Unusual However True Tales from Throughout the Sunshine State
In June, Michael O’Neil was transported to St. Petersburg’s Bayfront Hospital to obtain remedy for a knife wound. It was throughout surgical procedure when an observant nurse found a small cache of things inside his rectum. In line with courtroom data, hospital workers recovered a glass crack pipe, a lighter and tin foil containing cocaine. After being hospitalized for his accidents, O’Neill, 43, was booked into jail and charged with cocaine possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. This was not his first run in with the regulation. Final yr, he pleaded responsible to drug possession after a jail strip search resulted within the discovery of two small baggage containing crack and fentanyl hidden between his buttocks.
“The truth that he was bitten by an alligator and nonetheless continued to rampage is surprising,” mentioned Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd. “However if you’re on sufficient meth, then the particular person you see just isn’t the person who’s attacking.” Judd was describing Timothy Schulz, 42, who charged at two deputies brandishing backyard shears earlier than diving right into a patrol automobile and trying to acquire a gun from contained in the car. This was after he emerged from an alligator-infested lake. A witness advised authorities Schulz “growled” at officers when approached. Regardless of being ordered to drop the shears and fired upon with a stun gun, Schulz continued towards the officers, who shot him a number of instances, killing him on the scene in Lakeland.
Talking of alligators. Jacksonville’s personal Mike Dragich continues to do what he does finest, specifically trapping the toothy reptiles. This spring, Dragich went viral when he wrangled a gator right into a residential trash can and rolled it away. Oh, and he was barefoot on the time. “Taking out the trash in Florida,” he wrote on Instagram, posting a video of the seize. “Fortunately, no animals or individuals had been injured.” A Marine Corps veteran and MMA fighter, the “Blue Collar Brawler” typically responds to calls asking him to relocate wayward alligators. A few yr in the past, he subdued an eight-foot gator together with his naked arms alongside a busy Jax roadway, even choosing the animal up and inserting it in his automobile as onlookers cheered.
Christopher Monnin, 41, likes pool floats. He actually, actually likes them. In line with the Palm Bay Police Division, Monnin has a protracted historical past of stealing inflatable pool floats from backyards throughout the town. Again in 2019, he was arrested with a cache of some 75 floats that he had saved in a vacant home close to his residence. He pleaded responsible to theft and housebreaking costs, admitting to utilizing the assorted inflatables for sexual gratification. He was fined $840, spent eight months in county jail earlier than being launched on bond. Prior housebreaking convictions, courting to 2007 and 2008, additionally concerned stealing pool floats.
Again in Jacksonville, workers at Pet Land on Seaside Boulevard had been outraged when a person walked into the shop and stole a ferret. The ferret, named Stella, was lifted from her cage and positioned contained in the thief’s shorts earlier than he strolled out of the shop and made his escape in a white work van. “I used to be fairly shocked on the occasions of the way it befell,” mentioned retailer worker Jeanette Clemente throughout a First Coast Information interview. “Everybody right here is an animal lover, and we need to be sure that they go to good houses. How can we assure that when he’s placing it down his pants? It was actually upsetting.”