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Man Accused of Stealing Buzzy's Clothing from Disney World Arrested
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Smiley/OCD
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Can't wait for the IRS to start chompin' at that bit...
ImperfectPixie
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They will, too. My ex-BIL sold about $22,000 worth of sports memorabilia through eBay/Paypal without letting my sister know and without sharing the money (even though their household money paid for many of the items). He finally had to come clean because of the taxes.
Smiley/OCD
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Yup, over the past couple of years, eBay alerted all of its sellers that sales OVER 20K annually now get reported to the IRS...
Yeah, he did have something to do with Buzzy, he either stole or fenced his clothes.
Nowhere in the police report did they say they found pictures of Buzzy being in his possession, like with the clothes. Also, like with the HM, he stole clothes and small props, not any of the AAs.
Buzzy wasn't stolen.
Smiley/OCD
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I'm VERY sorry that he's not with us anymore, but thank goodness Johnny Cochran is not practicing law anymore...I can just see it now..."He didn't take Buzzy, the prosecution's case is all fuzzy"...
flynnibus
Premium Member
My bet is the attorney needs to fight the evidence discovered on the phone... try to get that excluded somehow, and then fight that the evidence doesn't actually make it him that did the actions. But the evidence from Disney's side is going to go against him pretty bad when they say oh they just conveniently overlap, etc. Unless the phone evidence gets thrown out.. or the buyer testimony gets invalidated some way... this guy is facing real jail time. And then there is the accomplice. Expect the DA to try to get the lesser kid to plead the blurgerly charge down to a lesser charge to testify against spikes.
He's facing a first degree felony for the burglary charge.. second degree for the fencing, and third degree for the grand theft. Florida has mandatory minimum sentencing based on a calculation. He could be facing 2yr *minimum* jail sentence if convicted on all three charges.
I still think given the white collar nature of it all.. they'd work out something to avoid jail time... suspended sentence, probation, etc.. but I think it's highly likely this kid is going down with multiple felony charges sticking.
He's facing a first degree felony for the burglary charge.. second degree for the fencing, and third degree for the grand theft. Florida has mandatory minimum sentencing based on a calculation. He could be facing 2yr *minimum* jail sentence if convicted on all three charges.
I still think given the white collar nature of it all.. they'd work out something to avoid jail time... suspended sentence, probation, etc.. but I think it's highly likely this kid is going down with multiple felony charges sticking.
janoimagine
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Wonder if he reported that income to the IRS ... if they get wind of it, it could get even worse for him.
Kobe!!
Well-Known Member
I did a quick search on this since it's Sunday and I don't have much going on today...
Here's his cousin's booking pic / info: https://bustednewspaper.com/blaytin...rrest-booking-mugshot-osceola-county-florida/
janoimagine
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Daddy paid for it so might as well be.
Kobe!!
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flynnibus
Premium Member
I have deposits into my paypal account.. doesn't mean I stole the wig. That's why they need the testimony from the other party. Lawyer will also argue the photos aren't of the stolen merchandise but of fakes or something else entirely. Lots of angles.. but first step is to try to get the photo evidence thrown out all together if possible.. then you work on how to counter each.
On paper its a strong case, but the evidence has to hold up too. Lawyers earn their keep using the law to defend their person.. so I don't claim anything until the end. But they do have evidence coming from multiple angles... and I bet the cousin flips on spikes. That's why I think the felonies are gonna stick... if he actually gets county jail time vs being suspended... dunno.
Kobe!!
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I wonder if he got paid on Paypal as friends/family or good/services? If it was good and services paypal got a cut of that money. lol
Brer Oswald
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I might as well share this cause what’s the point, he’s a criminal now. From what I was told, he didn’t steal the clothes but he “knew” who did. The person in possession of the clothes was female, and apparently you could see this in the pictures on his phone. Maybe he was an accomplice in the theft of the clothes? The HM thing I didn’t hear of.
Of course, he could just be lying about that, like he did when he explained his means of obtaining the Runaway Railway blueprints.
I thought he was innocent at first, but I don’t think you’d be running cross country from the cops if you truly were.
flynnibus
Premium Member
They need the party to testify in court or in disposition. The defense has the right to cross-examine. The photos only prove his phone was with the items, not that he took them, etc. That's why the case requires multiple elements, not just one... and the defense will work to undermine or eliminate as many as possible to make the case more circumstantial. Having the buyer is a big piece.. especially since he was able to return at least some of the pieces, which is strong cooberation of his story.. when you piece together the payments, the property, verified by disney, and can tie the payments to spike directly.
Bleed0range
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Well nobody knows for sure if Buzzy was stolen. So you don’t really know. If he was, strong evidence points to this guy. Especially now that they know he sold off HM props. Where there’s smoke there’s fire.
brb1006
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Is there a photo of the mascot?
GlacierGlacier
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Listen, I'm all against immature idiots, their rise of popularity through social media, and, naturally, theft. But let's be better than him.
Demeaning his relatives and his associates by revealing their personal information is doxxing, and that's not OK. We may not do anything with that information ourselves, but once it's out there it's out of our control.
Sure, he's finally got what's been coming for him all this time, and this information is not hard to find if you've got an hour or so free to yourself - but it's really not the right thing to do.
Be better than BackDoorDisney.
Demeaning his relatives and his associates by revealing their personal information is doxxing, and that's not OK. We may not do anything with that information ourselves, but once it's out there it's out of our control.
Sure, he's finally got what's been coming for him all this time, and this information is not hard to find if you've got an hour or so free to yourself - but it's really not the right thing to do.
Be better than BackDoorDisney.
Smiley/OCD
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I don't think he was that smart to switch it... the $$ was probably already spent before it hit his account...