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November 10, 2009

Greek priest beater update

After initially telling police that he was the victim of an attempted robbery, and that he was the victim of a Muslim terrorist, and that he was the victim of an attempted robbery... Lance Corporal Jasen Bruce has somehow managed to retain a big-shot lawyer who is claiming that Father Marakis was actually trying to molest Bruce. Here's the local FOX affiliate's video clip about it:

From a current AP piece on Yahoo News:

But the Tampa Police report offered a far different account, saying Marakis was lost when he followed Bruce into the garage and asked for help, then was struck with the tire iron and chased several blocks. When officers arrived, Bruce called Marakis a terrorist and said the priest had shouted "Allahu akbar!" — Arabic for "God is great."

Tampa Police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said Bruce's charge of a sexual advance was one of several explanations he offered when officers arrived. "One was that he tried to rob him. The other was that he was an Arab terrorist and shouted "Allahu akbar" and he explained that 'That's what they say before they blow you up.' And then he said that he grabbed his genitals and wanted to have sex with him. He gave various accounts of what happened," she said.

I did some digging and it appears that Lance Corporal Bruce's new attorney, Jeff Brown has a connection to Glen (sic) Beck (part way down in the biography).

Speaking of biographies... look how extensive Brown's is. How did a lowly Marine Lance Corporal manage to retain such a big-time lawyer in such a short period of time?

The timeline that I've seen shows that the cops responded to Bruce's 911 call, couldn't understand the bloody guy and had an ambulance take him in for medical treatment at a hospital. There they finally managed to effectively communicate with Rev. Alexios Marakis. Naturally the cops then went back to find Lance Corporal Bruce. But Bruce already had his attorney by then. All of this couldn't have taken more than maybe a couple hours tops.

Something seems very fishy about all this. The grab-bag of excuses by Bruce, the big-shot attorney at the ready by the time Rev. Alexios Marakis was finally able to communite effectively with the cops. That is unless this Lance Corporal Jasen Bruce is the scion of a wealthy family. In which case it would all make a great deal more sense. But scions of wealthy families don't typically go into the Marines.

Posted by Kevin at November 10, 2009 09:34 PM