Reply #124: they sure do like their AK-47s in Florida

[iverglas]

http://www.wftv.com/news/16236561/detail.html

Woman Threatened With AK-47 After Argument Over Cell Phone
POSTED: 6:49 am EDT May 12, 2008

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- Orange County deputies arrested a man they say threatened a woman with an AK-47.

Deputies arrested Levelt Charlestin Sunday after a three-hour standoff near Powers Drive and Hiawassee Road. Investigators say he pointed the gun at a woman and her child during an argument over a cell phone.

The woman called deputies and that's when the standoff started. ...

Dang. Won't show up in homicide statistics, that one. Didn't happen.


More catching up:

http://www.vicksburgpost.com/articles/2008/05/13/news/news04.txt

Trial set for second of four brothers in 2007 killing
(05/13/08)

The second of four brothers to be tried for killing a 25-year-old Vicksburg man is expected to stand trial in June.

... According to police, two guns were used in the crime - a 12-guage shotgun and an AK-47 assault rifle. It was the AK-47 that Dr. Steven Hayne, a pathologist with the Mississippi State Crime Lab who testified during the trial, said killed Harris. While testifying at his trial, Anthony Trevillion admitted going to Grammar Street with the others and firing the 12-gauge shotgun into the home.

Trevillion said it was a friend from New Orleans, whom he identified only as "Killer C," who fired the AK-47. No such person is believed to exist, police said.

http://www.khou.com/news/local/crime/stories/khou080513_tj_fbibanks.fa388530.html

FBI: Bold and brazen bank robbers result of tough economic times
09:10 PM CDT on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

HOUSTON -- In the tiny town of Hempstead, there was a shootout between police and a suspect that ended in the town park.

The suspect was caught.

But often they aren’t. And recently investigators have noted bank robberies in our area are on the rise.

“And this one crew is coming in the middle of the day and taking down the entire store with mothers and children in there,” said Ritchie. “And the last one they did, they had an AK-47 and they discharged a round into the ceiling.”

http://www.moultrieobserver.com/local/local_story_133223245.html?keyword=topstory

Published May 12, 2008 10:32 pm -
Two pleaded guilty in cocaine bust

MOULTRIE — Two Colquitt County men have pleaded guilty in association with a 2007 case in which six kilos of powder cocaine was found in a chicken coop in the Hopewell Church Road area.

One of the men posted photos on a social networking Website posing with cash, an AK-47 and a six-shooter plus other guns in his belt, which tipped off Federal Bureau of Investigation agents.

... The task force raided the home of Maldonado June 18 and seized a cache of nearly a dozen weapons, some with silencers and some with scopes, and more than 700 rounds of ammunition. ...

Photographic props! All of 'em!