ST. LUCIE COUNTY — A 20-year-old man accused of pushing his ex-girlfriend down and reaching into her undergarments looking for money faces felony and misdemeanor charges, according to an arrest affidavit released Thursday.

Christopher Joseph Prianti, of the 2100 block of Southeast Elder Drive in Stuart, was arrested on attempted robbery without a weapon and battery (domestic-related) charges in connection with the 1:20 a.m. Wednesday incidents at an arcade in the 4400 block of South U.S. 1. (more…)

PORT ST. LUCIE — Police are searching for two men involved in a road rage incident and robbery last week.

A motorist said he was traveling westbound on Southeast Tiffany Avenue behind a white Ford F-150 with an extended cab about 7:40 p.m. Thursday, Port St. Lucie police said. The pickup was driving less than 15 miles an hour, which prompted the motorist to flash his lights at it, according to the incident report. The pickup also wouldn’t allow the motorist to pass, he told police.

When they reached the stoplight at Southeast Lennard Road, two men stepped out of the pickup and confronted the other motorist, police said. The men pulled the motorist out of his vehicle, punched him repeatedly and stole his wallet, police said.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office says it will have more information available later this morning about a robbery at a KFC restaurant.

The incident happened shortly after 8:30 p.m. Monday, at the KFC located at 6632 U.S. 1, near Kitterman Road, north of Port St. Lucie.

There was no immediate indication of how much money was taken, if any, or how many suspects may be involved. No one was believed to have been injured.
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PORT ST. LUCIE — Police on Monday released photos of a man accused of robbing a Walgreens last week of methadone tablets and are asking for help to find him, according to a release and police records.

The man reportedly entered the store in the 200 block of Southwest Port St. Lucie Boulevard about 4:50 p.m. Thursday with a blue and white towel over his shoulder.

He walked to the pharmacy counter, though by that time the towel was wrapped around one hand. The man, who is white and thought to be in his mid 40s, wore a camouflage hat, white T-shirt, shorts and tennis shoes.
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FORT PIERCE — A 22-year-old man accused of robbing a Riverside Bank at gunpoint Wednesday morning was taken into custody about 10 minutes later, police said.

Armed with a silver-colored handgun, Terry B. Delion entered the bank in the 2200 block of Okeechobee Road about 9:05 a.m., police said. He immediately pointed the weapon at the tellers and demanded money, police said.

“One of the employees there pushed a panic alarm indicating that there was a robbery,” Detective David Cuti said. “Many road patrol officers responded to the scene.”
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A Sebastian woman remained in custody Tuesday in Brevard County after she roughed up and robbed someone she was partying with and threatened to arrest him, though she is not a law enforcement officer, according to an incident report.

Dawn Leigh Kravis, 31, of the 1000 block of Roseland Road, Sebastian, was charged with robbery with no weapon, kidnapping and false imprisonment of an adult and fraudulently impersonating a law enforcement officer in the commission of a felony. She was being held at the Brevard County Detention Center in lieu of $48,000 bail.

A 53-year-old man who lives in the 9100 block of U.S. 1, Micco, called the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office about 6 a.m. Saturday and said Kravis had robbed him, the report said. He told deputies he had been partying most of Friday and early Saturday with Kravis and another woman, the report said.
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ST. LUCIE COUNTY — After weeks of police officer training in a classroom, Indian River State College students move on to a small platform that provides a high-tech simulation of how they react in a real-life situation.

They’re given a weapon that only emits lasers and equipped with a belt that zaps them if they put themselves in danger.

“It teaches consequences if they make bad decisions,” Stephen Huntsberger, associate dean of Public Service Education for IRSC, said of the VirTra Systems simulator at the complex.

The simulator is one of the planned demonstrations at Friday’s public open house at the new Indian River State College Public Safety Complex.
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STUART — Described as a loving father and caring person, Jerome Hutchinson was found early Monday morning face down on the sidewalk leading to his East Stuart residence.

The 24-year-old man had been shot in the chest, the second to die in an exceptionally violent weekend in Stuart. The first was Michael Morrison, 43, found early Saturday morning on his back next to his Jeep at The Crossings at Indian Run Apartments less than four miles away.

Morrison also had been shot in the chest, but police haven’t found a nexus between the two killings, police spokesman Sgt. Marty Jacobson said Monday.
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Note to teens facing a potential prison term: don’t use your MySpace page to post photos of police officers and wish “AIDS and genocide to all law enforcement.”

That’s what Stuart resident Jesse Alan Walker, 19, did while awaiting a June trial in which a jury convicted him of robbery with a firearm related to a 2008 home invasion armed robbery. At trial, he was accused of planning the robbery with two then-20-year-old co-defendants, who once played football for Jensen Beach High School.

“I hate the (expletive) police,” Walker posted on MySpace last December, along with photos of Stuart Police officers and derogatory comments.
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STUART — Nine years ago, a drunk Donald Flewellen drove a stolen van across the center line, causing a collision that killed two people and left illegal Guatemalan immigrant Luis Jimenez permanently brain damaged.

Less than four months after his December release from prison for two counts of DUI manslaughter, authorities say Flewellen, 52, was behind the wheel of a borrowed car and caused a hit-and-run crash with property damage in Fort Pierce.

Already charged with two counts of violating his supervised release, court papers show when Flewellen returns to court Aug. 17, he’ll face additional charges of leaving the scene of a crash with property damage and driving on a revoked driver’s license related to an April 5 traffic collision.
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