Pit Bulls Get a Second Chance: blogpost Aug. 26th, 2010

Last month, a Plant City man was arrested and eight pit bull dogs he had used for dog fighting were seized from behind his home. According to police, James Carter Jr.'s dogs lived in a blood stained kennel and they had been in dogfighting bouts stretching from Miami to New Jersey. One of the dogs was missing its entire upper lip. Others were missing teeth and were scarred, or suffered from apparent neurological damage that caused their heads to bob and weave. None had a name.

Plant City Murderer Pleads Guilty: blogpost Aug. 10th, 2010

To escape the death sentence, Ben Wibben plead guilty on April 9th, 2009 to shooting a Plant City couple execution-style in their home office in 2005.

In 2005, 25 year old high-school drop-out Ben Wibben had promised his girlfriend he'd get her a used Mitsubishi 3000GT. Wibben found one on the Internet for sale in Plant City. When Wibben's bad check was detected by 26 year old Heather Kaiser and her 37 year old husband Darren (who ran an Internet used car business out of their house), Wibben shot them in the head as they sat at their desks. Wibben then took the car and two laptops. Wibben's girlfriend has since committed suicide.

Stabbing Suspect Drank Victim's Blood: blogpost Aug. 4th, 2010

According to an eyewitness, Mauricio Mendez Lopez (who lives in Bartow, the next town over) stabbed his roommate to death Sunday night Aug. 1 2010, then raised a plastic cup he had filled with the victim's blood and drank it.

Plant City Driver Intentionally Runs Over Man With Car, Killing Him: blogpost July 26th, 2010

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The map (above) shows the quiet street in Plant City where an accused killer lives. On Friday night, a pedestrian, only identified (so far) as a white male, was walking on the sidewalk near Aaron's Furniture in Tampa when he was struck by a red Ford Thunderbird.The driver of the Thunderbird has been identified. He's my neighbor, William Charles White Jr. Based on witness statements, there was an altercation between White and the dead man. White has been charged with first degree murder.

Lottery Winner Murdered and Buried Under a Plant City House: blogpost July 22nd, 2010

After Abraham Shakespeare, a day laborer and 7th grade dropout, won a $31 million lottery prize in 2006, his luck didn't hold. Hounded by hangers-on, Shakespeare told his brother "I'd have been better off broke." In early 2009 Abraham Shakespeare disappeared. Months later someone pretending to be Shakespeare (a woman named DeeDee Moore?) wrote to Shakespeare's mother saying: I've left town because the police are after me me, but I'm OK. This letter was disturbing to Shakespeare's mom because she knew her son could not read or write. In January 2010, police working from a tip, excavated beneath a slab of concrete in a Plant City backyard (behind 5732 State Road 60) and found Abraham Shakespeare's remains.

Shunda-K Gigs in Europe: blogpost July 22nd, 2010

Plant City Rapper Shunda-K is on a world tour. Tonight (July 22nd, 2010) she's in Zurich, Switzerland at the Hive Club and tomorrow she's in Grafenhainichen, Germany at the Splash Festival w/ Missy Elliot and the Wu Tang Clan.

Len Lye Experimental Film: blogpost July 15th, 2010

If you can't see the video, click on the header to this post (above) and watch an animation that the artist Len Lye made in 1958 by scratching on film stock.