ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - It's the perfect spot to catch a game when you can in person. But a suite at Al Lang Stadium turned into one man's home. A cleaning crew found the evidence on Sunday.
"It was clear that someone had been living there," said Yolanda Fernandez with the St. Petersburg Police Department. "There were blankets and personal items like shaving cream like someone had been using."
The Rowdies knew something was up. They went to their surveillance footage and found a man they didn't recognize.
"They realized this man had been walking around, going to the merchandise store, wearing the merchandise and going to where the food kept and helping himself," said Fernandez.
St. Petersburg police said that person was a homeless man named Daniel Neja. They said he made himself right at home.
"He went into where the players have their personal items and helped himself to some of their clothing items and really made himself at home in the stadium," said Fernandez.
An arrest report shows he stole $1,043 in team merchandise and helped himself to $250 worth of drinks.
This is the second time Neja was arrested for something like this. In June, Hillsborough Deputies arrested him for breaking into Lutz Elementary School. He told deputies he did it to "Get some food."
How he got into Al Lang unnoticed and undetected for so long, remains unknown.
"Normally those large venues are used all the time, they’re full of thousands of people. He was able to come in and nobody noticed him," said Fernandez.
Neja is behind bars at the Pinellas County Jail. He's charged with burglary and resisting arrest without violence. His bond is set at $5,150.
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Two people were shot, more than 100 people were arrested and 13 police officers were injured as crowds broke windows and looted stores along Michigan Avenue and on the Near North Side overnight and into Monday morning.
Supt. David Brown called the looting “pure criminality” in a news conference Monday morning, not connected to any protest.
“Criminals took to the streets with the confidence that there would be no consequences for their actions,” Brown said, adding that police would aggressively pursue cases against people involved in the looting.
“You have no right, no right to take and destroy the property of others,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said at the news conference. “We are coming for you. ... I don’t care what justification was given for this. There is no justification.”
The police have started a neighborhood protection plan, and Brown said a team of detectives has been assigned to scour security footage of all incidents.
Access to downtown will be restricted from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., effective Monday night, Brown said.
For several hours this morning, there were no bus or train service in the area bordered by Fullerton and Ashland avenues and Cermak road for several hours, the CTA said. The transit agency was in the process of restoring normal service shortly before 8 a.m.
All downtown bridges except LaSalle Street were raised. The Chicago Department of Transportation said they were being lowered again as of 7:15 a.m., but ongoing street closures could be expected throughout the downtown area.
Brown said “the seeds for the shameful destruction we saw last night” started with a police-involved shooting in Englewood Sunday afternoon. About 2:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a man with a gun. He fled as they arrived, Brown said, and fired at officers. They returned fire, striking the man, who was taken to the University of Chicago Hospital and is expected to survive. The 20-year-old man had previously faced charges of domestic battery, reckless conduct and child endangerment, Brown said.
After the shooting, a crowd gathered in the area. “Tempers flared, fueled by misinformation,” Brown said. Shortly after that, police became aware of “several social media posts” about looting planned downtown. He said the department reacted by deploying 400 officers to the downtown area.
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TI sits down for an unforgettable conversation with Atlanta superstar
2 Chainz. He talks about his early years hustling in Atlanta while going to college and what motivated him to pursue his career in Hip-Hop.
The MC’s talk about the infamous Grand Hustle/ Disturbing the Peace (DTP) rivalry and how 2 Chainz used inspiration from TI and Ludcacris to help shape his rap style.
Plus 2 Chainz talks investments, his portfolio, and drops some game about the importance of assembling the right business team. Finally he introduces new members of his T.R.U. record label & talks about their upcoming compilation “No Face No Case”.
LUMBERTON, N.C. — One of the men convicted of killing Michael Jordan's father will be released from prison as early as 2023.
The N.C. Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission announced on Tuesday it has granted parole to Larry M. Demery.
Demery, 44, was sentenced to life in prison in 1996 after pleading guilty to first-degree murder, armed robbery, and conspiracy to commit robbery in the fatal shooting of James Jordan, the father of NBA legend Michael Jordan.
He will be released on Aug. 6, 2023, WCET reports. Demery had been denied parole in two previous hearings, according to WSOC.
Jordan was shot and killed on July 23, 1993, at the age of 56 while sleeping in his car along a highway near Lumberton, North Carolina. Both Demery and Daniel Green were convicted in the murder. Both have accused one another of pulling the trigger in the years since the incident. Green maintains his innocence to this day.
Jordan's body was found 11 days later in a swampy area of McColl, South Carolina.
In North Carolina, crimes committed on or after Oct. 1, 1994, are not eligible for parole. Demery was sentenced under previous guidelines, so he is eligible for parole.
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FORT HOOD, Texas (KWTX) – Friends of Fort Hood Pvt. Mejhor Morta, 26, of Pensacola, Florida, found dead last Friday in the area of Stillhouse Hollow Lake, say they’re puzzled and concerned.
Some fishermen in a boat found Morta’s body just after midnight Friday morning at the base of the lake’s dam.
A preliminary autopsy report indicates his death is consistent with drowning.
"We used to talk about a lot of stuff and he told me he didn't know how to swim," said Jermaine Hamlin, who underwent basic training with Morta at Fort Benning, Ga.
Hamlin said he didn’t know if Morta liked to fish, but said he wouldn’t be surprised if the private had gone to the lake to meditate and read.
“He meant a lot to me,” he said.
“It’s kind of hard to talk about it…he always kept a smile on my face.”
Morta was discovered missing on July 16.
“As soon as his unit identified his absence, they immediately searched the unit area and reached out to his family and friends to attempt to locate him,” Fort Hood said.
Morta’s death was the fourth involving a Fort Hood soldier in the past two months.
Another friend from basic training, David Fox, expressed concern about safety at the post.
“In my duty station I feel safe, but for those in Fort Hood Texas I am sorry for them. I don’t know what’s going on there,” he said.
Pfc. Brandon Rosecrans was shot to death on May 18 along Fuller Lane just north of the western end of Stillhouse Hollow Lake.
His burning Jeep was later found near the 2500 block of Jubilation Drive.
He was killed just days before his 28th birthday.
On June 19 investigators found the skeletal remains of Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales during a K-9 search of a field in the 3200 block of Florence Road in Killeen.
He disappeared without a trace on Aug. 19, 2019.
He was first declared AWOL and later was added to the Army’s deserters list.
He has since been reinstated and posthumously promoted to private second class.
On June 30, contractors working on a fence along the Leon River discovered what appeared to be human remains that were later identified as those of Spc. Vanessa Guillen, 20, who was last seen sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. on April 22 in the parking lot of her 3rd Cavalry Regiment Engineer Squadron Headquarters.
According to court documents, another soldier who later killed himself as police approached beat her to death with a hammer.
He and his girlfriend, who remains in federal custody, later dismembered and tried to burn the remains, the documents say.
Morta joined the Army in September 2019 had had been assigned since Mayi to Fort Hood’s 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division.
“The Black Knight family is truly heartbroken by the tragic loss of Private Mejhor Morta. I would like to send my heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and loved ones,” said Lt. Col. Neil Armstrong, commander of 1st Bn. 5th Cav. Regt.
“My thoughts and prayers are with them during this difficult time. Private Morta was a great Trooper and this loss is felt by every member within our formation.”
The Bell County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the circumstances of Morta’s death.
A 23-year-old mother was fatally shot early Monday morning during the filming of an amateur rap music video in Riverview, Fla. — an incident that also left her boyfriend injured by gunfire.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has arrested Jordan Jaime Silver, 20, for his alleged role in the July 27 shooting.
A statement from the sheriff's office confirms he is charged with first-degree attempted premeditated murder with a firearm & second-degree murder with a firearm. He has not entered pleas to the charges.
Silver is accused of killing Haley Portner Cox & injuring her boyfriend, Erik Bronowski, 22, with a semiautomatic handgun he brought to the Wimauma home of fledging rapper Giovinie Bosques & his girlfriend Sunday night.
According to the Tampa Bay Times, which obtained Silver's arrest report, the suspect, Bosques & his girlfriend — along with Cox & Bronowski — traveled to a nearby power line easement to shoot a music video late Sunday.
They brought with them two water bottles filled with fake blood & a Canon camera. The premise of the video, the arrest report alleges, was a staged kidnapping of the Bosques.
The arrest report alleges the shooting was captured on video.
The Tampa Bay Times reports that investigators reviewed the footage, which allegedly featured Silver in at least one scene holding a handgun. The arrest report notes that he appears to be acting "erratically," & Bosques at one point asks him to calm down.
The footage also reveals Cox was holding the camera, filming as Bosques & Bronowski slathered him in the fake blood. The arrest report alleges a single gunshot was fired & the camera fell to the ground. Bosques picks up the camera & begins to run.
"Why'd you do that?" Bosques allegedly asks Silver, who responds, "I don't know ... We gotta go."
The two continue running & Bosques asks again, "Why'd you do that?" Not long after, three more gunshots ring out. Bosques shouts "No!" multiple times & appears to drop the camera.
Cox was shot in the cheek and died at the scene.
A motive for her killing remains unknown.
A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help the 4-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son she leaves behind.
"Following multiple interviews, detectives learned that Silver intentionally shot and killed an adult female victim with a handgun ... while filming a music video with several others early Monday morning," reads the sheriff's office statement. "Silver's actions were unprovoked, according to witnesses. Before fleeing the area, Silver also shot an adult male victim who was transported to a local hospital in critical condition."
POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Three people have been arrested on charges related to the killing of three friends who met up for a fishing trip in Polk County last week, Sheriff Grady Judd announced Wednesday.
Judd said Tony “TJ” Wiggins, 26, and his girlfriend, Mary Whittemore, 27, and Tony’s brother, William “Robert” Wiggins, 21, were all arrested this week on charges related to the deaths of 23-year-old Damion Tillman, 30-year-old Keven Springfield and 27-year-old Brandon Rollins.
Tony, who Judd said has 230 felony criminal charges in his arrest history dating back to age 12, is charged with first degree murder, tampering with evidence, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.
“He’s a thug. He’s a criminal. He’s pure evil in the flesh,” Judd said. “He’s wild and he’s out of control.”
Judd said Tony has 15 felony convictions on his record and has served two sentences in state prison.
Deputies said Robert is charged with tampering with evidence and accessory after the fact of capital felony, and Whittemore is charged with accessory after the fact of capital felony.
MIAMI (AP) — A Florida teen was identified Friday as the mastermind of a scheme earlier this month that commandeered Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls and scammed people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin. Two other men were also charged in the case.
Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested Friday in Tampa, where the Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office will prosecute him as an adult. He faces 30 felony charges, according to a news release.
Two men accused of benefiting from the hack — Mason Sheppard, 19, of Bognor Regis, U.K., and Nima Fazeli, 22, of Orlando — were charged separately in California federal court.
In one of the most high-profile security breaches in recent years, bogus tweets were sent out on July 15 from the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg and a number of tech billionaires including Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Celebrities Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian West, were also hacked.
The tweets offered to send $2,000 for every $1,000 sent to an anonymous Bitcoin address. The hack alarmed security experts because of the grave potential of such an intrusion for creating geopolitical mayhem with disinformation.
Court papers in the California cases say Fazeli and Sheppard brokered the sale of Twitter accounts stolen by a hacker who identified himself as “Kirk” and said he could “reset, swap and control any Twitter account at will” in exchange for cybercurrency payments, claiming to be a Twitter employee.
The documents do not specify Kirk’s real identity but say he is a teen being prosecuted in the Tampa area.
Twitter has said the hacker gained access to a company dashboard that manages accounts by using social engineering and spear-phishing smartphones to obtain credentials from “a small number” of Twitter employees “to gain access to our internal systems.” Spear-phishing uses email or other messaging to deceive people into sharing access credentials.
“There is a false belief within the criminal hacker community that attacks like the Twitter hack can be perpetrated anonymously and without consequence,” U.S. Attorney David L. Anderson for the Northern District of California said in a news release.
The evidence suggests, however, that those responsible did a poor job indeed of covering their tracks. The court documents released Friday show how federal agents tracked down the hackers through Bitcoin transactions and by obtaining records of their online chats.
Although the case was investigated by the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice, Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren said his office is prosecuting Clark in state court because Florida law allows minors to be charged as adults in financial fraud cases when appropriate. He called Clark the leader of the hacking scam.
“This defendant lives here in Tampa, he committed the crime here, and he’ll be prosecuted here,” Warren said.
Security experts were not surprised that the alleged mastermind is a 17-year-old, given the relatively amateurish nature of both the operation and how participants discussed it with New York Times reporters afterward.
“This is a great case study showing how technology democratizes the ability to commit serious criminal acts,” said Jake Williams, founder of the cybersecurity firm Rendition Infosec. “There wasn’t a ton of development that went into this attack.”
Williams said the hackers were “extremely sloppy” in how they moved the Bitcoin around. It did not appear they used any services that make cryptocurrency difficult to trace by “tumbling” transactions of multiple users, a technique akin to money laundering, he said.
He also said he was conflicted about whether Clark should be charged as an adult.
“He definitely deserves to pay (for jumping on the opportunity) but potentially serving decades in prison doesn’t seem like justice in this case,” Williams said.
The hack targeted 130 accounts with tweets being sent from 45 accounts, obtained access to the direct message inboxes of 36, and downloaded Twitter data from seven. Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders has said his inbox was among those accessed.
Court papers suggest Fazeli and Sheppard got involved in the scheme after Clark dangled the possibility of obtaining so-called OG Twitter handles, short account names that due to their brevity are highly prized and considered status symbols in a certain milieu. They said Sheppard purchased @anxious and Faceli wanted @foreign.
Internal Revenue Service investigators in Washington, D.C., identified two of the defendants by analyzing Bitcoin transactions on the blockchain — the universal ledger that records Bitcoin transactions — that they had sought to make anonymous, federal prosecutors said.
Marcus Hutchins, the 26-year-old British cybersecurity expert credited with helping stop the WannaCry computer virus in 2017, said the skillset involved in the actual hack was nothing special.
“I think people underestimate the level of experience needed to pull off these kinds of hacks. They may sound extremely sophisticated, but the techniques can be replicated by teens,” added Hutchins, who pleaded guilty last year to creating malware designed to steal banking information and just completed a year’s supervised release.
British cybersecurity analyst Graham Cluley said his guess was that the targeted Twitter employees got a message to call what they thought was an authorized help desk and were persuaded by the hacker to provide their credentials. It’s also possible the hackers got a call from the company’s legitimate help line by spoofing the number, he said.
Fazeli’s father said Friday he hasn’t been able to talk to his son since Thursday.
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“I’m 100% sure my son is innocent,” Mohamad Fazeli said. “He’s a very good person, very honest, very smart and loyal.”
“We are as shocked as everybody else,” he said by phone. “I’m sure this is a mix up.”
Attempts to reach relatives of the other two weren’t immediately successful. Hillsborough County court records didn’t list an attorney for Clark, and federal court records didn’t list attorneys for Sheppard or Fazeli.
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Niagara Falls, New York emcee, Jamal Gasol links up with Dark Lo to bring you his brand new single "Futch." Produced by Che Noir, it's now available everywhere music is streamed and sold! This marks the 2nd official single off of his upcoming album "The World is Piff 2" dropping everywhere July 24, 2020!
Back in 2018, Buffalo, New York emcee and producer, TheRealSkitso, released an EP titled "Shock Treatment." It was full of bangers, but got highly slept on at the time.
One of the gems off of the project was "Hitting Lics featuring Conway the Machine. This deserves to be heard by a wider audience. Hope you enjoy.
Back in 2018, Buffalo, New York emcee and producer, TheRealSkitso, released an EP titled "Shock Treatment." It was full of bangers, but got highly slept on at the time.
One of the gems off of the project was "Play Me Out" featuring Westside Gunn. This deserves to be heard by a wider audience. Hope you enjoy.
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