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By ELAINE SILVESTRINI

esilvestrini@tampatrib.com

Published: October 7, 2008

Sami Al-Arian lost a bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court consider his case.

Al-Arian appealed rulings that he could be prosecuted for contempt for refusing to testify before a Virginia grand jury investigating Islamic charities. His attorneys argued that his 2006 plea agreement in Tampa exempted him from having to cooperate with prosecutors.

A jury in 2005 failed to convict Al-Arian on numerous charges and deadlocked on others. Al-Arian pleaded guilty to a single charge of providing assistance to a terrorist organization.

The former University of South Florida professor is free on bail in Virginia pending his prosecution there.

HILLSBOROUGH

Baby's Injuries Land Man In Jail

TAMPA - Deputies arrested a 23-year-old man they said shook and seriously injured a 2-month-old baby.

Javaurian Vonshae Saffold was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated child abuse. He is being held without bail at Orient Road Jail.

Josh Poltilove

Man Charged In Death Of Toddler

Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies arrested a Tampa man Monday in the death of his girlfriend's 2 1/2 -year-old daughter.

Robert Bradwell, 36, was home with the girl and her 4-year-old brother Sept. 5 while their mother was at work. About 9:30 p.m., Bradwell took the child to University Community Hospital, where she died, authorities said. He told detectives the girl fell in the bathtub.

The Hillsborough County Medical Examiner's office said the girl died as a result of blunt impact and ruled the death a homicide.

Bradwell is charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bail at Orient Road Jail.

Chris Taylor

PINELLAS

FDLE Upholds Shooting Inquiry

ST. PETERSBURG - The local state attorney conducted a thorough investigation into the police shooting of 17-year-old Javon Dawson, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement concluded.

No additional action is necessary, the FDLE said.

Gov. Charlie Crist asked the agency to review State Attorney Bernie McCabe's investigation.

Stephen Thompson

TAMPA - Deputies arrested a 23-year-old man they said shook and seriously injured a 2-month-old baby.

Hillsborough County Sheriff's deputies arrested Javaurian Vonshae Saffold on Monday and charged him with aggravated child abuse. He is being held without bail at Orient Road Jail.

The baby suffered a brain injury, multiple rib fractures and bleeding in the retina.

Doctors at Joseph's Hospital concluded the injuries were not accidental, sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. Saffold later told deputies he shook the child.

Josh Poltilove

TAMPA - Former lottery multimillionaire Rhoda Toth about to report to federal prison checked into a Pasco hospital with mental health problems.

Toth was to report Friday to Carswell Federal Medical Center in Texas. Her public defender persuaded a judge to delay the deadline to Oct. 17.

Community Hospital in New Port Richey admitted Toth for panic attacks, anxiety, partial facial paralysis and confusion, according to court papers.

No discharge date is scheduled.

Toth and her late husband, Alex, won $13 million from the Florida Lotto in 1990, but went broke after spending and gambling away their winnings.

She sentenced to two years in prison for filing false tax returns over several years. She owed the IRS $1.1 million.

Elaine Silvestrini

TAMPA - Nathan Edward McReynolds is charged with second-degree murder after the man he shot Saturday night died at Tampa General Hospital, authorities say.

Troy Absher went to buy drugs at McReynolds' Valrico home, Hillsborough County deputies said. McReynolds apparently shot Absher in the head during an argument and left. Absher, 36, died Sunday.

Josh Poltilove

TAMPA - Two Tampa men are in trouble for pretending to be law enforcement agents.

Darryl Ivan Dawson, 44, flashed Tampa police officers a badge and pretended to be a Department of Homeland security employee Friday morning. He works for a local security company.

Authorities charged Dawson with impersonating a police officer and driving with a suspended license. He was released from jail on $2,250 bail.

James Penia, 41, faced two counts of impersonating a police officer Sunday afternoon when he flashed a plastic badge to two people while hanging out at a Circle K on Nebraska Avenue, Hillsborough County sheriff's spokeswoman Debbie Carter said

Penia was released from jail on $4,000 bail.

Josh Poltilove

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