Some More Cops Who Need To Be Commended

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Free meal offer leads to arrest in 1987 killing of Pinellas woman, 82

 

A man’s inability to turn down a free meal has contributed to his arrest in connection with the slaying of an 82-year-old Pinellas County woman that had gone unsolved for 36 years.

 

Michael Lapniewski, 55, was booked into the Pinellas County Jail Tuesday afternoon on a charge of first-degree murder in connection with the 1987 slaying of Opal Weil, a widow who was choked and beaten in her Lealman home.

 

DNA was a key factor in cracking the case, according to an arrest affidavit written by Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office detectives. But how they got the DNA involved a clever ruse in which they advertised a free meal at a restaurant — an offer to which Lapniewski responded.

 

After he finished his meal and left, detectives seized the spoon and fork he had used and submitted them for DNA testing. They were a match to hairs that had been found on Weil’s pink nightgown, her electric blanket and her bed after her killing, according to the affidavit.

 

However, a major question remains: Could Lapniewski face charges in two similar attacks, including one in which an 84-year-old Seminole woman, Eleanor Swift, was suffocated with a couch cushion in her home just days after Weil?

 

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Officer surprises young boy with PS5 after neighbors ask for him to be removed

 

Instead of dismissing a young boy going door-to-door in a neighborhood a police officer took the time to understand.

 

Neighbors called the police because the boy was asking if he could do yard work to earn money for a new Playstation, the City of Hapeville Police said.

 

When Officer Colleran showed up, he talked to the boy and said he explained he wanted to pull weeds, cut grass and trim hedges to earn the money.

 

“The young man was polite, respectful and truthful,” the police department said. “Colleran, a gamer himself, was impressed with the young man and thought he would help him reach his goal.”

 

Officer Colleran and some of his friends came together to get the video game system and even a gift card to pay for the membership so the boy could play immediately.

 

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