Police Beat: June 18, 2010

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Collier County arrests 06-18-10

Lee County Felony Arrests 06-17-10

Crime Incidents Database with Map

Search by crime, date, neighborhood and day of the week for criminal incidents reported by the Collier County Sheriff’s Office during the first six months of 2009.

To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office 239-477-1000 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.

? Deputies: Man stabs business associate after argument

? Deputies: Bonita man accidentally shoots wife while cleaning gun

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/jun/18/teen-charged-circle-k-robbery-immokalee/

Teen charged with Circle K robbery in Immokalee

Domestic assault arrests

? Eduardo Olivares, 23, of the 500 block of 19th Street N., Immokalee, was arrested by Collier deputies Thursday at home. He was charged with battery after reports said he kicked his girlfriend for not cleaning his work shirt.

Drug arrests

? Kenneth William Purkey, 25, of the 5000 block of Rattlesnake hammock Road, East Naples, was arrested by Collier deputies Wednesday near the 4000 block of Biscayne Drive. Purkey was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of narcotics paraphernalia and failure to appear for a driving without a license appearance.

? Craig Allan Smith, 26, of the 17000 block of Caloosa Trace Circle, Fort Myers, was arrested Thursday by Lee deputies near Bonita Beach Road and Imperial Parkway in Bonita Springs. He was charged with possession of more than 20 grams of a controlled substance without a prescription.

Grand theft arrests

? Christian Martinez Santiago, 20, whose Golden Gate Estates address was unavailable, was arrested by Collier deputies Thursday near the 15000 block of Coastal Bay. Martinez Santiago was charged with felony grand theft $300 to $5,000 and burglary of an unoccupied vehicle, after reports said on June 6 he broke into a car in the 15000 block of Indigo Lakes Circles and stole $2584 worth of electronics and cash.

Police Beat is compiled and written by the Naples Daily News staff/ contributors from oral and written reports by Naples police, Collier Sheriff‘s Office, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Marco police and other agencies. Arrests indicate suspicion of crime, not guilt.

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Police Beat: June 18, 2010

SA pigeon ‘faster than broadband’

10. September 2009 · Comments Off · Categories: Tech · Tags: , , , , , ,

Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery – but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.

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A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles – in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.

Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm’s slow internet speeds.

The idea for the race came when a member of staff at Unlimited IT complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL.

He said it would be faster by carrier pigeon.

“We renown ourselves on being innovative, so we decided to test that statement,” Unlimited’s Kevin Rolfe told the Beeld newspaper.

‘No cats allowed’

Winston took off from Unlimited IT’s call centre in the town of Howick to deliver the memory stick to the firm’s office in Durban.

According to Winston’s website there were strict rules in place to ensure he had no unfair advantage.

Kevin Rolfe with Winston
Winston is over the moon
Kevin Rolfe

They included “no cats allowed” and “birdseed must not have any performance-enhancing seeds within”.

The firm said Winston took one hour and eight minutes to fly between the offices, and the data took another hour to upload on to their system.

Mr Rolfe said the ADSL transmission of the same data size was about 4% complete in the same time.

Hundreds of South Africans followed the race on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter.

“Winston is over the moon,” Mr Rolfe said.

“He is happy to be back at the office and is now just chilling with his friends.”

Meanwhile Telkom said it could not be blamed for slow broadband services at the Durban-based company.

“Several recommendations have, in the past, been made to the customer but none of these have, to date, been accepted,” Telkom’s Troy Hector told South Africa’s Sapa news agency in an e-mail.

South Africa is one of the countries hoping to benefit from three new fibre optic cables being laid around the African continent to improve internet connections.

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