Local News: Space Shuttle and Nick Bollea’s Arrest
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I took most of the day off from writing yesterday. While I was idle, we had a couple of news stories that were hot in my area. Both made the national wires, but right her in Florida they dominated.
It was perfect here yesterday. I did not see a single cloud in the deep blue sky. It was the perfect weather for the space shuttle to return, landing on the east coast. Sometimes I hear the sonic boom when shuttled re-enter our atmosphere, but I wasn’t paying attention so I missed it this time around.
Also, Hulk Hogan’s son Nick Bollea was charged here in the county jail yesterday. He was arrested abd brought into the Pinellas County jail in Clearwater on felony charges of reckless driving involving serious bodily injury.
Bolleas’s arrest stems from a car accident on August 26, when he was allegedly street racing Dodge Viper and lost control of his Toyota Supra. His car struck a curb, spun 180 degrees across traffic, and slammed into a palm tree. The car’s passenger, John Graziano, was critically injured.
Graziano, 22, has been deemed incapacitated, left with “minimal brain activity” following the wreck.
Investigators say Bollea was driving more than 60 mph in a 40-mph zone when he crashed the Supra. He was also cited for driving with illegal window tint and driving with a breath-alcohol level of .02 or higher. Let’s remember Bollea is underage and should not have been drinking at all.
The newest bit of information in this ongoing saga is that the driver with whom Bollea was racing, Daniel Jacobs, has been issued a summons to appear in court for a reckless driving charge. Jacobs is 22 and lives over on Pinehurst Road in Dunedin. What a proud day for Pinellas residents.
Hogan, a prominent public fixture here in town, collected Bollea from the jail after a brief news conference.
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