Homeowners are scared, police are frustrated and the bad guys keep getting away. But tonight one of those bad guys is caught on video. Mary mcguire, this is good video. Reporter they say the best defense is a good offense. That rings true in this case. The homeowner was able to catch the face and the boy of the bad guy. They say the best defense is a good offense. I dont have a big enough house. I dont ve exterior. But it doesnt matter. Derek cunard is glad he took the saying to heart after he caught this bad guy in the living room monday. I feel like reaching through and grabbing his face and saying get out. Reporter this guy got away with thousands of dollars in vintage watches, expensive sunglasses, cash, and other south tampa burglaries. Over the past six months. The crooks face and voice captured Crystal Clear thanks to cunards at Home Security camera. A new tool that could help authorities. Without the video, you have no clue what could have happened. You have to imagine what the
Driver. Mary join us live now in Pinellas County. That driver appeared in court today. The judge raised the bond to each charge to 25,000 and if he posted bond he will have a gps bracelet and a scram bracelet that detects alcohol. He has been behind burglars bars before. He ran a red light under the influence early sunday morning. Plowing into a rod carterrying two beloved bay area music teachers. Our hearts are all broken. Caroline sine who teaches in st. Pete was driving the rod rodcarterrying sean hankins who teaches at miles elementary and shaw elementary. Prayed for her recovery. Shes energetic. Shes get going. Shes got a lot of love that pours out of her. Youre charged with two charges. This afternoon the accused drunk driver went before a Pinellas County jumg. Weve learned he judge. Weve learned he has numerous traffic violations but his lawyer says hes sorry. Hes very remorseful and sorry to hear about what sine is currently on life support and hankins suffered from a broken ba
Deadly crash on inter275 back in 2012. Christopher ponce is in custody in spain and will be brought back to the united states. Chip, do we have any idea when he upon return to tampa . Reporter it could take months. It could be longer than that. We spoke with one legal expert who told us it could take longer than a year if he fights ex tradition back here on the united states. Its difficult to imagine wade angels pain knowing the man accused of killing his son was a freeman. I see reports all the time about people who were on the lam for much longer. I was prepared for the longhaul. Reporter in a small city in spain, a suspicious Christopher Ponce was spotted in a bus station by officers. Questioning. At that time they found a fake mexican passport on him. Reporter when will he return to the u. S. . Brian is a legal expert and attorney not affiliated with this case. He explains it could be a while. Due process the treaty with spain requires that he be taken to a judge in spain, he can c
Newschannel8s john rogers. Reporter shortly after 6 00 this morning, it was very dark outside. And a 16yearold girl was approaching the intersection of 20th street east and 50th avenue drive east. So he grabbed my backpack. He tackled me to the ground. He told me hey, take your clothes off. Reporter she tried to fight him off with little success. I was afraid i was going to die. Reporter thankfully, a car passed by and the man got up, took her phone and ran off. The girl is going to be okay, no attacker. Officials have notified parents and the Manatee County Sheriffs Office plans to have deputies near the bus stop the rest of the week. If you have any information, call crime stoppers. John rogers, newschannel8. We are finding out new information about the School Bus Driver cited this morning in a crash in polk county. Three students were taken to the hospital for evaluation. Frederick mcclellen for right of way violation. In april of 2016, he was involved in two separate crashes. He ma
Are several systems that youre watching. Yes a couple of them. We lost one a couple of days ago, but we still have 99 l. And the other storm well off to our east, but were mostly concerned with 99 l. Which essentially is not anything in terms of a tropical depression, tropical storm, anything like, that but it is there, and gaston should stay out to see. It is mostly 99 l. That they did investigate with a Hurricane Hunter aircraft earlier today and did determine strong wind gu circulation at the lower levels. Were seeing the wide spread thunderstorms around this area which isnt uncommon when a system is trying to get going. This is a fairly large Geographic Area and thats what the Hurricane Hunter saw today. There you see it relative to the state of florida, basically east, the center east and north of puerto rico at this point. You do see the thunderstorms around the red color. It would indicate the cooler cloud top where is the stronger thunderstorms may have occurred. Spaghetti mode