Florida news thread (Orlando, Tallahassee, Davie: house, crime, campus)

[INeedAChange]

the fact that they had his mom on there scolding him didn't make him seem like a big threat

Originally Posted by hiknapster

A teen that was already on probabtion for grand theft and had numerous arrests for battery and burglary in the past year.

[Petertherock]

This is why crime in Florida is so bad...animals like this should be put to death like they do in Texas...

From the Florida Highway Patrol web site...

Mack Daniel Mims was 29 years old the morning he was charged with six counts of burglary and three counts of felony homicide.

He had been captured the day before, after a plane carrying three Florida Highway Patrol troopers crashed while they watched him from the air, letting officers on the ground know his location.

Mims was the chief suspect in a series of burglaries of St. Augustine South residents. The state added the felony homicide charges because the three officers were killed while pursing him.

Mims said he worked as a civilian employee at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. The court appointed a public defender to represent him.

At his trial, he was found guilty and later sentenced to 15 years in prison. He served six years before being released in 1988.

In November 1993, he was arrested for attempted armed robbery, found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was released in 1999 after serving less than five years.

In 2006, he was arrested again, tried and found guilty of burglary and cocaine possession. At the time of his arrest by the St. Augustine Police, he was described as homeless. Mims is currently in prison serving a two-year sentence.

[INeedAChange]

no human being is an "animal"

Originally Posted by Petertherock

This is why crime in Florida is so bad...animals like this should be put to death like they do in Texas...

From the Florida Highway Patrol web site...

Mack Daniel Mims was 29 years old the morning he was charged with six counts of burglary and three counts of felony homicide.

He had been captured the day before, after a plane carrying three Florida Highway Patrol troopers crashed while they watched him from the air, letting officers on the ground know his location.

Mims was the chief suspect in a series of burglaries of St. Augustine South residents. The state added the felony homicide charges because the three officers were killed while pursing him.

Mims said he worked as a civilian employee at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station. The court appointed a public defender to represent him.

At his trial, he was found guilty and later sentenced to 15 years in prison. He served six years before being released in 1988.

In November 1993, he was arrested for attempted armed robbery, found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was released in 1999 after serving less than five years.

In 2006, he was arrested again, tried and found guilty of burglary and cocaine possession. At the time of his arrest by the St. Augustine Police, he was described as homeless. Mims is currently in prison serving a two-year sentence.

[daveyjones]

You can go to any gun show and buy a weapon from any private individual,walk out the door with it no questions ask.
The state tried several time to correct this flaw but the NRA always say NO!!!

As for Mack Daniel Mims every time he is sentenced to prison he probably becomes another "born again Christian and finds Jesus" in then they figured he is 'cured" and let him go.

[tallrick]

If the victims had a gun and knew how to use it, justice would have been served.

[daveyjones]

Originally Posted by tallrick

If the victims had a gun and knew how to use it, justice would have been served.

You got that right.

[Huckleberry3911948]

anti self defense movement last 50 years?

[daveyjones]

Originally Posted by InspiringColleger

Where in Florida is there the least amount of gang activity/presence?

Brevard County, Ive lived here for 10 years and do not read in the newspapers about large scale gang activity,small maybe but nothing the local police can handle.

[Petertherock]

Originally Posted by INeedAChange

no human being is an "animal"

I disagree with you...anyone who kills people and sexually molests kids is an animal...in the scientific sense of the word...we are all animals. Only difference is some have more common sense than others.

[flburgos]

Originally Posted by INeedAChange

no human being is an "animal"

i agree with pete there animals.some animals have more common than others.anyone that kills an innocent or an elderly person is an animal.anyone that abuses sexually or mentally a minor is an animal and should be put away.there are too many families not being able to live normal lives with these people on the loose.