Murder Suspect Arrested Near Disney World

ToTBellHop

ToTBellHop

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Wish I could have Fastpass+ed the arrest!

HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) -- Police arrested a man on vacation at Disney on Friday for allegedly shooting and killing another man at a Hartford nightclub earlier in the month.

The incident happened on August 4th, at the Up or on the Rocks nightclub.

Police said a disturbance broke out inside the club and continued on the street after the club closed. Brian Simpe, of Manchester, was shot and killed during the disturbance.

After investigating, police identified 23-year-old Mike Cruz, of East Hartford, as the suspect.

Police then discovered that Cruz was on a Disney vacation. Last Friday, August 23rd, US Federal Marshals located Cruz poolside in Orlando.

Cruz was arrested and charged with murder, 1st-degree reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a pistol/revolver.

Additionally, police said Cruz has six previous arrests in Hartford, including narcotics sales and various gun offenses.

He is being held on a $2 million bond.
 
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Tim_4

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WelshBatman said:
He was on a Disney Vacation but he wasn't arrested on property. He was arrested pool-side at the Holiday Inn on I-Drive.
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You notice the Sentinel and everyone else leave that piece out. It's sexier to let people think this happened on Disney property. Journalistic malpractice to even mention Disney in this article. "Man arrested at Orlando area hotel." Disney has literally nothing to do with it.
 
WDW1974

WDW1974

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Tim_4 said:
You notice the Sentinel and everyone else leave that piece out. It's sexier to let people think this happened on Disney property. Journalistic malpractice to even mention Disney in this article. "Man arrested at Orlando area hotel." Disney has literally nothing to do with it.
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Totally agree (surprised ya' right?) This is completely unethical and wrong. In this online era of news, though, it is designed for maximum click count.

The man may well have been taking a WDW vacation to celebrate taking a life, but he wasn't at WDW and the story was designed to lead folks to believe that.

But this is from the same mindset that allowed Jason Garcia to rewrite a Disney press release on MM+ in the Sentinel and pass it off as news.
 
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Tim_4

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WDW1974 said:
Totally agree (surprised ya' right?) This is completely unethical and wrong. In this online era of news, though, it is designed for maximum click count.

The man may well have been taking a WDW vacation to celebrate taking a life, but he wasn't at WDW and the story was designed to lead folks to believe that.

But this is from the same mindset that allowed Jason Garcia to rewrite a Disney press release on MM+ in the Sentinel and pass it off as news.
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The Sentinel does this all the time. One of the worst instances was a Disney cast member who committed "child rape." Turns out it was a statutory case of a young 20s CM having otherwise consensual sex with a 17 year old girlfriend. Still a crime, but I'm sure they were tickled to have folks assume it was a 50 year old pervbag forcing himself on kindergartners.
 
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