Smelly Jumpsuit

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Pablo Eduardo Garcia, Florida inmate X95703, born 1995, incarceration intake February 2025 at age 29, scheduled for release September 2031

Attempted Murder, Sexual Battery, False Imprisonment, Kidnapping, Felon in Possession of a Weapon

in September 2023, an Orlando Florida man accused of attacking his ex-girlfriend, pointing a gun at her head and pulling the trigger was taken into custody in Volusia County after law enforcement tracked him down across the state in Citrus County. 

Detectives and FDLE agents tracked him down in Crystal River, where he was taken into custody without incident.

Garcia attacked his ex-girlfriend at her Deltona Florida home in the early-morning hours of Sept. 16, 2023. He armed himself with a handgun, punched her in the face multiple times and pointed the gun at her. During a struggle, the gun went off and left a bullet hole in the headboard of her bed. Garcia pointed the gun at the victim a second time and pulled the trigger, but the gun jammed.

The victim described Garcia as being manic and pacing while holding the gun for more than two hours. After the gun went off, Garcia ordered her to text her landlord in case he heard the shot, to assure him everything was OK. 

She complied and Garcia then destroyed her cell phone and Apple watch, smashing them both with the gun. Throughout the events, she said Garcia blocked the door and wouldn’t allow her to leave.  Garcia also sexually battered and punched the victim as the attack continued.

The victim was eventually able to escape after Garcia fell asleep. She had cuts and bruises consistent with her account of the attack, and was treated at an Orlando hospital. 

Garcia’s criminal history showed at the time that he was a convicted felon in Florida; he had been previously convicted of felony battery and battery on a person 65 years of age or older in 2017 in Orange County. Other past charges include domestic battery, witness tampering and felony battery with great bodily harm.

Garcia was lodged in the Volusia County Jail on September 26, 2023, and remained in pre-trail custody until he was convicted and sentenced in January 2025. He was discharged from the local County Jail on February 10, 2025 and delivered to the control of the Florida Department of Corrections.

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Before and after....

Christopher Diehl, Virginia inmate 1830987, born 1985, incarceration intake September 2017 at age 32, sentenced to 15 years, with 7 years suspended, released

DUI, Aggravated Involuntary Manslaughter

In September 2017 a Fishersville Virginia man who killed another driver in a crash in the summer of 2016 while heading the wrong way on interstate 81 was sentenced.

Christopher S. Diehl, 32, faced the possibility of 21 years in prison after being convicted in June 2017 on charges of aggravated involuntary manslaughter and driving while intoxicated. Diehl was sentenced 15 years in prison with 7 years being suspended.

Shortly before 5 a.m. on June 26, 2016, Diehl was drunk when he got behind the wheel of a 2016 Toyota Tundra pickup. Authorities said he entered the northbound lanes of I-81 at Virginia State Route 262, just south of Staunton.

He then proceeded to drive for more than five miles against traffic as several motorists phoned police. Witnesses at Diehl’s trial testified they saw the truck weaving back and forth while it came directly at them in the wrong direction.

At the 214.9 mile marker, Diehl’s truck slammed into the victim's 2011 Volkswagen Tiguan, the force of the crash ejecting the car engine and battery onto the interstate, photos at the trial showed. The vicitim died at the scene.

Diehl testified he couldn’t recall the crash, and said around 1 a.m. on the day in question he lay down on a couch after drinking five to six beers at a friend's home in Stuarts Draft. He said that was his last memory before coming to in the middle of I-81 after the crash.

Hours after the crash his blood-alcohol content was measured at 0.15, nearly twice Virginia’s legal limit.

Diehl, who had been free on a $100,000 bond prior to his trial, was remanded to Middle River Regional Jail following his conviction.

Kevin McCleskey, Texas

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Muhamnmad Altantawi, Oakland County (Michigan) inmate 434182, Michigan inmate 724497, born 2001, incarceration (with DOC) intake September 2022 at age 21, scheduled for earliest possible release August 2052, with full discharge of sentence August 2077

Homicide

The inmate was nitially charged with the murder of his mother, arrested as an under 18, and later transferred to adult jail.  Transferred to adult Jail in July 2020, and at trial, he was convicted in March 2022.

Sentenced to 35-60 years in prison. The roughly five years he’s already spent in jail will count toward his sentence.

Nada Huranieh, Al-Tantawi’s mother, was 35 when she died in August 2017. Al-Tantawi was 16 at the time. 

A jury found him guilty of premeditated murder in March of 2022. Al-Tantawi pleaded not guilty during trail and has continued to claim he did not kill his mother.

“To say that this was a horrible situation is an understatement,” the Judge said. “When the death of one’s mother, as the jury found, is perpetrated by her son, it’s even more heinous.”

The jury took just two hours to deliberate, accepting the prosecution’s argument that Al-Tantawi smothered his mother with a toxin-soaked cloth and then pushing her already-dead body from a second story window of their home in Farmington Hills.

Having waived his right to an attorney at a hearing in August, Al-Tantawi represented himself Sept. 21. The sentencing took roughly four hours, with most of the event featuring Al-Tantawi’s lengthy list of challenges and disagreements with the prosecution’s case.

Al-Tantawi, who appealed his sentence minutes after it was read, objected to  the relevance of information gathered at the time of the murder when he was still a teen. He also claimed he’s been discriminated against because he’s Muslim and the son of Syrian immigrants.

Previously, Al-Tantawi’s lawyer at the time appealed that information-gathering process to the Michigan Supreme Court, but the information police gathered during the initial investigation was deemed admissible in court.

Having spent five years in jail, Al-Tantawi argued his more recent past, spending 5 years in jail, should play a bigger role in the judge’s decision.

“There is no way this is more relevant than the last five years I’ve had,” he said.

The judge denied most of Al-Tantawi’s challenges, which included him asking to remove information from police reports and his own descriptions of what happened in 2017. The judge said she’d never sat through a four hour sentencing before this one.

“I sat through a trial,” the Judge said. “I’ve sat through five years of this case. I am more intimately familiar with the facts of this case than anyone other than the prosecution and yourself.”

One of the convicted’s two younger sisters, read a victim impact statement from her mother’s family back in Syria, where Huranieh and her husband, who she had been in the process of divorcing at the time of her death, are from.

Al-Tantawi’s father also read part of a statement before the Judge stopped him. The Judge said the statement wasn’t an actual victim impact statement, but a defense of his son.

Huranieh and her husband had been living apart for over a year at the time of her death. Her husband, Bassel Al-Tantawi, had pleaded no contest to a domestic violence charge regarding his wife and was wearing a GPS tether when she died.

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Derrick Brown, Ohio inmate A734453, born 1994, incarceration intake April 2017 at age 22, scheduled for release July 2067

Aggravated Murder, Aggravated Robbery, Aggravated Burglary 

Derrick Brown pleaded guilty as charged to attempted burglary, aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, and aggravated murder for the death of Joseph Romano at his home. He was also charged with participating in a criminal gang.

Butler County Common Pleas Judge Greg Stephens sentenced Brown to 20 years to life for the murder of Romano and an additional 31 years consecutively on the other charges.

Brown declined to make a statement before sentencing and showed no emotion when the sentence was handed down.

(It appears the major face tattoo work was done post conviction.)

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