TAMPA, Florida — Tonight, a Tampa man is charged with raping a 50-year-old woman that he’d met through an online dating service the day before.

Pasco County deputies arrested 33-year-old Thomas Soshen for involuntary sexual battery and burglary.

Investigators say he broke into the victim’s Land-O-Lakes home in the middle of the night last week and, when she woke up, he was standing next to her naked.

They say Doshen then put the woman in a choke hold and sexually assaulted her. 

Police say Doshen apologized for the attack, telling them things got out of hand.

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Via the PrawfsBlawg, I found this interesting article by Randy Kennedy in The New York Times about a man named Marc Landis. According to the article, Landis, a lifelong painter and former gallery owner, has gone to great lengths — including dressing up like a priest — to donate pieces of important artwork from his collection to U.S. museums. It turns out, however, that Landis is no priest and the pieces of art he is donating are forgeries.

In September 2010, for example, Kennedy writes that Landis visited the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum in Lafayette, La.

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Two teens were arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery this week after they were involved in a car crash in Fillmore while fleeing from police, authorities said.

The teens allegedly tried to rob two people at knifepoint while the victims were sitting in a car in the 400 block of Simon Way in El Rio about 2 a.m. Monday, Ventura County Sheriff’s officials said in a prepared statement.

The suspects, a 17-year-old Santa Paula boy and a 16-year-old Oxnard boy, left the crime scene in a white sedan without getting any money from the victims, officials said.

About 30 minutes after the crime, Sheriff’s deputies spotted the suspects’ vehicle on Highway 126 westbound and tried to stop it, but the driver refused to pull over, officials said.

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Cpl. C. Wright removes scene tape from the parking lot where a body was found in a car this morning.

A man found dead Tuesday in the passenger seat of a car parked in a Monkey Junction shopping center had an apparent gunshot wound, raising worrisome questions about his cause of death.

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Information about the case emerged slowly Tuesday as detectives began investigating the man’s death. Neither homicide nor suicide has been ruled out. Details about the gunshot wound, including where the bullet struck, were not immediately clear Tuesday. <

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Police shootings of black suspects in Miami draws outrage

Published: Thursday, March 24, 2011, 8:15 PM

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The recent fatal shootings of seven African-American suspects by Miami police officers is stirring outrage in many inner-city neighborhoods, prompting the city commission to hold a hearing Thursday to allow family members and activists to air their grievances.

The dangers faced by police in tough neighborhoods were underscored earlier this year in Florida, where four police officers were gunned down in two separate incidents in Miami and St. Read all post…

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