Undercover detectives videotaped gang members selling drugs. Patrol officers photographed their distinctive clothes and tattoos to document membership. And federal prosecutors put more than a dozen of them in prison for racketeering.
But amid all that pressure, gang members got wise — and headed south. Sur 13 members recently set upon Sarasota County, where their trademark blue bandannas and “13″ tattoos went largely unnoticed until they were charged with burglarizing rural... Read Full Story
May 17, Sarasota-Bradenton Area Residents Threatened in Their Homes by The Masked Man Pulling Home Invasions Are Buying Guns.My safety habits have changed dramatically,” the woman says. “ I’m not happy about it because it’s a stressful way to live . ” This woman is afraid after three of her neighbors in the Riverview Boulevard area were attacked. A man clad in dark clothes with a ski mask has broken into homes and beaten mostly women in upper-middle-class neighborhoods in Sarasota and... Read Full Story
BAY AREA — Several Police agencies are investigating a series of home invasions in the Manatee and Sarasota areas. Detectives from the Sarasota and Manatee Sheriff’s Offices, as well as the Sarasota and Bradenton Police Departments, are sharing information in several cases which may be related. UPDATE….Tuesday, May 26, 2009, Masked Man Beats and Rapes Woman In Her Home On Siesta Key, The Attack Mimics 10 Other Sarasota-Bradenton Home Invasion Serial Attacks of Women. The FBI is also... Read Full Story
Who Killed Kathleen Briles in Her Terra Ceia Fl Home on August 3rd 2009, Take A hard Look At Delmer Smith III.
Delmer Smith III is the ex-con dirtbag who has been raping and beating middle aged white women the Sarasota-Bradenton area since Feb. 22nd, somehow Delmer Smith always knew which house contained a middle aged white woman home alone, it is very possible that Delmer Smith was not working alone. The attacks in the Sarasota-Bradenton area appear to have lasted from Feb. 22nd... Read Full Story
FBI To Help Investigate And Profile Sarasota Area Home Invasions As Of April 15th, 2009, But No Profile Has Been Released To The Public.
When the FBI came on board in the Sarasota-Manatee home invasion cases on or about April 15th, 2009, it was expected by local cops that the FBI would profile the attacker, “ They have national and actually worldwide databases that include information about particular types of crimes and serial crimes (serial murderer),” said Sarasota County... Read Full Story
Home invasion suspect Delmer Smith returned to Sarasota, he is still a supect in the rape and murder of Georgeann Lee Smith who was beaten to death with a baseball bat.
SARASOTA — Serial home invasion and rape suspect Delmer Smith III has been extradited to the Sarasota County jail to face charges in four home invasions in which women were beaten and two raped. Smith, 38, had been in the Pinellas County jail for weeks after federal authorities charged him with violating his... Read Full Story
Judge Says Law Firm of David J. Stern and Others No Longer Can “Call In” Telephone Hearings in Foreclosure Cases in Sarasota & Manatee County FL. Area’s top judge cracks down on foreclosure mills, MANATEE — The area’s top judge has lost patience with so-called foreclosure mills so he’s ordering them to appear in court, “no more phoning it in”.
Non-local law firms that specialize in mass foreclosure filings have ignored local court procedures, filed incomplete or inaccurate court... Read Full Story
Sarasota Home Invasion Suspect Delmer Smith’s Girlfriend Michele Quinones Would Not Initially I.D. Smith After The Bar Fight At The Gay Nightclub in Venice.
Accused home invasion and rape suspect Delmer Smith III has pleaded not guilty in Sarasota to a felony battery charge stemming from an Aug. 14 bar fight in Venice. “Smith’s Girlfriend Michele Quinones Did Not Initially I.D. Smith After The Bar Fight At The Gay Nightclub in Venice, if the investigating Venice Police officer had... Read Full Story
Justice for Georgann Lee Smith in Sarasota Fl, Ex-Con Delmer Smith III Raped And Beat Georgann Lee Smith To Death With A Baseball Bat.
Not sure how I’m feeling this evening!
Marjie Snow Almeter (Marjie Smith)
His name is Delmer Smith III … did he rape and beat 4 other women in a similar manner as Georgann? Yes he did, but he didn’t use a baseball bat on his other victims. The police have DNA to link this creep to 4 women (in Sarasota Fl), their homes were invaded & robbed by... Read Full Story
