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they caught a man on hisway home with cocainethat he planned to cookinto crack on a portablestove inside a downtownbedroom.
But that’s not whatalarmed officers as theywere arresting TadariusHassan Crawford, 37, earlyWednesday morning in the1100 block of Olivia Streetin Old Town.
Crawford told police hehad tested positive CO-VID-19 — after officerssaid he yelled at them “inclose proximity.”
Crawford wasn’t wearinga mask at the time, accord-ing to the arrest report.
Key West has a strictmask ordinance thatrequires people to wearthem in public, even out-doors, whether or not theycan social distance.
So that meant one morecharge, violating emergen-cy management rules,which is a misdemeanor, toa list of drug-related charg-es Crawford now faces.
“Crawford is positive forCOVID-19 and has ignoredthe mandate issued by thegovernor during a pandem-ic,” officers wrote.
Crawford was arrestedon charges of manufactur-ing cocaine and MDMAand resisting arrest.
On Wednesday after-noon, Crawford was stilllocked up at the StockIsland Detention Centerwithout bond.
Crawford is listed ashaving a Homestead ad-dress, but police said hehad a crack cocaine-mak-
ing setupinside abedroom onthe KeyWest block.
Beakers,baking soda,Chore Boyscrubber,plastic bagsand crack
pipes were in the roomalong with the stove, policesaid.
“It appeared Crawfordwas on his way back tocook crack cocaine,” thearrest report states.
The building’s ownertold police Crawford wasnot living there but hadshowed up earlier that dayand was inside a frontbedroom.
Crawford had caught apolice officer’s eye at about12:30 a.m. Wednesdaybecause he had failed toshow up in court on a war-rant accusing him of pos-session of cocaine.
Officer Mark Siracusespotted Crawford on hisbicycle on Olivia Street andstopped him at Taser point.
Crawford “became loudand argumentative,” Sira-cuse said, and ignoredcommands to stay seatedon his bike and drop what-ever was in his hands.
Inside his pockets, Craw-ford had 16.6 grams ofcocaine inside a blackglove, police said, andinside another black glovewas 4.8 grams of MDMA,or Molly, police said.
At the jail, Crawford wasfound to have a fever, andwas taken to Lower KeysMedical Center, where arapid test showed he in-deed has COVID-19.
Gwen Filosa: KeyWestGwen
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Key West police arresterrant COVID-19 patient
BY GWEN FILOSA
Tadarius
Hassan
Crawford
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This November, MiamiBeach residents will voteon whether to allow thecity to sell public water-front land attached to theMiami Beach Marina to areal estate developer, whointends to build a luxuryhigh rise, renovate themarina and gift the city a1-acre public park.
Also part of the propos-al, which the City Com-mission approved Wednes-day, is a new 99-year leaseon the marina property at300 Alton Road in SouthBeach. The current marinabuilding will be demol-ished and its businesstenants, including thepopular Monty’s restau-rant, will be displaced.
The project is led bydeveloper David Martin,CEO of the Terra Groupdevelopment firm, whotold the Miami Herald he“will work with existingand potential tenants tocurate a unique and excit-ing retail amenity for thecity and surroundingneighborhood.”
The deal would involvethe city’s selling 0.3 acresof property and the airrights over 300-390 AltonRoad to make way for a275,000-square-foot resi-dential tower with 60units. The maximumheight of the tower, askinny high rise designedby Bjarke Ingels Group,would be 385 feet. If ap-proved by a majority ofvoters Nov. 3, the devel-oper would demolish thecurrent marina building
and spend at least $22.5million renovating it into asimilar but more refinedcommercial space connect-ed to the planned resi-dential tower. The moneywould also go towardbuilding the park and up-grading the adjacent bay-walk area. The new lesseewould spend an additional$40 million improvingmarina operations.
The sale would earn thecity $55 million and own-ership of the new park.The current lease for themarina was signed in 1983and can be extended to2052. The marina fueledthe city’s growth as a glo-
bal destination for yacht-ing and boating, Martinsaid.
“Unfortunately now, 30years later, the marina sitehas become a little bitdated [and] a little bittired,” Assistant City Man-ager Eric Carpenter toldthe City CommissionWednesday in communi-cating the city’s support forthe project. “We reallyappreciate the proposalthat we have gotten tobring the marina back to aworld-class facility.”
Martin, who is a MiamiBeach resident, said theproject has received posi-tive feedback from resi-
dents in the South of Fifthneighborhood and hehopes a majority of voterswill approve of the propos-al.
“With Miami Beachvoter support in November,we intend to move quicklyinto the design and cityreview and approval pro-cess,” he said in a state-ment. “Construction willfollow.”
This story has been up-dated to clarify how muchmoney will be spent on theproject
Martin Vassolo:305-376-2071,martindvassolo
MIAMI BEACH
Voters to decide if South Beachhigh-rise is OK on public land
BY MARTIN VASSOLO
Terra Group
A rendering shows the proposed 275,000-square-foot high-rise building thatdevelopment group Terra wants to build at the Miami Beach Marina.
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This could be one of thecutest things we’ve seen inquarantine.
Kaavia James is learninghow to play basketball.Wait, she kind of alreadyknows how.
The toddler, who turns 2in November, has a greatcoach. That would be herfamous dad, DwyaneWade.
Mom Gabrielle Unionposted a video of Kaavmoving on up to the toyhoop, and deftly dunkingthe ball. The child thenwalks over behind the playcourt to retrieve the ball.
“You’re going to get yourown rebound?” the actressasks off camera. Kaaviasurveys the hoop, which is
about a foot away, thendecides against making amove, tosses the ball downand walks out of frame.
The caption: “There is no‘I’ in team. I should nothave to get my own re-bound. Game and story,over.”
In the comments section,Wade threw up some laugh-ing face emojis.
During the former MiamiHeat player’s career, thelegendary shooting guardpulled off 4,933 rebounds.So the so-called Shady Babyhas a ways to go.
Wade’s oldest child,Zaire Wade, is well on theway, however. The 18-year-old plays for BrewsterAcademy in Wolfesboro,New Hampshire.
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Gabrielle Union, Kaavia James, Dwyane Wade
Video: DwyaneWade’s babydaughter playsbasketball
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