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I remember when these videos first started showing up. I remember how the producers of them were arrested and then released because these videos are protected under the Right to Free Speech. Now this comes out.
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Lake Worth man forces senile grandmother to curse, hold gun in gangsta' video
By ALLYSON BIRD
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
BELLE GLADE — An 18-year-old Lake Worth man allegedly put a semiautomatic pistol in his mentally-incapacitated 85-year-old grandmother's hand and coached her into shouting profanities for a Gangstas and Thugs video.
Michael Alfinez admitted to sheriff's investigators that he dressed up his grandmother, told her what to say and asked her to flash money for the video shot in late December, according to a sheriff's report.
He also admitted to shooting the same chrome pistol from a car window six times near 20-Mile Bend in Belle Glade, the report says.
Deputies arrested him Monday on charges of elderly abuse, discharging a firearm in public and improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon.
A deputy seized the video during a traffic stop in January. During part of the Gangstas and Thugs local DVD series, it shows a disoriented elderly woman shouting curse words and making statements such as, "This is for all the pigs" and "I'll shoot you," while toting the gun. A voice behind the camera tells her what to say, according to the report, and at one point someone also puts a black mask on her head.
When a detective met with the 85-year-old grandmother, she told him the date was February 1908.
"There were times when (the victim) appeared lucid and there were other times she was unable to answer basic questions posed to her," the report says. Her doctor advised investigators that she "does not have the capacity to consent."
The woman told the detective she remembers the video and six other days filming the same scenario. When the detective showed her the video, she said, "They are making a criminal out of me." She said she was ashamed and doesn't normally use that type of language, the report says.
The video also depicts 18-year-old Christopher Garcia and 19-year-old Cory Lunford Jr. driving through neighborhoods in Palm Beach County, according to the report. Garcia and Lunford remain at large.
Alfinez admitted in an interview with deputies that his grandmother isn't in good health and often repeats herself. "She is senile and something is wrong with her memory," he said, according to the sheriff's report.
Alfinez said Raymond "Raylo" Hartley, producer of the videos, contacted him through MySpace.com and asked for footage of the grandmother. Alfinez said he got the idea from a Gangstas and Thugs video and "knew (his) grandmother could be like that, too, or better," the report says.
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Lake Worth man forces senile grandmother to curse, hold gun in gangsta' video
By ALLYSON BIRD
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
BELLE GLADE — An 18-year-old Lake Worth man allegedly put a semiautomatic pistol in his mentally-incapacitated 85-year-old grandmother's hand and coached her into shouting profanities for a Gangstas and Thugs video.
Michael Alfinez admitted to sheriff's investigators that he dressed up his grandmother, told her what to say and asked her to flash money for the video shot in late December, according to a sheriff's report.
He also admitted to shooting the same chrome pistol from a car window six times near 20-Mile Bend in Belle Glade, the report says.
Deputies arrested him Monday on charges of elderly abuse, discharging a firearm in public and improper exhibition of a dangerous weapon.
A deputy seized the video during a traffic stop in January. During part of the Gangstas and Thugs local DVD series, it shows a disoriented elderly woman shouting curse words and making statements such as, "This is for all the pigs" and "I'll shoot you," while toting the gun. A voice behind the camera tells her what to say, according to the report, and at one point someone also puts a black mask on her head.
When a detective met with the 85-year-old grandmother, she told him the date was February 1908.
"There were times when (the victim) appeared lucid and there were other times she was unable to answer basic questions posed to her," the report says. Her doctor advised investigators that she "does not have the capacity to consent."
The woman told the detective she remembers the video and six other days filming the same scenario. When the detective showed her the video, she said, "They are making a criminal out of me." She said she was ashamed and doesn't normally use that type of language, the report says.
The video also depicts 18-year-old Christopher Garcia and 19-year-old Cory Lunford Jr. driving through neighborhoods in Palm Beach County, according to the report. Garcia and Lunford remain at large.
Alfinez admitted in an interview with deputies that his grandmother isn't in good health and often repeats herself. "She is senile and something is wrong with her memory," he said, according to the sheriff's report.
Alfinez said Raymond "Raylo" Hartley, producer of the videos, contacted him through MySpace.com and asked for footage of the grandmother. Alfinez said he got the idea from a Gangstas and Thugs video and "knew (his) grandmother could be like that, too, or better," the report says.
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