, reports Fox 35. 

    The unidentified girl began working at the club in 2019 when she was merely 15 years old. She worked there as a dancer until 2021, says the affidavit. Court documents say that the owner and managers hired her without seeing a license to dance or a real ID. The teen informed officials that she showed them a fake ID before she was hired and she took the job to support her and her mother. 

    An investigative report revealed that she worked at the Cleo’s Gentlemen’s Club before becoming a stripper at Flash Dancer. An investigation showed that the teen was allowed to dance at the club on many different occasions. 

    Arrests were made back in April 2021, when the unnamed teen was part of a traffic stop where she sat in the passenger seat of a vehicle that left the club. During the stop, she gave an officer her fake ID. The officer was later able to confirm her real identification and learned the teen had several warrants. She was then arrested and taken to the Juvenile Assessment Center. 

    The managers appeared in court on Wednesday while the owner couldn’t attend due to medical reasons. 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Man Charged With Disturbing The Peace After Pulling Out Machete When His Request To Sing Another Karaoke Song Was Declined

    Man Charged With Disturbing The Peace After Pulling Out Machete When His Request To Sing Another Karaoke Song Was Declined

    It looks like a man from Florida, Travis Jordan, was arrested and charged after reportedly pulling out a machete because his karaoke request was declined, reports the New York Post. 

    On Sunday, the 39-year-old was charged with disturbing the peace following the shocking encounter that occurred at the Kennedy’s Lamp Post Tavern, according to WKMG. Officials discovered Jordan with bloody red eyes and a strong odor of alcohol. A witness at the location informed responding police that Jordan pulled out the weapon after his request to sing another karaoke song was declined. Luckily, the female witness was able to persuade the man to give her the weapon, which she then hid while contacting officials. 

    Jordan told authorities that he was threatened days prior to his arrest and he carried around the weapon for protection. 

    Wayne Ivey, Brevard County Sheriff jokingly wrote on Facebook,

    “Unfortunately, Jordan’s actions didn’t earn him another song on stage, but they did win him a trip to ‘Ivey’s Iron Bar Lodge’ where every night is open mic night and he can sing any song he wants all night long!!” 

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?

  • Mother Wins $2 Million Scratch-off After Spending Entire Life Savings on Breast Cancer Treatments for Her Daughter

    Mother Wins $2 Million Scratch-off After Spending Entire Life Savings on Breast Cancer Treatments for Her Daughter

    A Florida mother who spent her life savings to help pay for her daughter’s breast cancer treatments became a millionaire after winning a scratch-off ticket, per Insider.

    Geraldine Gimblet, of Lakeland, Florida stopped at a gas station in the city to buy her favorite scratch-off ticket, the Bonus Cashword. When she arrived the clerk told her there was no more left, but Gimblet determined, asked him to take another look.

    “I asked him to double-check because I like the crossword games the best. He found the last one!”

    Gimblet told lottery officials. The clerk handed Gimblet the last ticket which happened to be the winning ticket of $2 million.

    Gimblet and her family experienced two miracles as her daughter had just finished her cancer treatment a day before her huge win.

    “The day before my mom bought this ticket, I rang the bell and walked out of the hospital after completing my last treatment for breast cancer,”

    her daughter, who was not named, shared with lottery officials.

    “My mom had taken out her life savings to take care of me when I was sick. Im just so happy for her!”

    Gimblet, her daughter, and her granddaughter were all smiles as they posed with their winning check at the lottery headquarters in Tallahassee on Friday. Gimblet decided on the lump sum option, taking home her $1.6 million prize win.

    #Clique, what are your thoughts?