20 Years ago

[Bobcat]

20 YEARS AGO

The owner of a downtown Mexican restaurant moved out of a rented building during the night, stealing and damaging items in the building.

A man came to the Key West Police Station, asked to be arrested and was told to leave, as the police had no grounds for an arrest. When he refused, he was arrested for trespassing.

 

[Bobcat]

20 YEARS AGO

The Florida Department of Professional Regulation suspended the license of the vet who pleaded guilty to conspiring to import 18,000 pounds of marijuana.

A Key West woman reported that someone had shot the radiator of her car while it was parked at her home on Flagler Avenue.

 

[Bobcat]

20 YEARS AGO

A federal jury found a Key West bail bondsman and a Miami man guilty for their part in bringing 9 tons of marijuana into the Florida Keys from Colombia.

 

[Bobcat]

20 YEARS AGO

A man was arrested for swerving at a bicyclist with his motor scooter and flailing at him with a club.

 

[fund razor]

Ah yes.
The Island Biathalon. "Swerving and Flailing."

 

[rschap1]

Friction between the scooter guys and the pedal bikers

 

[Ratickle]

20 YEARS AGO

A man was arrested for swerving at a bicyclist with his motor scooter and flailing at him with a club.

Friction between the scooter guys and the pedal bikers

I'm sure it was a territorial dispute between two of the major Key West rival Biker Gangs......


I'm surprised they let Bobcat out on bail.... Must have had contacts on the inside.......:sifone:

 

[Bobcat]

20 YEARS AGO

Monroe County sheriff's detectives raided an illegal gambling operation at the La Cucaracha Café in Marathon.

A woman spent the night with a man, then locked him in his house and stole his car when she left in the morning. When police arrested her later, she ate her only identification.

 

[Bobcat]

20 YEARS AGO

Seventy-nine Cuban refugees and a dog were rescued over the Labor Day weekend by the Coast Guard.



A man was arrested for refusing to pay a $72 food and bar tab at Margaritaville. It was his third arrest in a week for the same charge.

 

[fund razor]

20 YEARS AGO

Seventy-nine Cuban refugees and a dog were rescued over the Labor Day weekend by the Coast Guard.

I heard about that one. That was how the Taco Bell dog got in.

 

[Bobcat]

20 YEARS AGO

In the largest bust of its kind in the Keys, local and federal officers confiscated a cache of 43 illegal machine guns in Marathon.



50 YEARS AGO





Key West Distributors Inc. announced that Old Milwaukee Beer, a low-price brew from Schlitz, would go on sale in Key West on Sept. 10.

 

[Bobcat]

Key West police arrested a man who had chased another man into the Police Station while threatening to beat him up.

 

[Bobcat]

A woman cleaning the beach on Plantation Key found a square plastic package of 554 grams of cocaine.

 

[Slandrew]

A woman cleaning the beach on Plantation Key found a square plastic package of 554 grams of cocaine.

She is now in the record books for cleaning a beach in 41 seconds:willy_nilly:

 

[old377guy]

took the words right out of my mouth :sifone:

 

[Bobcat]

Key West police arrested a man who attacked the taxi driver who was taking him to the hospital.

 

[Bobcat]

A fire-eater was banned from the Sunset Celebration for "the safety of the public and everyone else on the pier."

 

[Bobcat]

A man was arrested for allegedly throwing a rattlesnake at his girlfriend after finding her in bed with another man.

 

[Ratickle]

A man was arrested for allegedly throwing a rattlesnake at his girlfriend after finding her in bed with another man.

Was it a one-eyed rattler?????

 

[Bobcat]

U.S. Customs Service seized a boat in Marathon loaded with guns, ammunition and anti-Castro literature.