Vanessa Blum details here the mystery surrounding the Joe Cool boat and its missing passengers and the arrest of two men pulled from a lifeboat near the abandoned boat:
On Tuesday, Kirby Archer, 35, and Guillermo Zarabozo, 19, were charged, respectively, with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and making a false statement to a federal agent, according to FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela. The men had been questioned by agents since they were plucked from a life raft Monday morning.
Here's the AP article, which details some of the criminal complaint:
According to an FBI affidavit, Zarabozo initially claimed to his Coast Guard rescuers that "unknown subjects" had hijacked the boat, shot and killed the four crew members and then ordered Zarabozo to throw the bodies into the sea. Zarabozo later told the FBI he had never been on the "Joe Cool," even though his state identification card was found on the boat.
The affidavit also says that a substance appearing to be blood was found on the stern of the boat, along with six marijuana cigarettes, a laptop computer, luggage, clothes and a cell phone.
Archer, the affidavit said, admitted that he was a fugitive and knew that he could not travel by air.
Both men were being held without bail at a federal detention center in Miami.
And the Herald article here.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Sorry about my rant the other day...
... about the comments on the blog.
But if you thought I was bad, check this out:
But if you thought I was bad, check this out:
Monday, September 24, 2007
National news
Some interesting stuff in the papers:
1. John Paul Stevens is interviewed. (NY Times; Hat tip Rumpole). This is a fantastic article. One quote from the Justice who spends a ton of time in this District: “I don’t think of myself as a liberal at all. I think as part of my general politics, I’m pretty darn conservative.” He also explained this funny story:
Stevens also distinguished himself as the only justice to spend a substantial part of each Supreme Court term away from Washington. He and his wife have a condominium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and they spend two weeks a month there from November through April. ...“I do much more work in Florida than I do here,” Stevens told me, looking contented. He sometimes reads briefs on the beach. “One of my favorite memories is the time I was sitting” on the Supreme Court bench in Washington just after returning from Florida, he recalled. “I shook the sand out of the brief!”
2 . The job market isn't so great for law grads (WSJ; Hat tip WSJ blog)
3. District Judge Paul Cassell has resigned. (Sentencing Law & Policy)
1. John Paul Stevens is interviewed. (NY Times; Hat tip Rumpole). This is a fantastic article. One quote from the Justice who spends a ton of time in this District: “I don’t think of myself as a liberal at all. I think as part of my general politics, I’m pretty darn conservative.” He also explained this funny story:
Stevens also distinguished himself as the only justice to spend a substantial part of each Supreme Court term away from Washington. He and his wife have a condominium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and they spend two weeks a month there from November through April. ...“I do much more work in Florida than I do here,” Stevens told me, looking contented. He sometimes reads briefs on the beach. “One of my favorite memories is the time I was sitting” on the Supreme Court bench in Washington just after returning from Florida, he recalled. “I shook the sand out of the brief!”
2 . The job market isn't so great for law grads (WSJ; Hat tip WSJ blog)
3. District Judge Paul Cassell has resigned. (Sentencing Law & Policy)
West Palm movers
Julie Kay highlights this morning lots of movers and shakers in WPB. Notably Rolando Garcia has been named head of the West Palm Beach office of the u.S. attorney's office, where the numbers of cases is way up.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Blog change
I started this blog as a fun way to cover the Southern District of Florida, a court that I love.
During the past week, a number of comments (on this blog and others) and posts on other blogs have made it not so fun. I can't control other blogs and their comments, although I have tried to get the offending blogger to delete his inappropriate post. I even deleted the post about which he was commenting, but he now is linking to the cached page from Google, which I cannot control.
But I can control this blog's comments. I have changed the blog so that you cannot post anonymously anymore. I will delete any mean comment or any comment which I feel is inappropriate.
Anyway, sorry for this post -- but I feel strongly that the blog shouldn't be used to make people feel bad.
During the past week, a number of comments (on this blog and others) and posts on other blogs have made it not so fun. I can't control other blogs and their comments, although I have tried to get the offending blogger to delete his inappropriate post. I even deleted the post about which he was commenting, but he now is linking to the cached page from Google, which I cannot control.
But I can control this blog's comments. I have changed the blog so that you cannot post anonymously anymore. I will delete any mean comment or any comment which I feel is inappropriate.
Anyway, sorry for this post -- but I feel strongly that the blog shouldn't be used to make people feel bad.
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