Miami Criminal Lawyer Blog

The parents of 15-year-old, Jose Guadalupe Walle, said their son used to be a soccer player and good student that eventually got involved with the wrong crowd in middle school. Walle was involved with marijuana and was eventually sent to drug treatment and counseling.

The parents of Walle asked him to be punished by the juvenile court, but he was eventually released. Walle ran away four months before he was put behind bars for his crime, and the parents were informed that the only way the teenager would be caught and found was if he committed a crime. At 13-years-old, Walle was out on the street involving himself with LSD, cocaine, Xanax and alcohol.

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Back in 2008, an 11-year-old girl was almost abducted from her own bed. Timothy Schlafer, now 21, is currently going through a trial process for this incident. According to the Sun Sentinel, Schlafer’s excuse for the confusion was drugs.

Schlafer was a senior at Coral Springs High. He had been accepted to Florida Atlantic University through a scholarship. Prior to the accused abduction, Schlafer was at a party where he consumed a large amount of beer, Xanax and LSD. It was reported that Schlafer thought he had walked into his own home, but shouting police startled him and proved otherwise.

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In July 2008, three young men attacked a 54-year-old man, James Cunningham, in Pompano Beach. The evidence of the attack was then posted on YouTube via the internet. Prosecutors recently dropped all kidnapping charges on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The victim did not report the incident, but officials came across the video while they were searching for another assault video.

According to the Miami Herald, the video was titled, “Beating up a Crackhead.” The three suspects were Brandon Edwards of Fort Lauderdale, 19; William Sleight of Deerfield Beach, 19; and Bradley Wunderlich of Parkland, 22. An accomplice helped record the video with Sleight who is also 19-years-old, Nicholas Bakum.

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