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Baitball Blogger

(46,753 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 11:51 AM Mar 2012

Zimmerman case: Looks like this has crossed lines.

Not condoning what this man did, but I thought it was worth posting, cuz' it's the kind of reaction you would expect around this area, but it's the kind of response where we're usually on the receiving end.

A Melbourne Beach man upset by the Trayvon Martin shooting investigation was arrested Friday, accused of sending a profanity laced, threatening email to Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee Jr.

Seminole County deputies began investigating Thursday, after 68-year-old John Carnduff Stewart sent an 8:23 a.m. email to Lee with the subject line "Coming after you," the Sheriff's Office said.

"You and your family deserve to be hunted down and shot like a dog, just like Trayvon Martin," deputies said Stewart wrote. He called the Sanford Police Department "bigoted" and "unprofessional."

"I have more weapons than your entire police department and I would love to use some of them to take you down," the email says. Stewart ended his message, deputies say, with his home address.


http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-23/news/os-trayvon-martin-threat-arrest-chief-lee-20120323_1_shooting-investigation-arrest-shooter-deputies

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Zimmerman case: Looks like this has crossed lines. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 OP
I can understand his frustration Mz Pip Mar 2012 #1
IIRC, he was. Ecumenist Mar 2012 #3
Yes, the Sanford police found the emailer worthy of arrest. scarletwoman Mar 2012 #6
Brilliant. Baitball Blogger Mar 2012 #10
And, interestingly enough, the Sanford police were able to bestir themselves to investigate scarletwoman Mar 2012 #2
I noticed that when I was watching the report on HLN last night and they got him FAST. Ecumenist Mar 2012 #4
You are so right! lunatica Mar 2012 #5
Egg-zakly. nt Nay Mar 2012 #7
Yep, funny that. Rex Mar 2012 #8
Lemme get this straight nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #9
Rich egh. lonestarnot Mar 2012 #11

Mz Pip

(27,452 posts)
1. I can understand his frustration
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 12:03 PM
Mar 2012

but making these kinds of threats isn't helping the situation. If anything, he's more than likely to get arrested.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
6. Yes, the Sanford police found the emailer worthy of arrest.
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 12:13 PM
Mar 2012

Unlike the person who had just killed an unarmed teenager, who they found NOT worthy of arrest.

scarletwoman

(31,893 posts)
2. And, interestingly enough, the Sanford police were able to bestir themselves to investigate
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 12:03 PM
Mar 2012

the emailer, something they somehow couldn't manage to do when faced with someone who had just shot a kid dead.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
9. Lemme get this straight
Sat Mar 24, 2012, 02:05 PM
Mar 2012

The sleuths at the SPD were fast and snappy to get on this case, but for the life of me could not process a crime scene?

Unfriggin' amazing.

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