NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 19-year-old Jacksonville man is being held without bail at the Volusia County Branch Jail on felony warrants accusing him of carkjacking a woman at the K-Mart shopping center in May and taking her purse, police reported.
DEBARY --- The Walgreens pharmacy at 15 Charles R. Beall Ave., was roobed Sunday morning of oxycodone pills by a man with a gun under his shirt. No shots were fired and no one was injured during the brief incident. The suspect got away with a couple bottles of prescription pills from the pharmacy and ran northbound from the store. The Volusia County Sheriff's Office was notified of the robbery at about 11:36 a.m. About 15 deputies and a Sheriff's Office helicopter began arriving on scene at Walgreen, within two minutes of being dispatched.
DELAND -- Seven women and five men have been selected to hear evidence today at the capital murder trial of an Edgewater man accused of murdering 21-year-old Lisa Memro of New Smyrna Beach on Sept. 25, 2006, and then having sex with her corpse.
Many local citizens, no doubt are unaware that the Founding Fathers gave Americans additional protection from bad laws and bad government through jury nullification. This occurs when one or more members of a jury decide that even though the defendant may have broken a particular law, he is innocent because the law, or application of it, is wrong. In preparation for this blog, I asked well-known New Smyrna Beach criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor William Hathaway where he stood on the issue and he answered that he favors it.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 63-year-old Titusville woman was clinging to her life at Halifax Medical Center after the Honda trike motorcycle she was on with her husband collided with a mini-van earlier today in the 3000 block of North Dixie Freeway, New Smyrna Beach police reported.
DELAND -- Jurors heard the accused killer's own admission for the first time earlier today on a recording of a 911 call he made that he was responsible for the murder of a young New Smyrna Beach woman that turned out to be a literal bloodbath.
The Sept. 25, 2006, slaying of 21-year-old New Smyrna Beach resident Lisa Memro -- beaten and stabbed to death, her throat cut deeply from ear to ear and nearly decapitated -- could qualify as the most gruesome murder in the history of Southeast Volusia. But there are yet even more twisted facts that make it that more disturbing. Her attacker bent over her lifeless body into his family tub and drained her blood before he had sex with her corpse in a bed.
Few people world wide seem to understand the basic phenomenon of black markets. When Diane Strickland, a financial specialist at Wachovia bank in New Smyrna Beach was asked for her opinion on black markets, she said it is wrong to have them, but added she did not think they are really bad for the country. Her response is typical of people the world over.
Ironically, some of out citizens engage in mild black market activity without even realizing it.
Politicians talk up a good game, especially those in law enforcement. And nobody is better at that than State Attorney John Tanner, the Bible-thumping zealot who prayed some 50 times with serial killer Ted Bundy on Death Row. What better time than the present to grab headlines again in the wake of a horrific homicide -- the brutal stabbing-murder last month of Tomoka Corrections officer Donna Fitzgerald at the hands of twice-convicted rapist and inmate Enoch Hall.
In the Book of Acts, the 10th chapter, we find a very interesting event in the early Christian church. A gentile requested Peter, the leader of the first church in Jerusalem, a Jewish church, to come and visit and explain the Gospel to him and his family. Reading verses 34-43, we hear the words of Peter and the effect of his vision corresponding with the vision of Cornelius.
