TOP STORIES - Two Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office colonels resign following allegations of academic cheating within the department. In Tampa, an 8-year-old is hospitalized after being struck by a car while getting off a school bus. Meanwhile, Bradenton city officials urge residents to stop flushing trash after a rise in costly sewer blockages.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, what else we have gone on this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So two colonels at the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office have resigned
amid an internal investigation into academic cheating allegations. The Sheriff's
Office confirmed that Colonel Christopher Rule and Michael Hanniford entered
their resignation's effective immediately back on October seventeenth. Now, Rule
is under investigation for hiring a man named Robert Rouch
(00:23):
to write a research paper for a class with the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and Hanniford's being investigated for
paying Rausch to write a report relating to a project. Now,
Hanniford supervised the Department of Patrol Services, while Rule oversaw
the Department of Support Services. The resignation's part of a
wave of incidents at the Sheriff's Office involved in cheating.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Former Chief Deputy Anthony Collins resigned. He was the one
who admitted to cheating while at the National FBI Academy.
And then there was another person also resigned shortly after that.
And now you have these two kernels bringing into question
what's going on with sheriff coronist Yeah and his administration.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Feels like, you know, one of the first big scandals
that Sheriff Coronister has had to deal with. This magnet
respect Yeah, well liked uh does a pretty good job,
but this is a problem.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And honestly, I questioned.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
The the intelligence of these individuals who paid someone to
write something for them if they're not heard of chatch.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Ept twenty bucks a month and totally get it to
do anything you want.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, exactly, I let's get it together. It's twenty twenty five.
Who's paying anybody to cheat these days? You just go
on chat ept and haven't do it for you? Well,
at least they got somebody to do it for real.
I guess your human somehow, I'm telling you AI was
mixed in somehow.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, bottom line, what's problem on?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know, why can't these guys you know, handle that
themselves as a question and are these competent people high
levels at the Sheriff's office. So an eight year old
boy was hit by a car while getting off a
school bus on Friday. Police say it happened just after
four o'clock at the intersection of East Yukon Street and
Greenwood Avenue. The driver of a black Lexus Sedan tried
(02:15):
to pass the stop school bus as its stop lights
were deploying. So you can imagine the bus is just
starting to move out the blinking lights. Yeah, and this
car decides it's going to go for it. The problem
is the child was just getting off the bus, was
knocked to the ground, his head hit the pavement and
(02:36):
had to be taken to a nearby hospital. Fortunately, the
injuries are not life threatening. Meanwhile, the driver of the
Lexus did stay at the scene and was sighted for
failing to stop for a school bus.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
So here's the thing, this is what I have a
little trouble understanding. The kid managed to get off the
bus before the stop signs were fully deployed.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, I wonder if if if the stop sign has
a little bit of a delay or something. Yeah, I
guess it just opens the door right away and the
kids right in the front.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right yeah, ready to go, takes off. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I mean that's just so sad.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
The timing of it does seem a little bit weird.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
If I see a school bus that stops, yeah, I'm
not going to get anywhere near it. And the reason is,
I know people have gotten these camera tickets just for
like rolling near the bus, like they didn't even think
they had violated any rules. If you don't stop, like
the cameras know they're going to look at your car.
And uh so this guy trying to uh you know,
(03:34):
gun it past them.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Trying to beat the bus. He had a good idea.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And I don't know if the if the punishment a
ticket or whatever is, you know, matches the incident that
happened here, there might be more.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
It's probably going to be cited for something more than yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, but I mean, obviously, you know this is a
serious thing. I mean, you know, these buses are there
with kids and if they stop and the lights are
coming on, just stop.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You know what's the problem.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
This is why they put the cameras on the bus
exactly because the stuff like this.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So be careful what you flush down the toilet. I
love this, especially if it's not number one or number two.
Keep things like mop heads, candy wrappers, toys, canned food
and other items wigs.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Out of your toilet.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
According to Brandonson, the services there they have had a
really tough time. Yeah, they're trying to keep the system
working properly because people are like using the toilets as
some sort of like you know, magic disappearing machine.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's been a problem now.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You see oftentimes in public restrooms, you see you know,
don't flush paper towels down the toilet or something like that.
But I mean the stuff they're talking about, Yeah, hair wigs, dentures,
feminine products.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Flushing those down the toilet.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
All kinds of stuff, and yeah, it's causing big problems.
There was one incident where a bunch of rags were
flushed down the toilet, and I guess the rags had
some kind of information where they were able to track
back where the rags came from.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh, like a business name something.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, come on, you gotta be I
don't think people do that at home.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's it's when you're in public people don't care.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So our toilet was clogged in our house a long
time ago, when I was still married, and when my
husband at the time went to like plunge it and
get whatever was in there out of it, the like
you know when you have like a soap bottle, like
the nozzle thing, like, oh yeah, somehow that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Was in our toilet. We have no idea how it
got there.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So it must have been one of the kids. Funny
tried to flush it and it got stuck it however
it was he got it out.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Like, what makes you think you can get a diaper down.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
To I don't know, goldfish you know, fish dead pad,
you can't you you know, that's all right, that's an exception.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So, yeah, we're talking stuff that it would actually claw toilet.
And you know items that are just not like, for example,
a goldfish or you know other those are like living organic.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Toilet. Yeah, yes, those are like organic things that break down.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Right, It's these like objects that just sit in there
and clog the toilet, and you know what can happen
is they reach other parts of the pipes that have
other objects and then you have a huge backup that
builds up.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, so if you're gonna throw out your wig, put
it in the trash, not in the toilet.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Chris Trankman with today's Stop Stories. Chris, thanks so much,
Thank you. The Ryan Gorman Show five to nine every
weekday morning on news RADIOW WoT U f l A
All right, what else we have gone on this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:01):
So two colonels at the Hillsborough Sheriff's Office have resigned
amid an internal investigation into academic cheating allegations. The Sheriff's
Office confirmed that Colonel Christopher Rule and Michael Hanniford entered
their resignation's effective immediately back on October seventeenth. Now, Rule
is under investigation for hiring a man named Robert Rouch
(00:23):
to write a research paper for a class with the
Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and Hanniford's being investigated for
paying Rausch to write a report relating to a project. Now,
Hanniford supervised the Department of Patrol Services, while Rule oversaw
the Department of Support Services. The resignation's part of a
wave of incidents at the Sheriff's Office involved in cheating.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Former Chief Deputy Anthony Collins resigned. He was the one
who admitted to cheating while at the National FBI Academy.
And then there was another person also resigned shortly after that.
And now you have these two kernels bringing into question
what's going on with sheriff coronist Yeah and his administration.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Feels like, you know, one of the first big scandals
that Sheriff Coronister has had to deal with. This magnet
respect Yeah, well liked uh does a pretty good job,
but this is a problem.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
And honestly, I questioned.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
The the intelligence of these individuals who paid someone to
write something for them if they're not heard of chatch.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Ept twenty bucks a month and totally get it to
do anything you want.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah, exactly, I let's get it together. It's twenty twenty five.
Who's paying anybody to cheat these days? You just go
on chat ept and haven't do it for you? Well,
at least they got somebody to do it for real.
I guess your human somehow, I'm telling you AI was
mixed in somehow.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Well, bottom line, what's problem on?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You know, why can't these guys you know, handle that
themselves as a question and are these competent people high
levels at the Sheriff's office. So an eight year old
boy was hit by a car while getting off a
school bus on Friday. Police say it happened just after
four o'clock at the intersection of East Yukon Street and
Greenwood Avenue. The driver of a black Lexus Sedan tried
(02:15):
to pass the stop school bus as its stop lights
were deploying. So you can imagine the bus is just
starting to move out the blinking lights. Yeah, and this
car decides it's going to go for it. The problem
is the child was just getting off the bus, was
knocked to the ground, his head hit the pavement and
(02:36):
had to be taken to a nearby hospital. Fortunately, the
injuries are not life threatening. Meanwhile, the driver of the
Lexus did stay at the scene and was sighted for
failing to stop for a school bus.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
So here's the thing, this is what I have a
little trouble understanding. The kid managed to get off the
bus before the stop signs were fully deployed.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Yeah, I wonder if if if the stop sign has
a little bit of a delay or something. Yeah, I
guess it just opens the door right away and the
kids right in the front.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Right yeah, ready to go, takes off. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
I mean that's just so sad.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (03:12):
The timing of it does seem a little bit weird.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
If I see a school bus that stops, yeah, I'm
not going to get anywhere near it. And the reason is,
I know people have gotten these camera tickets just for
like rolling near the bus, like they didn't even think
they had violated any rules. If you don't stop, like
the cameras know they're going to look at your car.
And uh so this guy trying to uh you know,
(03:34):
gun it past them.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Trying to beat the bus. He had a good idea.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
And I don't know if the if the punishment a
ticket or whatever is, you know, matches the incident that
happened here, there might be more.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
It's probably going to be cited for something more than yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, but I mean, obviously, you know this is a
serious thing. I mean, you know, these buses are there
with kids and if they stop and the lights are
coming on, just stop.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You know what's the problem.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
This is why they put the cameras on the bus
exactly because the stuff like this.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
So be careful what you flush down the toilet. I
love this, especially if it's not number one or number two.
Keep things like mop heads, candy wrappers, toys, canned food
and other items wigs.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Out of your toilet.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
According to Brandonson, the services there they have had a
really tough time. Yeah, they're trying to keep the system
working properly because people are like using the toilets as
some sort of like you know, magic disappearing machine.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
It's been a problem now.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
You see oftentimes in public restrooms, you see you know,
don't flush paper towels down the toilet or something like that.
But I mean the stuff they're talking about, Yeah, hair wigs, dentures,
feminine products.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Flushing those down the toilet.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
All kinds of stuff, and yeah, it's causing big problems.
There was one incident where a bunch of rags were
flushed down the toilet, and I guess the rags had
some kind of information where they were able to track
back where the rags came from.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Oh, like a business name something.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, come on, you gotta be I
don't think people do that at home.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
It's it's when you're in public people don't care.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
So our toilet was clogged in our house a long
time ago, when I was still married, and when my
husband at the time went to like plunge it and
get whatever was in there out of it, the like
you know when you have like a soap bottle, like
the nozzle thing, like, oh yeah, somehow that.
Speaker 5 (05:30):
Was in our toilet. We have no idea how it
got there.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So it must have been one of the kids. Funny
tried to flush it and it got stuck it however
it was he got it out.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Like, what makes you think you can get a diaper down.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
To I don't know, goldfish you know, fish dead pad,
you can't you you know, that's all right, that's an exception.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
So, yeah, we're talking stuff that it would actually claw toilet.
And you know items that are just not like, for example,
a goldfish or you know other those are like living organic.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Toilet. Yeah, yes, those are like organic things that break down.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Right, It's these like objects that just sit in there
and clog the toilet, and you know what can happen
is they reach other parts of the pipes that have
other objects and then you have a huge backup that
builds up.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Yeah, so if you're gonna throw out your wig, put
it in the trash, not in the toilet.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Chris Trankman with today's Stop Stories. Chris, thanks so much,
Thank you. The Ryan Gorman Show five to nine every
weekday morning on news RADIOW WoT U f l A
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