Buster

By any measure, Kevin Gibson is a public nuisance, a convicted felon with dozens of arrests and multiple state prison terms.

But look at that half-beard!

Gibson, who has previously graced these pages, was arrested Thursday evening in Miami Beach on felony narcotics charges.

The 59-year-old drug dealer’s rap sheet includes convictions for most crimes codified in Florida’s criminal statutes (burglary; grand theft; robbery; kidnapping; cocaine sales; disorderly intoxication; battery; trespassing; strong arm robbery; theft; loitering; marijuana sales, etc.).

Upon Gibson’s inevitable return to the state system, his half-beard will surrender to institutional rules (as seen in the below 2016 Florida Department of Corrections photo).

7/7 UPDATE: A Magistrate Court judge today denied bond to the Smiths, who remain in custody at the Appling County jail. Judge Ronnie K. Lewis ruled that the couple--who spent nearly two weeks on the lam before their surrender--was a flight risk and a danger to the community. Lawyers for the Smiths will have an opportunity to petition for the duo’s pre-trial release during a future hearing in a higher court.

Two weeks after a Georgia restaurant owner and her teenage daughter were beaten by a couple unhappy with their chicken order, the alleged assailants today turned themselves in to police.

Nathaniel Smith, 45, and LaTasha Smith, 28, surrendered to face felony charges in connection with the June 22 incident at the Qwik Chik takeout stand in Baxley, a city about 90 miles west of Savannah. The Smiths were the target of a law enforcement dragnet that included police and federal marshals.

According to investigators, the Smiths (seen below) complained to eatery owner Jeanette Norris that their chicken was cold and that they did not receive a sufficient amount of French fries. When the dispute escalated, Norris dialed 911 (after having refunded the couple’s money).

As seen in the above surveillance footage, before cops arrived at Qwik Chik, LaTasha Smith attacked Norris with a flurry of punches. When Norris’s 15-year-old daughter sought to aid her mother, Nathaniel Smith sucker-punched the girl in the face.

Norris was left with two black eyes and a broken nose, while her daughter suffered a concussion and a black eye.

Following the assault, the Smiths fled in a Cadillac Escalade and remained on the lam until this morning. The couple was being sought on warrants charging them with aggravated battery and cruelty to children. Nathaniel Smith has a prior felony conviction for the sale and distribution of cocaine and marijuana.

The Smiths, who live in Savannah, have yet to appear before a judge.

A bikini contest competitor is facing a battery charge for allegedly clobbering another female contestant over the head with high-heeled shoes, Florida police report.

According to cops, Erica Kaitlyn Mize, 24, tangled with the victim last month during the Miss Sailfish Regatta Bikini Contest in Stuart on Florida’s Treasure Coast.

Investigators allege that after the 11 bikini-clad contestants left the stage in Stuart’s waterfront Causeway Park, Mize tussled with the 23-year-old victim (who is the current girlfriend of Mize’s former boyfriend).

As first reported by Will Greenlee at TCPalm, the victim told cops that Mize (pictured at right) warned her that “you should go to the gyno because you’re in for a rude awakening.”

The victim said that Mize “hit her on the head with her high heel shoes,” according to a Martin County Sheriff's Office report. The account of the victim--who had a small lump on her head--was backed up by witnesses, cops noted.

While the report does not further identify the alleged weapon, photos from the bikini contest show that Mize wore a pair of strappy turquoise platform heels (seen at left).

Mize, cited for misdemeanor battery, was on probation at the time of her bikini contest collar. In mid-April, she was placed on probation for a year following a conviction for marijuana possession.    

Mize, an aspiring model, works for a Stuart accounting firm, according to a police report.

A woman swinging a cross repeatedly struck her husband in the head with the religious item, according to cops who arrested the alleged assailant on a felony domestic battery charge.

Cops say Tina Abrams, 49, attacked her spouse early Friday morning after he returned to the couple’s St. Petersburg, Florida residence.

As her husband was washing up in the bathroom, Abrams announced that she was “through with this shit!” and "grabbed a glass cross from the living room." Abrams then began to “repeatedly strike” the victim, who suffered abrasions to his right temple and the upper left side of his head.

Abrams, whose rap sheet includes a 2007 battery conviction, was arrested and booked into the county jail. Freed Sunday after posting $2000 bond, Abrams (seen at left) has been ordered to have no contact with her husband.

An arrest affidavit notes that the cross--characterized as a “blunt object”--was not seized by police.

After meeting on the “secret-sharing” app Whisper, a Florida woman engaged in a series of sexual encounters with a 14-year-old girl, leading this week to her arrest and jailing on multiple felony charges, investigators report.

According to police, Taylor Paige Horne, 21, admitted to having six sexual encounters with the teen over the past two months. The girl told investigators “there were between 10-20 encounters,” according to a criminal complaint.

Police charge that Horne, seen above, got the girl to engage in “oral sex and vaginal penetration with ‘strap-on’ devices,” and knew that the victim was a minor. Court filings do not disclose how sheriff’s deputies learned of Horne’s involvement with the teen.

Horne and the girl allegedly had sex at “several locations” in Pinellas and Pasco counties (Horne resides in Trinity, a community in Pasco County).

Horne, cops say, initially “made contact with victim on ‘Whisper’ app.” The social media platform bills itself as “the best place to discover secrets around you.”

Charged with six felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery, Horne is locked up in the Pinellas County jail in lieu of $60,000 bond. She could face additional charges in Pasco County.

A naked yoga enthusiast is on the loose in Colorado, cops report.

Around 6:45 AM Saturday, Aurora police received a 911 call about a “naked man doing yoga” in public. But an officer dispatched to the crime scene reported that, “I was unable to locate anyone in the area clothed or otherwise.”

The patrolman, however, did locate a pile of abandoned clothing outside a nearby business. The items--pants, shirts, socks, underwear, and a pair of Nikes--were collected by the officer and “tagged as evidence.”

The incident--classified as indecent exposure--occurred adjacent to a strip mall.

NOTE: The gentleman pictured above is not the suspect. He is just another guy who enjoys doing yoga while unencumbered by clothing.