• Man with ties to Boston bombing suspect admits role in 2011 murders; shot during FBI questioning

    John Raoux / AP

    An FBI investigator walks to the apartment where a man was shot by an FBI agent, on May 22, in Orlando, Fla.

    By Richard Esposito, Pete Williams and Matthew DeLuca, NBC News

    Dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and another man — who was killed by the FBI on Wednesday — murdered three people in Massachusetts after a drug deal went wrong in 2011, law enforcement sources tell NBC News.

    Sources say that what began as a drug ripoff ended in a triple homicide when Tsarnaev and friend Ibragim Todashev realized their victims would later be able to identify them.

    Todashev was killed by a federal agent while giving a statement on his role on Wednesday in Orlando, Fla.

    The man who was shot, Todashev, 27, allegedly attacked an agent with a knife while confessing to the 3-year-old slayings. He was not suspected of having played any role in the bombing that killed three people and injured scores more in April, but he did confess to being involved in a brutal Boston-area slaying two years ago, investigators said.

    AP Photo/Orange County Corrections Department

    In this May 4, 2013 police mug provided by the Orange County Corrections Department in Orlando, Fla., shows Ibragim Todashev after his arrest for aggravated battery in Orlando.

    Law enforcement officials said Todashev was being questioned as part of the FBI’s effort to find and talk to anyone who had any contact with Tsarnaev, the older bombing suspect killed in a shootout with police.

    The shooting occurred in the early morning hours on Wednesday, the FBI said in a statement.

    “The agent, two Massachusetts State Police troopers, and other law enforcement personnel were interviewing an individual in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation when a violent confrontation was initiated by the individual,” the statement said.

    “During the confrontation, the individual was killed and the agent sustained non-life threatening injuries,” according to the statement.

    It's not clear who shot Todashev, officials say, because -- while he was being questioned by an FBI agent -- officers from the Massachusetts state police and the Orlando police department were also present in the house where the interrogation was going on.

    Todashev, they say, had spent some time in the Boston area, where he was a mixed martial arts fighter, and knew Tsarnaev there.  Investigators say he confessed to the agent in Florida that he played a role in a triple murder in 2011 in which three men were discovered slain in an apartment in Waltham, Mass. 

    Brendan Mess, 25; Raphael Teken, 37; and Eric Weissman, 31, were found with their throats cut in September of 2011, and their bodies were covered with marijuana. No suspects had been arrested in that case.

    A spokesperson for the Middlesex County District Attorney’s office, which is investigating the three deaths, said that the office does not discuss ongoing investigations. Relatives for the three men did not immediately return requests for comment.

    Officials say FBI agents were questioning Todashev on Tuesday. He was cooperative at first, they say, but later that night, he attacked the agent with a knife, who shot and killed him. Officials say Todashev became violent as he was about to sign a written statement based on his confession.

    A man officials say knew the bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed in Orlando, Fla., when he allegedly attacked an FBI agent who traveled to Orlando to interview him. NBC's Pete Williams reports.

    The officials say Todashev had some connections with radical Chechen rebels, but they say it's not clear whether he had any role in radicalizing Tsarnaev.

    A friend of Todashev told NBC News affiliate WESH that he was being questioned along with the man who was shot due to their connections to the mixed martial arts community in Boston.

    “They were talking to us, both of us, right? And they said they need him for a little more, for a couple more hours, and I left, and they told me they’re going to bring him back. They never brought him back,” friend Khusn Taramiv, 27, told WESH.

    Todashev was arrested for aggravated battery on May 4, 2013 after getting into a fight over a parking spot with another man at Premium Outlets in Orlando, according to an Orange County Sheriff’s Office arrest affidavit.

    Todashev said that he pushed the other man after he “got into his face,” according to the affidavit. The man’s son then “came at him swinging,” Todashev told police. The 5’9”, 160-pound Todashev admitted to police that he was a former mixed martial arts fighter, according to the arrest affidavit.

    “This skill puts his fighting ability way above that of a normal person,” the arresting officer wrote in the affidavit.

    Todashev was transported to the booking and release center without incident, according to the affidavit. His Miranda warning was read but not invoked, the document says. He was released May 5 on a $3,500 surety bond, according to the Orange County Corrections Department.

    The man was born in Russia and had U.S. citizenship, according to the affidavit.

    A spokesman for the Orlando Police Department referred all questions regarding the shooting to the FBI.

    An FBI incident review team was dispatched from Washington, D.C., and was expected to arrive in Orlando within 24 hours, FBI Special Agent Dave Couvertier said on Wednesday morning.

    Todashev was also arrested in downtown Boston in 2010 following a fender bender involving his van and a car carrying two women. Todashev had to be restrained by witnesses after he aggressively confronted the women, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office told NBC affiliate WHDH. Witnesses said Todashev was clearly the aggressor, and there was physical contact between everyone involved.

    However, authorities say there were no injuries and no charges were pressed.

    Todashev had been in the country since 2006.

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    This story was originally published on Wed May 22, 2013 4:53 PM EDT

  • Ex-chairman of Republican Party of Florida gets 1.5 years in prison for stealing

    John Raoux / AP

    Former Florida GOP chairman Jim Greer, center, arrives at the Orange County Courthouse, with his wife Lisa, left, and attorney Damon Chase, right, for a sentencing hearing, Wednesday, March 27, in Orlando, Fla.

    By Mike Schneider, The Associated Press

    ORLANDO, Fla. — The former chairman of the Republican Party of Florida was sentenced Wednesday to one-and-a-half years for stealing $125,000 in party funds, completing the fall of a man who once was one of the most powerful political figures in the state.

    Jim Greer was sentenced in Orlando, more than a month after he pleaded guilty to four counts of theft and a single county of money laundering. The guilty pleas ended Greer's trial before it even started.

    Circuit Judge Marc Lubet handed down a sentence that was less severe than the three-and-a-half years in prison requested by prosecutors. Lubet explained that he went with a more lenient sentence because Greer had agreed to pay restitution.


    The trial had threatened to expose the underbelly of Florida's dominant political party and its formerly high-spending ways. Some of Florida's most powerful politicians were scheduled as witnesses, including former Gov. Charlie Crist, former U.S. Sen. George LeMieux, former Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum and several state House and state Senate leaders.

    Topics covered in pretrial depositions included allegations of prostitutes at a state GOP fundraiser in the Bahamas, the drinking habits of Crist and intraparty strife.

    Prosecutors said Greer funneled almost $200,000 to a company he had formed with his right-hand man, Delmar Johnson. He kept $125,000 of the money funneled to Victory Strategies for himself.

    Johnson had been scheduled to be prosecutors' star witness and was granted immunity in exchange for his testimony.

    Greer was vice mayor of the small central Florida town of Oviedo when Crist surprisingly picked him to be the state party chairman after he led local efforts to help Crist get elected governor in 2006. He previously was the president and CEO of a company that provides training to the hospitality industry on how to comply with alcohol laws.

    The plea arrangement was reached at the last minute. Jury selection was set to begin early last month, but neither Greer nor prosecutors had appeared in the courtroom an hour after the trial was supposed to start.

    Until he entered his guilty pleas, Greer had contended that party leaders, including Crist, knew about the financial arrangement that gave Greer's company a cut of party money in exchange for fundraising efforts. Greer had said he was targeted because of his support for Crist, who later defected from the GOP to run as an independent for U.S. Senate but lost to Rubio.

    Crist denied ever knowing about the arrangement.

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  • Carjackers, unable to drive stick shift, fail to steal Corvette

    By Isolde Raftery, Staff Writer, NBC News

    Randolph Bean of Oviedo, Fla., had pulled over late Sunday night to text message his wife when two would-be carjackers approached his sporty yellow Corvette.


    One, holding a gun, forced him to the ground while the other hopped in the driver’s seat, Bean, 51, told WKMG Local 6.

    But there was a problem: The aspiring carjacker didn’t know how to start Bean’s car, a 2002 Millennium Yellow Z06 Corvette. (The car, used, sells for about $19,000.)

    "The guy started screaming at me, 'How do I start the car?'" Bean told WKMG. Finally, the other guy, still holding Bean at gunpoint, hollered back, “It’s a stick!”

    “I had to tell him four different times that you have to push in the clutch because it’s a standard transmission,” Bean told myfoxorlando.com.

    The two assailants – Bean said they were handsome young men -- ultimately ran away with his phone, wallet and keys. The wallet, he said, was special because his wife made it.

    “My first thought was I guess we don’t have driver’s ed in school anymore because no one knows how to drive a stick,” he told myfoxorlando.com. “And my second thing was, ‘Don’t shoot me because you can’t start the car! I am trying to help you out here.’”

  • Casey Anthony reportedly mulling legal career


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    Casey Anthony in 2011

    By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News

    Casey Anthony's long road through the U.S. justice system has inspired her to consider a new career path: Becoming a paralegal, according to one of her lawyers.

    Anthony already knows a good deal about the criminal justice system.  She was thrust into the national spotlight when her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, disappeared from their Orlando, Fla., home in 2008.

    The toddler's body was found that December and despite Anthony's initial tale of a kidnapping babysitter, the mother was later considered the number one suspect and spent various stints behind bars on charges related to the investigation.

    But in July 2011 -- after a trial full of bombshells and intense media attention -- a jury found her not guilty in her daughter's murder, yet convicted her of lying about Caylee's disappearance. A poll at the time ranked Anthony as America's "most hated woman." 

    Anthony, who has received death threats since her trial began, has been in hiding. After she was acquitted of murder but convicted of lying to police, she got credit for the three years of time she served behind bars, and was free to leave; however, she still has a number of civil lawsuits pending against her, which may prevent her from moving beyond Florida state lines.

    Now, with just $1,100 worth of assets to her name, according to a recent bankruptcy filing, Anthony is considering ways to start making money.

    "She would like to get a job, I can assure you, but she can't work at McDonald's. People would be looking at her instead of at the menu," one of her attorneys, Charles Greene, told ABCNews.com on Monday, several days after Anthony filed for bankruptcy protection in Orlando, Fla.

    Greene said Anthony, who hasn't worked for the past four years and is nearly $800,000 in debt, might want to become a paralegal in the future.

    "She's better than many paralegals I know," he told ABCNews.com. "She could be a paralegal or something like that right away. She is very organized, a very intelligent, very computer savvy person, so I think her skills and her desire may lie somewhere in that field."

    Greene wouldn't comment on her whereabouts. The most recent sighting the public got of Anthony was in the form of a video diary she had put online, reportedly without the approval of her attorneys, in January 2012.

    Anthony may take some more time before she tries to pursue a career, her attorney said, but she "believes strongly in our justice system." 

    "You don't go from the most hated woman in the world, according to some media outlets, to being a normal person or being able to live a normal life," Greene said. "I'm not saying she's not a normal person, but people do not perceive her as a normal person."

    There are no plans for Anthony to write a "tell-all book" or "tell-all movie," he said.

    "The events are very private and Miss Anthony is still yet to come to terms with them and they're still so emotional, so emotionally traumatic for her," he said. "There's just moments she breaks down and starts crying when she starts thinking about it. It's nothing she's going to talk about. She's a very private person and she won't let people see that side of her either. She'll put up a tough face."

    Of the approximately $792,000 that Anthony is in debt for, $500,000 is owed to her defense attorney, Jose Baez; $100,000 of it is to search and rescue organization Texas EquuSearch, which is suing her for $100,000 for the time it spent searching for Caylee; and the rest of the money is to the IRS and Florida law enforcement. 

    Anthony is also being sued by the woman she claimed had kidnapped Caylee and a former meter reader who found Caylee's body, who says Anthony's attorneys portrayed him as a potential murderer.

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  • Casey Anthony case: Florida court throws out two of four charges

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    Casey Anthony smiles before the start of her sentencing hearing in Orlando, Fla., on July 7, 2011.

    By Vignesh Ramachandran, Staff Writer, NBC News

    A Florida appeals court Friday tossed two of the four charges against Casey Anthony that were centered around the Florida mother's alleged lies to authorities after her 2-year-old daughter disappeared.

    Anthony, 26, was acquitted of major charges in a highly publicized case in 2011, after spending three years in jail awaiting trial on a murder charge.

    Her daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, disappeared in 2008, and months later, authorities found the 2-year-old's body in the woods near the Orlando-area Anthony family home. Though she was acquitted of the murder charge, Casey Anthony was convicted of four counts of lying to police. She was sentenced to time served.

    Previous story: Casey Anthony appealing convictions for lying

    The Fifth District Court of Appeal on Friday upheld two of the lying convictions, but concluded that two others should be set aside because of double jeopardy.


    Lawyers for Anthony had argued the four lies should only be considered one offense, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Double jeopardy means being convicted twice for a single crime, not permitted under the law. However, state prosecutors had argued that each of Anthony's false statements were separate offenses, so double jeopardy was not violated, according to the newspaper.

    "Where there is a sufficient temporal break between two alleged criminal acts so as to have allowed a defendant time to pause, reflect and form a new criminal intent, a separate criminal episode will have occurred," the judges said, according to the AP.

    Read Friday's entire opinion from the court

    In August, Anthony completed one year of probation at a secret location for a check fraud charge.

    From the archives, Aug. 2012: Casey Anthony off probation; lawyer fears for her safety

  • Casey Anthony's lawyers argue she was wrongly convicted of lying

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    Casey Anthony smiles before the start of her sentencing hearing in Orlando, Fla., on July 7, 2011.

    By Barbara Liston, Reuters

    Lawyers for Casey Anthony -- the Florida mother found not guilty in the murder of her 2-year-old daughter -- argued to a state appeals court on Tuesday that Anthony should not have been convicted of lying to police because she had not been advised of her right to remain silent.

    Anthony, 26, was acquitted of major charges in 2011 in the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Marie Anthony, who disappeared in 2008 and whose body was found months later in the woods near the Anthony home in the Orlando area. 

    Though she was acquitted of the murder charge, Casey Anthony was convicted of four counts of lying to police and had been sentenced to a maximum of four years in prison.

    Anthony was convicted of lying to a detective when she said she left Caylee on or about June 9, 2008, with a nanny named Zenaida Fernandez-Gonzalez at the Sawgrass Apartments in Orlando. She was also convicted of lying when she claimed she was employed at Universal Studios, had told Universal co-workers that Caylee was missing, and later received a phone call from Caylee.

    Anthony was nowhere to be seen Tuesday, when her lawyers entered a Daytona Beach, Fla. court for the afternoon hearing before the Fifth District Court of Appeal, NBC affiliate WESH of Orlando reported.

    A three-judge appellate panel did not rule Tuesday and didn't specify when a decision would come down, the Orlando Sentinel reported.


    Lawyers for Anthony argue the four lies should be considered one offense, since the statements were made during extended interrogation by detectives, Reuters reported. They also argue that jurors shouldn't have heard Anthony's statements to detectives during the initial investigation, according to Reuters. Her lawyers say that's because her lawyers had not been advised of her right to remain silent.

    In August, Anthony completed one year of probation at a secret location for a check fraud charge.

    From the archives: Casey Anthony off probation; lawyer fears for her safety

    Reuters contributed to this report.

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  • Ketchup confrontation over Philly cheesesteak sandwich at Subway

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    A Florida man just wanted ketchup on his Philly cheesesteak sandwich at Subway. When he didn't get it, a confrontation with the sandwich maker ensued, leading to a 911 call.


    Now-former Subway employee Lawrence Ordone told TV station WFTV he was working behind the counter at the sandwich restaurant in an Orlando Walmart on New Year's night, when a man ordered a Philly cheesesteak.

    "He (the customer) wants ketchup on the Philly cheesesteak and I have never put -- we don't even have ketchup at Subway -- I've never put ketchup on anybody's sandwich," Ordone told WFTV.

    The restaurant chain -- famed for its "$5 footlongs" and diet commercials with "Subway Guy" Jared Fogle -- does not offer ketchup, according to a menu on the Subway website. Only condiments like mustard, mayo, vinegar and oil are available.

    When the customer, Luis Martinez, rejected the ketchup-free sandwich, another customer in line offered to buy it, WFTV reported.

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    It's disputed what exactly happened next. Ordone claims Martinez mouthed off to the customer, so he came around the counter, and he told WFTV he felt threatened when Martinez said he had "something" for him and walked toward his car.

    Martinez claims Ordone threatened to kill him in front of his wife and called 911, WFTV reported.

    "I was scared," Martinez told WFTV. "Next thing, I'm thinking a gun's going to come out."

    By the time the police arrived, Ordone reportedly had fled the scene.

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    Whatever the details, Ordone said he regrets his actions that led to his dismissal. "You can go buy your own ketchup, and I promise to God, you can put as much as you want on it and nobody's going to say nothing," he told WFTV.

    A spokesperson at Subway's corporate headquarters did not immediately return NBC News' request for comment Friday.

    (Hear it in their own words: Ordone and Martinez separately tell their sides of the story to WFTV.)

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  • SeaWorld defends its employees after dolphin bites Georgia girl's hand

    Jillian Thomas, 8, suffered puncture wounds from a dolphin bite at SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla., as she was feeding the animal. SeaWorld says Jillian did not follow directions given by a park employee. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

    By NBC News staff

    SeaWorld is defending the actions of its employees in Orlando, Fla., after an 8-year-old girl from Georgia was injured by a dolphin.


    Jillian Thomas of Alpharetta was participating in the feeding at the dolphin facility Nov. 21. When she held a paper fish container up  so the dolphin could grab it, the animal lunged at her and bit her hand. Her father, Jamie Thomas, captured the attack on camera. The video shows the girl’s face contorting in pain as the dolphin briefly grabs her left hand.

    Jillian suffered three puncture wounds, but her mother said she didn't think park employees took her injuries seriously.

    In a statement, SeaWorld officials said they addressed the incident appropriately.

    "Nothing is more important to us than the health and safety of our guests, employees and animals," the statement said.

    "Educators and animal care staff were at the attraction when this happened and immediately connected with the family. In addition, a member of our health services team was in the area at Dolphin Cove and quickly responded and treated the young girl.

    "The video had not been previously shared with us and we have not had a chance to assess it, but certainly take the situation seriously."

    Food for the dolphins comes on small trays. In a video from the exhibit, an announcer warns visitors not to hold them up, as the dolphins will reach for them.

    In the video, Jillian can clearly be seen picking up the tray, but her mother claims she never heard the warning.

    SeaWorld said guests are given clear instructions on how to feed the dolphins, including specific directions not to pick up the paper trays.

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  • Florida mailman accused of delivering cocaine on mail route

     

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    A postal employee was arrested in Orlando, Fla., on charges he was delivering cocaine while on his mail route, the Orlando Sentinel reported.


    Robert Hunt Jr., 24, was arrested Thursday following an investigation by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service that began last week.

    According to the Sentinel, inspectors at an Orlando processing and distribution center found four parcels suspected of containing drugs.

    Three of the parcels did not have a specific apartment number, only street addresses. A narcotics K-9 alerted investigators the packages contained drugs, the newspaper reported, adding that the cocaine had been shipped from Puerto Rico to Orlando.

    On Sept. 7, authorities watched Hunt as he drove on his carrier route to an apartment complex in Orlando, where he began delivering mail to the boxes.

    A car pulled up, and Hunt took the four packages to the men inside, Hector Roman-Diaz and Ernesto Rodriguez-Jimenez. According to the newspaper, he was then handed $800 by Rodriguez-Jimenez.

    All three men were arrested and remain jailed.

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  • Wife: NY man was acting bizarrely before faking his drowning

    By Louis Casiano, NBC News

    The wife of a man who was thought to have drowned in the waters off Long Island, N.Y., but turned up several states away days later, said at a news conference Friday that she found emails in which he discussed faking his death, NBCNewYork.com reported.

     


    Evana Roth said her husband, Raymond Roth, and his 22-year-old son, Jonathan, corresponded through email and by phone before and during his disappearance July 28, supposedly while swimming at Jones Beach.

    She previously told the New York Post she didn't find out Roth was alive until seeing an email that Jonathan had received from his father.

    NBCNewYork.com reported that Roth had put his Massapequa home up for sale a week before he disappeared.

    One email provided to the media tells Jonathan to call and update him on developments in New York, but to be cautious.

    “There needs to be a way for me to find out how things are going. Call me Sunday night at 8 p.m. at the resort. You cannot call from your phone,’’ he said. “Go to a pay phone or borrow your friends phone.”

    According to NBCNewYork.com, one email suggested Roth didn't think too highly of his wife.

    “DO NOT allow that ... to give the house away,’’ Roth wrote to his son. 

    “While I was crying and thinking he had drowned, he was vacationing in a resort and having a drink in the pool," she told the paper.

    Evana Roth described her husband's behavior leading up to his disappearance as bizarre.

    The Post reported that Roth lost his job as a computer manager after threatening to shoot two supervisors who had demoted him. The incident led to police confiscating a handgun he owned.

    She told the Post that he had tripled his life insurance policy in January, then withdrew money from all her accounts and revised his will.  She said she was not sure who was named as the beneficiary on the policy.

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    She said the day that he disappeared, he told her was going to his mother's house. After a few hours, the younger Roth called and said his dad went into the water at Jones Beach and never came out. Police confirmed that Jonathan Roth placed a 911 call and reported his father as missing.

    Officials launched an air and sea search last Saturday that lasted for five days.

    Then on Wednesday, Roth's brother notified police he had received a call from Roth saying he was in Florida.

    Once Evana Roth discovered the emails, she called her brother-in-law, who then called police in Orlando. Officers there checked out an address Roth may have been staying at, but came up empty.

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    Then Roth was stopped for speeding in South Carolina on Thursday morning.

    During a routine check of his license, the officer learned he was listed as a missing person and notified police in New York.

    He told the officer he was on his way back to New York and would talk with police once he returns.

    Roth has still not returned home. His whereabouts are unknown.

    But his wife said she had been hearing from him by texts and phone calls since word came that he was alive. NBCNewYork.com's account of texts she shared:

    A text she received Thursday night read: "It didn't work out the way I thought it would. I did it for you."

    Friday morning he texted her: "What is going on?  Heard you are having a press conference.  Be Nice. Almost 15 years together." 

    After the press conference, Roth said she received another text from her husband: "Now you're not ever speaking to me again."  

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  • Report: Homeless man scammed luxury hotel stays at others' expense

    By msnbc.com staff

    A homeless man is accused by police of living the high life in hotels, racking up thousands of dollars on other people’s credit cards, according to a report in Florida.

    Drifter David Price was arrested on Friday and is being held at the Orange County Jail in Orlando, according to WTFV.

    The station said Price would apparently watch hotel guests leave their rooms before slipping inside and claiming to be the guest, calling the front desk and extending the stay, sometimes by 10 days.

    Despite being homeless for two years, he had managed to stay at others’ expense in top hotels including The Ritz Carlton, Hard Rock Hotel and Loews Portofino Bay. 

    At the latter, Price allegedly racked up nearly $9,000 in charges on the credit card of Ohio man Joseph Barak, WFTV said.

     “I don’t know how he got in my room, how he got my debit card.  But he got like the best wines, the best restaurants, room service.  He got clothes and the whole ball of wax,” said Barak, was later able to get his money back.

    Police reports indicate that investigators at Walt Disney World have also looked into possible fraud by Price, the station said.

    The report could not immediately be confirmed with local police.

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  • Guess the most porn-crazy city in America (hint: M-I-C, K-E-Y ...)

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    By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com

    When it comes to porn, there's nothing Mickey Mouse about the hometown of Disney World.

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    In its April edition, Men's Health magazine ranks the nation's 100 "smuttiest" U.S. cities. Not only did Orlando, Fla. — home to Walt Disney World and SeaWorld — finish No. 1, but Florida headed the list of smuttiest states.

    Read the full article at Men's Health

    "It seems that while tourists line up at a kid-friendly fantasy world, the locals prefer one in which Snow White and the dwarfs whistle while they... well, you know," the magazine offered.

    Tampa, Fla. — where the Republican National Convention will take place this summer — came in at No. 8. But Democrats shouldn't make fun. The home of their convention — Charlotte, N.C. — is No. 5.

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    Men's Health said it based its rankings on the number of X-rated DVDs bought, rented or streamed, as compiled by AdultDVDEmpire.com; the number of adult entertainment stores per city, as monitored by StorErotica.net; the rate of porn searches, via Google; and the percentage of households that subscribe to Cinemax, the bluest of the cable movie networks.

    The Top 10:
    1. Orlando, Fla.
    2. Las Vegas
    3. Wilmington, Del.
    4. Raleigh, N.C.
    5. Charlotte, N.C.
    6. Minneapolis
    7. Atlanta
    8. Tampa, Fla.
    9. Anchorage, Alaska
    10. Austin, Texas

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