December 16, 2025 • 19 mins
TOP STORIES - Jury recommends life in prison for man who killed Hollywood Police officer, Police ID woman found dead inside freezer at Miami Dollar Tree, Miami, St. Pete Home to Some of the Worst Winter Drivers in U.S., Florida officials clarify restrictions on license plate frames, covers, elderly Pasco County woman becomes fugitive over HOA violations, Wilton Simpson offers personalized certificates recognizing Santa's imminent entry into Florida
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McCain, Jason Barringer, Brianna Torrez,
and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
we'll get to today's forecast for you with the ACU
weather Media oologist Jason Katarina before six fifteen. Right after that,
we've got our Bloomberg Business Report, plus all the latest
on the murder of Rob Reiner, the Brown University shooting,
(00:20):
and the Australia terror attacks. So a very busy hour
ahead right now, we kick things off with today's top
stories and Natalie Rodriguez, Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well some people were shocked, some others not so much.
It only took a jury in brour two hours or
a lesson that to return a recommendation of life in
prison instead of the death penalty for a confessed Hollywood
cop killer, Jason Banegas. Officer Jan Dichinino's family left in tears.
They didn't make a comment. Hollywood police chief didn't make
(00:51):
a comment either. Prosecutors had argued that Banegas understood right
from wrong and the consequences. The defense, though, so continue
to point to his troubled childhood, with testimony witness as
reason for his life to be spared, and they got
the judge and the jury to sway in that direction.
The judge is going to issue the formal sentence on
(01:14):
February eighteenth. Now a little history here. The officer Janichinino
was shot twice in the face while he was conducting
a robbery investigation. And this goes back to twenty twenty
one when the accused killer confessed killer Jason Benegas, who
did say that he was guilty of this crime. He
(01:36):
was eighteen at the time. He has a long rap
sheet of crimes committed. He was eighteen at the time.
He's twenty three now. And again this is his defense
continued to provide testimony and evidence of this troubled childhood.
His mom was on drugs, he was abused, and so yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And Eric, this is with the low were standard for
the death penalty, so it doesn't have to be unanimous
now in Florida. Now that's you know, going to play
out in the courts, will likely go as high as
the Supreme Court. But in the meantime, these cases are
moving forward and you have to get eight jurors, at
least eight jurors to back the death penalty, and they
(02:21):
weren't able to do that. I mean, I feel like
if you had that standard where the jury had to
be unanimous, then I could see, you know, with what
the defense put out there, I could see one, maybe
two jurors being sway.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I'm a little surprised that they couldn't get to eight.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Yeah, that is the surprising, especially how heinous the crime
wasn't on a police officer.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, And I think I think a lot of those
who have been following this case, obviously the family and
other members of law enforcement, probably a bit surprised too.
But it sounds like the defense team they did, you know,
what they needed to do, talking about his childhood and
mental health struggles and all of that to convince enough
jurors not to move forward with the death penalty. We'll
(03:06):
spend his life in prison. But you know, this was
a death penalty case, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Absolutely, And the investigation does continue into that freak death
investigation out of a dollar tree in little Havana and
Miami's little highest name. So many questions about this story, Well,
we all have questions. As mentioned yesterday, thirty two year
old Helen Gutti Sanchez an aniseesiologist, a mother of two.
Her body was found inside this freezer. She was not
(03:32):
an employee of the store. She enters the store before
closing Saturday, didn't buy anything, all of a sudden, goes
into the back storage room and her body's discovered the
next morning. And again, just like yesterday, we still have
no idea what I actually went on here. Foul play
has not been ruled out. This death is being investigated
as unclassified. The new thing this morning is that there
(03:56):
is a go fundme page that's been set up to
transport her body to her homeland of Ankaraua.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And as of yet, I guess they haven't reached their goal.
But yeah, how did get there?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's so weird.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
She goes in the store alone the night before, she
doesn't buy anything. Then she goes into this area that
you're not supposed to be, where there's a freezer, and
she was inside the freezer overnight. Found the next morning.
They're saying investigators no signs of foul play at the moment.
Didn't look like she was forced into the freezer. She's
(04:30):
a doctor, an antithesiologist, and a mother of two.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
What the hell happened?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Unless she was having some sort of a mental breakdown.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
That's what they're looking at, ye, or if.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
She was on drugs or something, and maybe nobody knew,
I mean, yeah, nobody. How would you just walk into
a dollar tree and end up in a freezer?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah you end up dead? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And why would you go into the freezer and stay there?
I don't This is a really weird story, it really is.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
And I wonder how many cameras they have inside the
store to try to track what happened. That's obviously that
must be how they know that she wasn't forced in there,
as they must have cameras of her going in there.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
We only don't know if she was forced into the freezer.
They know that she wasn't forced into.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The back room.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Something seems yeah, very off, very very well.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Definitely something we're going to follow over the next couple
of days. Maybe we'll learn more details.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Maybe, you know, once they speak with family members, friends,
there will be a picture that we didn't see, you know,
early on in all of this, or.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
As Dana said, maybe she was dealing with some sort
of personal or mental issue that we don't know about, right. Well,
they usually say that you're in good hands with all state.
But I wonder if that even applies to like Miami,
Saint Pete, Gainesville, Hylia, and pember Pines drivers, because apparently
they are ranked among the ten worst winter drivers in
the country and number one spot going to Madison, Wisconsin,
(06:02):
followed by Anchorage, Alaska, than Honolulu, and then Florida just
kind of trickles down with several cities Wisconsin, several several
we have five in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh, it's awful.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's usually the other way around, like Florida drivers just
suck all around. But now we've got the ten worst
winter drivers. So I wonder if that means people that
are coming down for the winter that don't know how
to drive Florida style.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Or it's just that our driving skills just get worse in.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
The winter because we don't have snow.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
That's what I don't understand is you can understand in
Wisconsin how people have a hard time in the winter
because of the snow in Alaska, right, but what the hell.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Is our problem?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Researchers in this study, they pointed to a lot of
out of state drivers. They pointed to unfamiliar roads, so
you know, people driving not knowing where they're going, heavier traffic,
distracted driving. So this got really detailed the study. I
thought this was interesting. Apparently speeding increases the weekend before Christmas, so.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I got a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, like this weekend, there's going to be a lot
of speeding going on.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
They got to get to the stores before they close.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Phone use while driving peaks on New Year's Eve, people
trying to coordinate those plans, get where the Yeah, hard
breaking is most common around midday on Christmas.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Eve, so last minute errands.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
There's a lot of people out, yeah on Christmas Eve, Yeah,
doing that. And then people who don't usually go out
very much traveling something in a.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Panic and there's a lot of heart breaking. And then
December twenty sixth is the busiest day of the year
nationwide for roadside service calls. Why but yeah, I guess
people out, Yeah, stuff happens to their their views they yeah, yeah,
So really detailed an interesting study from all states and
Hilia coming in at number six highly's on like every list.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
What do you have to say about this?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm hearty personally attacked here did you.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Come in like as one of the places that sucks
for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Thanksgiving? Yeah, wasn't there something with Halloween or was it
just thing?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I don't knowving Okay, and then singles, wasn't there something
with singles?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
So I think was one of the worst.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Singles.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, I'm packing my bag staying, I'm moving in.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Natalie Rodriguez with today's stop stories. Natalie, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
He got it all right.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Now, let's bring an acuather metiorologists Jason Katerina for today's forecast.
I got to say, Jason, looks like a pretty perfect
day across the state, right.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yeah, absolutely beautiful for us today. High pressure park just
off to our north. That's going to keep that onshore
flow around the east side of the Pensula though, so
the opportunity there for a couple of showers as you
head up toward the Space Coast and down into the Keys.
But for us, with just that onshore flow, we got
the opportunity for more of the rip current. So be
careful if you're headed out to the beach. Remember if
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you do get caught in the rip current, you want
to swim parallel to the shore. You don't want to
try and fight that thing. It's just going to exhaust
you and really get you into some trouble. But a
beautiful day all around. For South Florida, sunshine, a few clouds,
the high seventy five, mainly clear, tonight, down to sixty seven,
mostly sunny tomorrow, a little warmer up to eighty, and
(09:12):
that warming trend just going to continue right toward the
end of the week. For Tampa, sunny, pleasant today, seventy three,
mainly clear, tonight down to fifty eight, partly sunny, pleasant tomorrow,
the high seventy eight for US, and just another beautiful
day Thursday, clouds and sun the high up to eighty.
Really the only problem across the country will be heading
into the day on Thursday, it's gonna be another clipper
(09:34):
system coming in from the Canadian planes coming through the
Upper Midwest. So if you do have to travel back
to say Chicago area any of the Upper Great Lakes areas,
you're gonna deal with some rain and a lot of winds.
So there may be some travel delays with some of
the airports up that way on Thursday, but otherwise pretty
quiet across the country all right.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
AKI Weather meteorologist Jason Katarina with today's forecast.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Chason thanks so much. We'll talk to you a minute
so you a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Welcome to The Ryan Gorman Show, oh on this Tuesday,
December sixteenth. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Baron,
sher Breonna Torres, and Chris Trankman from our newsroom. Coming
up this hour all the latest on the murder of
Rob Reiner, the Brown University shooting, and the Australia terror attack.
Plus a Massachusetts jury hands down a verdict in the
(10:18):
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Good morning, Chris, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has
issued a memo clarifying the regulations regarding obscurwing license plates,
those frames or covers.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
This became a big issue.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Yeah, so the department says, covering obscuring or interfering with
the legibility visibility or detection of the license plate number
or validation sticker is prohibited. However, the Act does not
prohibit the use of a license plate frame altogether, so
long as the frame doesn't obscure the visibility of the
decal located in the top right hand corner of the
(11:11):
plate or the alpha numeric plate identifier. The Department says
that it doesn't really consider information at the bottom of
the plate crucial, but as long as that top information
is visible and law enforcement can identify the plate, then
that's what counts as far as the law goes.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, the way the law was written, there was a
lot of confusion over whether or not you could still
have a frame around your plate. And you have these
reports saying, you know those license plate frames that you
have that you got from the dealership or that you
got to support your favorite sports team.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Well you can't have those anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And I was walking around the parking lot, I think
it was last week, and I don't know why, I
just happened to start to notice the license plate frames,
and like Dana was the only one who didn't.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Have one for anything.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I have no cause, all right, So she was
in compliance and I'm thinking to myself, everybody else, according
to what we've heard about this law is in violation.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
That can't be.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Possible ticket to which seems excessive.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, I'm like that that can't be how this is
going to play out and work. I mean, you would
have law enforcement pulling over everybody for a violation.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Sounds like that's not going to be the case.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
As long as you can see the tag, which there's
another lawmaker once to get rid of them, I'm all
in favor of that. That's stupid as yellow tag. If
you don't need it then you know, yeah, yeah, well
you know that.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
No, the registration tag yeah yeah, that shows whether you're
a valid yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And then and then you know, just the big license
plate numbers. As long as you can see that, then
I think you're good.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
You know, I can't read half the numbers on there
with all these specialty plates. True, you know they have
all these pictures on there. You end up looking at
the pictures. You're saying it's distracting. Okay, Well here's the thing. Okay,
it said detection of the information on them. Are they
talking about like a doesn't detect things, he just looks
at it. Are they talking about red light cameras.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Camera that's what this is about.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
It's all about.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, of course it is that.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I bet you the school bus cameras, the speed zone cameras,
all that, and then the.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Flock cameras that a bunch of people commented on our
video saying flock cameras, and I had to look it up,
and there are cameras that law enforcement uses them, but
also some haways are using them just to kind of
see who's doing what.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
So, yeah, we're all under surveillance.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
I saw one of those like sort of hazy, smoky
brown plastic covers over the entire plate.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
That's the they're really talking about.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
That's the picture I had in my head when I
saw this.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Law Yeah, I guess they're you know, they don't like
those covers for the license plate.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
What's the point of that cover is between I have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yellow.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, And then I guess there's some stuff that you
can like spray on your license plate that screws with
the cameras I had.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
This stuff exists kind of like reflects it or something.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And then while we're on the topic of license plates,
I don't know if you guys saw, but the Florida
Department of Transportation. They have revealed a new specialty license
plate marking America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, which of
course is on July fourth of next year. It's called
the America two fifty license plate. And I was all
(14:21):
excited when I saw the headline. Then I saw the
plate itself. Very kind of lame.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Yeah, it's very lackluster.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
So I posted the picture of it on our Facebook
page at Ryan Gorman Show. And I feel like for
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, there needs to be fire.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Away, yes, glitterscles, Eagles, Statue of Liberty, yes, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
This is got like one little thing in the middle.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, it's just not very exciting at all.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's very much you know when you see, oh, awesome
in America two fifty license plate, and then you go look.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
At the picture.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yeah, that's kind of it's terrible.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Yeah, well that's you know. I think with the two hundred,
they did go all out, didn't they. I mean they
we had a lot of Yeah. Well, I'm just saying
in nineteen seventy six that changed quarter they had. I
mean it was like a redline blue everything.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Ryan, I don't know about you, Chris, you were here yet.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Well, old man.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
But I mean what I'm saying is, are they kind
of downplaying the you know, the significance of it. Maybe
this is not a big enough thing. But you're right,
you would expect if you're going to pay extra for
the plate. Yeah, make it cool.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Let me tell you what Trump, who's in charge of
all the America two fifty activities, he sees this license plate,
He's gonna say, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
That's right. There you go, yep.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
So. Pasco County homeowner has been living as a fugitive
for six months, hiding in another state after her homeowners
association obtained an arrest warrant over unpaid fines and fees
stemming from lawn and property violations. Yang Pang owns a
two story home in the Northwood of Pasco County community
(15:56):
in Wesley Chapel. She talked to Tampa twenty eight. She
says she's been living in a borrowed SUV that served
as her home at times over the past six months.
She says she can't return to the home that she's
owned since twenty ten because of the arrest warrants. Signed
by a judge in June, charging Pang with contempt of court.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Now.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Peg is a licensed medical technologist immigrated from China three
decades ago and claims that the HOA started citing her
for numerous violations, things like holiday like violations, garbage containers,
left out, discoloration of her home, and was cited more
than a hundred times, even though she did things like
(16:36):
repainted her home pressure washed. It said, the violations kept
coming in and that she's been targeted by neighbors who
don't like her.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
That's a lot of violations.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Huh, that is a lot of violations. And there was
video in the home. Especially now I guess that she's abandoned.
It is a disaster.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
And then there was also something in there that one
of the neighbors told reporters that there was a naked
woman that lived in the house, was like a renter
who would come outside naked to check the mail.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Well, that's not.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
But if there were tenants in there that were kind
of a nuisance, and then I feel like that's why
there might.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Be a reason to move into the neighborhood exactly, Like yeah,
but but she had missed court hearings. She had missed
mediation sessions, didn't file the right paperwork, you had all
these It sounds like, I mean, maybe the HOA was
a little aggressive, but it does sound like there were
(17:31):
some problems here, and the neighbors are even indicating that.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Well Tabler twenty eight they interviewed an attorney. So it's
very unusual to get like a contempt of court charge
on these kinds of things HOA violations. I mean, there's
not you know, a serious crime being committed here. These
are more like nuisances in the neighborhood. So that was unusual.
But I think that there is concern here from her
that she's being targeted because of her ethnicity, and then
(17:56):
with the whole you know, immigration issues going on that,
you know, maybe she could be she could be targeting.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Oh yeah, she'll be sent right out of this country
for those HOA violations.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I mean, the house was kind of a mess, and
if you have a lot of like when you move
into a place with an HOA, you've got to take
care of your house and your property, and if you
have renters in it, it's still your responsibility, that's right.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
So Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson renewing his annual partnership with
Santa Claus, rolling out the personalized certificates of clearance that
officially authorizes the Big Man in Red and the reindeer
to enter Florida and deliver presence across the Sunshine.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Such a bureaucracy.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I didn't know that you had to go to the
agriculture guy to come into the state. I didn't realize
we had those kinds of well.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
The waiver they have to give a pass on things
like fuel rules and animal health regulations. You know you
got those flying reindeer crapping all over the rules. Yeah,
because he stops at all those gas stations. You know
the picture of the agriculture guy on the on the.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
On the pump.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
And my question about this is they'll do a certificate
like for the family so that Santa can come to
their house. You go on the agriculture website and you've
got to fill out a form and start so that
I'm thinking, well, what are they doing with the information?
Are they just trying to gather information to the DMB.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
That's probably right.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Yeah, Well apparently Santa was there though he's totally on board.
He said, he's pleased with the arrangement. And again you
can go online and set up your account and get
your official certificate from Wilton Simpson, the Agriculture Commissioner. So
that is, you know, one of the things that Santa
has to go through coming into Florida. But he says
that by eliminating this red tape, it'll make Florida one
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of the most inviting places for Santa to visit and
all of the fists out of all the fifty states, the.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Free state of Florida. But you do need that waiver
deliver those presents, are right. Chris Trankman with today's top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, Thank you,
I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McCain, Jason Barringer, Brianna Torrez,
and Natalie Rodriguez from our newsroom. Coming up this hour,
we'll get to today's forecast for you with the ACU
weather Media oologist Jason Katarina before six fifteen. Right after that,
we've got our Bloomberg Business Report, plus all the latest
on the murder of Rob Reiner, the Brown University shooting,
(00:20):
and the Australia terror attacks. So a very busy hour
ahead right now, we kick things off with today's top
stories and Natalie Rodriguez, Good morning, Natalie.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Well some people were shocked, some others not so much.
It only took a jury in brour two hours or
a lesson that to return a recommendation of life in
prison instead of the death penalty for a confessed Hollywood
cop killer, Jason Banegas. Officer Jan Dichinino's family left in tears.
They didn't make a comment. Hollywood police chief didn't make
(00:51):
a comment either. Prosecutors had argued that Banegas understood right
from wrong and the consequences. The defense, though, so continue
to point to his troubled childhood, with testimony witness as
reason for his life to be spared, and they got
the judge and the jury to sway in that direction.
The judge is going to issue the formal sentence on
(01:14):
February eighteenth. Now a little history here. The officer Janichinino
was shot twice in the face while he was conducting
a robbery investigation. And this goes back to twenty twenty
one when the accused killer confessed killer Jason Benegas, who
did say that he was guilty of this crime. He
(01:36):
was eighteen at the time. He has a long rap
sheet of crimes committed. He was eighteen at the time.
He's twenty three now. And again this is his defense
continued to provide testimony and evidence of this troubled childhood.
His mom was on drugs, he was abused, and so yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And Eric, this is with the low were standard for
the death penalty, so it doesn't have to be unanimous
now in Florida. Now that's you know, going to play
out in the courts, will likely go as high as
the Supreme Court. But in the meantime, these cases are
moving forward and you have to get eight jurors, at
least eight jurors to back the death penalty, and they
(02:21):
weren't able to do that. I mean, I feel like
if you had that standard where the jury had to
be unanimous, then I could see, you know, with what
the defense put out there, I could see one, maybe
two jurors being sway.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
I'm a little surprised that they couldn't get to eight.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Yeah, that is the surprising, especially how heinous the crime
wasn't on a police officer.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, And I think I think a lot of those
who have been following this case, obviously the family and
other members of law enforcement, probably a bit surprised too.
But it sounds like the defense team they did, you know,
what they needed to do, talking about his childhood and
mental health struggles and all of that to convince enough
jurors not to move forward with the death penalty. We'll
(03:06):
spend his life in prison. But you know, this was
a death penalty case, all right.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Absolutely, And the investigation does continue into that freak death
investigation out of a dollar tree in little Havana and
Miami's little highest name. So many questions about this story, Well,
we all have questions. As mentioned yesterday, thirty two year
old Helen Gutti Sanchez an aniseesiologist, a mother of two.
Her body was found inside this freezer. She was not
(03:32):
an employee of the store. She enters the store before
closing Saturday, didn't buy anything, all of a sudden, goes
into the back storage room and her body's discovered the
next morning. And again, just like yesterday, we still have
no idea what I actually went on here. Foul play
has not been ruled out. This death is being investigated
as unclassified. The new thing this morning is that there
(03:56):
is a go fundme page that's been set up to
transport her body to her homeland of Ankaraua.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And as of yet, I guess they haven't reached their goal.
But yeah, how did get there?
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It's so weird.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
She goes in the store alone the night before, she
doesn't buy anything. Then she goes into this area that
you're not supposed to be, where there's a freezer, and
she was inside the freezer overnight. Found the next morning.
They're saying investigators no signs of foul play at the moment.
Didn't look like she was forced into the freezer. She's
(04:30):
a doctor, an antithesiologist, and a mother of two.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
What the hell happened?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Unless she was having some sort of a mental breakdown.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
That's what they're looking at, ye, or if.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
She was on drugs or something, and maybe nobody knew,
I mean, yeah, nobody. How would you just walk into
a dollar tree and end up in a freezer?
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah you end up dead? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
And why would you go into the freezer and stay there?
I don't This is a really weird story, it really is.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
And I wonder how many cameras they have inside the
store to try to track what happened. That's obviously that
must be how they know that she wasn't forced in there,
as they must have cameras of her going in there.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
We only don't know if she was forced into the freezer.
They know that she wasn't forced into.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
The back room.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Something seems yeah, very off, very very well.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Definitely something we're going to follow over the next couple
of days. Maybe we'll learn more details.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Maybe, you know, once they speak with family members, friends,
there will be a picture that we didn't see, you know,
early on in all of this, or.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
As Dana said, maybe she was dealing with some sort
of personal or mental issue that we don't know about, right. Well,
they usually say that you're in good hands with all state.
But I wonder if that even applies to like Miami,
Saint Pete, Gainesville, Hylia, and pember Pines drivers, because apparently
they are ranked among the ten worst winter drivers in
the country and number one spot going to Madison, Wisconsin,
(06:02):
followed by Anchorage, Alaska, than Honolulu, and then Florida just
kind of trickles down with several cities Wisconsin, several several
we have five in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Oh, it's awful.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's usually the other way around, like Florida drivers just
suck all around. But now we've got the ten worst
winter drivers. So I wonder if that means people that
are coming down for the winter that don't know how
to drive Florida style.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Or it's just that our driving skills just get worse in.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
The winter because we don't have snow.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
That's what I don't understand is you can understand in
Wisconsin how people have a hard time in the winter
because of the snow in Alaska, right, but what the hell.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Is our problem?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Researchers in this study, they pointed to a lot of
out of state drivers. They pointed to unfamiliar roads, so
you know, people driving not knowing where they're going, heavier traffic,
distracted driving. So this got really detailed the study. I
thought this was interesting. Apparently speeding increases the weekend before Christmas, so.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I got a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Yeah, like this weekend, there's going to be a lot
of speeding going on.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
They got to get to the stores before they close.
Speaker 7 (07:09):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Phone use while driving peaks on New Year's Eve, people
trying to coordinate those plans, get where the Yeah, hard
breaking is most common around midday on Christmas.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
Eve, so last minute errands.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
There's a lot of people out, yeah on Christmas Eve, Yeah,
doing that. And then people who don't usually go out
very much traveling something in a.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Panic and there's a lot of heart breaking. And then
December twenty sixth is the busiest day of the year
nationwide for roadside service calls. Why but yeah, I guess
people out, Yeah, stuff happens to their their views they yeah, yeah,
So really detailed an interesting study from all states and
Hilia coming in at number six highly's on like every list.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
What do you have to say about this?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm hearty personally attacked here did you.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Come in like as one of the places that sucks
for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Thanksgiving? Yeah, wasn't there something with Halloween or was it
just thing?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
I don't knowving Okay, and then singles, wasn't there something
with singles?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
So I think was one of the worst.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Singles.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, I'm packing my bag staying, I'm moving in.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Natalie Rodriguez with today's stop stories. Natalie, thanks so much.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
He got it all right.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Now, let's bring an acuather metiorologists Jason Katerina for today's forecast.
I got to say, Jason, looks like a pretty perfect
day across the state, right.
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Yeah, absolutely beautiful for us today. High pressure park just
off to our north. That's going to keep that onshore
flow around the east side of the Pensula though, so
the opportunity there for a couple of showers as you
head up toward the Space Coast and down into the Keys.
But for us, with just that onshore flow, we got
the opportunity for more of the rip current. So be
careful if you're headed out to the beach. Remember if
(08:52):
you do get caught in the rip current, you want
to swim parallel to the shore. You don't want to
try and fight that thing. It's just going to exhaust
you and really get you into some trouble. But a
beautiful day all around. For South Florida, sunshine, a few clouds,
the high seventy five, mainly clear, tonight, down to sixty seven,
mostly sunny tomorrow, a little warmer up to eighty, and
(09:12):
that warming trend just going to continue right toward the
end of the week. For Tampa, sunny, pleasant today, seventy three,
mainly clear, tonight down to fifty eight, partly sunny, pleasant tomorrow,
the high seventy eight for US, and just another beautiful
day Thursday, clouds and sun the high up to eighty.
Really the only problem across the country will be heading
into the day on Thursday, it's gonna be another clipper
(09:34):
system coming in from the Canadian planes coming through the
Upper Midwest. So if you do have to travel back
to say Chicago area any of the Upper Great Lakes areas,
you're gonna deal with some rain and a lot of winds.
So there may be some travel delays with some of
the airports up that way on Thursday, but otherwise pretty
quiet across the country all right.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
AKI Weather meteorologist Jason Katarina with today's forecast.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Chason thanks so much. We'll talk to you a minute
so you a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Welcome to The Ryan Gorman Show, oh on this Tuesday,
December sixteenth. I'm Ryan Gorman with Dana McKay, Jason Baron,
sher Breonna Torres, and Chris Trankman from our newsroom. Coming
up this hour all the latest on the murder of
Rob Reiner, the Brown University shooting, and the Australia terror attack.
Plus a Massachusetts jury hands down a verdict in the
(10:18):
Brian Walsh murder trial. Dana has that trending story for
us at seven twenty five. Right now, let's get to
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Speaker 8 (10:37):
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles has
issued a memo clarifying the regulations regarding obscurwing license plates,
those frames or covers.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
This became a big issue.
Speaker 8 (10:49):
Yeah, so the department says, covering obscuring or interfering with
the legibility visibility or detection of the license plate number
or validation sticker is prohibited. However, the Act does not
prohibit the use of a license plate frame altogether, so
long as the frame doesn't obscure the visibility of the
decal located in the top right hand corner of the
(11:11):
plate or the alpha numeric plate identifier. The Department says
that it doesn't really consider information at the bottom of
the plate crucial, but as long as that top information
is visible and law enforcement can identify the plate, then
that's what counts as far as the law goes.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Yeah, the way the law was written, there was a
lot of confusion over whether or not you could still
have a frame around your plate. And you have these
reports saying, you know those license plate frames that you
have that you got from the dealership or that you
got to support your favorite sports team.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Well you can't have those anymore.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
And I was walking around the parking lot, I think
it was last week, and I don't know why, I
just happened to start to notice the license plate frames,
and like Dana was the only one who didn't.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Have one for anything.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, I have no cause, all right, So she was
in compliance and I'm thinking to myself, everybody else, according
to what we've heard about this law is in violation.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
That can't be.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
Possible ticket to which seems excessive.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Yeah, I'm like that that can't be how this is
going to play out and work. I mean, you would
have law enforcement pulling over everybody for a violation.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Sounds like that's not going to be the case.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
As long as you can see the tag, which there's
another lawmaker once to get rid of them, I'm all
in favor of that. That's stupid as yellow tag. If
you don't need it then you know, yeah, yeah, well
you know that.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
No, the registration tag yeah yeah, that shows whether you're
a valid yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
And then and then you know, just the big license
plate numbers. As long as you can see that, then
I think you're good.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
You know, I can't read half the numbers on there
with all these specialty plates. True, you know they have
all these pictures on there. You end up looking at
the pictures. You're saying it's distracting. Okay, Well here's the thing. Okay,
it said detection of the information on them. Are they
talking about like a doesn't detect things, he just looks
at it. Are they talking about red light cameras.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Camera that's what this is about.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
It's all about.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah, of course it is that.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I bet you the school bus cameras, the speed zone cameras,
all that, and then the.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Flock cameras that a bunch of people commented on our
video saying flock cameras, and I had to look it up,
and there are cameras that law enforcement uses them, but
also some haways are using them just to kind of
see who's doing what.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
So, yeah, we're all under surveillance.
Speaker 8 (13:26):
I saw one of those like sort of hazy, smoky
brown plastic covers over the entire plate.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
That's the they're really talking about.
Speaker 6 (13:34):
That's the picture I had in my head when I
saw this.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Law Yeah, I guess they're you know, they don't like
those covers for the license plate.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
What's the point of that cover is between I have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Yellow.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Yeah, And then I guess there's some stuff that you
can like spray on your license plate that screws with
the cameras I had.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
This stuff exists kind of like reflects it or something.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
And then while we're on the topic of license plates,
I don't know if you guys saw, but the Florida
Department of Transportation. They have revealed a new specialty license
plate marking America's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, which of
course is on July fourth of next year. It's called
the America two fifty license plate. And I was all
(14:21):
excited when I saw the headline. Then I saw the
plate itself. Very kind of lame.
Speaker 6 (14:26):
Yeah, it's very lackluster.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
So I posted the picture of it on our Facebook
page at Ryan Gorman Show. And I feel like for
the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, there needs to be fire.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Away, yes, glitterscles, Eagles, Statue of Liberty, yes, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
This is got like one little thing in the middle.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Yeah, it's just not very exciting at all.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
It's very much you know when you see, oh, awesome
in America two fifty license plate, and then you go look.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
At the picture.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Yeah, that's kind of it's terrible.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
Yeah, well that's you know. I think with the two hundred,
they did go all out, didn't they. I mean they
we had a lot of Yeah. Well, I'm just saying
in nineteen seventy six that changed quarter they had. I
mean it was like a redline blue everything.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Ryan, I don't know about you, Chris, you were here yet.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Well, old man.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
But I mean what I'm saying is, are they kind
of downplaying the you know, the significance of it. Maybe
this is not a big enough thing. But you're right,
you would expect if you're going to pay extra for
the plate. Yeah, make it cool.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Right.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Let me tell you what Trump, who's in charge of
all the America two fifty activities, he sees this license plate,
He's gonna say, I don't think so.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
That's right. There you go, yep.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
So. Pasco County homeowner has been living as a fugitive
for six months, hiding in another state after her homeowners
association obtained an arrest warrant over unpaid fines and fees
stemming from lawn and property violations. Yang Pang owns a
two story home in the Northwood of Pasco County community
(15:56):
in Wesley Chapel. She talked to Tampa twenty eight. She
says she's been living in a borrowed SUV that served
as her home at times over the past six months.
She says she can't return to the home that she's
owned since twenty ten because of the arrest warrants. Signed
by a judge in June, charging Pang with contempt of court.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Now.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
Peg is a licensed medical technologist immigrated from China three
decades ago and claims that the HOA started citing her
for numerous violations, things like holiday like violations, garbage containers,
left out, discoloration of her home, and was cited more
than a hundred times, even though she did things like
(16:36):
repainted her home pressure washed. It said, the violations kept
coming in and that she's been targeted by neighbors who
don't like her.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
That's a lot of violations.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Huh, that is a lot of violations. And there was
video in the home. Especially now I guess that she's abandoned.
It is a disaster.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
And then there was also something in there that one
of the neighbors told reporters that there was a naked
woman that lived in the house, was like a renter
who would come outside naked to check the mail.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
Well, that's not.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Well.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
But if there were tenants in there that were kind
of a nuisance, and then I feel like that's why
there might.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Be a reason to move into the neighborhood exactly, Like yeah,
but but she had missed court hearings. She had missed
mediation sessions, didn't file the right paperwork, you had all
these It sounds like, I mean, maybe the HOA was
a little aggressive, but it does sound like there were
(17:31):
some problems here, and the neighbors are even indicating that.
Speaker 8 (17:34):
Well Tabler twenty eight they interviewed an attorney. So it's
very unusual to get like a contempt of court charge
on these kinds of things HOA violations. I mean, there's
not you know, a serious crime being committed here. These
are more like nuisances in the neighborhood. So that was unusual.
But I think that there is concern here from her
that she's being targeted because of her ethnicity, and then
(17:56):
with the whole you know, immigration issues going on that,
you know, maybe she could be she could be targeting.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Oh yeah, she'll be sent right out of this country
for those HOA violations.
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 5 (18:05):
I mean, the house was kind of a mess, and
if you have a lot of like when you move
into a place with an HOA, you've got to take
care of your house and your property, and if you
have renters in it, it's still your responsibility, that's right.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
So Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson renewing his annual partnership with
Santa Claus, rolling out the personalized certificates of clearance that
officially authorizes the Big Man in Red and the reindeer
to enter Florida and deliver presence across the Sunshine.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Such a bureaucracy.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I didn't know that you had to go to the
agriculture guy to come into the state. I didn't realize
we had those kinds of well.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
The waiver they have to give a pass on things
like fuel rules and animal health regulations. You know you
got those flying reindeer crapping all over the rules. Yeah,
because he stops at all those gas stations. You know
the picture of the agriculture guy on the on the.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
On the pump.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
And my question about this is they'll do a certificate
like for the family so that Santa can come to
their house. You go on the agriculture website and you've
got to fill out a form and start so that
I'm thinking, well, what are they doing with the information?
Are they just trying to gather information to the DMB.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
That's probably right.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
Yeah, Well apparently Santa was there though he's totally on board.
He said, he's pleased with the arrangement. And again you
can go online and set up your account and get
your official certificate from Wilton Simpson, the Agriculture Commissioner. So
that is, you know, one of the things that Santa
has to go through coming into Florida. But he says
that by eliminating this red tape, it'll make Florida one
(19:33):
of the most inviting places for Santa to visit and
all of the fists out of all the fifty states, the.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Free state of Florida. But you do need that waiver
deliver those presents, are right. Chris Trankman with today's top Stories. Chris,
thanks so much, Thank you,
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