'Rack' and ruin: Stripper goes on 'crime spree' with brothersBy JEANE MacINTOSHPosted: 1:18 AM, August 9, 2011A thrill-seeking Florida stripper and her AK-47-toting siblings on a multistate crime spree yesterday ignored their heartsick mother's plea to give themselves up, authorities said. The mom's appeal came as the FBI launched a nationwide manhunt for alleged "Dougherty Gang" bank robbers Lee Grace Dougherty, a 26-year-old exotic dancer; her brother Ryan Dougherty, 21; and their half-brother, Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26. "The only safe thing, the only right thing, the only good thing to do is turn yourselves in," Barbara Bell begged her kids. "Only Mom knows what good people you are inside," she said. #1"Please prove me right . . .You've made some bad mistakes, but so far, no one has been physically harmed. "I love you," she added. The rampaging siblings have been on the lam since last Tuesday, when they allegedly opened fire on a Zephyrhills, Fla., cop who had been trying to chase down their white Subaru for speeding. The cop wasn't hurt, but one of the 20 bullets they unleashed on him flattened one of his tires and effectively ended the chase. Later that day, the Doughertys turned up about 200 miles away at a Georgia bank. All three, masked and armed with AK-47s, shot up the bank ceiling before making off with an undisclosed amount of money, police said. The siblings' faces are now plastered on billboards across the Southeast. Lee Grace -- who works as a stripper at Cheaters in Cocoa Beach -- had also been wanted by police for a probation violation. Like both her brothers, she has a rap sheet -- records show her most recent arrest was May 17, when she allegedly bashed up a car and left the scene. The FBI believes the trio first tried to flee the highway cop because of Ryan Dougherty, who was sentenced Aug. 1 to 12 years of probation for sending nearly 400 sexually explicit text messages to an 11-year-old girl he met on MySpace. #2As part of his plea deal, Ryan had been required to register as a sex offender -- which he had not yet done -- and did not want to risk going to jail because of it if caught, officials believe. #3The Subaru that the three were driving in is registered in Troy, NY, to Amanda Suriano, who is due to give birth to Ryan's son Aug. 13, according to her online Target gift registry. #4Suriano, who now lives in Florida, couldn't be reached, and relatives in Troy didn't return calls. Police said the Doughertys have sent at least one text message to their mom while on the lam. "There's a time for all of us to die," it read. Lee Grace has previously boasted of her penchant for wreaking havoc, particularly with her brothers. "I love to farm and shoot guys and wreck cars," she wrote on her Flickr.com profile page. #5"I'm a redneck and proud of it, I like causing mayhem with my siblings." A police search of an abandoned home that the Dougherty trio had recently shared turned up an expansive underground bunker. The siblings are believed to have a stockpile of weapons with them. #6"I don't think this will end happily," said Lee Grace's fiancé of seven months, college math teacher Brendon Bookman. #7Records show the twice-divorced Bookman, 43, #8was arrested on domestic-violence charges in May, the same day his fiancée was nabbed in the car-bashing incident. #9Late yesterday, police were checking tips that the siblings' car had been seen in Forsyth, Ga., and Chattanooga, Tenn.
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FBI: Sibling suspects captured in Colo.DENVER (AP) — Two men and a woman — siblings who were being sought for crimes in Florida and Georgia — have been captured in Colorado, the FBI confirmed Wednesday.Twenty-one-year-old Ryan Edward Dougherty, 26-year-old Dylan Dougherty Stanley and 29-year-old Lee Grace Dougherty had been targets of a weeklong nationwide search. FBI Special Agent Steve Emmett said Wednesday that the three were in custody in Colorado.The Colorado State Patrol said the trio was captured near Walsenburg in southern Colorado after a short chase that ended in a crash. Trooper Richard Krantz said they were driving a car described in a reported sighting of the siblings in Colorado Springs on Tuesday.A weeklong nationwide search for trio had earlier shifted to Colorado, where authorities say they believe the trio made a purchase at an outdoors store and could be headed to a campground or rural area to try to avoid capture.Authorities said they received credible information that people matching their descriptions were spotted in Colorado. They also were believed to be armed and dangerous, said Dave Joly, spokesman for the FBI's Denver office.The manhunt for the siblings began Aug. 2. The three are suspected of firing at least 20 shots at a Florida officer who tried to pull them over for speeding in a chase at speeds up to 100 mph.Hours later, three people wearing masks robbed a bank in Valdosta, Ga., about 210 miles north. One robber brandished an AK-47 assault rifle while another was photographed by a security camera waving a machine pistol, the FBI said.
Caught today...http://news.yahoo.com/fbi-sibling-suspects-captured-colo-170100561.html
Don't have time for them. Too busy with this guy.......
Theft. The kicker is, his name is Tyler Watts.
What is on his neck? Is that an apple with a squirrel.
One of his eyelids says poetry - what does the other one say? With his obvious creative energies, I am sure he is in line to be a Laureate...
I believe the other one says "rythm." Clearly he was never a spelling bee champion...
Instead of poetry, the other eyelid might say method... just as a reminder.
With the success rate I've seen Catholics have with that birth control method, do we really hope that this winner was using that?
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