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St. Petersburg Police Detective Indicted

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St. Petersburg Police Department Detective Indicted  U.S. Attorney’s Office July 05, 2011 Middle District of Florida (813) 274-6000 TAMPA, FL—United States Attorney Robert E. O’Neill announces the return of a seven-count indictment by a grand jury charging Anthony V. Foster (39, St. Petersburg) with public corruption charges. Counts one through six charge Foster with a wire fraud scheme to deprive the public of honest services. Count seven charges Foster with attempted extortion under color of official right. If convicted, Foster faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison, per count. The indictment also notifies Foster that the United States intends to forfeit $7,400 and a Samsung Television, which are alleged to be traceable to proceeds of the offense. Foster was first arrested pursuant to a federal complaint on June 8, 2011. According to the charging documents, Foster, who worked as a detective for the St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD), tol

To the Sherwood Police Department: by Mary Jones-Mills

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To the Sherwood PD: by  Mary Jones-Mills  on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 2:22pm To the Sherwood PD: Having spent the past twenty minutes waiting for someone at Sherwood police station to pick up a telephone I have decided to abandon the idea and try e-mailing you instead. Perhaps you would be so kind as to pass this message on to your colleagues in Sherwood by means of smoke signal, carrier pigeon or ouji board. As I'm writing this e-mail there are eleven failed medical experiments (I think you call them youths) on JFK Blvd and Kiehl Ave. in Sherwood. Six of them seem happy enough to play a game which involves kicking a football against an iron gate with the force of a meteorite. This causes an earth shattering CLANG! Which rings throughout the entire building. This game is now in its third week and as I am unsure how the scoring system works, I have no idea if it will end any time soon. The remaining fiv

It's a man eat dog world: Ean Bordeaux

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MEET HIM : Hot Dog Guy When you order a Willy Dog from this River Market Vendor, he'll be perfectly frank. by Mellissa Tucker 05/09/07 SyncWeekly.com pg. 7 By day he keeps his eye on fraud and corruption in Central Arkansas. By night, he’s your friendly River Market hot dog salesman. If you’ve got a penchant for the political scene (and lots of time to spare). Stop and ask him about misconduct in Pulaski County Special School District or corruption in general.  Amid drunken street walkers, hollering passengers and honking cars on president Clinton Avenue-and next to a pyramid of foil wrapped buns, you’ll get an earful. If you really get him going he’ll probably shake his tongs at you while making his point.  Ean Bordeaux maintains 12 blog's with titles ranging from “Slum Watch” to “Katrina Investigations” to “Child Predator Watch News Index”-and each of them would make a public official cringe.   He was born in Chicago but has lived somewhere new almost