Drunk Commissioner Winton beats police officers

His breath smelling of alcohol, the Miami City Commissioner Johnny Winton last night angrily reminded airport police officers of his elected position before telling them ''Go fuck yourselves,'' according to a newly obtained police report.
After being led away in handcuffs, Winton hit a police officer's jaw with his shoulder and kicked another in the groin before losing his balance and falling on the marble airport floor, police said. Winton's face smashed into a wall.
Winton is charged with two counts of battery on a law enforcement officer, disorderly intoxication and resisting arrest with violence. He was released early this morning after posting bond, authorities said. The charges filed against him stemmed from an incident that began about 7:30 p.m. Monday night when American Airlines ticket agents summoned officers from Miami-Dade's airport district station to Gate A-3, where Winton, awaiting a delayed flight to Houston, had grown "loud and abusive.''

Winton told them he didn't have to calm down, reminding them he was a city commissioner before cursing at them, according to the report. The commissioner ''had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, had slurred speech and had been seen consuming alcohol at the bar at Concourse A,'' according to the police report.

After refusing to calm down and continuing to use foul language, Winton had to be handcuffed, police said. He attacked the officers -- and fell -- as he was being led to a squad car, police said. One officer sustained a chipped tooth, police said.

The commissioner refused treatment and was taken to the airport police station. As a precaution, he was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital's jail ward before being booked into Miami--Dade County Jail.

''Johnny what?'' City Commissioner Angel Gonzalez said last night when told of Winton's alleged actions. "Wow. That's pretty bad. Those are pretty bad charges. I don't know what to say.''

''It's very regrettable that once again more colorful stories and unfortunate stories are coming from City Hall,'' neighborhood activist Horacio Stuart Aguirre said. "They exercise such power that they begin to believe that they are powerful, and they forget that they are citizens -- subject to the laws that apply to all other citizens.'' (Miami Herald excerpt by Michael Vasquez & David Ovalle)
Here is a photo of Commissioner Johnny Winton after he got his beat-down from the Police. Apparently a corrupt scumbag politician can't always get what he wants. Hurray for Law Enforcement! Winton looks like he got a night-stick to the side of the head.

Fidel Castro Abuses Elderly Woman

Several U.S. senators -- including two who are considering running for president -- on Monday condemned Cuba for the ''beating and intimidation'' of well-known dissident Martha Beatriz Roque in late April.

The effort began in Coral Gables' Biltmore Hotel, where -- in separate visits -- many of the senators got word of the attack on Roque from activists including Ana Navarro, the former Nicaraguan ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, whose boyfriend, Gene Prescott, is the hotel's proprietor. ''It was all a matter of coincidence and really talking to them with the truth,'' Navarro said. "When policy makers are faced with the truth, they take action.''

U.S. senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Bill Nelson of Florida led the charge to introduce a resolution Monday blasting the attack on Roque and demanding that Cuba allow its citizens to exercise their rights. Also listed as co-sponsors are potential presidential candidates Democrat Joseph Biden and Republican John McCain.

''The Senate condemns the brutality of the regime of Fidel Castro toward Martha Beatriz Roque, a 61-year-old woman in frail health,'' the resolution reads. It also says the Senate "calls on the regime of Cuba to release the hundreds of political prisoners still held today and to stop the intimidation of dissidents and their families.''

If approved, it would be a rare boost to an individual in Cuba's dissident movement, said Mauricio Claver-Clarone, director of the anti-Castro U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC. ''Few people outside of Miami can name a leading Cuban dissident,'' said the Washington, D.C.-based Claver-Clarone. "The hope here is to personalize it.''

Roque was leaving her Havana home April 25 to meet with Michael Parmly, head of the U.S. Interests Section, when a mob of Cuban government supporters swarmed her, knocked her down, punched her and dragged her.

During a call to a Miami radio station after the incident, Roque made an emotional plea for international support. ''They kicked me, a strong young man punched me in the eye with his fist,'' she said. "I thought my eye had popped out. They knocked me down and dragged me . . . The world must know this. To my brothers and sisters in Miami, please let the world know.'' (excerpt of story by Oscar Corral, Miami Herald)

Perverted North Miami City Attorney

Seven months after authoring a sworn statement admitting he had sex with an underage teenager, North Miami City Attorney Barry Kutun surrendered to police after detectives sought his arrest Tuesday on related charges. Four plainclothes detectived had tried to arrest him Tuesday at North Miami City Hall but he was not in his office.

The married former state representative is accused of having sex for money with a 16-year-old in a tryst arranged by a Hollywood woman named Roberta Orenbuch. Hollywood police arrested Orenbuch last month for arranging sexual encounters for the teenager.

Orenbuch signed an affivadit -- notarized by Kutun's city-paid paralegal at City Hall -- which was later leaked to police and reporters. In the Oct. 28, 2005 affidavit, Orenbuch says she arranged for Kutun to have sex with teen about eight times, telling Kutun the girl was 18. State law allows a person to be charged with having sex with a minor, even though they did not know he or she was underage.

Kutun briefly left his $170,000-a-year post at North Miami City Hall, but had returned despite the buzz of the scandal. Detectives executed a search warrant in January. They found sexually explicit photos. Kutun admitted to having sexing relations with a 17-year-old, taking photos of them having sex and e-mailing them to Orenbuch, according to the warrant.

The affidavit was prepared to protect himself from a friend of Orenbuch was allegedly blackmailed the attorney with the photos. Kutun paid the man $2,000.

Excerpted from Miami Herald article by David Ovalle