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A scheme to make money by posting “rage baiting” videos online backfired on a Florida Man who was arrested for menacing neighbors with a large stick, screaming at juveniles, and calling one individual the ‘n’ word, cops say.

Responding to several 911 calls from the Palm Grove Village mobile home park, police Monday discovered Anhthai Thai, 34, in a common area “yelling loudly” at his mother, juveniles, and the mother of the children.

Thai, seen at right, reportedly told police he “did this to record reactions and get money” via “rage baiting” clips posted to social media. An arrest report does not identify the intended online repository for such highbrow content.

Investigators reported that Thai confronted “several neighbors with a large stick while waving it around generating fears.” His other 12:45 AM antics included yelling at children, using a racial slur, and blocking vehicles from driving through the Pinellas Park property (where Thai resides).

Thai, charged with disorderly conduct, pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge. He was adjudicated guilty and fined $550. The auteur was released yesterday from the county jail after two days in custody.

A former United States Postal Service letter carrier pleaded guilty today in California to a three-year spree of stealing credit and debit cards and checks from the mail, items she used to pay for luxury goods and international travel.

Mary Ann Magdamit, 31, copped to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, a felony, in connection with a sprawling scheme that included her using many of the stolen cards and selling others to accomplices with nicknames like “Ghana” and “One Punch.”

Magdamit, who earned $56,000 annually delivering mail from the main post office in Torrance, used her Instagram page (“yourfawkenmom”) to chronicle vacations to destinations like Aruba, Tulum, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Los Cabos, and Turks and Caicos (seen below). Shopping sprees netted items from Balenciaga, Hermes, Rick Owens, Palm Angels, Dior, and Louis Vuitton, as well as a Tesla Cybertruck and a diamond-encrusted Rolex watch.

As seen above, Magdamit also posted photos of cash stacks.

After more than 100 credit cards were reported stolen from stops on Magdamit’s route, postal service investigators launched a probe that included the surreptitious placement of a camera inside her postal vehicle. Magdamit was subsequently caught red-handed sorting mail containing checks and plastic.

When agents raided Magdamit’s apartment in December 2024, they found 133 credit and debit cards, 16 U.S. Treasury checks, and 18 stolen gift cards. Investigators were also able to obtain store surveillance video showing Magdamit making purchases with stolen cards at Apple and Home Depot.

Magdamit, a dual citizen of the U.S. and the Philippines, is being held at the federal detention center in Los Angeles in advance of her October 27 sentencing. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum of 30 years.

A motorcyclist was busted yesterday for speeding and reckless driving after a Florida cop spotted him riding hands-free “with his arms outstretched like he was ‘Jack on the Titanic,’” according to an arrest affidavit.

Police allege that Damon Henkins, 34, was going 105 mph when he mimicked Leonardo DiCaprio’s “I’m the King of the World” pose as he sped Sunday morning on U.S Route 19.

Driving in a 55 mph zone “with other traffic present,” Henkins had “both hands off the handlebars” when Corporal Jacob Rolleston of the Pinellas Park Police Department observed him traveling at an “excessive and dangerous speed.”

Seen at right, Henkins was arrested on two misdemeanor charges and booked into the county jail. The St. Petersburg resident spent about six hours in custody before being freed on $300 bond.

Henkins drives a Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R and has posted Instagram videos showing him weaving (and white lining) through highway traffic. In late-May he uploaded a photo of his motorcycle--which can approach 175 mph--with the caption, “Finally gave her a bath and installed the new windscreen. In love with this bike.”

Henkins has previously been cited for driving an unregistered vehicle and driving a vehicle with an expired registration.

The Florida Woman arrested for shoving cheesy nachos down her wife's leggings during a 3 AM domestic confrontation has pleaded no contest to battery and been sentenced to complete a 29-week “batterers intervention program,” according to court records.

During a change of plea hearing earlier this month, Allyson Swan agreed to withdraw her previous not guilty plea and enter a domestic violence diversion program that, if successfully completed, can result in the dismissal of the misdemeanor case.

Seen at right, Swan, a 39-year-old nurse, was also ordered to pay $875 in court costs.

A judge has barred Swan from having any contact with the 40-year-old victim (whom Swan filed to divorce a week after her May 3 arrest). The defendant is also prohibited from possessing firearms, ammunition, or controlled substances (without a prescription).

Police say Swan’s wife, who is also a nurse, was “making nachos with nacho cheese in the kitchen” around 3 AM when Swan “told her she shouldn’t be eating this late and made a comment about her weight.”

During the argument that followed, Swan approached her wife and “grabbed a handful of the cheesy nachos and shoved them down the back” of the victim’s leggings. She also allegedly slammed the victim’s head on the floor and “shoved her fingers into either side of her mouth and hooked them like a fish.”

When officers responded to the couple’s Port St. Lucie residence, they spotted two yellow smears resembling nacho cheese on a wall. An examination of the victim’s leggings revealed “what appeared to be nacho cheese on the interior backside--consistent with her story.”

A Missouri man accosted a Hispanic family at a park and demanded to see their citizenship papers, yelling that “they better be legal,” according to investigators who arrested the suspect on a felony harassment charge.

Police were dispatched Tuesday to Liberty Park in Sedalia “in reference to a disturbance,” according to a probable cause affidavit.

An officer spoke with a woman who said her children were playing when a man began yelling at her. When the victim moved to put her kids in the car, the suspect continued yelling, and “went to the driver’s window and asked for her husband’s papers, telling them they better be legal.”

The woman told a cop that her children were crying as her husband sought to drive “the wrong way out of the park to get away from him.” The family returned to the park when they saw police arrive, and the woman said “the male subject’s behavior scared her and she feared for the safety of her family.”

Cops subsequently confronted Dean Murphree, 61, about his encounter with the family. Murphree, seen above, said he was a “retired Veteran who serves and protects this community” and patrolled the park “nearly every night.”

Murphree claimed that, “not too long ago,” he was at the park and “caught a bunch of ‘illegals’ tearing up the rose garden and trashing the gazebo.” Murphree, police charged, yelled at the family and tried to prevent them “from leaving the park simply because...they were Hispanic.”

Arrested on a felony charge, Murphree was booked into the county jail on $2500 bond in advance of his arraignment today. The alleged immigration vigilante lives about three miles from Liberty Park.

A married couple was arrested Sunday evening for allegedly engaging in lewd activity at a sidewalk café in Florida, according to court records.

Ryan Cook, 29, and Kimberley Morey, 27, were at the Where’s Jubes bar in downtown St. Petersburg when the disorderly conduct occurred, police say.

According to a witness, Cook placed his hand up his wife’s dress and touched her private parts, which reportedly “caused a disturbance” and a “breach of the peace.” Morey was charged for “allowing her husband to place his hand up her dress” and engage in sexual conduct.

Arrest affidavits do not identify the witness who fingered the frisky couple.

Pictured above, Cook and Morey were each charged with disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, and possession of an open container (bottles of Captain Morgan rum).

During a court appearance Monday, Cook and Morey pleaded no contest to the charges. A judge adjudicated them guilty and fined each about $500. The couple was subsequently freed from the county jail.