Arrests Made in Tangerine Breakins!

Just a few of the recent crimes in our zone

I don’t have the full details but there were 5 arrests made in the Tangerine breakins. One white female, a black male and three hispanic males were arrested. Some items were recovered by police.

This is not a time to rest when it comes to security. Continue to monitor your neighborhoods especially during the morning hours. Call 911 if you see anything suspicious. The investigation is ongoing.

 

Casey Anthony’s Investigation Bill

Belvin Perry, an Orange County Judge ordered today that Casey Anthony must pay  investigation costs of nearly $100,000. The bill stems from the time that her daughter’s death was being investigated as a missing person case. Casey Anthony is indignant and it is unknown how she’ll be able to pay the bill.

According to NBC News

Perry denied requests to pay for prosecutors’ costs of pressing the murder charges and said they were only entitled to $50.

He ordered that $61,500 be paid to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, that $25,837 be paid to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office and that $10,283 be paid to the Metropolitan Bureau of  Investigation in Central Florida.

Defense attorney Cheney Mason has stated publicly that the judgement is simply a case of “sour grapes” and was filed to punish Casey Anthony for being judged as Not Guilty in her murder case.  The State says it’s trying to recoup unnecessary costs incurred in the investigation due to Anthony’s lies.

Florida GOP Releases Financial Records

According to Tallahassee.com, the Florida Republican Party, under state and federal investigation for the lavish expense-account lifestyle of its ousted leaders, released records of about $7 million in credit-card expenses Friday.

Charge receipts for 31 past and current elected officials and party employees detailed what political observers already knew — that ex-Chairman Jim Greer and former party executive director Delmar Johnson liked luxury hotels, traveled in style, ate well and billed the party for costly entertainment and gift expenses. To a lesser extent, so did some legislators and executive officials who constantly raised money for the party on the cocktail and golf circuit.

Greer and other party officers had refused for months to release the foot-high stack of American Express charge slips, even as some were subpoenaed in the grand-jury investigation of former House Speaker Ray Sansom, R-Destin, and others were leaked to reporters in recent months. But state Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, who became chairman when Greer was ousted Feb. 20, went through the bills with the GOP executive committee two weeks ago and ordered them released.

“We’ve got a forensic audit going on and we’re going to drill down deeper to make sure that any of these expenditures on those cards were legitimate, furthering the interests of the Republican Party,” Thrasher said. “If they weren’t we’ll contact those people and ask them to explain, and if there’s no party purpose we’ll accept their check.” There’s more, read the rest.