According to Miami police, early Tuesday morning the driver of a car in a Wendy’s drive-through lane requested a number of chili-sauce packets with his meal. Ominously, that number was greater than three, the maximum packets per customer allowed by…
Hector Pulido explained to police that, by biting his nephew repeatedly, he was only trying to teach his nephew that biting people is wrong. Sure, in retrospect, he may have said, it’s possible that actually biting a 3-year-old multiple times,…
Dramatic rescue preserves Peepers from fleeing felon.
Love conquers all, or at least the ignition systems of older Toyota Camrys and Nissan Sentras. Police in Los Angeles say that Antonio Moreno of Inglewood, desperate to see his girlfriend in Santa Barbara and without a car of his…
IBS, of course, as criminal defense attorneys out there may or may not know, stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Helen Gallo asserted this defense last week in Clearwater, Florida, after she was arrested for shoplifting from a grocery store. Gallo…
According to the International Herald Tribune, Florida Governor Charlie Crist said today that he is "seriously thinking" of granting a posthumous pardon to Doors singer Jim Morrison. (This is a major step forward since my report on this last week.) …
On April 12, a jury in Tampa convicted Rafael Angel Rondon of being the "Band-Aid Bandit," suspected in the robberies of 39 banks in nine counties between 2000 and 2006. Rondon’s brother-in-law, Emeregildo Roman, was also convicted. The report did…
Joe Francis, the entrepreneur who has made umpteen million dollars from the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on two counts of tax evasion. He was easy to find because, as you may…
Opening statements this week in the trial of Rafael Rondon, the alleged "Band-Aid Bandit" who was arrested in 2006 after a string of 39 bank robberies in the Tampa area dating back to 2000. The robber was dubbed the "Band-Aid…
Two recent cases may be of interest to those charged with operating something or other while under the influence of something or other, or to those struck by such a person, or to the attorneys for any such party. Or…