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Florida Police Deal Their Cards Right and Make Second Arrest
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Police say a Florida inmate playing cards helped to crack a three-year-old murder case after seeing the six of spades.
Bryan Curry, 36, of Riverview, Fla., has been arrested and charged with the Dec. 13, 2004 murder of 34-year-old Ingrid Lugo.
Lugo's picture and details about her murder were on the six of spades of a deck of playing cards issued by the state of Florida, featuring the pictures of cold case homicide victims, missing persons and evidence.
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After an inmate at the Cross City Correctional Institution saw Lugo's card, he provided police with information allegedly implicating Curry in her murder.
Police say Lugo had been strangled to death and her body left in a retention pond in Bradenton, Fla.
Authorities say Curry was an ex-boyfriend of Lugo. Detectives considered him a suspect at the time but didn't have enough evidence to make an arrest.
Curry's arrest is the second murder case to be cracked by Florida law enforcement since approximately 100,000 cold case card decks were handed out to Florida prison inmates.
"Tips from the cards continue to come in, and our law enforcement partners are aggressively working those leads," said Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey.
Added Department of Corrections Secretary James McDonough, "If you're a criminal on the lam, we are going to get you."
Florida law enforcement officials say they are working on a new deck of cards featuring 52 unsolved cold cases.
The initiative was inspired by playing cards distributed to U.S. troops in Iraq featuring that country's most wanted fugitives.
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November 8, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (6)
This is really great. A crime solved by a inmate... What happens to him now? Is he given a reward or less time?
Posted by: Janeyre | Nov 9, 2007 12:04:23 AM
I like this idea.Inmates constantly play cards.WTG!
Posted by: whistlebeforedawn | Nov 9, 2007 11:00:46 AM
thatz really kewl that they cracked the case with the 6 of spades.I luv playin cards now I luv it more....I'm gonna go play rummy or sumn now. bye-bye lol
Posted by: nykky | Nov 14, 2007 12:01:58 PM
Intuitive don't you think?
Sajjid
Posted by: Sajjid Manuel | Nov 16, 2007 11:02:48 PM
Aren't we doing something wrong, by doing something right? Where is the CLU, Sharpton, tree huggers, Bush haters, maybe the actors gild outrage. No wiegh in on how this, somehow is offensive to someone?
Didn't Bush lie about the 4 of diamonds or something?
Posted by: Michael | Nov 17, 2007 11:58:52 AM
I am that inmate's sister the one who told police the information. And, to let you know all he got was confindment in the correctional institution he is in. As his family we are worried for his safety although he did a good deed, after released from confindment he will have to watch over his shoulder every second because crime stoppers released his name to the public. When infact it was supposed to be confidential it is now public.
Posted by: lisa | Nov 17, 2007 9:49:34 PM
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