Buster

A Sunday night spaghetti dinner turned violent when a 41-year-old man threw the pasta at his mother, striking the victim in the head with the starchy weapon and leaving her splattered with sauce, police allege.

Investigators say Anthony Fiacco last evening had a “verbal argument with the victim that turned physical” in the Florida home where the victim, 61, resides with the accused.

“The spaghetti made contact with the victim who had spaghetti sauce in her hair,” cops reported.

Seen at right, Fiacco allegedly fled the home when officers arrived. After being spotted hiding behind a bush in the backyard, Fiacco sought to run away, but was quickly corralled by police.

Fiacco was charged with domestic battery for the spaghetti incident, as well as resisting an officer. He was booked into the county jail on the misdemeanor counts. 

No weapon was seized by police and it is unclear how long the Sunday gravy had been simmering.

The 5’ 6”, 250-pound Fiacco appeared in court this morning, where a judge ordered him to have no contact with his mother. Fiacco will be allowed a one-time visit--in the presence of law enforcement--to retrieve personal belongings from his St. Petersburg residence.

Fiacco, who also uses the surname “Edlin,” has prior convictions for battery, trespass, violating probation, and throwing a deadly missile into a building. The “missile” was a Heineken bottle he chucked at an apartment window after being asked to leave a party (flying glass hit several individuals).

A man drove three hours from Atlanta, Georgia to South Carolina, where he allegedly tried to remove a gigantic Confederate flag that flies on a property adjacent to Interstate 85, police charge.

Cops responded Saturday night to a 911 call about a trespasser climbing a fence near the towering Spartanburg County flagpole (seen above), which looms over the busy nearby roadway and was erected by a local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Police say they encountered James Daniel Blitch, 23, who was found carrying a Dremel and tool bits when he was arrested.

Blitch reportedly told cops that he “did not agree with the confederate flag and wanted to lower it.” Asked about a reported vandalism the prior night near the flagpole, Blitch, who was described as "upfront and cooperative," denied involvement.

Charged with two trespassing counts, Blitch spent a night in jail before being released from custody Sunday afternoon after posting $465 cash bond.

Blitch, pictured at right, reportedly told cops that he had planned to drive back to Atlanta after lowering the flag. Blitch’s address is listed in court records as his family’s stately home in the upscale Buckhead neighborhood.

Blitch’s parents are both lawyers: his father is a solo practitioner, while his mother is senior counsel at The Coca-Cola Company and a board member of the Georgia Justice Project, a criminal justice reform group.

An Iowa man has pleaded guilty to pleasuring himself outside a Kum & Go convenience store, according to court records.

After completing the lewd activity, Kenneth Lee Kelly, 55, departed for his nearby Iowa City residence, police charged.

In a written plea, Kelly, seen at right, recently copped to indecent exposure, a “serious misdemeanor.” A sentencing hearing has been set for August 15 at the Iowa City courthouse to “give the victim(s) the opportunity to attend and/or present a victim impact statement.”

Kelly could face up to a year in jail.

Kelly was busted last year after witnesses called 911 to report that “an unknown male had said sexual things to them and began masturbating in their presence” in front of the Kum & Go at 12:30 AM.

When questioned by police, Kelly--whose rap sheet includes theft and narcotics convictions--“claimed he wasn’t exposing himself,” but instead was just “scratching his genitals,” cops said.

After matching with a man on a dating app, an Iowa woman exchanged texts with him before arranging to meet in person yesterday at her residence.

But when Sumaya Thomas, 18, got “cold feet,” she dialed 911 in a remarkably harebrained bid to avoid an IRL interaction, according to cops.

As detailed in a criminal complaint, Thomas, who lives in an Iowa City suburb, called police to report that her abusive ex-boyfriend had shown up outside her residence and was sending her threats via Snapchat to “hit, punch, kick, and stab her.”

Thomas claimed that she “has known this man for two years and that she was pregnant with his baby.”

Officers responding to Thomas’s residence encountered a “male leaving the scene” and began an “in depth investigation about the reports being made.” The man, who was detained by police, explained that he began speaking with Thomas “just over a week ago on a dating app,” and provided text messages that showed “he was being honest and he really did just meet this female.”

After multiple interviews with police, Thomas (seen above) admitted she had been lying, claiming she “got cold feet on meeting him and no longer wanted to.” She fabricated her tales of abuse because she “didn’t think officers would help so she made up this call and the events that she described.”

After being read her rights last night, Thomas, cops reported, explained she pulled the 911 gambit “because she didn’t want the male here and felt we wouldn’t be able to do anything if she just called normally.”

Thomas, seen above, was arrested for placing a false 911 call and making a fake report of an indictable offense, both of which are misdemeanors. Thomas was released from the county jail earlier today following her initial court appearance.

After being stuffed into a patrol car, an accused vandal told police that his name was “Mr. Monopoly” and that he was born, of course, on 4-20-69, records show.

Investigators say Ryan Howard, 33, was arrested Saturday evening for spray painting a wall in St. Petersburg, Florida.

When officers confronted him, Howard had a bag slung over his shoulder containing “spray paint cans that could be observed in plain view.”

Told that he was required to identify himself, Howard was initially mute. But after being detained, Howard “stated ‘Mr. Monopoly’ and provided a date of birth of 4/20/1969,” according to a cop.

Howard was subsequently identified via his Maine driver's license.

In addition to criminal mischief, Howard was charged with resisting, a misdemeanor, for providing cops with a fake name and date of birth.

Seen above, Howard had the chance to go directly to jail. He will be released from custody after officials collect $1000 bond.

In an attempt to hide from police, a wanted Florida Man somehow folded himself into a small front-loading dryer, a feat of audacity and pliablility that was eventually thwarted.

David Jackson, 31, was being sought by cops on felony assault and weapons charges when investigators received a tip that Jackson was inside a Pensacola residence.

During a search Friday of the residence, deputies discovered Jackson inside the laundry room. Inside “a remarkably small dryer drum,” cops reported. Jackson, wearing a purple Star Wars t-shirt, was pulled from the appliance and arrested.

Jackson, pictured in these police photos, is being held in the Escambia County lockup in lieu of $120,000 bond.

According to a June 2023 police report, Jackson is 5' 10" tall and weighs 150 pounds. TSG is endeavoring to determine the make and model of the dryer/bolthole.

As reported in these pages, a man facing felony and misdemeanor narcotics charges was found earlier this year hiding inside a dryer in the kitchen of a Louisiana home.