Aaron Hernandez Charged With Murder: MERGED

[stugotz81]

Well we don't really know Hernandez actually destroyed the security tape. 

 

Some of these cleaning crews you hire, they just have to clean out everything-the bedrooms, the kitchen, the shelves, the security recording system.....

There has even been times I've heard they accidentally step on cell phones if left laying around on the ground...leaving them in 3 or 4 pieces.  Somebody should really report these cleaning crews to the BBB.

[jgb]

sick sick sick http://www.clickorlando.com/news/money/aaron-hernandez-jersey-now-a-collectible/-/1637116/20785752/-/lifvxsz/-/index.html

[Blackout]

sick sick sick http://www.clickorlando.com/news/money/aaron-hernandez-jersey-now-a-collectible/-/1637116/20785752/-/lifvxsz/-/index.html

 

gotta make money somehow

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Shootings linked to Hernandez called 'chillingly similar'

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

 

 

By:

 

 

 

 

Lawrence Mower, Matt Porter

 

 

 

 

 

 

PALM BEACH, Fla. - Just after dawn on Feb. 13, Alexander Bradley was driven to an industrial park outside Riviera Beach, Fla., shot once in the head and left to die.

 

 

A man, who had just arrived at work, heard a gunshot and spotted an SUV driving away. Minutes later, he found Bradley curled up in a fetal position, who told him to call 911.

 

 

"Tell them to hurry," Bradley said. "I'm gonna bleed out."

 

 

 

 

 

Four months later, in a suburb of Boston, Odin Lloyd was driven to an industrial park, shot several times and left to die.

 

 

Bradley lost his right eye but lived. Lloyd died.

 

 

Now, court documents accuse the same man in both shootings: NFL star and former Florida Gators great Aaron Hernandez, who was arrested on murder charges last week in Lloyd's killing.

 

 

And, The Palm Beach Post has learned that authorities investigating Lloyd's slaying visited a hardware store in Belle Glade, Fla., on Wednesday asking about the purchases of two guns linked to Hernandez.

 

 

Hernandez, 23, who last summer signed a $40 million contract with the New England Patriots that delivered a $12.5 million bonus, has NFL friends who grew up in the Glades. Several Glades area residents told The Post that Hernandez visits there occasionally.

 

 

'A LITTLE VACATION'

 

 

In February, Bradley flew into Palm Beach International Airport from Connecticut with Hernandez and two other men, whom he didn't know, David Jaroslawicz, one of Bradley's lawyers, said last week. He said Bradley and Hernandez were friends.

 

 

"They went for a little vacation," he said. "They like Worth Avenue."

 

 

They drove to Tootsie's Cabaret, a strip club in Miami Gardens, where Hernandez and Bradley got into an argument. The dispute continued as they left the club and drove north toward Palm Beach. Jaroslawicz said he didn't know what the argument was about. He said they were staying in Palm Beach County but didn't know where.

 

 

Elizabeth Eilender, Bradley's other lawyer, said she didn't know why the vehicle stopped outside Riviera Beach, in the industrial area near Interstate 95 and Blue Heron Boulevard.

 

 

SWIFT RELEASE FROM TEAM

 

 

Hernandez, in the past week, has fallen far from the heights of the NFL, where he was considered one of its top tight ends. His signing bonus was the highest at his position, according to the Boston Globe.

 

 

His arrest was a deal-breaker. The Patriots cut him right after his arrest. He now faces life in prison if convicted of orchestrating Lloyd's execution-style killing at the park near Hernandez's home in North Attleborough, Mass. He has pleaded not guilty.

 

 

Two other men were arrested last week in connection with Lloyd's slaying, including Ernest Wallace, who turned himself in to police in Miramar on Friday.

 

 

Reports say Hernandez is being investigated in two other killings during a 2012 drive-by shooting in Boston.

 

 

TROUBLE IN GAINESVILLE

 

 

Back in Florida, amid his glory days with the Gators, Hernandez saw trouble nearly from the moment he set foot on the University of Florida campus in 2007.

 

 

After the Gators lost to Auburn in 2007, he and three other players were questioned in the drive-by shooting of two men in Gainesville, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

 

 

Gainesville police did not return calls seeking comment for this story. The Post reached the family of Corey Smith, who was 28 when he was shot in the head. Smith's aunt declined comment on behalf of the family, on their lawyer's recommendation.

 

 

Hernandez failed multiple drug tests, according to reports. In 2010, he slid to the fourth round of the 2010 NFL draft amid concerns from team scouts that his associates in his native Bristol, Conn., had gang ties, according to Sports Illustrated.

 

 

BLEEDING MAN STAGGERS

 

 

The "pop!" sounded like a gunshot.

 

 

An employee of the John Deere store saw a dark-colored sport-utility vehicle speed away. But when the employee and his boss scoured the alley behind the store off Garden Road north of Blue Heron Boulevard, they found nothing.

 

 

Must have been a vehicle backfiring, they thought.

 

 

Minutes later, the employee saw a man stagger and fall in the back-alley parking lot next door. He was bleeding profusely.

 

 

When police and paramedics asked Bradley who shot him, Bradley said he didn't know.

 

 

Then a doctor at St. Mary's Medical Center asked him whether he shot himself.

 

 

"Absolutely not," Bradley replied, according to police reports.

 

 

SHERIFF'S CASE STILL CLOSED

 

 

Comparing the shooting to the one that took Lloyd's life in Massachusetts, Bradley's lawyer, Eilender, can't help but conclude that they are "chillingly similar."

 

 

Bradley opened up publicly two weeks ago in a federal lawsuit that claims Hernandez shot him that morning. The suit was filed two days after Lloyd was found dead but before Hernandez's arrest.

 

 

Despite that, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said last week that detectives would not reopen the investigation unless Bradley cooperates.

 

 

The lawyers also said their client doesn't know who was in the car with him, besides Hernandez. They hadn't asked their client Friday whether the other two people were the two suspects arrested last week in connection with Lloyd's killing.

 

 

Bradley, 31, from East Hartford, Conn., is a convicted felon who spent 18 months in prison for a cocaine distribution conviction in 2006. He was arrested on a felony burglary charge just two months after the February shooting.

 

 

Questions surround why Bradley refused to cooperate. Jaroslawicz said his client did cooperate but did not explain how. But besides, he said, police now have a federal complaint claiming that Hernandez shot Bradley. They can reopen the case, he said.

 

 

"I don't know what else they would need," he said.

 

 

Sheriff's Office spokesman Eric Davis said that's not good enough. They need a victim for a case to succeed at trial.

 

 

"Paper can't do it," Davis said. "He's (Bradley's) going to have to take the stand and say, 'This guy did this.' "

 

 

Chuck Drago, a former Oviedo police chief, said police have an obligation to investigate to the fullest extent crimes in which a victim doesn't cooperate. Then reality sets in.

 

 

"If the victim won't give you a statement, it makes it very, very difficult, if not impossible, to prosecute," Drago said.

 

 

GUNS LINKED TO HERNANDEZ

 

 

Massachusetts prosecutors accuse Hernandez of Lloyd's execution-style killing after Lloyd talked to the wrong people at a nightclub. Hernandez and two other men picked up Lloyd at his home about 2:30 a.m. and drove around in a rented car. As they discussed what happened at the club, Lloyd became nervous, prosecutors say.

 

 

Lloyd texted his sister, "Did you see who I am with?" When she asked who, he answered, at 3:22 a.m., "NFL," then, a minute later, he sent one final text: "Just so you know."

 

 

Prosecutors say Hernandez drove him to the industrial park and shot him five times, including two shots to chest at close range.

 

 

The murder weapon has not been found, but prosecutors Wednesday told a judge that they found one weapon - a Jennings .22-caliber pistol - cast off on the side of the road about one-quarter mile from Hernandez's home.

 

 

He said that gun was traced back to the same Florida store as one found by police after a May 18 altercation outside a bar in Providence, R.I.

 

 

Bristol County, Mass., prosecutor Bill McCauley told the judge that Hernandez was involved in the altercation, during which a black man in dreadlocks placed a gun under a car. A man matching that description was seen with Hernandez the night of Lloyd's murder, the prosecutor said.

 

 

One law-enforcement source told The Post the guns were believed to have been sold at the True Value store in Belle Glade, which sells handguns, rifles and shotguns.

 

 

A store manager told The Post that agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were there Wednesday performing a trace - likely looking through the store's records for who bought the guns. Retailers are required to keep gun sales records.

 

 

But the manager didn't know what the agents were looking for and declined further comment.

 

 

UPHILL BATTLE IN SUIT

 

 

Jaroslawicz said his client's civil suit has taken a turn for the worse with Hernandez's arrest.

 

 

Hernandez won't be collecting a paycheck from football anytime soon, and what money Hernandez does have likely will be spent on his criminal defense, he said.

 

 

And now that Hernandez is tied up in a criminal case, he likely won't have any time to be deposed for Jaroslawicz's lawsuit.

 

 

"What was a straightforward case is now a morass," Jaroslawicz said.

 

 

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(Palm Beach Post staff writers Jeff Greer and Hal Habib and staff researchers Niels Heimeriks and Michelle Quigley contributed to this story

 

 

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©2013 The Palm Beach Post (West Palm Beach, Fla.) Distributed by MCT Information Services

 

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[#27TheDominator]

The guy he shot in the face was on vacation with him?  Sounds like a great guy to hang out with. 

[kelticwizard]

The guy he shot in the face was on vacation with him?  Sounds like a great guy to hang out with. 

 

Like the old song says, you only hurt the ones you love.

[kay_gee]

New theory: Hernandez is responsible for every shooting on the East Coast.

 

 

I'm sorry, I think the guy's guilty, but if he's such an obvious scumbag, why is all of this only coming out now? Was nobody paying attention prior to this?

[Jetsfan80]

New theory: Hernandez is responsible for every shooting on the East Coast.

 

 

I'm sorry, I think the guy's guilty, but if he's such an obvious scumbag, why is all of this only coming out now? Was nobody paying attention prior to this?

 

He had numerous character issues coming out of college and rumors of drug issues.  But since he never murdered a guy until now no one cared.

[kelticwizard]

New theory: Hernandez is responsible for every shooting on the East Coast.

 

 

I'm sorry, I think the guy's guilty, but if he's such an obvious scumbag, why is all of this only coming out now? Was nobody paying attention prior to this?

 

 

I just don't think Hernandez took up shooting people right at the time he became a major college player and was likely to get a big offer from the NFL.  That would normally be the time you think of not blowing your contract.

 

I think Hernandez took up shooting people years earlier when he was still in high school, then carried that behavior over into college and then the pro's.  By the time he got to the NFL his old buddies had so much crap on him that he couldn't leave the life even if he wanted to.

[PFSIKH]

I just don't think Hernandez took up shooting people right at the time he became a major college player and was likely to get a big offer from the NFL.  That would normally be the time you think of not blowing your contract.

 

I think Hernandez took up shooting people years earlier when he was still in high school, then carried that behavior over into college and then the pro's.  By the time he got to the NFL his old buddies had so much crap on him that he couldn't leave the life even if he wanted to.

 

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9440598/aaron-hernandez-odin-lloyd-connected-life-death

 

His life spiraled when his dad died.

 

And as an anonymous Gator says, "he was an idiot" when talking about his college days.

[flgreen]

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/9440598/aaron-hernandez-odin-lloyd-connected-life-death

 

His life spiraled when his dad died.

 

And as an anonymous Gator says, "he was an idiot" when talking about his college days.

Yep very sad story.  Mostly for Lloyd.

 

 

I wonder what % of teenagers that have a parent die become mass murders?   Does this mean that any children that were left fatherless by Hernandez now have a right to kill other people?

[Larz]

pats* fans should be used to rationalizing shameful behavior

 

but c'mon

 

he's innocent until proven guilty, but lets not justify cold blooded murder with "daddy died"

 

weak

[PFSIKH]

pats* fans should be used to rationalizing shameful behavior

 

but c'mon

 

he's innocent until proven guilty, but lets not justify cold blooded murder with "daddy died"

 

weak

 

Where did I rationalize?  Nowhere.

 

Where did I say he was justified?  Seriously?  Nowhere.

 

I just used an article that counters keltic's point that he was 'into' shooting at an earlier age. 

 

As much stuff that is coming out now daily, maybe he is that kid that tortures and kills animals as a child that eventually morphs into a killer.

 

However, Hernandez was by all accounts from our 50K foot view, was not a cold blooded killer as a teen. 

 

His father died and and then his behavior changed.  That does not condone or rationalize what he did.

[flgreen]

Tim Tebow once tried to break up a bar fight between Aaron Hernandez and a Gainesville bouncer. (Getty Images)

 

 

 

 

Conor Orr/The Star-Ledger By  Conor Orr/The Star-Ledger  

 

on July 02, 2013 at 12:56 PM, updated July 02, 2013 at 1:18 PM

 

 

 

Because the Internet is the Internet and Tim Tebow is Tim Tebow, we often find ourselves graced with a story so bizarre -- remember the time he was almost drafted by the Angels? -- it doesn't seem to be true.

 

 

Today is also one of those days.

 

 

According to our friends at the Orlando Sentinel, the former Jets quarterback once attempted to break up a "violent" bar fight between the now-jailed Aaron Hernandez and a bouncer at a Florida bar. The two attended school and played for the Gators together.

 

 

Hernandez allegedly punched a bouncer in the side of the head, breaking his ear drum, and fled the scene. When the police arrived, they questioned none other than Tebow.

 

 

From the Sentinel:

 

 

When the officer could not find Hernandez immediately following the incident, he interviewed Tebow and Shaun Young.

 

 

“Tebow stated that he witnessed the dispute,” the officer wrote. “… Tebow stated that he went over to try to help resolve the conflict.”

 

 

Tebow went on to say he urged Hernandez to leave peacefully and tried to make arrangements to pay the bill.

 

 

Two hours later, another officer found Hernandez and spoke with him about the incident. Tebow was present during the interview.

 

 

The officer wrote Hernandez did not appear to be intoxicated and was, “very polite and professional.”

 

 

Hernandez told the officer both he and Tebow had already called then-UF football coach Urban Meyer and informed him about the incident.

 

 

 

So apparently, Tebow made arrangements to pay the tab, informed the coach and guided his teammate during the interview later. Can't ask for much more in a wing man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So now we know the truth.  When Hernandez went to the Razor a few days after the killing, he gave the gun to Tebow.

[flgreen]

Hernandez investigators had planned to talk to man killed in Farmington crash

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

 

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The Hartford Courant staff

 

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Investigators in the Aaron Hernandez murder case were prepared to interview a Bristol man who was killed early Sunday when he crashed a car registered to his father-in-law, the former New England Patriot tight end's uncle.

 

 

Multiple law enforcement sources said Massachusetts investigators were interested in speaking with Thaddeus Singleton III, 33, because he was associated with Hernandez. Singleton, who records show has served time in state prisons on various drug-related convictions dating to the mid-1990s, was killed when the car he was driving shot 100 through the air and hit the Farmington Country Club 6 feet off the ground.

 

 

The Nissan Maxima was registered to Andres Valderrama, Hernandez's uncle, law enforcement sources said. A female passenger identified as Tabitha Perry, 27, was injured in the crash, Farmington police said.

 

 

 

 

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Hernandez is facing first-degree murder charges in the June 17 shooting death of Odin Lloyd, 27, of Dorchester, Mass. The Patriots released their star tight end shortly after his arrest, and a judge ordered him held without bail after prosecutors outlined evidence they used to accuse him of an "orchestrated execution."

 

 

Police said that in the course of their investigation into the crash they learned that Singleton was married to Tanya Valderrama of 114 Lake Ave. in Bristol. Tanya Valderrama is Hernandez's cousin.

 

 

In the past week, Bristol and Massachusetts investigators have searched the Lake Avenue address, including once on Friday in connection with a probe into a 2012 double homicide in Boston, said Bristol Lt. Kevin Morrell.

 

 

Hernandez is being investigated in connection with the 2012 slayings. Investigators believe Lloyd may have had information about Hernandez's possible role in the double slaying.

 

 

Massachusetts authorities asked police in Bristol, the town where Hernandez was raised and his family still resides, for help in that investigation, said Morrell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hernandez is one of three suspects, all from Bristol, arrested in connection with the Lloyd homicide. Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace also have been charged, and prosecutors say they believe they have in custody all three men who were in the car with Lloyd the night he was killed. Lloyd was dating Shaneah Jenkins, the sister of Hernandez's fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins.

 

 

Law enforcement sources said Ortiz often stayed with Singleton at the Lake Avenue address.

 

 

On Tuesday, an East Hartford man who in a civil lawsuit has charged that Hernandez shot him in the eye outside a Florida nightclub in February, was served an interstate subpoena to appear before a Massachusetts grand jury investigating the Hernandez case.

 

 

Sources said investigators are interested in "similarities" between the Alexander Bradley shooting and the shooting death of Lloyd.

 

 

-Jenny Wilson, Don Stacom and David Owens

 

 

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©2013 The Hartford Courant (Hartford, Conn.)

 

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[Lizard King]

Tim Tebow once tried to break up a bar fight between Aaron Hernandez and a Gainesville bouncer. (Getty Images)

Conor Orr/The Star-Ledger By Conor Orr/The Star-Ledger

on July 02, 2013 at 12:56 PM, updated July 02, 2013 at 1:18 PM

Because the Internet is the Internet and Tim Tebow is Tim Tebow, we often find ourselves graced with a story so bizarre -- remember the time he was almost drafted by the Angels? -- it doesn't seem to be true.

Today is also one of those days.

According to our friends at the Orlando Sentinel, the former Jets quarterback once attempted to break up a "violent" bar fight between the now-jailed Aaron Hernandez and a bouncer at a Florida bar. The two attended school and played for the Gators together.

Hernandez allegedly punched a bouncer in the side of the head, breaking his ear drum, and fled the scene. When the police arrived, they questioned none other than Tebow.

From the Sentinel:

When the officer could not find Hernandez immediately following the incident, he interviewed Tebow and Shaun Young.

“Tebow stated that he witnessed the dispute,” the officer wrote. “… Tebow stated that he went over to try to help resolve the conflict.”

Tebow went on to say he urged Hernandez to leave peacefully and tried to make arrangements to pay the bill.

Two hours later, another officer found Hernandez and spoke with him about the incident. Tebow was present during the interview.

The officer wrote Hernandez did not appear to be intoxicated and was, “very polite and professional.”

Hernandez told the officer both he and Tebow had already called then-UF football coach Urban Meyer and informed him about the incident.

So apparently, Tebow made arrangements to pay the tab, informed the coach and guided his teammate during the interview later. Can't ask for much more in a wing man.

So now we know the truth. When Hernandez went to the Razor a few days after the killing, he gave the gun to Tebow.

Connor is trolling

[flgreen]

Connor is trolling

LOL

 

Hey Orr is only 17.  This has been a very slow week

[Freemanm]

OJ, got off. Ray Lewis, got off. Third times a charm. He dead.

Ray Carruth didn't. I won't however, make jokes here. This is a tragedy all the way around.  

[jgb]

tebow has been in a bar?

[pointman]

Ray Carruth didn't. I won't however, make jokes here. This is a tragedy all the way around.  

Don't worry, the rest of us will. 

[Freemanm]

Don't worry, the rest of us will. 

 

 

I take it back. Aside from the murder charge, Hernandez is just big, ugly and stupid looking. Plus he played for the Patriots.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/07/01/inside-mind-aaron-hernandez/

[Blackout]

tebow has been in a bar?

 

 

Clearly babysitting the murderers on his team

[JoeKlecko]

I just don't think Hernandez took up shooting people right at the time he became a major college player and was likely to get a big offer from the NFL.  That would normally be the time you think of not blowing your contract.

 

I think Hernandez took up shooting people years earlier when he was still in high school, then carried that behavior over into college and then the pro's.  By the time he got to the NFL his old buddies had so much crap on him that he couldn't leave the life even if he wanted to.

 

I thought football was supposed to save young men from a life of violence and was supposed to instill character.

[JoeKlecko]

Connor is trolling

 

I used to like Connor Orr, but that last line is trashy and totally uncalled for.  To even intimate by a joke that Tebow was involved in this ugly Hernandez mess is way beyond the pale.

[flgreen]

I used to like Connor Orr, but that last line is trashy and totally uncalled for.  To even intimate by a joke that Tebow was involved in this ugly Hernandez mess is way beyond the pale.

LOL

 

"So now we know the truth. When Hernandez went to the Razor a few days after the killing, he gave the gun to Tebow."

 

LOL  I'm the trashy one  That line is mine.    Guess I should have made it clearer   

[JoeKlecko]

LOL

 

"So now we know the truth. When Hernandez went to the Razor a few days after the killing, he gave the gun to Tebow."

 

LOL  I'm the trashy one  That line is mine.    Guess I should have made it clearer   

 

OK, that's different.  It's one thing for a fan to make a joke on a board like this, but quite another imo for a journalist to make a statement like that in his newspaper. Thanks for clarifying it.

[kelticwizard]

.From the Sentinel:

 

 

When the officer could not find Hernandez immediately following the incident, he interviewed Tebow and Shaun Young.

 

 

“Tebow stated that he witnessed the dispute,” the officer wrote. “… Tebow stated that he went over to try to help resolve the conflict.”

 

 

Tebow went on to say he urged Hernandez to leave peacefully and tried to make arrangements to pay the bill.

 

 

Two hours later, another officer found Hernandez and spoke with him about the incident. Tebow was present during the interview.

 

 

The officer wrote Hernandez did not appear to be intoxicated and was, “very polite and professional.”

 

 

Hernandez told the officer both he and Tebow had already called then-UF football coach Urban Meyer and informed him about the incident.

 

 

 

So apparently, Tebow made arrangements to pay the tab, informed the coach and guided his teammate during the interview later. Can't ask for much more in a wing man.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So now we know the truth.  When Hernandez went to the Razor a few days after the killing, he gave the gun to Tebow.

 

Probably has to do with the quote system on the board.

 

Many times it seems impossible to get the cursor outside of the box with the quoted article.

[flgreen]

Trouble for Aaron Hernandez as pal flips Cops grab evidence at Franklin ‘flop house’

 

Thursday, July 4, 2013 , Christine McConville 
and Antonio Planas

 

A sidekick of Aaron Hernandez is cooperating with authorities in what one former prosecutor called a key development in the murder case against the ex-Patriots star, as new evidence emerged yesterday potentially tying him to the slaying of Odin L. Lloyd.Court documents obtained yesterday show that Carlos Ortiz — who authorities say was with Hernandez when the Dorchester amateur football player was executed in North Attleboro on June 17 — has flipped on his friend.Ortiz, who hails from Hernandez’s hometown of Bristol, Conn., talked to state troopers in Connecticut last week and directed cops to a secret crash pad in Franklin leased by Hernandez, court papers show

 

“Ortiz did confirm that he was with Aaron Hernandez on the night in question,” state trooper Michael Bates wrote in an affidavit filed in Wrentham District Court. “Ortiz then went on to explain that Hernandez has another address that not many people know about. Ortiz referred to this location as an apartment-style location, commonly referred to as a ‘flop house.’

 

 ”Former Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone, now a private attorney not connected to the Hernandez case, said 
Ortiz’s cooperation could be a dagger for prosecutors.“If it is in fact shown that he was in the car leading up to and during the killing, then that type of witness would be huge,” 
Leone said. “From a defense perspective, it’s obviously damaging. But the prosecution will need as much corroborating evidence as possible.

 

”Ortiz, a career criminal, was arrested in Connecticut last week on weapons charges in connection with Lloyd’s slaying. If his information checks out, he likely would be offered a deal for his testimony that could include a lesser charge or even immunity from prosecution, Leone added.The affidavit was filed in support of a search warrant for the Franklin condo after Ortiz told authorities he had left a cellphone in the apartment.Cops searched the Franklin condo and found a white hooded sweatshirt “consistent in color and type with the sweatshirt that Hernandez is observed to be wearing on surveillance cameras the night of the homicide,” Bates’ affidavit states.

 

They also found a cranberry-colored baseball hat Hernandez is believed to have been wearing when he was with Lloyd at a Boston club two nights before the slaying.“The white sweatshirt could be used to assist in linking Hernandez to the scene of the crime,” Bates wrote. “The baseball hat could help provide the whereabouts of Hernandez on the Friday night before the homicide. This night in particular is a critical aspect in the timeline of events leading up to the homicide.”

 

The search also turned up 11 boxes of ammunition, a bag from Kay Jewelers, paychecks from the New England Patriots and Puma, a valet’s receipt from the W Hotel in Boston, a Hertz rental car agreement, a Western Union receipt and two sets of keys to a black Hummer that prosecutors say was registered to Hernandez.

 

Bostonherald.com reported yesterday that cocaine also was cited in the search warrant. But investigators privately downplayed that angle.Hernandez’s barber Roberto Olivares also has been before a grand jury in the case, court papers show.

 

Also yesterday, California authorities said the disgraced ex-Patriot battled with his fiancee in their luxury condo weeks ago.Hermosa Beach, Calif., police released a 911 tape from March on which Hernandez’s fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, tells a dispatcher the former All-Pro tight end cut his wrist punching a window.The department also released documents showing that police responded to the beachside condo for a squabble in April. Jenkins “packed a bag” but he left the flat after a “verbal” altercation, police said

 

.Meanwhile, Boston police continue to probe whether Hernandez was involved in an unsolved July 2012 double murder at the intersection of Shawmut and Herald streets. Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday called for witnesses to the killings of Safiro Furtado and Danny Abreu to help police.“The community has to help us,” Menino said. “The community has to come forward and give us information they know.”Police say the pair left a Hub nightclub and were gunned down with bullets sprayed from a gray or silver SUV with Rhode Island plates. Cops in Bristol, Conn., last week towed a silver SUV with Rhode Island plates from Hernandez’s uncle’s home. - See more at:

 

 

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/07/trouble_for_aaron_hernandez_as_pal_flips#sthash.sCDAtIgN.dpuf

[sirlancemehlot]

Meh.  Cops got nothing.

[flgreen]

Thought it would be Wallace that rolled.  He's a big fat guy. Figured they would torture him with a roast beef sandwich

[pointman]

Thought it would be Wallace that rolled.  He's a big fat guy. Figured they would torture him with a roast beef sandwich

You ever have a hot roast beef sandwich with gravy on a soft roll? Pfft, they can make anyone talk.

[Lizard King]

You ever have a hot roast beef sandwich with gravy on a soft roll? Pfft, they can make anyone talk.

Go to Fiore's in Hoboken & get that w/their mozzarella. You'll be singing like a bird

[flgreen]

Urban Meyer: Hernandez problems not my responsibility

 

 

 

July 06, 2013 08:16 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Sports staff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said it is "wrong and irresponsible" to connect him or his former Florida staff to the murder charge facing Aaron Hernandez.

 

 

In texts to The Columbus Dispatch and The Gainesville Sun on Saturday, Meyer said there was no cover-up of drug tests during Hernandez's time at Florida. Meyer coached Florida from 2005 to 2010.

 

 

These were Meyer's first comments about Hernandez after he declined to comment earlier this week.

 

 

The coach said in the texts he "received an email from a friend where there is an accusation of multiple failed drug tests covered up" by the university or the coaching staff. Meyer said that is "absolutely not true" and Hernandez was "held to the same drug testing policy as every other player."

 

 

Hernandez played three years under Meyer at Florida. The former New England Patriot is charged in the shooting death of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. He has pleaded not guilty.

 

 

"Prayers and thoughts are with the family and friends of the victim," Meyer texted. "Relating or blaming these serious charges to the University of Florida, myself or our staff is wrong and irresponsible."

 

 

During Meyer's time with the Gators, Florida had at least 31 arrests involving 25 players. Many involved alcohol possession and disorderly conduct, but a dozen involved initial charges of felonies or violent misdemeanors.

 

 

Hernandez was never arrested during his three seasons with the Gators. He was, however, suspended for the 2008 season opener and later acknowledged the suspension was punishment for testing positive for marijuana.

[SayNoToDMC]

New theory: Hernandez is responsible for every shooting on the East Coast.

I'm sorry, I think the guy's guilty, but if he's such an obvious scumbag, why is all of this only coming out now? Was nobody paying attention prior to this?

It was all just too hard to believe before, being that he went from Urban Meyer's Sunday School to the NFL's standard bearer in class. I don't know how this one slipped through the cracks. I'm just glad the patriots did the Nobel and classy thing by cutting this guy who will never play again.

[kelticwizard]

I don't know if it was all that super-hard to believe.  College and pro football players are super physical guys who pursue a sport which values toughness above all.  They are at the age when even normal young men often get in trouble-not trouble like this, but a couple of minor arrests or activities that they never got caught at. 

 

About the only thing which holds down the number of arrests of these people is the fact that when in college they are on track for a chance to prove themselves the best in the NFL, as well as an enormous amount of money.  So there is a big inducement to keep out of trouble.

 

Take away that inducement and there would be a much higher percentage of these people getting in trouble, even trouble like this.