Turkey Proposes to Host Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy Summit
Turkey on Friday proposed hosting a summit with the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and the United States as it strives to broker an elusive deal to end Russia's three-year invasion - an invitation swiftly dismissed by the Kremlin.
Moscow said it was sending a team of negotiators to Istanbul for a second round of direct talks with Ukraine on Monday — though Kyiv has yet to confirm if it will attend.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has fostered warm relations with both Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, has become a key mediator amid Donald Trump's push for a deal to end the over three-year war.
"We sincerely think that it is possible to cap the first and second direct Istanbul talks with a meeting between Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelenskyy, under the direction of Mr. Erdogan," Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during a visit to Kyiv.
Kyiv and the West have rejected those calls and cast Russia's assault as nothing but an imperial-style land grab.
Russia's invasion in February 2022 triggered the biggest European conflict since World War II.
Tens of thousands have been killed, swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine destroyed and millions forced to flee their homes.
Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated at both Zelenskyy and Putin for not having struck a deal yet.
At a UN Security Council meeting Thursday a U.S. diplomat reaffirmed that Washington could pull back from peace efforts if it does not see progress soon.
Despite the sides having held their first peace talks in more than three years, there has been little sign of movement towards a possible compromise agreement.
At the talks earlier in May, Ukraine said Russia threatened to accelerate its ground offensive into new regions and made a host of maximalist demands, including that Kyiv cede territory still under its control.
Along with its European allies, Ukraine has been ramping up pressure on Trump to hit Moscow with fresh sanctions — a step he has so far not taken.
"Talks of pauses in pressure or easing of sanctions are perceived in Moscow as a political victory –- and only encourage further attacks and continued disregard for diplomacy," Zelenskyy said Friday on social media.
Russia has meanwhile been pressing its advance on the battlefield, with its forces on Friday claiming to have captured another village in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Migrant 'Parole' Status
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump end temporary legal status for migrants from four countries, aiding his deportation efforts.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump's administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president's drive to step up deportations.
The court put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani order halting the administration's move to end the immigration "parole" granted to 532,000 of these migrants by Trump's predecessor Joe Biden, potentially exposing many of them to rapid removal, while the case plays out in lower courts.
Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee survivors acknowledge 'there'll never be closure' as they pursue...
A group of abuse survivors at Florida's reform schools is feeling unheard and seeking answers to why they're not eligible for compensation.
Boys," an hour-long special report examining the compensation program for survivors of abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee during the middle of the 20th century.
WATCH BELOW: Reform school survivors 'vow to keep fighting for every victim'
A 2024 law created a $20 million compensation fund for survivors who attended the schools and were abused between 1940 and 1975.
WPTV visited Wilson at his home in Valdosta, Georgia, where he spoke about being beaten at the school multiple times per day.
"Whenever they felt like you did enough to deserve that," he said. "Could be two or three times a day."
Like the other survivors who applied for compensation, Wilson obtained a copy of Dozier's ledger with his name on it and filled out an application. He learned he wasn't eligible for compensation when a letter from the Attorney General's office arrived in late February.
"This outcome does not diminish your experience as a person impacted by the events which took place at the Dozier School for Boys and Florida Okeechobee School," the letter read, in part.
Wilson said he felt "cheated (and) mistreated" when he read the letter.
Immigration parole is a form of temporary permission under American law to be in the country for "urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit," allowing recipients to live and work in the United States. Biden, a Democrat, used parole as part of his administration's approach by to deter illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexican border.
Trump called for ending humanitarian parole programs in an executive order signed on January 20, his first day back in office. The Department of Homeland Security subsequently moved to terminate them in March, cutting short the two-year parole grants. The administration said revoking the parole status would make it easier to place migrants in a fast-track deportation process called "expedited removal."
The case is one of many that Trump's administration has brought in an emergency fashion to the nation's highest judicial body seeking to undo decisions by judges impeding his sweeping policies, including several targeting immigrants.
After investigators quickly ruled that Okeechobee County Sheriff John Collier committed suicide due to sinus problems, many in the community didn’t buy it. Questionable decisions made at the crime scene and in the months afterwards helped a cloud of uncertainty linger around the case.
"It made me angry, to be honest about it," Wilson said. "What about 78? What about 79? What about all those other years that went by, and stuff was going on? I can't figure out how they can come to that conclusion."
"What they did to these young men was take their futures away," said state Rep. Michelle Salzman, R-Escambia County, who filed the compensation bill that passed unanimously during the 2024 legislative session.
The bill's resounding success followed 16 years of failed attempts at similar legislation by other lawmakers.
WPTV asked Salzman in January why 1975 was the cutoff.
The Supreme Court on May 19 also let Trump end a deportation protection called temporary protected status that had been granted under Biden to about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States, while that legal dispute plays out.
In a bid to reduce illegal border crossings, Biden starting in 2022 allowed Venezuelans who entered the United States by air to request a two-year parole if they passed security checks and had a U.S. financial sponsor. Biden expanded that process to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities.
The plaintiffs, a group of migrants granted parole and Americans who serve as their sponsors, sued administration officials claiming the administration violated federal law governing the actions of government agencies.
"That was the way the bill was written in the past, and we didn't get the historical information," Salzman said. "We tried really hard. We reached out to a lot of people to try to find out where those numbers came from."
As reported in "The Okeechobee Boys," there's evidence that the abuse continued at the reform schools beyond 1975.
"I try to forget the names. I try to forget it all," James Walker said while sitting next to his wife in a pair of recliners in their home in rural Fort Meade, Florida.
Walker was sent to the Okeechobee school in 1978. He said he didn't bother applying for compensation because he knew he didn't qualify.
"(There) ain't no forgetting it, and it wasn't right," he said.
Stories like Walker's and Wilson's offer one clue as to why the line may have been drawn at 1975: neither of them experienced or witnessed the bloody beatings in a secluded room with a modified paddle — a disturbing ritual described by the men who were at the schools in the 1960s.
"I didn't see anything," Walker said when asked about the beatings. "But as far as stuff happening, yeah. Because, you know, they showed me ... the clinic and the room off beside the clinic, where they said they take you in there and straighten you out."
"Nobody really would say anything about it," Walker continued. "Because they figured ... 'If I say something about it, I'm gonna be the next one in there.'"
Wilson said Dozier's infamous "White House" was no longer used as the venue for the beatings by the time he was there.
"Those people didn't wait for you to get to no White House," Wilson said. “They whooped your ass anywhere you go — anything you do that was considered wrong."
The men said the physical abuse took a different form.
According to Wilson, employees would whip him and other boys using a long antenna that they unscrewed from walkie-talkies.
Wilson and Walker also allege rampant sexual abuse.
Wilson was never assaulted, he said. But he witnessed children being molested.
Walker said he was raped by a group of his fellow students.
"A light went out, and they shoved me into a room — a little small room, and choked me, started hitting me in the ribs, choked me and took turns with me," he said. "And (there) wasn't nothing I could do about it."
Walker said it happened while an employee was supposed to be keeping watch.
"They knew he was drunk," Walker said. "He should have been on his job, you know, taking care of us and looking over us. And this would have never happened."
According to Walker, the students who raped him were prosecuted. But he's not aware of any internal investigation or consequences for the state employees who failed to protect him.
The Okeechobee Eight refers to a major drug bust in Okeechobee County, Florida, during the mid-1980s, specifically tied to a cocaine smuggling ring that operated in the region. In November 1986, a statewide grand jury indicted 29 individuals, including nine Okeechobee County residents, for their involvement in a smuggling operation that brought approximately 7,700 pounds of cocaine from the Bahamas to cattle ranches in Okeechobee County between November 1984 and 1986. The operation was part of the broader drug trafficking epidemic in South Florida during the 1980s, when rural areas like Okeechobee became attractive to smugglers due to less law enforcement scrutiny compared to urban hubs like Miami.
The indictments followed a series of investigations by local, state, and federal authorities, who had been cracking down on drug trafficking in the region. Sheriff John Henderson noted that deputies had conducted four major busts in the preceding three years, seizing two airplanes, a helicopter, nine vehicles, and nearly 3,000 pounds of drugs. The Okeechobee Eight case specifically highlighted the involvement of prominent local residents, which shocked the close-knit community of about 4,500 people, known for its rural character and nickname, “The Speckled Perch Capital of the World.” The bust revealed how deeply drug smuggling had infiltrated even small towns, with locals like truck driver Ray Holley expressing dismay that younger residents were getting involved, contrasting with the “clean, decent” older generation.
The case was part of a larger wave of drug enforcement actions in South Florida, driven by the DEA and other agencies targeting cocaine and marijuana smuggling during the War on Drugs. The Okeechobee Eight bust underscored the challenges of policing rural areas that provided ideal cover for smuggling operations, such as remote ranches used as drop-off points.
Specific details on the prison sentences for the Okeechobee Eight drug bust in 1986 are not fully documented in available records, and comprehensive information about the individual sentences for all nine Okeechobee County residents indicted is limited. The case involved 29 individuals, including nine from Okeechobee County, charged with smuggling approximately 7,700 pounds of cocaine from the Bahamas to cattle ranches in Okeechobee County between November 1984 and 1986. The indictments were part of a federal and state investigation targeting a significant cocaine trafficking operation.
While exact sentencing details for the "Okeechobee Eight" (the nine local residents) are not explicitly outlined in the sources, related information from the broader case provides some context. The defendants faced charges related to cocaine trafficking, with potential penalties ranging from 15 to 20 years in prison and fines between $125,000 and $250,000 per count. Some defendants were also charged with currency violations, carrying additional penalties of up to five years in prison and fines from $10,000 to $250,000.
One notable detail is that Frederik John Luytjes, identified as an unindicted co-conspirator who provided airplanes and pilots for the smuggling operation, signed an agreement to plead guilty to drug-trafficking charges. However, his specific sentence is not detailed in the records. Additionally, one of the key suspects, Arturo Correa-Arroyave, was kidnapped and murdered around the time of the indictment, so he did not face sentencing. The sources suggest that the American defendants, including those from Okeechobee, faced potential prison terms exceeding 100 years and millions in fines, depending on the number of counts.
Without specific court records or further details, it’s unclear which of the Okeechobee Eight were convicted or what exact sentences they received. The lack of precise sentencing information may stem from the case’s complexity, involving multiple jurisdictions and defendants, or because some plea deals or trials were not widely publicized. For comparison, in a similar 1984 cocaine trafficking case in Atlanta involving five tons of cocaine, the defendant Harold J. Rosenthal received a life sentence without parole, indicating that severe penalties were possible for large-scale trafficking during this period.
PSL police arrest Uber driver after she was accused of pulling gun on Miami rapper
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) has released body camera footage of officers arresting an Uber driver who was accused of pulling out a firearm.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) has released body camera footage of officers arresting an Uber driver who was accused of pulling out a firearm on her passenger, later revealed to be a Miami rapper.
Jennifer Benitez was arrested in mid-May after she was accused of pulling out a firearm on a passenger while she was driving Uber in Hollywood. Previous reports say Benitez, 23, and her passenger, identified as rapper Krissy Celess, had gotten into a verbal altercation before the gun was drawn.
The Miami rapper posted a video of the altercation on her Instagram page, which shows Benitez yelling at Celess and asking her to get out of the vehicle. Benitez is seen on video asking Celess to get out of her vehicle a few more times before she suddenly pulls out a firearm and points it at the rapper.
According to PSLPD, officers received an alert that a wanted felon was in the area.
Officers were able to conduct a traffic stop and take Benitez to the St. Lucie County Jail.
Body camera video shows an officer stopping a black SUV and ordering Benitez to step out of the vehicle. Benitez is seen on camera following the officer's instructions before she's handcuffed and placed in the back of the patrol vehicle.
!summarize #florida #government #everglades #environment
Turkey Proposes to Host Trump-Putin-Zelenskyy Summit
Turkey on Friday proposed hosting a summit with the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and the United States as it strives to broker an elusive deal to end Russia's three-year invasion - an invitation swiftly dismissed by the Kremlin.
Moscow said it was sending a team of negotiators to Istanbul for a second round of direct talks with Ukraine on Monday — though Kyiv has yet to confirm if it will attend.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has fostered warm relations with both Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin, has become a key mediator amid Donald Trump's push for a deal to end the over three-year war.
"We sincerely think that it is possible to cap the first and second direct Istanbul talks with a meeting between Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin and Mr. Zelenskyy, under the direction of Mr. Erdogan," Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during a visit to Kyiv.
The Kremlin pushed back against the idea of a face-to-face meeting involving Putin and Zelenskyy.
"First, results must be achieved through direct negotiations between the two countries," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Fidan met Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga in Kyiv and was due to meet Zelenskyy later in the day.
He held talks with Putin in Moscow earlier this week.
Ukraine has said it is open to further negotiations, but has not confirmed it will be in Istanbul on Monday.
At talks in Istanbul on May 16 — the first in over three years — the sides agree to swap documents outlining possible roadmaps to peace.
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Kyiv and the West have rejected those calls and cast Russia's assault as nothing but an imperial-style land grab.
Russia's invasion in February 2022 triggered the biggest European conflict since World War II.
Tens of thousands have been killed, swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine destroyed and millions forced to flee their homes.
Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated at both Zelenskyy and Putin for not having struck a deal yet.
At a UN Security Council meeting Thursday a U.S. diplomat reaffirmed that Washington could pull back from peace efforts if it does not see progress soon.
Despite the sides having held their first peace talks in more than three years, there has been little sign of movement towards a possible compromise agreement.
!summarize #okeechobee #1928 #hurricane #weather #history
At the talks earlier in May, Ukraine said Russia threatened to accelerate its ground offensive into new regions and made a host of maximalist demands, including that Kyiv cede territory still under its control.
Along with its European allies, Ukraine has been ramping up pressure on Trump to hit Moscow with fresh sanctions — a step he has so far not taken.
"Talks of pauses in pressure or easing of sanctions are perceived in Moscow as a political victory –- and only encourage further attacks and continued disregard for diplomacy," Zelenskyy said Friday on social media.
Russia has meanwhile been pressing its advance on the battlefield, with its forces on Friday claiming to have captured another village in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
Supreme Court Lets Trump Revoke Migrant 'Parole' Status
The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump end temporary legal status for migrants from four countries, aiding his deportation efforts.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday let President Donald Trump's administration revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan, Cuban, Haitian and Nicaraguan migrants living in the United States, bolstering the Republican president's drive to step up deportations.
The court put on hold Boston-based U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani order halting the administration's move to end the immigration "parole" granted to 532,000 of these migrants by Trump's predecessor Joe Biden, potentially exposing many of them to rapid removal, while the case plays out in lower courts.
Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee survivors acknowledge 'there'll never be closure' as they pursue...
A group of abuse survivors at Florida's reform schools is feeling unheard and seeking answers to why they're not eligible for compensation.
Boys," an hour-long special report examining the compensation program for survivors of abuse at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and the Florida School for Boys at Okeechobee during the middle of the 20th century.
WATCH BELOW: Reform school survivors 'vow to keep fighting for every victim'
A 2024 law created a $20 million compensation fund for survivors who attended the schools and were abused between 1940 and 1975.
Bennie Wilson attended Dozier in 1976.
WPTV visited Wilson at his home in Valdosta, Georgia, where he spoke about being beaten at the school multiple times per day.
"Whenever they felt like you did enough to deserve that," he said. "Could be two or three times a day."
Like the other survivors who applied for compensation, Wilson obtained a copy of Dozier's ledger with his name on it and filled out an application. He learned he wasn't eligible for compensation when a letter from the Attorney General's office arrived in late February.
"This outcome does not diminish your experience as a person impacted by the events which took place at the Dozier School for Boys and Florida Okeechobee School," the letter read, in part.
Wilson said he felt "cheated (and) mistreated" when he read the letter.
Immigration parole is a form of temporary permission under American law to be in the country for "urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit," allowing recipients to live and work in the United States. Biden, a Democrat, used parole as part of his administration's approach by to deter illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexican border.
Trump called for ending humanitarian parole programs in an executive order signed on January 20, his first day back in office. The Department of Homeland Security subsequently moved to terminate them in March, cutting short the two-year parole grants. The administration said revoking the parole status would make it easier to place migrants in a fast-track deportation process called "expedited removal."
The case is one of many that Trump's administration has brought in an emergency fashion to the nation's highest judicial body seeking to undo decisions by judges impeding his sweeping policies, including several targeting immigrants.
!summarize #hurricane #lakeokeechobee #florida #history
After investigators quickly ruled that Okeechobee County Sheriff John Collier committed suicide due to sinus problems, many in the community didn’t buy it. Questionable decisions made at the crime scene and in the months afterwards helped a cloud of uncertainty linger around the case.
"It made me angry, to be honest about it," Wilson said. "What about 78? What about 79? What about all those other years that went by, and stuff was going on? I can't figure out how they can come to that conclusion."
"What they did to these young men was take their futures away," said state Rep. Michelle Salzman, R-Escambia County, who filed the compensation bill that passed unanimously during the 2024 legislative session.
The bill's resounding success followed 16 years of failed attempts at similar legislation by other lawmakers.
WPTV asked Salzman in January why 1975 was the cutoff.
!summarize #history #florida #hurricane #history #1928 #palmbeach
The Supreme Court on May 19 also let Trump end a deportation protection called temporary protected status that had been granted under Biden to about 350,000 Venezuelans living in the United States, while that legal dispute plays out.
In a bid to reduce illegal border crossings, Biden starting in 2022 allowed Venezuelans who entered the United States by air to request a two-year parole if they passed security checks and had a U.S. financial sponsor. Biden expanded that process to Cubans, Haitians and Nicaraguans in 2023 as his administration grappled with high levels of illegal immigration from those nationalities.
The plaintiffs, a group of migrants granted parole and Americans who serve as their sponsors, sued administration officials claiming the administration violated federal law governing the actions of government agencies.
!summarize #winstonchurchill #ww2 #history #greatbritain
!summarize #europe #economy #eu
"That was the way the bill was written in the past, and we didn't get the historical information," Salzman said. "We tried really hard. We reached out to a lot of people to try to find out where those numbers came from."
As reported in "The Okeechobee Boys," there's evidence that the abuse continued at the reform schools beyond 1975.
"I try to forget the names. I try to forget it all," James Walker said while sitting next to his wife in a pair of recliners in their home in rural Fort Meade, Florida.
Walker was sent to the Okeechobee school in 1978. He said he didn't bother applying for compensation because he knew he didn't qualify.
"(There) ain't no forgetting it, and it wasn't right," he said.
Stories like Walker's and Wilson's offer one clue as to why the line may have been drawn at 1975: neither of them experienced or witnessed the bloody beatings in a secluded room with a modified paddle — a disturbing ritual described by the men who were at the schools in the 1960s.
"I didn't see anything," Walker said when asked about the beatings. "But as far as stuff happening, yeah. Because, you know, they showed me ... the clinic and the room off beside the clinic, where they said they take you in there and straighten you out."
"Nobody really would say anything about it," Walker continued. "Because they figured ... 'If I say something about it, I'm gonna be the next one in there.'"
Wilson said Dozier's infamous "White House" was no longer used as the venue for the beatings by the time he was there.
"Those people didn't wait for you to get to no White House," Wilson said. “They whooped your ass anywhere you go — anything you do that was considered wrong."
The men said the physical abuse took a different form.
According to Wilson, employees would whip him and other boys using a long antenna that they unscrewed from walkie-talkies.
Wilson and Walker also allege rampant sexual abuse.
Wilson was never assaulted, he said. But he witnessed children being molested.
Walker said he was raped by a group of his fellow students.
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"A light went out, and they shoved me into a room — a little small room, and choked me, started hitting me in the ribs, choked me and took turns with me," he said. "And (there) wasn't nothing I could do about it."
Walker said it happened while an employee was supposed to be keeping watch.
"They knew he was drunk," Walker said. "He should have been on his job, you know, taking care of us and looking over us. And this would have never happened."
According to Walker, the students who raped him were prosecuted. But he's not aware of any internal investigation or consequences for the state employees who failed to protect him.
!summarize #dadecountry #florida #history #cocaine #1979 #drugs
The Okeechobee Eight refers to a major drug bust in Okeechobee County, Florida, during the mid-1980s, specifically tied to a cocaine smuggling ring that operated in the region. In November 1986, a statewide grand jury indicted 29 individuals, including nine Okeechobee County residents, for their involvement in a smuggling operation that brought approximately 7,700 pounds of cocaine from the Bahamas to cattle ranches in Okeechobee County between November 1984 and 1986. The operation was part of the broader drug trafficking epidemic in South Florida during the 1980s, when rural areas like Okeechobee became attractive to smugglers due to less law enforcement scrutiny compared to urban hubs like Miami.
The indictments followed a series of investigations by local, state, and federal authorities, who had been cracking down on drug trafficking in the region. Sheriff John Henderson noted that deputies had conducted four major busts in the preceding three years, seizing two airplanes, a helicopter, nine vehicles, and nearly 3,000 pounds of drugs. The Okeechobee Eight case specifically highlighted the involvement of prominent local residents, which shocked the close-knit community of about 4,500 people, known for its rural character and nickname, “The Speckled Perch Capital of the World.” The bust revealed how deeply drug smuggling had infiltrated even small towns, with locals like truck driver Ray Holley expressing dismay that younger residents were getting involved, contrasting with the “clean, decent” older generation.
The case was part of a larger wave of drug enforcement actions in South Florida, driven by the DEA and other agencies targeting cocaine and marijuana smuggling during the War on Drugs. The Okeechobee Eight bust underscored the challenges of policing rural areas that provided ideal cover for smuggling operations, such as remote ranches used as drop-off points.
!summarize #china #party #ccp #economy #politics
Specific details on the prison sentences for the Okeechobee Eight drug bust in 1986 are not fully documented in available records, and comprehensive information about the individual sentences for all nine Okeechobee County residents indicted is limited. The case involved 29 individuals, including nine from Okeechobee County, charged with smuggling approximately 7,700 pounds of cocaine from the Bahamas to cattle ranches in Okeechobee County between November 1984 and 1986. The indictments were part of a federal and state investigation targeting a significant cocaine trafficking operation.
While exact sentencing details for the "Okeechobee Eight" (the nine local residents) are not explicitly outlined in the sources, related information from the broader case provides some context. The defendants faced charges related to cocaine trafficking, with potential penalties ranging from 15 to 20 years in prison and fines between $125,000 and $250,000 per count. Some defendants were also charged with currency violations, carrying additional penalties of up to five years in prison and fines from $10,000 to $250,000.
One notable detail is that Frederik John Luytjes, identified as an unindicted co-conspirator who provided airplanes and pilots for the smuggling operation, signed an agreement to plead guilty to drug-trafficking charges. However, his specific sentence is not detailed in the records. Additionally, one of the key suspects, Arturo Correa-Arroyave, was kidnapped and murdered around the time of the indictment, so he did not face sentencing. The sources suggest that the American defendants, including those from Okeechobee, faced potential prison terms exceeding 100 years and millions in fines, depending on the number of counts.
Without specific court records or further details, it’s unclear which of the Okeechobee Eight were convicted or what exact sentences they received. The lack of precise sentencing information may stem from the case’s complexity, involving multiple jurisdictions and defendants, or because some plea deals or trials were not widely publicized. For comparison, in a similar 1984 cocaine trafficking case in Atlanta involving five tons of cocaine, the defendant Harold J. Rosenthal received a life sentence without parole, indicating that severe penalties were possible for large-scale trafficking during this period.
!summarize #chrispratt #russobros #hollywood #avengers #movies
PSL police arrest Uber driver after she was accused of pulling gun on Miami rapper
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) has released body camera footage of officers arresting an Uber driver who was accused of pulling out a firearm.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department (PSLPD) has released body camera footage of officers arresting an Uber driver who was accused of pulling out a firearm on her passenger, later revealed to be a Miami rapper.
Jennifer Benitez was arrested in mid-May after she was accused of pulling out a firearm on a passenger while she was driving Uber in Hollywood. Previous reports say Benitez, 23, and her passenger, identified as rapper Krissy Celess, had gotten into a verbal altercation before the gun was drawn.
The Miami rapper posted a video of the altercation on her Instagram page, which shows Benitez yelling at Celess and asking her to get out of the vehicle. Benitez is seen on video asking Celess to get out of her vehicle a few more times before she suddenly pulls out a firearm and points it at the rapper.
According to PSLPD, officers received an alert that a wanted felon was in the area.
Officers were able to conduct a traffic stop and take Benitez to the St. Lucie County Jail.
Body camera video shows an officer stopping a black SUV and ordering Benitez to step out of the vehicle. Benitez is seen on camera following the officer's instructions before she's handcuffed and placed in the back of the patrol vehicle.
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