Guns, Money, Sexual Violence
after the arrest
Tom Lake, Elizabeth Dyer, Saundra Amrhein: Three men went on a rampage. It involved guns, money and sexual violence. It lasted at least seven weeks, stretching from downtown St. Petersburg to Apollo Beach.
The authorities got together Thursday and said they had put a stop to it. Three suspects were in jail.
St. Petersburg police intend to file more charges against the three today in connection with a rape and robbery of a downtown restaurant.
The suspects are Mexicans who live in eastern Hillsborough County. One is a strapping 13-year-old with a Latin gang tattoo on his left cheek. The man described as the ringleader is an illegal immigrant who was arrested here at least twice before and set free without being deported.
The crimes accumulated quietly, with little media attention at first, insulated from each other by time and distance.
Posted by
ben on 08/22/08 at
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Re: Guns, Money, Sexual Violence
Look, we've got fans:
"Who the hell wrote this drivel? Are you people hiring third graders to write your articles? What absolute twaddle. My nephew can string together a more coherent article that that waste of webspace. Everyone involved should be fired."
I heart Web comments.
Posted by:
Tom Lake
at August 22,2008 11:30
Re: Guns, Money, Sexual Violence
Oh, that's a good one Tom. We should all post our favorite online comments. Here's mine from a week or so ago;
"Wow two pathetic one sided articles in a three day time span, the RJ needs to get rid of Lake. This reporter sucks."
Posted by:
rlake
at August 22,2008 12:14
Re: Guns, Money, Sexual Violence
by Maggie 08/22/07 10:35 AM
This is one of the worst bits of purple prose I've ever seen. I hope you don't pay this guy by the word!
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/16/Hillsborough/Snipers_take_out_serg.shtml
Posted by:
ben
at August 22,2008 14:01
Re: Guns, Money, Sexual Violence
This is the lead to a 5 paragraph comment left by one of my favorite gadflies:
This story is bull alright, and it is an extreme example of journalistic incompetence. If this reporter worked for me (I am a news editor for a NYC radio station), I would either fire him or put him in the care of a senior reporter for a long probationary period until he learned the basics of journalism and began to practice them.
Posted by:
doyle
at August 22,2008 16:03
Re: Guns, Money, Sexual Violence
Makes me think of this.
Posted by:
Kruse
at August 24,2008 16:18
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