| Re: Why you keep your mouth shut...
Here's the update. To bad they're a day to late with the fact they found her body. Their's still a bunch of misinformation here. She was picked up the other day like it states in the news paper, but it wasn't for failure to appear in court. It was because they knew what she was up on a warrant and she decided to sing rather than go to prison.
If, like the article says, she was already sentenced to probation and rehab, than her case was pretty much done at that point. No more court dates, just visits to the p.o.
I'm not saying the police don't use informants for any good, but they're also getting people killed in the process. Plain and simple, tallahassee is not miami. The police here don't have the money, the know how, or a big enough city to protect you in. This girl was a sitting duck. On the other hand, this is why you don't do dirt if you even think you might rat on people to save your own skin. Besides the principal of the matter it can cost you your life and a lot more.
Updated: Rachel Hoffman found dead in Taylor County
By Angeline J. Taylor and Nic Corbett • DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITERS • May 9, 2008
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updated 11:55 a.m.
Tallahassee police have confirmed that Rachel Hoffman, a 23-year-old woman who went missing Wednesday, has been found dead in rural Taylor County.
Two suspects in her death, Andrea J. Green and Deneilo Bradshaw, led investigators to the scene, said David McCranie, spokesman for the Tallahassee Police Department.
"They led us to Miss Hoffman's body," McCranie said in a news conference late this morning. "She is deceased."
Hoffman, a Florida State University graduate, disappeared Wednesday night near Forestmeadows Park on North Meridian Road.
She had been working with TPD's narcotics unit in an investigation. However, she went outside TPD safety protocols, McCranie said.
"She met with Green and Bradshaw on her own," McCranie said today. "And that meeting ultimately resulted in her murder."
McCranie described Hoffman as a "good person."
"The family's obviously suffering," he said.
Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement arrested Green and Bradshaw Thursday in Orlando on charges of kidnapping and armed robbery. They were flown to the Tallahassee area this morning.
More charges against them are pending, McCranie said.
Hoffman's body was found about 7 a.m.
Hoffman served three days in Leon County Jail this year, from April 4 to April 6, for failure to appear in court, according to court records.
That sentence stems from her arrest last year on a charge of possessing more than 20 grams of marijuana, a felony.
She was arrested after being pulled over for speeding on Feb. 22, 2007. The arresting officer found 25.7 grams of cannabis in her car, court records show. Hoffman was sentenced to probation, community service, and she was required to attend a drug-rehabilitation program.
Green, of Perry, spent nearly nine months in prison from 2004 to 2005 for selling marijuana and aggravated assault in Taylor County, according to the Florida Department of Corrections.
TPD is expected to have another news conference at 4 p.m. in Tallahassee.
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