Buster

Hours after exchanging vows, a North Carolina couple exchanged blows at a Florida hotel, according to police who found the bride in a wedding dress covered in blood and the groom with injuries to his face.

Police were called early Sunday morning to the Hilton in Naples, where they encountered Stefanie Ginas, 32, in the hotel’s Salon room. Ginas’s wedding dress had “several blood spots down the front, and the left strap of her dress was torn,” according to a Naples Police Department report.

Ginas’s “face and chest were covered in blood, and she was crying,” cops noted.

Ginas’s mother told officers that the newlywed was involved in “some sort” of altercation with John Gerhard, 43, the man Stefanie had married earlier that evening.

Ginas told cops the couple had quarreled about her brother while in their hotel room, and that the dispute turned violent. Ginas suffered a “bloody nose, busted upper lip, and swollen eye during the altercation,” police reported.

Gerhard, who said that his wife head-butted him, had a cut on the bridge of his nose, swelling on his face, and dried blood on his pants.

Since Ginas and Gerhard each claimed to be the dispute’s “primary aggressor,” both were arrested for domestic battery. The couple, who live in Newport, North Carolina, were booked into the Collier County jail on the misdemeanor count.

Ginas and Gerhard were each released yesterday on $1000 bond.

Meet Kathy Kidd.

The 64-year-old Georgian was arrested last month on a warrant charging her with battering a female relative. Police say Kidd and two other women punched and kicked the 41-year-old victim, who is the mother of Kidd’s granddaughter.

Kidd, free on $2000 bond, was scheduled to be arraigned yesterday on the misdemeanor battery count.

Meet Kenneth Clark Carlyle.

For unknown reasons, the Florida Man, 64, walked “fully naked” up the driveway of his next-door neighbor and proceeded to defecate atop a glass table on the victim’s porch, according to police.

Carlyle, seen at right, was arrested Friday afternoon for criminal mischief and booked into the county jail on the misdemeanor charge.

Carlyle, cops say, was captured relieving himself in broad daylight “on two separate angles of the victim’s home security video footage.”

When officers arrived at the Clearwater crime scene, Carlyle was spoken to “through the door of his RV camper and he was still visibly naked and highly uncooperative.”

Bond on the criminal mischief rap is $250, but Carlyle remains behind bars since he is already facing several criminal charges stemming from a December arrest. Carlyle was busted for drunk driving and discharging “multiple firearms” into a lake near his residence.

According to police, Carlyle fired the guns while seated in his car. A subsequent police search recovered “multiple shell casings scattered around the vehicle.” Charged with DUI, a misdemeanor, and two felony firearms counts, Carlyle had been free on $11,500 bond.

A Wisconsin man is facing a felony charge after using his truck to T-bone a vehicle carrying two people who had just stolen a snow blower from his family’s garage, police report.

According to cops, Corey Sanderson, 29, intentionally plowed into the driver’s side of the getaway car as it turned onto a street a few blocks from his Madison residence.

The vehicle’s occupants, a man and a woman, suffered “serious, but non-life threatening injuries” and were transported late Monday night to a local hospital, investigators say.

Sanderson (seen at right) told Madison Police Department officers that he “saw two people steal a snow blower from his garage and began following them in his truck.” He reportedly admitted intentionally t-boning the other vehicle, prompting cops to arrest him on a felony reckless endangerment charge.

A police spokesperson said there is probable cause to arrest the theft suspects for burglary. “A snow blower was found in the trunk of the car that was involved,” according to a police incident report.

In a police interview, Sanderson said his home “was involved in another recent burglary,” an apparent reference to an incident he detailed in a February 5 Facebook post. Sanderson told friends that “some ass clown” broke into his family’s garage and stole his father’s Briggs & Stratton snow blower. Sanderson added that he was monitoring online marketplaces and asked, “if you see anything being sold to let me know or just share with others.”

A drug suspect tried to convince cops that a plastic bag found in his backpack contained breath mints, not meth, according to an arrest report.

Stephen Whalen, 32, was driving a PT Cruiser Thursday afternoon when a patrolman in Tarpon Springs, Florida spotted him behind the wheel. The officer knew Whalen from a “prior police related incident” and was aware his driver’s license had been revoked.

Whalen, seen at right, was taken into custody and the Chrysler was searched. Inside Whalen’s backpack police say they found assorted drug paraphernalia and a baggie containing 2.6 grams of meth.

When questioned about the seized narcotics, Whalen reportedly said that, “the meth was not meth and it was breath mints,” a cop reported. Whalen “would not elaborate on anything else” regarding his curiously strong mints.

Charged with possession of methamphetamine, fentanyl, and drug paraphernalia, and driving without a license, Whalen was booked into the county jail on $4400 bond.

Whalen’s rap sheet includes convictions for battery; burglary; narcotics sales; trespass; dealing in stolen property; narcotics possession; and providing a false name to law enforcement. Whalen was released from state prison in February 2020 after serving about 18 months in custody on multiple drug convictions.