It looks like the links to lookups expire rather quickly, the first winner is Gary Anthony Braggs, and he is locked up for burglary on an occupied dwelling, and drug possession.
My wife awoke me one night as Mr. Braggs was trying to make his way in our bedroom window. I armed myself and my wife grabbed a can of spray paint and we took up positions on either side of the window. We didn't want the loser to get away, but we also did not want to shoot an unarmed person, that’s where the spray paint came in.
So we watched this guy climb on the back of my pickup which was backed up to our apartment bedroom window, then he unscrewed the bulbs on the motion detector lights we installed, then proceeded to try to pry the window up.
By this time about five minutes had passed and my wife suggested we call 911, I was primed for immediate action so The thought never crossed my mind. So she went to get the phone While I waited for Mr. Braggs. She handed me the phone, and I started to whisper the situation to the dispatcher, who kept saying what, what? So at that point I my wife, who was trying to quietly shake the paint can, which is pretty funny in retrospect, and I moved to the other side of the room, so I could speak up and she could get the paint can shook up.
The guy outside, having no luck with the prying starts to bang the window with his hands, apparently trying to break it. I had recently tinted the windows and I surmise that this gave them a little more strength.
After a few more minutes, a super bright light silloutes the guy who is spread eagle across the window, perhaps trying to hold it on the top of the frame while pulling up on the bottom window. So the guy disappears backwards suddenly off the window, like a tree frog snagged by an owl, I hear thumping and tumbling sounds outside, the dispatcher is screaming on the phone for me to put down my gun, and a gentle knock on the front door followed by a calm measured voice saying "all clear, you can come out when ever your are ready."
So I put some clothes on and follow the officer around back where I see Mr. Braggs handcuffed on the floor and apparently trying to give me the tough guy don't f w me evil eye, which was totally ineffective from his face down handcuffed position.
here is the link for as long as it lasts.
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/ActiveInmates/detail.asp?Bookmark=3&From=list&SessionID=940651072
Gary Anthony Braggs, prison number 402808
Our next guest of the state, Mr. John Linder and his two friends and a one Hooker, allegedly, (trial is still pending) broke into my apartment while I was off hunting, and my wife was staying the weekend at a friends house. He stole all the firearms in the apartment, my computer and various other goodies. My wife and I, being rather relentless, and having no luck w the police, went door to door to every single residence with in about a half mile of our house and explained what had happened to everybody we could, eventually we found out a thing or two, stayed up some late nights spoke to a few ladies of the evening and found the temporary residence of at least two of the perps. So for the next three days, we called the Police Station six times a day, and got no satisfaction. We eventually found out that the case had not even been assigned to a detective yet. So after a few more days of this, about 01:30 in the morning , about 30 minutes after our 13:00 hours call to the police station, a detective called us back. He arranged to come by our apartment, and when we explained the story to him, he said well lets go get them right now. So we did, He brang up pictures on his laptop, stopped by the check in desk to check the registry, and picked up a witness who confirmed identities and such. Shortly there after, he and many other officers and cop doggies knocked gently on the aforementioned hotel room, politely asked to look around, was granted access (why do baddies always hang themselves?) and found drugs up the wazoo, but none of my stuff. By this time the baddies outside had about confessed themselves to death. One of them was a first timer, and the other had about five pages on his rap sheet.
So, off to jail w them.
The head baddie, Mr. Linder, was out so the detective left his card with the desk clerk with instructions to call when he came back.
After about a week of calling only once every other day, the detective calls me and says I need to come down and identify my stuff. So I walk in and there it all is, guns, tools, computer etc. There was even one extra gun, a nice browning .45 but I had to admit it wasn’t mine. The detective told me he and his team had spent the week running from the guys mom's house to his girl friends house, to his brothers house and various other places tracking the guy down.
At my interview with the state attorney career criminals division, the prosecutor said the hotel clerk had given Mr. Linder the detective's card and he had walked into the police station trying to find out what was up, even had to wait about an hour for the detective to come out.
Funny thing, when the found my tool boxes, they were filled with drugs, and Mr. Linder claimed that they were in there when he stole them from me. Mr. Linder is serving a twenty year sentence, half in half out, he was on the second half of his sentence, serving the ten years on the outside, and then he was to start parole. He was occupying himself while on the outside, running a group of hookers out of the hotel, selling large amount of drugs, and apparently the occasion B and E. He and his two buds are now in Dade county Jail awaiting trial. The cops have no interest in finding the hooker who drove their getaway car.
I now have a few safes bolted to the floor and reinforced doorways. Mr. Braggs came along to our back window a few weeks after Mr. Linder and his posse, so we were on a heightened level of alert. We told Mr. Braggs’ prosecutor that we wanted to know how he came to target our place, she did not give a crap and made a deal with out notifying us, se la vie. One day soon I will drive up to his place of incarceration and ask him myself.
Mr. Linder is potentially facing a life sentence.
John W Linder dc number 067391
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/InmateReleases/detail.asp?Bookmark=10&From=list&SessionID=81133358
