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Iowa man charged with severely beating 78-year-old dad
MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — An Iowa man is facing several charges, including attempted murder, after police say he severely beat his 78-year-old father.
Marshalltown police say 47-year-old Scott David Swartz, of Marshalltown, assaulted his dad on Saturday.
The father was transported to a hospital for emergency care. Police have not updated his condition.
Swartz is charged with attempt to commit murder, domestic abuse assault – second offense, felon in possession of a firearm and possession of methamphetamine – first offense.
Swartz was booked into the Marshall County Jail.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Iowa man charged with severely beating 78-year-old dad
Friday, September 29, 2017
Jury pool shrinks for attempted murder trial of former Sarasota deputy
Jury selection was the beginning of the trial for Frank Bybee, 46, who is facing 18 felonies, including attempted murder, exploitation of the elderly, burglary, theft and kidnapping. He faces a life sentence if he is convicted of the first-degree felony charge for attempted murder.
His trial was postponed for 20 days after his attorney withdrew and a former Manatee County judge, John Lakin, joined the defense team causing a conflict of interest with 12th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Thomas Krug. Lakin is currently under investigation by the Florida Bar for actions taken while he was on the bench.
Krug recused himself from the case and Chief Judge Charles E. Williams asked the Florida Supreme Court to appoint a judge from outside of Sarasota County. Judge Donald H. Mason of Charlotte County was assigned to the case that was original scheduled to begin Sept. 5.
Assistant State Attorneys Karen Fraivillig and Art Jackman, and defense attorneys John Lakin and Ronald Kurpiers, must now choose 12 jurors and two alternates to sit on the jury.
The trial will likely begin Wednesday and is expected to last for two weeks.
Prospective jurors were questioned in two different sessions Monday, with attorneys deciding after each session whether hardships and established opinions produced by jurors were enough to strike them from the roster.
Many jurors raised their hands when asked if they had read or watched coverage of the Bybee case. Some said they already had preconceived notions of guilt and could not be impartial.
Among the reasons jurors gave for being unable to render a fair verdict were being caretakers themselves for disabled relatives, “personal feelings,” and one said a family member was convicted of murder and died in his jail cell. The statements came after jurors were informed that the case could take up to two weeks. Some expressed worries over financial hardships.
“I just could not do it,” said the female juror whose family member died in jail.
Another female juror said she decided she could not be fair after hearing the charges in the case, which involves an elderly woman.
A male juror said he is retired and takes care of his mother.
“I bathe her, toileted her, and fed her,” the male juror said. “You don’t want me on that trial.”
A juror in the afternoon session said she lost a lot of work during Hurricane Irma and is responsible for watching her grandchild.
The hurricane hardship excuse was the most common reasoning for many jurors, besides vacations, seeking to be exempt from the trial. Judge Donald H. Mason of Charlotte County said that nearly every juror present will suffer a financial inconvenience. He said it jury duty was part of living in America.
The attorneys released most of the jurors who cited hardships.
Several jurors felt they could be fair, but made the judge aware of possible issues that could arise during the trial.
“I wanted to let you know that my husband is a police officer,” a female juror said.
Two additional jurors just wanted the court to know they worked with the elderly, but felt “presumption of innocence” was not a problem.
Judge Mason and Fraivillig told the panel to be blunt with their answers.
Fraivillig asked the potential jurists if they would participate in the selection process. When they did not reply, she asked again, sparking a “yes” response.
“The most important thing for you to do is be candid with us,” Fraivillig said. “We are looking for jurors that have no preconceived notions or biases. We need you to be a blank slate.”
Two jurors said they had family members in law enforcement — one said they could be fair, the other said they might be tempted to side with a law enforcement officer.
A female juror said her uncle is a sheriff’s deputy being called as a witness. She said even if he was a plumber, she would trust her relative’s opinion.
Long after the potential jurors were asked if they had conflicts, two men said that they might have issues with “the system.”
“I have had dealings with State Attorney and sometimes I see how things go,” a male juror said. “Sometimes I agree and sometimes I don’t agree — because I am exposed to it, I’m probably not the best person.”
Both sides agreed to strike one female juror who told the court, “If I’m not getting paid, I will have an attitude.”
A male juror in the afternoon session asked whether he could make a fair judgement based on the charges he heard in the case said, “No, I can’t. I personally feel this guy is a low life.”
Another female juror says she works at the Sheriff’s Office and has been subjected to “negative opinions” about Bybee.
A male juror who said he was had to attend a paramedics test to become a firefighter was also excused. He received soft applause from the crowd when Judge Mason released him.
Bybee, an 18-year employee of the Sheriff’s Office, was arrested Jan. 23 after a 79-year-old woman called the Sheriff’s Office for help on Oct. 21.
Bybee, a patrol deputy, was sent to the call and took the woman to Sarasota Memorial Hospital, where the former deputy prayed with her before he left, according to an investigation.
About two months later, the woman reported that Bybee had inserted himself into her personal life and had become too controlling. She asked the Sheriff’s Office for help in severing the relationship with the deputy.
Bybee was placed on administrative leave Jan. 9 and three days later, according to court documents, he went back to elderly woman’s home and attempted to kill her.
The Sheriff’s Office terminated his employment on Jan. 31 after enough information was discovered through an internal affairs investigation to sustain allegations of conduct unbecoming and conformance with laws, on top of criminal charges.
Bybee has been in custody at the Sarasota County Jail on a $380,120 bail.
Jury selection is expected to last until at least Tuesday.
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Jury pool shrinks for attempted murder trial of former Sarasota deputy
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
Ex-deputy accused of exploiting elderly woman facing more charges
Frankie Eugene Bybee, 46, was charged Monday evening with fraud - impersonation: using/possessing ID of another person without consent and access to a computer/electronic device without authority.
During the investigation of Bybee's actions, detectives found an email containing suicidal implications was delivered to the 79-year-old victim’s primary care doctor from the victim’s email address as if it came from her, on Dec. 28. When medical staff received the email, they alerted law enforcement, who responded to the victim’s home and initiated an involuntary commitment for evaluation.
The victim later told detectives she never authored the email, and upon forensic analysis, detectives learned that the email originated from an IP address assigned to Bybee’s residence in Manatee County.
Detectives determined that Bybee wrote the email which ultimately led to the victim’s wrongful involuntary commitment to a treatment facility.
Bybee is already facing multiple charges including attempted murder, exploitation of the elderly, forgery, petty theft, two counts of grand theft, burglary of an occupied dwelling and battery on a victim 65 years or older.
He is accused of taking thousands of dollars from the victim, stealing her dog and trying to kill her by filling her house with carbon monoxide.
He is being held at the Sarasota County jail.
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Friday, July 8, 2016
Life Alert alerts police to beating of 86-year-old woman; Grandson arrested
Medics arrived to the 800 block of South Winridge Court late Monday night.
They were responding to a Life Alert call from a neck pendant belonging to an 86-year-old female.
“It was absolutely crucial, it was only way she could reach out and let people know she was in danger, without it who knows when we would have arrived,” said Bloomington Police Captain Steve Kellams, on the victim pressing her Life Alert key chain.
According to police, when they got to the house, they heard yelling and called police.
When officers arrived they spoke to a man on the front porch covered in blood. He began fighting with officers and would not speak to them.
The man was later identified as 19-year-old Zachary Emswiller, the victim’s great grandson, and he was taken into custody.
When police entered the home, they found the elderly lady in her room covered in blood. She had been badly beaten.
According to police, her face and upper body were covered with lacerations and contusions. She said that her grandson, Emswiller, had attacked her and beaten her and attempted to strangle her.
The victim was transported to an Indianapolis hospital due to the extent of her injuries.
Police say Emswiller denied knowing the victim and could not tell them why he was covered in blood. He was arrested and faces preliminary charges of attempted murder and criminal confinement.
Family members for Emswiller says he suffers from mental illness, police are trying to determine if this is true.
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Life Alert alerts police to beating of 86-year-old woman; Grandson arrested
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
BIG WIN! Judge Orders Investigation of Joliet Area Community Hospice in Matter of Chester Siniawski!
The new interim guardian will speak with the Siniawski family and address their allegations against the Joliet Area Community Hospice. More importantly, the guardian is bringing in a new team of doctors to give second opinions and investigate why Chester has been administered death cocktails and why he has been starved while in the hospice. They are going to be reviewing all the charts, running new tests, and determining how to make Chester healthy (and not kill him). The Siniawski family hopes that the new guardian will remove Chester from that horrible facility entirely and take him to a hospital, where he will be fed and nourished and nursed back to health…instead of him being murdered, which is what was happening at the Joliet Area Community Hospice.
Court watchers report that the judge was very angry with both Marian and the hospice because neither of them could produce any records or documents explaining why Chester was being deprived of food and why he was being given a death cocktail to euthanize him. They stood there with no documents whatsoever that could support the positions they have taken that Chester should be starved to death and denied food because that’s just what Marian wants (and she doesn’t want him to be in a wheelchair, so death is better).
None of this “death is better” hooey sat well with the judge, who acted fast to bring in the interim guardian who will suss out the situation before a final decision is made on who will be in charge of Chester’s recovery once he is removed from the house of horrors that is the Joliet Area Community Hospice.
Chester is not out of the woods yet, but this is the first break that the Siniawski family has caught. With luck and prayer, Chester can be evaluated by new doctors and he should be taken to a hospital where Marian and others who hoped to starve Chester will not be able to harm him any longer. No doubt, the ghouls in that awful hospice are gnashing their teeth and clawing at the air, enraged they will not be able to snuff out Chester’s life as they had planned. Not today, Satan, not today.
Please continue to spread the word about Chester’s plight and also pray that the death cocktails that the Joliet Area Community Hospice have administered to Chester do not destroy his liver and kill him as they are intended to do. Chester needs to survive and have those toxic chemicals leave his body so he can speak and tell the doctors what the hospice and Marian were doing to him. Chester needs to get well enough to point fingers at the people who were trying to kill him and hopefully law enforcement will eventually listen. He needs to be able to once again say that he wants to live, just as he was able to do until 6/5/16 when the death cocktails started being pumped into this man to silence him.
Once Chester is on the mend, I hope and pray that the Siniawski family looks into holding the Joliet Area Community Hospice and Marian accountable for what they have done to Chester since April. No one should be starved to death deliberately in America just because a selfish person does not want to have to deal with him being in a wheelchair (and hospice staff are ghouls who allow such a thing).
Please keep praying for Chester. I firmly believe it is your prayers that brought this big win…and will bring other big wins in days ahead.
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BIG WIN! Judge Orders Investigation of Joliet Area Community Hospice in Matter of Chester Siniawski!
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