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Florida: Woman and 3 men arrested in on-line dating robbery scheme that ended in murder
The night before police found Adam Hilarie dead in his kitchen, the 27-year-old Central Florida father went bowling with a woman he met through the online dating site PlentyOfFish, Auburndale police said Monday.
They went back to his place, and she texted him later: I had a good time and would like to see you again.
She saw him the next night, when on Friday she brought three men to rob Hilarie of TVs, an Xbox and an iPhone, and one of them shot him in the head, Deputy Chief Andy Ray said at a news conference.
"In cases like this, it's easy for us to put ourselves in the shoes of the family," Ray said, as he detailed the arrest of four people in connection with the killing — including 18-year-old Hailey Bustos, who went on the date with him.
Andre Warner, 26, Gary Gray, 31, and Joshua Ellington, 26, were also arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery with a firearm and first-degree murder. Ray said he didn't know how the robbery escalated.
"Hilarie was begging for his life, he was not putting up any kind of fight, and was telling them that he had a 5-year-old daughter," according to arrest reports.
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Investigators got a break in the case after a witness reported seeing Hilarie with a young woman Thursday night, and Winter Haven police picked up Bustos in a separate burglary over the weekend.
Police said she was paid $50 to arrange the Hilarie robbery. She was in the car during the heist and said she didn't know the men would kill Hilarie, according to her arrest report.
After the robbery, the men began "celebrating what they had just done," according to the report. They later got in a fight over payment and smashed the TVs and threw away the iPhone. They also stole alcohol, jewelry and marijuana from Hilarie, the report says.
They went back to his place, and she texted him later: I had a good time and would like to see you again.
She saw him the next night, when on Friday she brought three men to rob Hilarie of TVs, an Xbox and an iPhone, and one of them shot him in the head, Deputy Chief Andy Ray said at a news conference.
"In cases like this, it's easy for us to put ourselves in the shoes of the family," Ray said, as he detailed the arrest of four people in connection with the killing — including 18-year-old Hailey Bustos, who went on the date with him.
Andre Warner, 26, Gary Gray, 31, and Joshua Ellington, 26, were also arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery with a firearm and first-degree murder. Ray said he didn't know how the robbery escalated.
"Hilarie was begging for his life, he was not putting up any kind of fight, and was telling them that he had a 5-year-old daughter," according to arrest reports.
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Investigators got a break in the case after a witness reported seeing Hilarie with a young woman Thursday night, and Winter Haven police picked up Bustos in a separate burglary over the weekend.
Police said she was paid $50 to arrange the Hilarie robbery. She was in the car during the heist and said she didn't know the men would kill Hilarie, according to her arrest report.
After the robbery, the men began "celebrating what they had just done," according to the report. They later got in a fight over payment and smashed the TVs and threw away the iPhone. They also stole alcohol, jewelry and marijuana from Hilarie, the report says.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-murder-robbery-online-dating-20160822-story.html
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This story has been on my mind all day because I'm a lonely dude and have frequently used dating sites in the past and I'm about to re-subscribe to one of the big ones this weekend..
Something just sticks in my craw about this girl selling this guy up the river for fifty fucking dollars...
And for a take of a few hundred dollars, now a little girl will grow up without her father...
