Port Charlotte, Florida
To say that Florida resident Peter James Bonfiglio has a checkered past would be a gross understatement.
- In 2005, Peter was arrested for
making threats against the life of then President George W. Bush. Then in 2006, the 19-year-old was busted for
manufacturing false secret service credentials...including one that bore the likeness of the
very agent who arrested him.
- In 2009, Peter went from making threats to actually carrying them out. After a
three hour standoff with police, he
threw a lit bottle at a police cruiser and pointed a gun at them. The standoff resulted in him getting shot and arrested.
His most recent arrests, however, may actually be the most absurd of them all. In 2013, Peter called police to report that someone hiding in the woods had shot him. The shooter
turned out to be him.
The on June 18, 2014, Peter decided to try his luck at deceiving the police again. This time, he claimed that a woman he knew and a man he didn't had robbed jewelry from him at gunpoint before
shooting him in the foot.
When the police interviewed the woman, however, she was able to
show them text messages proving that Peter had actually approached her about buying jewelry from her. They also found the cab driver who drove the woman over to Peter's home, who
confirmed that she went there by herself (and should really be more careful about who she visits alone).
As if all that wasn't bad enough, the woman also said that Peter's foot was
already shot/injured when she got there. Once again, the old "shoot yourself and call the police to blame it on someone else" trick had failed.
Peter Bonfiglio was
arrested and charged with filing a false police report. There were probably some other things they could've/should've tacked on as well (probation violation, illegal possession of a firearm, etc), but the mugshot below might show why they didn't.
Holy hell...I'm not saying I've aged all that well, but the change from 19 to 27 for Peter is like something from a really bad (or particularly bad) episode of Cold Case.
Either the police just felt bad for him or they've given up charging him with stuff. But the fact that he somehow keeps getting access to guns is yet another reason that The Bugs Bunny plan for Florida looks like a better idea every day.
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