Florida

TAMPA — A 44-year-old Tampa man was found dead late last night from upper body trauma, according to the Tampa Police Department.

Tampa Fire Rescue responded to a call around midnight about a man bleeding at 211 S 22nd St., Apt. B, and pronounced Samuel Hernandez dead on the scene. Police say the homicide division is investigating the incident and speaking to a person of interest.

Detectives are still interviewing witnesses and there have been no arrests, according to authorities.

Hernandez had a criminal history of domestic violence, according to records from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

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SEFFNER — The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has lifted the lockdown on Burnett Middle School and McDonald Elementary School after concluding an unsuccessful search for two burglary suspects in the area.

Debbie Carter, spokeswoman for the Sheriff’s Office, said deputies are confident the suspects are no longer in the area and students are safe. Deputies are not searching anywhere else, she said. They don’t believe the suspects took anything from a residence nearby at 2382 Kingsway Road N during a break-in around 8 a.m.

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A St. Petersburg man has been arrested on drunken driving and vehicular homicide charges in connection with the February death of a Clearwater woman, records show. Ramon Bustamonte, 30, of 2550 30th Ave. N was picked up at his home on a felony warrant just after midnight on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol/manslaughter and vehicular homicide. The charges are related to a Feb. 17 collision in which Bustamonte struck the passenger side door of a Ford pickup truck that was driven by Valeria Cataruzza, 33, court records show. The victim, backing out of a driveway on the 3700 block of 38th Avenue N, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. At the time, Bustamonte was not immediately arrested. (Read the full post about ‘St. Pete man charged with DUI and vehicular homicide’…)

TAMPA — A midnight fire at the Avalon Village Apartments, 14350 Hensel Lane near 22nd Street N, that destroyed one unit and damaged two others was caused by a kitchen fire, said Ray Yeakley, spokesman for Hillsborough County Fire Rescue.

Five adults and seven children from the three families were displaced. The Red Cross provided shelter for them last night, Yeakley said. He did not know the extent of the smoke and water damage to the two apartments or how much it would cost to fix, only that they are uninhabitable.

"There does need to be some cleanup work," Yeakley said.

No one was injured, and the blaze was put out in about 15 minutes.

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ST. PETERSBURG — The younger brother of the teenager shot by a St. Petersburg Police officer was searched for a firearm at school today, police said. No weapon was found.

Spokesman Bill Proffitt said police received a tip that Keon Dawson, 14, the younger brother of 17-year-old Javon Dawson, was carrying a firearm at school. The principal of Meadowlawn Middle School searched Keon’s backpack and locker, said police spokesman Bill Proffitt. A school resource officer also patted him down.

Police said Javon Dawson was at a graduation party on June 7 when officer Terrence Nemeth saw him shooting a gun near a crowd and shot him twice in the back.

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Left: Chief Justice Sir David Simmons Right: Prime Minister Mr. David Thompson (photos from Barbados Free Press) On June 1st, 1990, David A. C. Simmons, now Chief Justice Sir David Simmons, wrote an offer for Kingsland on behalf of S.B.G. The offer included an offer to buy Spion Kop for BD$1.2 million! The Directors of Kingsland recommended that this offer be accepted! The offer is signed by David A. C. Simmons:   The Problem with this Offer S.B.G. Development Corporation was incorporated on March, 7th 1991! Here is the S.B.G. certificate of incorporation. Here is the online CAIPO information on S.B.G. A Company comes into existence upon its registration. (Read the full post about ‘Did David Simmons make an offer for Kingsland on behalf of a Company that did not exist?’…)

RIVERVIEW — Hillsborough County deputies say two gunmen sneaked into a back yard in the 12000 block of Glen Hill Drive about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, looking for two people in a shed.

The people in the shed heard the chain-link fence rattling and knew they were under attack.

"Shoot now," one gunman said to the other, and both opened fire.

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TAMPA — Police say a woman drove drunk through the dark with her headlights off and her 9-year-old daughter on board.

Jennifer Bonilla, 29, of 7710 N Central Ave., was going south on 50th Street near Broadway Avenue about 10 p.m. Sunday when a police officer saw her. The report said she took two breath tests and blew a 0.154 and a 0.145, nearly twice the level at which the state presumes impairment.

Bonilla was arrested and charged with DUI and child neglect. She was released from jail this morning on $2,500 bail.

Thomas Lake, Times staff writer

Frank Grasso, the 18-year old son of Pinellas County Schools athletic director Nick Grasso, died early Sunday morning. The cause of death is unknown.

"(Frank) enjoyed kids and was wonderful to have around," said Nick Grasso of his son, a senior at St. Petersburg High School  "He brought a lot of joy to our family."

Nick Grasso said Frank died in his sleep at a friend’s house early Sunday. Frank was taking medication for an enlarged heart, according to Nick Grasso.

Frank played football at Northeast High from 2005-06 before transferring to St. Petersburg last year.

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TAMPA — Two cars ran over a man who fell from his motorcycle on Interstate 4 early Monday morning, and neither stopped. The man was killed.

Rafael A. Colon, 32, of Mulberry, was going east on I-4 approaching Interstate 75 about 2:45 a.m. when he smashed his motorcycle into the back of a tractor trailer, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Colon fell into the road and was run over by two other vehicles.

Details were sparse on those two vehicles. One was described as a new sedan with very dark tinted windows. The other was described as a dark passenger car.

According to the FHP, the drivers might not have realized they ran over Colon. Anyone who was going east on I-4 near I-75 about 2:45 a.m.

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