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Man Shot Had Drug Warrant

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By VALERIE KALFRIN

vkalfrin@tampatrib.com

Published: October 18, 2008

  David Sills

TAMPA - A man shot and wounded by a deputy U.S. marshal Thursday was sought on felony drug warrants, an official said Friday.

Authorities arrested David Christopher Sills, 26, at St. Joseph's Hospital on felony cocaine trafficking warrants after Thursday's shooting.

Sills, of Tampa, was being held without bail at Orient Road Jail on Friday. He is a University of South Florida student, according to jail records.

The deputy U.S. marshal shot Sills about 11:30 a.m. Thursday at The Club at Hidden River, a condominium complex off Fletcher Avenue near Interstate 275. The deputy marshal and Tampa police tried to arrest Sills at the condo complex, said Jim Madden, special agent in charge of the Tampa regional office of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

The deputy marshal shot Sills in the torso, Madden said.

The warrants were issued Oct. 2 after Sills failed to appear at a sentencing on a felony cocaine trafficking charge for which he had pleaded guilty.

Madden could not describe how the shooting unfolded, saying investigators were conducting interviews.

Dan Winfield, a local spokesman for the marshal service, would not release the name of the deputy involved in the shooting, citing the ongoing investigation.

HILLSBOROUGH

Man Shows Up At Women's Door, Strips, Gets Arrested

Kenneth Wayne Bynum was an unwelcome visitor for one woman about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, deputies said.

Bynum, 46, stripped off his clothes and banged on the front door and windows of a house in the 2000 block of Darlington Drive, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said.

A sheriff's deputy arrested Bynum. He was held on $750 bail Friday at the Orient Road Jail, charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and misdemeanor exposure of sexual organs.

The sheriff's office said it didn't appear he knew the woman. Preliminary reports indicate Bynum was intoxicated.

Attack On Hispanic Man Is Hate Crime, Police Say

Police have accused a black man of committing a hate crime against a white Hispanic man by yelling racial slurs and throwing a bottle at him.

Demetrick Sanders, 32, of Tampa, is charged with felony aggravated battery, which police stated on an affidavit was a racial hate crime. He could face a stiffer penalty if convicted.

Tampa police arrested Sanders about 9:40 p.m. Thursday after another man, Jose Manuel Sanjurjo, 42, accused Sanders of throwing a bottle at him as he walked home near North 11th Street and East Holland Avenue.

Sanjurjo said other men struck him on the back with a brick and that Sanders and the other men shouted racial slurs at him.

Police did not identify the other men.

Sanders was held Friday at Orient Road Jail on $7,500 bail.

PASCO

Death At Cemetery Considered Suspicious

ZEPHYRHILLS - Pasco County deputies are investigating the death of a man whose body was found at the county's oldest cemetery Friday.

Authorities found the body of Thomas Ousley, 47, in Tucker Cemetery about 12:50 p.m., sheriff's office spokesman Kevin Doll said.

Ousley didn't come home from work Thursday.

When he didn't show up for work Friday, his boss drove through the area, saw Ousley's truck at the cemetery and found the body.

The Zephyrhills man's body was discovered at the rear of the property.

The medical examiner will determine whether the death was foul play or a suicide.

ELSEWHERE

Mother Pleads Not Guilty In Missing Toddler Case

ORLANDO - The mother of a missing 3-year-old Florida girl has pleaded not guilty to charges that she killed her daughter, whose body hasn't been found despite four months of searching.

Casey Anthony's written plea was entered Wednesday, the day after a grand jury indicted her on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter and four counts of lying to investigators about the disappearance of her daughter, Caylee.

Caylee has not been seen since June, but wasn't reported missing until a month later. The child's grandmother first called authorities in July to say that she hadn't seen Caylee for a month and that her daughter's car smelled like death.

Casey Anthony, 22, told authorities that she had left her daughter with a babysitter in June, and that the two were gone when she returned from work. She says she spent the next month trying to find her daughter and didn't call authorities because she was scared.

Investigators immediately started poking holes in her story. The apartment where Casey Anthony said she had left her daughter had been vacant for months, they said. They said she also lied when she told them she had been working at a theme park as an event planner.

Her attorney, Jose Baez, didn't return phone and e-mail messages Friday. Shortly before the indictment was issued Tuesday, he said he believed his client would be vindicated.

A staff and wire report

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