Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Malcolm X’s youngest daughter pleaded guilty to running up credit card bills adding up to $55,000 on a card stolen from a widow of one of her father’s bodyguards. Malikah Shabazz has had quite a few run-ins with the law and will be sentenced to five years probation as long as she gives back the money.

“The defendant, who preyed upon the trusting nature of a once-close family friend, has admitted her guilt in committing a serious felony offense and will be ordered to make her victims financially whole,” said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

The 46-year-old is still being held until July 28th on a $100,000 bond. Shabazz is still in the middle of a dispute with her five sisters over her parents’ $1.4 million estate.

A 5-year-old Kansas City girl confessed to authorities that she drowned an 18-month-old toddler in a bathtub because he ‘cried too much,’ according to police.

The death, first thought to be a accident, was upgraded to murder after the 5-year-old told social workers investigating the case that she didn’t like the little boy because he ‘made too much noise’, and ‘cried too much’, police said.

Police say she then indicated that she drowned him on purpose.

The children were in the care of a 16-year-old girl who reportedly has mental disabilities when the incident occurred. The adult who was under supervision had left the house to go pick up a relative from a bus stop. It was then authorities say the 5-year-old dragged the toddler into the undrained bathtub and submersed him in the water.

According to police, the 5-year-old accused murderer has not been arrested and authorities are looking into why the children were left without adult supervision.

On Monday, the father of the deceased, Jermane Johnson Sr., posted this on his FaceBook page, ‘I just got asked the hardest question that no parent should never answer. What kind of caskets do I want to put my son in.’

Miami’s Urban Beach Weekend held during Memorial Day has been recently marred by violence and now investigations are being held after police officers opened fire on a vehicle that supposedly tried to run them over.

Cops reported that a gun was found in the car and amateur footage was captured. Miami police arrested innocent people that caught the act on camera phones as suspects and injured bystanders with their reckless gunshots. The driver, 22-year-old Raymond Herisse was killed.

City leaders want to end the annual weekend but also call for an investigation done by someone other than the actual police.

Rep. Anthony Weiner has probably seen better days.

The Democratic Congressman admitted to sending pictures of himself to women through his phone, Facebook and Twitter. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if Weiner wasn’t married to Huma Abedin, who is a longtime personal assistant to Hillary Clinton.

In a press conference, the 46-year-old politician admitted to engaging in “several inappropriate” electronic relationships with six women over the last three years.

He also confessed that he lied publicly about a photo of himself that he sent on Twitter to a college student in Seattle a couple weeks back.

“I take full responsibility for my actions,” Weiner said in the press conference. “The picture was of me, and I sent it.”

VIRGINIA — Months after a botched castration attempt, a Virginia inmate wishing to be a woman has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the state failed to provide adequate medical care because it won’t perform a sex-change operation.

Ophelia De’lonta, 50, says she needed the surgery to treat her gender identity disorder, a condition in which people believe they were born the wrong gender.

Ophelia De’lonta hoped three green disposable razors from the prison commissary would give her what the Virginia Department of Corrections would not, a sex change.

De’lonta, who developed breasts with the use of hormones won under a 2004 court order, has tried self-surgery several times in the past. Her urges had been kept in check in recent years with the help of hormones and other treatments.

Using the knowledge she gained from mail-order anatomy books, De’lonta spent three hours trying to cut off what she refers to as “that thing” between her legs.

She eventually passed out  and 21 stitches were needed to repair the damage.

PHILADELPHIA — Allentown agreed to pay $600,000 to settle a federal lawsuit over the death of a 4-year-old boy who was standing on a sidewalk when a police cruiser struck him, according to court papers filed Friday.

Daviay Legrand died in May 2007 when two Allentown police cars collided downtown while responding to a report of a man with a gun. The crash sent one cruiser onto the sidewalk, killing the boy and severely injuring family friend Jason Marcelle. Furious residents later massed at the crash scene and threw bottles and rocks at police.

An investigation by state police found that rookie Officer Brett Guth caused the crash by running a red light, though speed was not a factor. He was later fired but not charged.

A lawsuit filed in October 2007 by Daviay’s mother, Crystal Legrand, claimed the city’s decision to hire Guth violated her son’s civil rights. The officer had a history of speeding offenses.

Legrand had been seeking $8 million for herself and two surviving children, all of whom witnessed the crash. Neither the city nor the officers involved admit fault in the settlement, which must be approved by a federal magistrate and the City Council.

VIRGINIA — While parishioners in the front were worshiping, a pair of men were in the back of the church robbing.

Police said two teenagers robbed the Christ is Lord Ministry in Woodbridge while church was in service on Sunday morning.

According to Prince William police, Stephen Ernest Wing Jr., 19, and Andrew Phillip Conteh, 18, conspired together to steal the collection.  They snuck in through a back door, prosecutors said, and entered a back room, where cash that had been collected during the service was being counted.

The two men had guns, police said, which they used to hold four church volunteers against their will.

LONDON — A psychologist has been fired from his blogger post at Psychology Today and had his profile page deleted by the company’s website after posting a “study” blog stating “Why All Black Women Are Less Attractive.”

Satoshi Kanazawa, also employed by the London School of Economics, recent posting of an unfounded blog stating, “black women are rated less attractive than other women,” received disdain from hoards of angry people, not just black women.

Psychology Today reportedly received 75,000 email, Twitter and FaceBook messages in protest of Kanazawa’s blog.

As a result of the backlash, they have since relieved him of his blogging duties and erased all evidence of him from their website. Students at Kanazawa’s school have also called for his resignation.

TALLAHASSEE — Republican Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill last Tuesday that requires benefit recipients to undergo drug testing.

Applicants for the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program who test positive for illicit substances won’t be eligible for the funds for a year, or until they undergo treatment.

Those who fail a second time would be banned from receiving the funds for three years.

“While there are certainly legitimate needs for public assistance, it is unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Scott said. “This new law will encourage personal accountability and will help to prevent the misuse of tax dollars.”

If welfare candidates pass the drug screening, they’ll be reimbursed for the test.

The legislation instantly came under a barrage of criticism from the American Civil Liberties Union and several of the Sunshine State’s Democrats. They argued the bill is an invasion of privacy.

“The wasteful program created by this law subjects Floridians who are impacted by the economic downturn, as well as their families, to a humiliating search of their urine and body fluids without cause or even suspicion of drug abuse,” said Howard Simon, executive director of the ACLU of Florida.