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Sex offender Web site shows smiling Lafave
By Times Staff
Published December 1, 2005
Debra Lafave is still beaming, even from the sex offender Web site. Lafave made it onto the list after pleading guilty last week to two counts of lewd and lascivious battery for having sex with a teenage boy. She avoided prison, getting three years of house arrest and seven years of probation. Her attorney, John Fitzgibbons, said last week that "the ramification of being a sexual offender will be with Debbie for 10 years or longer." But for now, she's smiling.
We're starting to think O'Reilly doesn't like us
Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly has published a "media defamation list" on his personal Web site. The St. Petersburg Times is No. 2, just behind the New York Daily News. O'Reilly urges fans to boycott the media outlets, which he says "regularly helped distribute defamation and false information supplied by far left Web sites." He offers no explanation for the three he chose - MSNBC is third - but said he expects to add more. Times media critic Eric Deggans weighs in on his blog, sptimes.com/blogs/media/.
Perhaps he wanted to sock away some cash
True, socks can smell pretty deadly when worn too long. But who knew they could be a robber's weapon of choice? Hillsborough sheriff's investigators say Troy Shannon, 42, of 506 Coulter Road in Brandon walked into the Masters Cleaners on State Road 60 in Valrico on Wednesday morning with a sock over his hand. He made like it was a gun and demanded money, a sheriff's report said. Deputies soon caught up with him a few miles away. He faces two counts of strong-arm robbery. No word on whether they seized the sock.
Officials: Officer didn't halt scam - he joined it
A Delray Beach police officer sent to investigate alleged scamming of elderly people by a self-proclaimed psychic wound up being her accomplice, according to a federal indictment. Detective Jack M. Makler, 64, and Linda Marks, 57, were arrested Wednesday on fraud, money laundering and other charges. The indictment says the scam, in which elderly and seriously ill people were told they could be cured of disease, bilked numerous victims out of more than $1-million between 1994 and 2002.
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