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Directors call meeting for this Monday, 30th June, 2008 - No figures for past financial year produced! - - Kingsland Directors may have once more breached the Companies Act Cap 308. of the Laws of Barbados. Once more they have summoned an AGM this time for Financial year ending 30 June 2007 with no comparative financial statements as required by Section 147, Division G relating to Financial Disclosure. Kingsland has a poor record in filing financial statements. The Companies Act states that “comparative financial statements” must be given to each shareholder twenty-one days before the company’s annual meeting. Kingsland’s secretary E.A.B. (Read the full post about ‘Kingsland Directors Do It Again! AGM called in Violation of Company’s Act’…)

WESLEY CHAPEL — An employee of a local tree service used a 3-foot long sling blade to intimidate a 20-year-old man Tuesday night, according to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office report.

Deputies say Brian Craighead (left), 44, had been drinking in the gazebo of a home owned by his boss, Lance Fisher, 53, along with a few of Fisher’s neighbors. Craighead had lived with Fisher for the last several months, Fisher said.

Craighead started bragging and making threats, said 20-year-old Adam Jablonski, who was also in the gazebo. He went into the shed and retrieved the sling blade, which is used primarily to cut grass, Jablonski said.

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ST. PETERSBURG — The St. Petersburg Airfest, which sought to bring an F-15 jet and stunt pilots to the city in October, has been cancelled.

Event president David Thompson said corporate contributions have lagged this year because of the economy. The Airfest’s volunteer organizers needed to pay up-front costs to the aerobatic performers, and the money just wasn’t coming in, Thompson said.

"We felt that rather than go to a smaller show we would rather wait a year, because the people have come to expect a certain level of excellence and we don’t want to disappoint them," Thompson said.

Last year’s Airfest at Albert Whitted Airport featured skydivers, a Black Hawk helicopter, biplanes and other aircraft.

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TAMPA — The Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office has dropped charges against a HARTline bus driver who was fired after being accused of harassing a female passenger.

Alphonso Hicks, 40, was jailed April 1 on charges of false imprisonment and battery. A HART driver since December 2006, he was accused of making sexual advances toward the woman and not letting her off the bus when it got to the University Area Transit Center on 27th Street.

Hicks was arrested after HART and sheriff’s officials reviewed the video from the recently installed camera on the bus.

But prosecutors interpreted the video’s contents differently and decided not to file charges on May 23.

The video showed the woman laughing and being flirtatious toward the driver.

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TAMPA — A Brandon man received a 2-year federal prison sentence today for selling nearly $1-million in fake Cartier and Rolex watches, Louis Vuitton handbags and Tiffany & Co. Jewelry.

Jason B. Register pleaded guilty in November to trafficking in counterfeit goods. Prosecutors said he smuggled the knockoffs into the country from China, concealing watches in a box purporting to contain speakers.

He sold the items through an online store he created and operated named Exquisite Styles. Prosecutors and the defense agreed that the amount of loss to the company’s for Register’s actions was $973,981.10.

Cartier and a payment service filed separate civil lawsuits against Register after federal agents shut down his business.

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TAMPA — Hillsborough Circuit Judge E. Lamar Battles today became the second judge to recuse himself from a drug case that could land two of his colleagues on the witness stand.

Attorney Paul S. Carr is seeking to get drug charges against Christopher Snipes thrown out, alleging that Circuit Judge Chet A. Tharpe’s initials were forged by a detective on a search warrant. Tharpe signed a sworn affidavit saying the initials were not his, then later said he might have been mistaken because he had no recollection of the event.

Circuit Judge Daniel Sleet, who was handling the case when Carr made the allegations about the forgery, phoned Tharpe to ask about the alleged discrepancy.

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On June 21, 2008, BWWR called Bill McKenzie, the lawyer for the plaintiff Nelson, a “Little Billy Goat“.

On the morning of June 24, 2008, the young male goat shown below appeared on the doorstep of a daughter of defendant Madge Knox.

“Little Billy Goat” appears at residence of defendant’s daughter, following goatesque ridicule of plaintiff’s lawyer

Above is one of three pictures I received with my sister’s email. Here is a quote from my sister:

“Attached are pictures of what appeared on our kitchen steps early this morning and has decided to stay.

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LUTZ — A Lutz man who went to his wife’s home Monday night and saw her with another man used a sword to intimidate the man, according to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office report.

Enrique Pablo Turino’s wife pulled up in a car at 23739 Pow Wow Drive with a man Turino didn’t know, the Sheriff’s Office said. Turino punched the man in the face and swung a second time but missed. After the man stopped Turino and told him who he was, Turino went inside the house and emerged with a sword, the report said.

Authorities charged Turino with one count of simple battery and one count of aggravated assault.

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TAMPA — In a scenario that has repeated itself twice in two days, police say a maroon sedan was seen driving away after gunshots rang out, leaving one man dead Monday and another wounded Tuesday.

In Tuesday’s attack, neighbors say Rigoberto "Rico" Contreras was standing outside his baby blue trailer inside the Easy Living Mobile Home Park, 4943 E Hillsborough Ave., when he was confronted by a group of people in a Toyota about 6:30 a.m.

At least one of the car’s occupants got out and demanded Contreras’ wallet, police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said.

He refused. An ensuing struggle ended with Contreras, 29, shot in the arm, neighbors said.

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A Zephyrhills man was killed Monday after his motorcycle collided with a car, Florida Highway Patrol officials said.

Christopher M. Brazas, 26, was riding a 2007 Kawasaki Ninja east on County Road 54 about 4 p.m. when he struck a 2003 Mercury driven by 77-year-old John O’Shea. According to an FHP news release, O’Shea drove into the motorcycle’s path while turning onto County Road 54 from the Gateway Drive intersection.

Brazas was taken to Florida Hospital of Zephyrhills, where he later died.

No charges have been filed. Authorities are asking witnesses to the crash to call Florida Highway Patrol Cpl. E.W.

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