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Monday, January 24, 2005

Drug dealer - 0 / Coked Up Pyro Samurai - 1

January 21st, 2005
WFMZ-TV 69 News

A BETHLEHEM MAN IS CHARGED WITH HACKING HIS NEIGHBOR TO DEATH AND THEN SETTING HIM ON FIRE...

THE ATTACK HAPPENED FRIDAY NIGHT AT AN APARTMENT IN THE FIVE HUNDRED BLOCK OF BROADWAY (the bottom of my street)... WFMZ'S JACCII FARRIS JOINS US IN THE STUDIO WITH THE DETAILS... ------>> BETHLEHEM POLICE WON'T COMMENT ON A POSSIBLE MOTIVE FOR THE CRIME.. BUT THEY SAY 49 YEAR OLD SONNY THOMAS MAY HAVE BEEN HIGH ON COCAINE WHEN HE ALLEGEDLY KILLED 19 YEAR OLD CARLOS GARCIA WITH A SAMURAI SWORD. -------- >>

ZACK LYSEK: Mr. Garcia had in excess of 50 cutting and stab wounds...it was a brutal attack on him."

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY CORONER ZACK LYSEK SAYS CARLOS GARCIA ALSO HAD NUMEROUS DEFENSIVE WOUNDS...A SIGN GARCIA TRIED TO FEND OFF THE ATTACK... POLICE WERE CALLED TO SONNY THOMAS'S APARTMENT BUILDING AROUND 9-30 FRIDAY NIGHT... THAT'S WHEN OFFICERS SMELLED SMOKE COMING FROM A SECOND FLOOR APARTMENT... POLICE SAY THOMAS WAS INSIDE SCREAMING HE WOULD NOT LET THEM IN... SO OFFICERS FORCED THE DOOR OPEN.

"Upon entering they found the deceased Mr. Carlos Garcia face down on the floor with a sword in his back and he was on fire."

POLICE SAY THOMAS AND HIS APARTMENT WERE COVERED IN BLOOD.

THOMAS ALLEGEDLY TRIED TO FIGHT 12 OFFICERS...WHO QUICKLY PUT HIM IN HANDCUFFS AND DOUSED THE FLAMES CONSUMING GARCIA'S BODY. ACCORDING TO THE AFFIDAVIT OF PROBABLE CAUSE THOMAS TOLD POLICE QUOTE..

" I DID YOU GUYS A FAVOR...I KILLED A DRUG DEALER.."

GARCIA WAS CARRYING NO ID...BUT POLICE WERE ABLE TO FIND OUT WHO HE WAS FROM HIS CELL PHONE. "Through the cell phone we searched our records and we found that we had photograph and finger prints on file here.." ------>> THOMAS NOW FACES CHARGES OF HOMICIDE, AGGRAVATED ASSAULT AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER AND RESISTING ARREST... THOMAS IS BEING HELD AT THE NORTHAMPTON COUNTY PRISON WITHOUT BOND.

Another quiet day in the life of Bethlehem, PA. Such a pain to get around all that police tape. All I wanted to do is get to the market for some toilet paper and they gotta block the street off from a drug dealing samurai sword/burning victim... You know these drug dealer people are ruining my Bethlehem. I'm not sure, but I think I may have seen a nun jacking up a school kid for his lunch money...

Not to mention all these damn pesky Samurais running around. What's next I ask you... what's next.


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