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4 suspects in clown masks arrested after robbing Florida woman, deputies say
WHIO TV 7 ^ | January 8, 2023 | Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

Posted on 01/08/2023 3:47:54 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Four people accused of breaking into a Florida woman’s home in December while wearing clown masks have been arrested, authorities said Friday.

According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Melissa Martinez, 23, who was a caregiver for the victim’s husband, was arrested. Also jailed were Shakira Rivera Colon, 26; Jaydie Cintron-Mayoral, 24; and Nelson David Cruz-Medina 42.

The quartet was charged with home invasion, robbery and grand theft.

According to an arrest affidavit, Orange County deputies responded to the burglary call in the Cypress Springs neighborhood of Orlando.

Deputies said that around 3 a.m. on Dec. 1, 2022, the suspects scared the woman out of her sleep by wearing clown masks when they broke into her home, WFTV reported. Authorities said the suspects were armed with a sledgehammer, according to the television station.

The woman said she had locked her bedroom door, but she heard a banging noise, and two masked suspects broke the door, WFTV reported.

According to the arrest affidavit, the victim tried to call 911 on her cellphone, but the suspect carrying the sledgehammer took it from her.

A suspect found a safe in a closet and attempted to open it. Instead, the suspects fled the home with the safe and more than $40,000 items, WFTV reported. The woman managed to contact authorities through her landline telephone.

Deputies said home surveillance video led them to find the suspects, including Martinez, who tried to sell some of the woman’s belongings at a pawn shop in neighboring Volusia County, the arrest affidavit stated.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Local News; Miscellaneous; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: clownmasks; florida; floridaman; floridawoman; grandtheft; homeinvasion; orangecounty; robbery
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1 posted on 01/08/2023 3:47:54 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
couldn't find better masks than that???


2 posted on 01/08/2023 4:00:52 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Four real beauties.


3 posted on 01/08/2023 4:01:57 PM PST by ryderann
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

clown mask? Or Biden mask?


4 posted on 01/08/2023 4:02:01 PM PST by bikerman (government-officials-want-to-prevent-rebellion-they-should-stop-committing treason.)
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To: Chode

Woah ! Wear the mask !


5 posted on 01/08/2023 4:03:54 PM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Chode

Clown masks would’ve been an improvement for those four wetbacks.


6 posted on 01/08/2023 4:04:36 PM PST by tomkat
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To: Chode

Those are some hard looking women. Hard to believe they’re 20’s


7 posted on 01/08/2023 4:05:08 PM PST by M_Continuum
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Lady, you live in a state where you can be armed.

Be armed.

You have someone to protect.

8 posted on 01/08/2023 4:06:32 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“What doesn’t kill you, makes you ... Hispanic.”


9 posted on 01/08/2023 4:07:14 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: Chode

YIKERS!!!


10 posted on 01/08/2023 4:10:48 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

New florida man constantly post about florida man ping.


11 posted on 01/08/2023 4:11:05 PM PST by Theoria
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Note to self: Never boast about how much cash you have at home.


12 posted on 01/08/2023 4:13:42 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Florida again?

Don’t even dumb crooks know that they are supposed to throw away their masks soon after they have served their purpose.

“Oh, but I look so cute in this thing!”

Yea, not as cute as the cuffs and leg irons though! :)


13 posted on 01/08/2023 4:16:34 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Chode

They should make a movie:
Quatro Payasos Enojado.
(Four angry Clowns)


14 posted on 01/08/2023 4:17:37 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Chode

We'll call them "the squad".

15 posted on 01/08/2023 4:21:29 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: DennisR

> Never boast about how much cash you have at home. <

Too many people don’t follow that simple rule. A guy I know has an incredible sneaker collection, including some very rare ones. I never saw the attraction in collecting shoes you’ll never wear.

Anyway, he’ll tell anyone who will listen all about his collection. I’m amazed he hasn’t been robbed yet.


16 posted on 01/08/2023 4:28:30 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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The homeowner should have given them the wakanda forever treatment they gave to Namor


17 posted on 01/08/2023 4:50:31 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Chode

Do you know the significance of the “11:11” tattoos on the necks of two of the women?


18 posted on 01/08/2023 5:08:36 PM PST by Judy
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To: Judy

best i could find

Where does 11:11 come from?

The origin of 11:11 as a lucky number myth is murky, but it draws on numerology, which believes that numbers can have a special influence on our lives.

The symmetry of 11:11 is appealing to numerologists, including one in particular: Solara Antara Amaa-Ra, a California woman who founded a New Age spiritual group, Star-Borne Unlimited, in 1986. By 1989, she and her followers were espousing an entire cosmology that revolved around the number and time 11:11.

A larger New Age movement helped spread 11:11 as a number of mystical significance, such as a time when consciousness is especially open to the universe. It is a particular favorite of the Israeli psychic, magician, and numerologist Uri Geller. In 2015 on his blog, Geller claimed to show how various world events, from the Russian Revolution to Genghis Khan’s invasion of China, are connected via 11:11.

Helped along by the likes of Amaa-Ra and Geller, folk belief in 11:11 as a magic number spread in the 1990–2000s. It has even filtered into a practice on Snapchat where people send someone they are crushing on a snap displaying the time 11:11, as if to say You’re the one I’m wishing for. Even Veterans Day has entered into the discussion because it is annually observed on November 11.


19 posted on 01/08/2023 5:14:22 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

Thanks. It seemed odd that they both had that tattoo. Probably many other superstitious people do, too.


20 posted on 01/08/2023 5:24:26 PM PST by Judy
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