Cops: Suspect in South Miami-Dade cat killings detailed how to ...6 Jul 2009 by Annuit coeptis  
Miami-Dade police detectives concluded that Weinman fits the bill of a “sociopath”. Weinman, accused of killing and mutilating 19 cats in South Miami-Dade, was formally charged Monday in Miami-Dade court. ... The tool was impounded; Weinman was arrested for marijuana possession. • During that arrest, Weinman claimed he got prominent scratches on his body from feeding a stray cat at his mother's house; he eagerly showed the scratches off to detectives. • Police outfitted ...
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Arrest Affidavit Calls Suspected Cat Killer “A Sociopath ...8 Jul 2009
The tool was impounded. Weinman was arrested for marijuana possession. • During that arrest, officers noticed a ”prominent red-colored scratch across the right side of Weinman's neck.” He claimed it came from feeding a stray cat at his mother's house ... ”The cat climbed down my back,” Weinman told Miami-Dade Detective Dominick Columbro. • Police attached an electronic tracking device to his car that pinpointed him in the immediate area of one killing reported June 6. ...
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Cat Killer's Arrest Affidavit Made Public :: Florida Criminal ...10 Jul 2009
Broward criminal attorney William Moore has been following the cat killer saga since it began several months ago, when Miami-Dade residents in the communities of Palmetto Bay and Cutler Bay began, tragically, to find their pet cats tortured , mutilated, ... In May, Weinman was stopped in his car and eventually arrested for possession of marijuana as a result of the stop. Police impounded his car and found a cutting tool they believe was used in the mutilations. ...
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Man or Maniac?: Remember My Stolen Car?29 Apr 2009 by CLJ  
The reason I bring this up is that this morning the Miami-Dade Police called to tell me that my car has been found. All I could get out of them is that it had been called in by a security guard who found it "on the property. ... The police impounded the car and tried to charge the owners the fees. There is a law that says victim can't be charged. Granted, the police had the vehicle in that case. Research past Help Me Howard cases and you might find it. ...
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Something... and Half of Something: Jungle Boogie6 Jul 2009 by LindaSoG  
If and when they find the guns, they will be impounded, and we will all be a little safer. As for the men who were forced to use them, well, if and when they are found, they will likely be booked, photographed, and released, because prosection and incarceration costs so much ... Do those poor cops on the Miami Police Force have any idea of the danger they are in by simply packing one, just what can they do if one of them crawls under the car seat and can't be coaxed out? ...
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Police Cruiser Partitions15 May 2009 by Steven Crowell  
Officers found out that he had a suspended license so he was handcuffed, and his white Camaro was impounded. While in the back of the squad car, the suspect maneuvered his cuffs to the front of his body and drove away. ... Originally published in The Florida Jury Verdict Review and Analysis (143035)Miami-Dade County – “The defendant argued that it was unforeseeable that the perpetrator could have squeezed out of the locked back seat of the police car into the front seat ...
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Teen pleads not guilty to killing cats - On Deadline - USATODAY.com6 Jul 2009 by Anne Willette  
Police say a Florida teenager who is accused of killing and mutilating 19 cats in two south Miami neighborhoods fits the profile of a sociopath, the Miami Herald reports. Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, has pleaded not guilty to 19 counts each of animal cruelty and improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary related to the cat deaths. During his arraignment today in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, prosecutors made public a 10-page...
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Alleged Cat Serial Killer Pleads “Not Guilty” | Cat-aholic.com7 Jul 2009 by christy  
The Miami Herald reported that Weinman fits the profile of a sociopath. During his arraignment in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, prosecutors made public a 10-page arrest affidavit. Among the evidence, according to The Herald: ... Police outfitted an electronic tracking device to his car that placed him in the immediate area of one killing on June 6. • The teen, at length, described dissecting cats, which he learned during an anatomy class at Palmetto Senior High. ...
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Hit & Run > Offer a Ride, Lose Your Car - Reason Magazine19 May 2008 by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (Radley Balko)  
“There's all kinds of possibilities, but the fact of this particular case, what our enforcement officers witnessed — because we had several on the scene, plus a Miami-Dade police officer — and all the information came back the same, ..... On the way they were stopped by INS (fuck that ICE stuff, they just made that up so they'd sound cool) and it turned out that his neighbor of ten years was illegal. Arrested, charged with transporting illegals, and had his car impounded. ...
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