TOP STORIES - Two ex-Hillsborough County Sheriff’s commanders are added to the state’s questionable officers list, the principal of Spoto High is arrested for failing to report child abuse, and St. Petersburg police crack down on personal electric vehicles — stopping more than 50 riders and issuing 24 citations. Plus, recaps of the Bucs vs. Saints and Dolphins vs. Falcons games, and a look at Florida property tax cuts as the House Speaker asks, “Do we have too many counties?”
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now, let's get to today's top stories with Chris Trenkman.
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. Four former Hillsborough Sheriff's commanders
who resigned amid the recent academic cheating scandal have been
placed on a list of law enforcement officers whose credibility
could be challenged if they testify in court. The State
Attorney's Office put former Chief Deputy Anthony Collins, former Colonels
(00:23):
Michael Hannaford and Chris Rule, and the former Captain Laura
Rivera on what's known as the Brady's List. It's a
catalog of law law enforcement officers who require a special
disclosure to defense attorneys if they surface as witnesses in
a criminal case. And generally, cops are added to that
list because of misconduct or ongoing internal investigations within an
(00:45):
agency about their believability. Meanwhile, Sheriff Chad Cronister is expected
to give his first public statement about this scandal this morning. Well,
we had talked about Sheriff Cronister. I think it was Friday,
and I said, you know, I understand there's an investigation underway,
but I think it's time for him to come and
(01:06):
speak before the cameras about all of this, just because
you know, you see one top official in his department
go down after another, and one of the officials who
was removed is listed as a witness in a twenty
twenty three murder case. And one of the problems that
(01:26):
I think you're going to have here, defense attorneys are
going to say, how can you trust anything they say
when they cheated on these tests or these exams. Now,
I don't know if the jury will will buy that
in terms of completely discrediting their testimony, but you can
totally understand the defense attorney bringing that up.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
A defense attorney for sure, right.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And if you're going to be required to bring that
up to the jury and you have that as a
thing defense attorneys can use to hurt the credibility of
their statements and it could make a difference in the
results of the case. Yeah, when I was going back
through all of this over the weekend, I can't remember
if we talked about this aspect of the story, but
I want to bring it up again. How this whole
(02:10):
thing started. It all began when the wife of former
Chief Deputy Anthony Collins accused him of having someone else
complete his coursework. For career advancement training, and apparently she
said she felt an ethical duty to report his misconduct
(02:32):
after he moved out of their home over some marital
product revenge.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, and I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Earned a scorned Would.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You turn in a spouse for cheating like this the house? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
She must have been pretty pissed off at whatever he did. So, yeah,
and now everybody else is going down with her.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, all because he moved out of the house and
there was some problems there in the marriage.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And look what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Now, Chris, would you would you nark on your spouse
if you were going through some difficult times?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's difficult, I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean it obviously was a very difficult separation, Yeah,
because that is a huge thing to do. There's no
coming back from that, right, there's no reconciling. Yeah, I
don't think so, although I don't you know, does does
that work in her favor?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Though?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I mean, the guy loses his job in his life, Yeah,
that's true, right.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know she's not going to get any of that money.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I mean if he Yeah, I don't know if
he gets his retirement or how that all works. But
the thing that's interesting is that with that incident, so
many others Yep, right at the very top of the
Sheriff's office. I mean we went from the cheap deputies
the number two to these klonels who are right there
at the top, and then a couple of others who
are also high rankings.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Like Domino's going down. That's what we've seen.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And really surprising to think that so many people at
those levels in the Sheriff's office, a really big agency.
By the way, the thousands of employees were not able
to complete the required work on their own. I got
to reach out to somebody. I know somebody who works there,
not at the top levels, but I just want to
I'm going to reach out to him today. I want
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to get a sense, like what's the vibe among the
rank and file with all of this going down.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So I'll have that for you tomorrow, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Spoto High School's former principle behind bars after failing to
report that a four year old was inappropriately touched by
a teen at the school's daycare. The Hillsboro Sheriff's Office
says that forty two year old Jesreck Haggins was arrested
with the help of Lakeland Police and was taken to
the Pole County Jail. So these allegations were reported to
(04:45):
Haggins in April and then they went unreported to the
Department of Children and Families for fourteen days. According to
officials and investigators say that Haggins, when he was questioned
about this, acknowledged that he knew about the allegations, but
he said that he was conducting his own investigation and
that's why they weren't reported to law enforcement or the DCF.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
That's that's how it works.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, what what was this guy thinking? Why wouldn't you
report something like that?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I don't understand you don't conduct your own.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Investigation to wonder what this guy is up to in
his own life.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So the daycare at the high school, is that for
like teachers and staff?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Is that what that is? I think?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Okay, I don't think we had one like when I
went to high school. If it was a day care
teams dad, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Now, I don't think so, but I think, you know,
some of these facilities have the space for that. Yeah,
so they can provide certain services, but obviously it's disturbing
when you're talking about a four year old. Yeah, that
they should have had whoever is responsible for them in
custody immediately, not waiting around a couple of weeks or
whatever the timeframe was that he was supposedly investigating himself. Yeah,
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that sixteen year old could have done other bad things
in the meantime, that's right, So obviously that's why he's
being arrested. That is not how you conduct yourself when
you're in a position of that kind of responsibility. Police
in Saint Petersburg cracking down on unlawful e bike riding
on the roads. Last week, officers issued twenty four citations
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to a group of more than fifty people were riding
your downtown. There's a big bust, Yes, a bust of
these guys. You've seen them. I mean, if you're in
Saint Petersburg, you know exactly what's going on. The issue here,
according to police, is that in the last two weeks,
three people have died riding e bikes in the city
and the riders have caused the crashes. So that means
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police are paying close attention to e bike riders, and
they've also received numerous complaints about other types of writers,
people writing things like una wheels and e scooters.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, the scooters. We see that a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
There was also a person riding an electric scooter on
Friday night in Lakeland hit and killed. Was on one
of those, like I guess segwe types scooters, went in
front of a Toyota that had the green light and
the right of way. Accident killed. So they're seeing more
and more of this the riding group. What was interesting
(07:10):
here was they were arguing that the city's laws don't
reflect these like newer types of personal electronic vehicles. And
they also say that the laws unfairly favor the rental
scooter companies. So I'm not in this world of electric
you know, personal not like vehicles, but you know, these
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different riding options. Yeah, but they did note and I
thought this was a good point that if you have
the city trying to set up a situation where there's
less reliance on cars, there's more options for mobility, then
they might want to, you know, rethink kind of how
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things are in downtown Saint Pete to accommodate more of
not just the rental scooter, but these kinds of devices too.
I don't think there's any question. And if you check
out roadways, including some busy roads, you're going to see
some of these things on those roadways. Yeah, and what
the laws are is not entirely clear because these are
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new devices. I mean I saw a guy on one
of these Uni wheels riding down the road where cars
have a speed limit of almost fifty miles.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, it's super dangerous. And the e bikes have become
a big issue. One of my friends actually is like
leading a petition in Hillsboro County to get the schools
to teach kids e bikes safety because so many kids
are riding the e bikes and e scooters and stuff
to school and they they have no I mean I
see it every day.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's super dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Helmet.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Nope, they don't have helmets. I see these kids on
regular bikes and e bikes. Phone in one hand, yeah,
on the handlefar phone on the other hand, looking at
the phone.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's really dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So bike, you don't have to pedal? Is that what
it is?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, No, you don't have to peddle.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And then there was a little kid in the in
the bike lane when I was going to pick my
sun up the other day and he's wobbling all over
the place, and he obviously does not have control of it,
no helmet on, and I was going really slowly staying
behind him.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The people fly past.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And he's all over the place. He was going to
fall off the bike in front of my car. It's
like a motorcycle, yeah, like a low going.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Like up to thirty miles an hour.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
And these kids are just zipping all over the place,
not paying attention.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's they're super dangerous.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well, it's not a motorcycle. I mean those can go.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's me.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's like a it's like a little moped.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But for kids, that's right, and they're not properly trained
on it. I mean I remember being a kid and
they were talking about bicycle safety, right, So I mean,
why can't they have that for these things? And if
you're seeing people without helmets and not understanding the traffic
laws and the right of way and all those other
issues and just being reckless, there's going to be more accidents.
I mean, we've had people killed in Saint Petersburg already
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and it's only going to get worse if they can't
figure out how to, you know, properly regulate these things.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Chris Drankman with Today's Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Thank you. Right now, let's get to today's.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
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dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. The Tampa Bay
Buccaneers had a dominant victory over Division rival New Orleans
twenty three to three.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But did the.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Victory hide more than meets the eye when it came
to the Buccaneers team. After all, Baker Mayfield only had
one hundred and fifty two yards he lost to fumble. Yeah,
and their only offensive touchdown came from Sean Tucker he
rushed for forty two yards. And the defense was dominant.
But again, the Bucks offense looked anemic. And even though
(10:44):
it was a dominant win over New Orleans, they clearly
have some problems. Yeah, and this should have been a
much easier victory.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Now, Baker Mayfield and the Bucks offense has carried them
to quite a few victories so far this season. This time,
it was clearly the defense that came through, especially Anthony Nelson,
Antoine Winfield, junior, they had big games. You also had
Chase McLoughlin three second half field goals from over fifty yards.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Have these kickers now, it's almost like automatic from fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That was not the case ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No, that's true, although we're not talking about you know,
windy conditions outdoors like that. But at the same time,
you're right. I mean, the power of those kickers is
very impressive. And the Bucks, you know, you look at
their record, they're six and two, yep, and the division leader. Yeah,
and so they're in great shape going into the bye week.
And the defense. You can't take away what they did.
Four takeaways in that game, and that's say they suck
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and they have awful offense.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You know, the Bucks have this great record, but they
lost to a very good team last week. They did
beat the Saints with which they should have done, but
they didn't do anything to impress anybody on the offensive side.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, Now, they have a bye week before a really
tough stretch Patriots, Bills, Rams. Then after that they might
have the easiest remaining schedule in the league in the
home stretch. So I have no doubt they're going to
win the NFC South. Did you the play calling at
the goal line? Did you agree with just, you know,
keep trying to run it in from one yard out.
(12:16):
I felt like at some point maybe you want to
mix it up and throw a different design plan if
you're going to run the exact same thing. Yeah, yeah,
I did have a problem with that. That's frustrating. But
I think you know, from when you're in the short
yardage situation, a lot of coaches don't want to risk turnovers.
I mean, you know, you think of like, you know,
the Super Bowl in Seattle, right, running it all the
(12:36):
way down and then they try something cute and then
they end up losing the game. But yeah, you know,
in this case, I don't think that that was necessary
at all. They totally could have changed it up and
done something to change what had been a completely ineffective
series of plays. Right, Yeah, I agree, I would have
done something differently. Then you've got the Dolphins thirty four
to ten win over the Falcons, which which helped the boss.
(12:57):
The Falcons, Yeah, they looked really bad. They had Kirk
Cousins in at quarterback. Michael Pennix Junior was out their
best wide receiver, Drake London, was out, so they had
no real passing threat, but it was a big game
for two of four touchdowns. He had just been throwing
pick after pick after pick the last couple of weeks,
so a much better game for him.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
They ran the ball well.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I don't think this changes the outlook for the Dolphins season.
I think, in fact, they're gonna have a really tough
test Thursday night. They got to turn it around and
face probably Lamar Jackson coming back from injury against the Ravens.
So good win for the Dolphins. You know, if you're
a Dolphins fan, you're excited to actually watch a game
where they performed well. But I just I don't think
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ultimately that that changes the trajectory of their season. Yeah,
these four day lead ups to Thursday games are so unfair. Yeah,
I mean, it's just really you can't expect any of
the teams who have to play in those those Thursday
games to perform at their best. They never do. A
lot of times the games are just terrible to watch
because they're so poorly played. So hopefully the Dolphins can
sneak a win out of it, but it'll be tough
you've got You've got the Thursday night I mean the NFL,
(14:02):
they're just they're just rolling in cash. Right, You've got
the Thursday night games, You've got the Sunday morning games overseas.
Then you got the games throughout the day Sunday Sunday night.
Then you got you know, Monday nights. Sometimes now it's
two games on Monday night. You know, for these teams,
I think, like you said, it could be tough those
Thursday night turnarounds or traveling overseas for one of those games.
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But a lot of money, yeah, Amazon money, Yeah, you
know they'll take it. So when looking at the potential
of property tax reductions, House Speaker Daniel Perez has posed
a question should small counties exist? So we're talking about
the future of property taxes being a choice that voters
(14:45):
could be making in the as a ballot issue in
the next midterm election, because the Legislature can meet in
their session and put it on the ballot. Just talking
about this with Janelle Irwin Taylor from Southeast Politics.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The House is unveiled seven proposed resolutions. Some would eliminate
the non school homestead property taxes, creating one hundred thousand
dollars non school tax exemption. Governor is essentially dismissing everything
other than just wiping out property taxes outright, which of
course creates a lot of problems. But the House Speaker
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did make a point that some of these smaller counties
have such such little revenue yep, that if you were
to wipe out the homestead property tax, then what are
they going to have to fund just about anything? Yeah,
he said half our counties would shut down, they'd cease
to exist. And I wasn't advocating for that. He just
kind of brought it up and asked that question. Should
(15:41):
some small counties merge? And I think absolutely. I took
a look at the map. Sixty seven counties is way
too many counties.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Ye, And it's ridiculous how many counties we have.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You could easily merge what I call the Founding father
counties in the Panhandle. Jefferson Madison, Hamilton that you make
a nice little you know, New County, maybe call it
Founding Fathers or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Trumpet.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, then you've got you don't need union in Bradford County.
I grew up in Hernando County, Hernando Citrus. Some there
you can merge all those two. I could probably whittle
it down to like fifteen counties. This is coming from
a guy living in Panellas County. Have you talked to
the people up there and whether they like the idea
of losing their local government Penellas County? You live in
Panellas County. You're proposing these shutting down small counties as
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a resident of a big county. Yeah, you've gone up
and talked to the residents of the small counties. Oh no,
they want to lose their local government. Oh absolutely not.
I haven't talked to them. I'm just saying this is
what we should do. We should merge these counties. I
like the founding fathers counties. I think Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton
all in one. I think that's a good little.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Mix right there.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I think small county places, the people like having the
access to local government there. I don't think they like
the idea of having to drive three counties over to
go to their board meetings. All right, Well there's zoom.
Now another problem solved. I'm solving problems this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Problem.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We need to really debate all of this this morning.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Geez. Yeah, Well we'll see. I mean obviously seven proposals.
Clearly they got to whittle this down. You can't put
them any of the pallet no way. And there are
just a lot of questions as to whether it's feasible
to wipe out UH property taxes without making huge increases
in sales tax. So you'd be, you know, wiping out
one tax and raising taxes on everybody at the same time.
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A Gainesville elementary school teacher has been placed on leave
after the Attorney General accused her of breaking state law
by asking to be addressed with the gender neutral title
m X. Say that I don't even know how to
pronounce that, like mix mix instead of miss or missus?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Is it mix? I guess now.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I didn't realize this MX has been recognized in dictionaries
since twenty seventeen. I've never seen that before. I had
no idea that existed, and I don't know how to
say it.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
It was like the Z, like the X see was
the pronoun at one point and yeah, but nobody ever
really picked that up and then we just went to
using they and them.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, mixes.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Is this maybe something you would see in California as
opposed to Florida. I don't know yeah, maybe we should
call those guys because I'm not sure how to pronounce
it either. Yeah, but the teacher for students and staff
to use MX. And you could understand in an elementary
school where there'd be a lot of confusion among the kids.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yes, the kids like trying to learn math is hard
enough and learn your abcs and stuff. Why confuse kids
with this for some teacher to make to make a point.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
The only exemption that that I am willing to give
is I go back to that one teacher who legitimately
became accounts. Yeah, yeah, a math teacher because I forget,
I forget the whole backstory, but yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Was a gender issue.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah yeah, and that they wanted him to have either
I can remember.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Was it a man, that's the I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Remember the details, but became a count and that was.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
That was funny, Yes, exactly, I think, and the.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Kids would just embrace that and they wouldn't really know.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Why, right, right, right? But you?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But but I think it was Chris, you brought up
the key point that there is account and account esks,
so right, you're still technically identifying with.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, yeah, all right, Chris Drankman with today's top stories, Chris,
thanks so much The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio
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Right now, let's get to today's top stories with Chris Trenkman.
Good morning, Chris, Good morning. Four former Hillsborough Sheriff's commanders
who resigned amid the recent academic cheating scandal have been
placed on a list of law enforcement officers whose credibility
could be challenged if they testify in court. The State
Attorney's Office put former Chief Deputy Anthony Collins, former Colonels
(00:23):
Michael Hannaford and Chris Rule, and the former Captain Laura
Rivera on what's known as the Brady's List. It's a
catalog of law law enforcement officers who require a special
disclosure to defense attorneys if they surface as witnesses in
a criminal case. And generally, cops are added to that
list because of misconduct or ongoing internal investigations within an
(00:45):
agency about their believability. Meanwhile, Sheriff Chad Cronister is expected
to give his first public statement about this scandal this morning. Well,
we had talked about Sheriff Cronister. I think it was Friday,
and I said, you know, I understand there's an investigation underway,
but I think it's time for him to come and
(01:06):
speak before the cameras about all of this, just because
you know, you see one top official in his department
go down after another, and one of the officials who
was removed is listed as a witness in a twenty
twenty three murder case. And one of the problems that
(01:26):
I think you're going to have here, defense attorneys are
going to say, how can you trust anything they say
when they cheated on these tests or these exams. Now,
I don't know if the jury will will buy that
in terms of completely discrediting their testimony, but you can
totally understand the defense attorney bringing that up.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
A defense attorney for sure, right.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
And if you're going to be required to bring that
up to the jury and you have that as a
thing defense attorneys can use to hurt the credibility of
their statements and it could make a difference in the
results of the case. Yeah, when I was going back
through all of this over the weekend, I can't remember
if we talked about this aspect of the story, but
I want to bring it up again. How this whole
(02:10):
thing started. It all began when the wife of former
Chief Deputy Anthony Collins accused him of having someone else
complete his coursework. For career advancement training, and apparently she
said she felt an ethical duty to report his misconduct
(02:32):
after he moved out of their home over some marital
product revenge.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, and I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Earned a scorned Would.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You turn in a spouse for cheating like this the house? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:51):
She must have been pretty pissed off at whatever he did. So, yeah,
and now everybody else is going down with her.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, all because he moved out of the house and
there was some problems there in the marriage.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
And look what happened.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Now, Chris, would you would you nark on your spouse
if you were going through some difficult times?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
That's difficult, I guess.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
I mean it obviously was a very difficult separation, Yeah,
because that is a huge thing to do. There's no
coming back from that, right, there's no reconciling. Yeah, I
don't think so, although I don't you know, does does
that work in her favor?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Though?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I mean, the guy loses his job in his life, Yeah,
that's true, right.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
You know she's not going to get any of that money.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, I mean if he Yeah, I don't know if
he gets his retirement or how that all works. But
the thing that's interesting is that with that incident, so
many others Yep, right at the very top of the
Sheriff's office. I mean we went from the cheap deputies
the number two to these klonels who are right there
at the top, and then a couple of others who
are also high rankings.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Like Domino's going down. That's what we've seen.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And really surprising to think that so many people at
those levels in the Sheriff's office, a really big agency.
By the way, the thousands of employees were not able
to complete the required work on their own. I got
to reach out to somebody. I know somebody who works there,
not at the top levels, but I just want to
I'm going to reach out to him today. I want
(04:17):
to get a sense, like what's the vibe among the
rank and file with all of this going down.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
So I'll have that for you tomorrow, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Spoto High School's former principle behind bars after failing to
report that a four year old was inappropriately touched by
a teen at the school's daycare. The Hillsboro Sheriff's Office
says that forty two year old Jesreck Haggins was arrested
with the help of Lakeland Police and was taken to
the Pole County Jail. So these allegations were reported to
(04:45):
Haggins in April and then they went unreported to the
Department of Children and Families for fourteen days. According to
officials and investigators say that Haggins, when he was questioned
about this, acknowledged that he knew about the allegations, but
he said that he was conducting his own investigation and
that's why they weren't reported to law enforcement or the DCF.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
That's that's how it works.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Yeah, what what was this guy thinking? Why wouldn't you
report something like that?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I don't understand you don't conduct your own.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Investigation to wonder what this guy is up to in
his own life.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So the daycare at the high school, is that for
like teachers and staff?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Is that what that is? I think?
Speaker 1 (05:23):
So?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Okay, I don't think we had one like when I
went to high school. If it was a day care
teams dad, right exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Now, I don't think so, but I think, you know,
some of these facilities have the space for that. Yeah,
so they can provide certain services, but obviously it's disturbing
when you're talking about a four year old. Yeah, that
they should have had whoever is responsible for them in
custody immediately, not waiting around a couple of weeks or
whatever the timeframe was that he was supposedly investigating himself. Yeah,
(05:54):
that sixteen year old could have done other bad things
in the meantime, that's right, So obviously that's why he's
being arrested. That is not how you conduct yourself when
you're in a position of that kind of responsibility. Police
in Saint Petersburg cracking down on unlawful e bike riding
on the roads. Last week, officers issued twenty four citations
(06:14):
to a group of more than fifty people were riding
your downtown. There's a big bust, Yes, a bust of
these guys. You've seen them. I mean, if you're in
Saint Petersburg, you know exactly what's going on. The issue here,
according to police, is that in the last two weeks,
three people have died riding e bikes in the city
and the riders have caused the crashes. So that means
(06:36):
police are paying close attention to e bike riders, and
they've also received numerous complaints about other types of writers,
people writing things like una wheels and e scooters.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah, the scooters. We see that a lot.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
There was also a person riding an electric scooter on
Friday night in Lakeland hit and killed. Was on one
of those, like I guess segwe types scooters, went in
front of a Toyota that had the green light and
the right of way. Accident killed. So they're seeing more
and more of this the riding group. What was interesting
(07:10):
here was they were arguing that the city's laws don't
reflect these like newer types of personal electronic vehicles. And
they also say that the laws unfairly favor the rental
scooter companies. So I'm not in this world of electric
you know, personal not like vehicles, but you know, these
(07:33):
different riding options. Yeah, but they did note and I
thought this was a good point that if you have
the city trying to set up a situation where there's
less reliance on cars, there's more options for mobility, then
they might want to, you know, rethink kind of how
(07:54):
things are in downtown Saint Pete to accommodate more of
not just the rental scooter, but these kinds of devices too.
I don't think there's any question. And if you check
out roadways, including some busy roads, you're going to see
some of these things on those roadways. Yeah, and what
the laws are is not entirely clear because these are
(08:16):
new devices. I mean I saw a guy on one
of these Uni wheels riding down the road where cars
have a speed limit of almost fifty miles.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, it's super dangerous. And the e bikes have become
a big issue. One of my friends actually is like
leading a petition in Hillsboro County to get the schools
to teach kids e bikes safety because so many kids
are riding the e bikes and e scooters and stuff
to school and they they have no I mean I
see it every day.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
It's super dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Helmet.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Nope, they don't have helmets. I see these kids on
regular bikes and e bikes. Phone in one hand, yeah,
on the handlefar phone on the other hand, looking at
the phone.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's really dangerous.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
So bike, you don't have to pedal? Is that what
it is?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Yeah, No, you don't have to peddle.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
And then there was a little kid in the in
the bike lane when I was going to pick my
sun up the other day and he's wobbling all over
the place, and he obviously does not have control of it,
no helmet on, and I was going really slowly staying
behind him.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
The people fly past.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
And he's all over the place. He was going to
fall off the bike in front of my car. It's
like a motorcycle, yeah, like a low going.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Like up to thirty miles an hour.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
And these kids are just zipping all over the place,
not paying attention.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
It's they're super dangerous.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Well, it's not a motorcycle. I mean those can go.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
It's me.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's like a it's like a little moped.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
But for kids, that's right, and they're not properly trained
on it. I mean I remember being a kid and
they were talking about bicycle safety, right, So I mean,
why can't they have that for these things? And if
you're seeing people without helmets and not understanding the traffic
laws and the right of way and all those other
issues and just being reckless, there's going to be more accidents.
I mean, we've had people killed in Saint Petersburg already
(09:50):
and it's only going to get worse if they can't
figure out how to, you know, properly regulate these things.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
All right.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Chris Drankman with Today's Top Stories. Chris, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Thank you. Right now, let's get to today's.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
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dot com. Good morning, Chris, Good morning. The Tampa Bay
Buccaneers had a dominant victory over Division rival New Orleans
twenty three to three.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
But did the.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Victory hide more than meets the eye when it came
to the Buccaneers team. After all, Baker Mayfield only had
one hundred and fifty two yards he lost to fumble. Yeah,
and their only offensive touchdown came from Sean Tucker he
rushed for forty two yards. And the defense was dominant.
But again, the Bucks offense looked anemic. And even though
(10:44):
it was a dominant win over New Orleans, they clearly
have some problems. Yeah, and this should have been a
much easier victory.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Now, Baker Mayfield and the Bucks offense has carried them
to quite a few victories so far this season. This time,
it was clearly the defense that came through, especially Anthony Nelson,
Antoine Winfield, junior, they had big games. You also had
Chase McLoughlin three second half field goals from over fifty yards.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
It's incredible.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Have these kickers now, it's almost like automatic from fifty plus.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That was not the case ten years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No, that's true, although we're not talking about you know,
windy conditions outdoors like that. But at the same time,
you're right. I mean, the power of those kickers is
very impressive. And the Bucks, you know, you look at
their record, they're six and two, yep, and the division leader. Yeah,
and so they're in great shape going into the bye week.
And the defense. You can't take away what they did.
Four takeaways in that game, and that's say they suck
(11:38):
and they have awful offense.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
And that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You know, the Bucks have this great record, but they
lost to a very good team last week. They did
beat the Saints with which they should have done, but
they didn't do anything to impress anybody on the offensive side.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
No, Now, they have a bye week before a really
tough stretch Patriots, Bills, Rams. Then after that they might
have the easiest remaining schedule in the league in the
home stretch. So I have no doubt they're going to
win the NFC South. Did you the play calling at
the goal line? Did you agree with just, you know,
keep trying to run it in from one yard out.
(12:16):
I felt like at some point maybe you want to
mix it up and throw a different design plan if
you're going to run the exact same thing. Yeah, yeah,
I did have a problem with that. That's frustrating. But
I think you know, from when you're in the short
yardage situation, a lot of coaches don't want to risk turnovers.
I mean, you know, you think of like, you know,
the Super Bowl in Seattle, right, running it all the
(12:36):
way down and then they try something cute and then
they end up losing the game. But yeah, you know,
in this case, I don't think that that was necessary
at all. They totally could have changed it up and
done something to change what had been a completely ineffective
series of plays. Right, Yeah, I agree, I would have
done something differently. Then you've got the Dolphins thirty four
to ten win over the Falcons, which which helped the boss.
(12:57):
The Falcons, Yeah, they looked really bad. They had Kirk
Cousins in at quarterback. Michael Pennix Junior was out their
best wide receiver, Drake London, was out, so they had
no real passing threat, but it was a big game
for two of four touchdowns. He had just been throwing
pick after pick after pick the last couple of weeks,
so a much better game for him.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
They ran the ball well.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I don't think this changes the outlook for the Dolphins season.
I think, in fact, they're gonna have a really tough
test Thursday night. They got to turn it around and
face probably Lamar Jackson coming back from injury against the Ravens.
So good win for the Dolphins. You know, if you're
a Dolphins fan, you're excited to actually watch a game
where they performed well. But I just I don't think
(13:40):
ultimately that that changes the trajectory of their season. Yeah,
these four day lead ups to Thursday games are so unfair. Yeah,
I mean, it's just really you can't expect any of
the teams who have to play in those those Thursday
games to perform at their best. They never do. A
lot of times the games are just terrible to watch
because they're so poorly played. So hopefully the Dolphins can
sneak a win out of it, but it'll be tough
you've got You've got the Thursday night I mean the NFL,
(14:02):
they're just they're just rolling in cash. Right, You've got
the Thursday night games, You've got the Sunday morning games overseas.
Then you got the games throughout the day Sunday Sunday night.
Then you got you know, Monday nights. Sometimes now it's
two games on Monday night. You know, for these teams,
I think, like you said, it could be tough those
Thursday night turnarounds or traveling overseas for one of those games.
(14:24):
But a lot of money, yeah, Amazon money, Yeah, you
know they'll take it. So when looking at the potential
of property tax reductions, House Speaker Daniel Perez has posed
a question should small counties exist? So we're talking about
the future of property taxes being a choice that voters
(14:45):
could be making in the as a ballot issue in
the next midterm election, because the Legislature can meet in
their session and put it on the ballot. Just talking
about this with Janelle Irwin Taylor from Southeast Politics.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
The House is unveiled seven proposed resolutions. Some would eliminate
the non school homestead property taxes, creating one hundred thousand
dollars non school tax exemption. Governor is essentially dismissing everything
other than just wiping out property taxes outright, which of
course creates a lot of problems. But the House Speaker
(15:20):
did make a point that some of these smaller counties
have such such little revenue yep, that if you were
to wipe out the homestead property tax, then what are
they going to have to fund just about anything? Yeah,
he said half our counties would shut down, they'd cease
to exist. And I wasn't advocating for that. He just
kind of brought it up and asked that question. Should
(15:41):
some small counties merge? And I think absolutely. I took
a look at the map. Sixty seven counties is way
too many counties.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Ye, And it's ridiculous how many counties we have.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
You could easily merge what I call the Founding father
counties in the Panhandle. Jefferson Madison, Hamilton that you make
a nice little you know, New County, maybe call it
Founding Fathers or whatever.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Trumpet.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Yeah, then you've got you don't need union in Bradford County.
I grew up in Hernando County, Hernando Citrus. Some there
you can merge all those two. I could probably whittle
it down to like fifteen counties. This is coming from
a guy living in Panellas County. Have you talked to
the people up there and whether they like the idea
of losing their local government Penellas County? You live in
Panellas County. You're proposing these shutting down small counties as
(16:26):
a resident of a big county. Yeah, you've gone up
and talked to the residents of the small counties. Oh no,
they want to lose their local government. Oh absolutely not.
I haven't talked to them. I'm just saying this is
what we should do. We should merge these counties. I
like the founding fathers counties. I think Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton
all in one. I think that's a good little.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Mix right there.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I think small county places, the people like having the
access to local government there. I don't think they like
the idea of having to drive three counties over to
go to their board meetings. All right, Well there's zoom.
Now another problem solved. I'm solving problems this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Problem.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We need to really debate all of this this morning.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Geez. Yeah, Well we'll see. I mean obviously seven proposals.
Clearly they got to whittle this down. You can't put
them any of the pallet no way. And there are
just a lot of questions as to whether it's feasible
to wipe out UH property taxes without making huge increases
in sales tax. So you'd be, you know, wiping out
one tax and raising taxes on everybody at the same time.
(17:24):
A Gainesville elementary school teacher has been placed on leave
after the Attorney General accused her of breaking state law
by asking to be addressed with the gender neutral title
m X. Say that I don't even know how to
pronounce that, like mix mix instead of miss or missus?
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Is it mix? I guess now.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I didn't realize this MX has been recognized in dictionaries
since twenty seventeen. I've never seen that before. I had
no idea that existed, and I don't know how to
say it.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
It was like the Z, like the X see was
the pronoun at one point and yeah, but nobody ever
really picked that up and then we just went to
using they and them.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah, mixes.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
Is this maybe something you would see in California as
opposed to Florida. I don't know yeah, maybe we should
call those guys because I'm not sure how to pronounce
it either. Yeah, but the teacher for students and staff
to use MX. And you could understand in an elementary
school where there'd be a lot of confusion among the kids.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yes, the kids like trying to learn math is hard
enough and learn your abcs and stuff. Why confuse kids
with this for some teacher to make to make a point.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
The only exemption that that I am willing to give
is I go back to that one teacher who legitimately
became accounts. Yeah, yeah, a math teacher because I forget,
I forget the whole backstory, but yeah, it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Was a gender issue.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Yeah yeah, and that they wanted him to have either
I can remember.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Was it a man, that's the I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Remember the details, but became a count and that was.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
That was funny, Yes, exactly, I think, and the.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Kids would just embrace that and they wouldn't really know.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Why, right, right, right? But you?
Speaker 1 (19:08):
But but I think it was Chris, you brought up
the key point that there is account and account esks,
so right, you're still technically identifying with.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah, yeah, all right, Chris Drankman with today's top stories, Chris,
thanks so much The Ryan Gorman Show on news radio
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