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JINNIFER MOWN
AND NATAUE P. MCNEAL
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Broward Sheriff, Deputy
Brian Tephford. the father of
twin toddlers and a4-year-old
girl. was shot to death execut-
ing one of the most routine
but dangerous acts that a taw
enforcement deputy will face:
a traffic atop.
And It MIS the kind of atop
that Tephford had the experi-
ence to conduct, a simple reg-
istration check, Records show
that in one year, Tephford
had handed out 406 traffic
cttatiant.
On Monday, two days after
the 34-year-old Tamarac dep-
uty wet slain and another
wounded, new details
emerged about the traffic
atop -turned ambush that
claimed the deputy's life and
led to the arteats of three sus.
peat..
Among details, according
to investigators: that the sus•
body was found dumped in
the Everglades In 2002.
CASE PICKS UP
Over the past 48 hours,
investigators executed search
warrants and questioned wit-
nesae., Including the surviv
Ins deputy, Corey Carboccl,
37, in an effort to put together
■ timeline of the tragedy,
Tephford did not have a dash.
board turveillance camera in
hit police cruiser, BSC field.
Stilt, at the end of the day,
there stilt seemed to be more
questions than answers, and
Broward County Sheriff Ken
Jenne was tight-lipped about
the Investigation.
"We feel very strongly
about th1. case, Millet me tell
you, title Is going to be the
most methodical case that the
sheriffs office aver did,"
Jenne said et a press confer-
e nce.
Tephford died at 12:01 am.
Sunday from two bullet
Corolla that didn't appear to
have proper registration,
Tephford called for backup
— which it normal protocol
-- and Carbacci arrived
within a minute. according to
850. Tephford spoke to the
female driver, Shoats Spen-
cer.
Tephford returned to hie
merited patrol car and began
to check the regl4tratlou on
his computer. In the mean-
time. Carbacci exited his
vehicle and was standing out-
side Tephfard'a cruiser.
Suddenly, shots rang out.
Authorttlea say Ingraham, a
passenger In the Toyota,
lumped out blasting. Investi-
gators later found dozen of
casing. Pram two weapons —
both .40 caliber — scattered
around the crime scene,
Tephford wart shot In the
chest and the leg. Carboccl,
meanwhile, began running
toward his car, tearcbing for
cover, and was shot twice In
They all jumped into a
white Geo Metro and aped
away, eventually entailing at a
strip mall at Oakland Park
Boulevard and Hiatus Road
Tephford and Cerbocci
were rushed to Broward Med-
ical Center, where Tephford
was pronounced dead. Car -
bocci is recuperating In the
hospital and expected to be
retested this week,
PAIR ARRESTED
Seventeen hours later,
Ingraham; Delaney, 19; and
Parbet, 22, were in BSO cow
foal, arrested at a Dottie
Beach motel,
After news of Ingratiates
arrest, several agencies apoke
with BSO detectives about the
alleged killer and his possible
links to several other homi-
cides. One of those is the Aug.
19, 2602, murder of Karp.
Miami Herald staff writer
Roberto Santiago contributed
to this report
Broward sheriff reviews bulletproof vest policy
f/ For law enforcement In
Froward County — like
many across the elate and
nation — wearing a
bulletproof vest Is
recommended, but not
mandatory.
eY JENHIFER IMBOYIEN
AND ROBERTO SANTIAGO
INtwvic9Y,gtillrntilleraid.axn
In March, Broward Sher-
ifft Deputy Brian Tephford
— a tlx-year veteran --
signed a legal waiver to work
without wearing a bulletproof
✓ ert
"I recognize that my fail-
ure to wear protective body
armor may subject me to pue-
dble physical herm, injury or
death," reads his two -page
waiver, In which he also
accepts the risks and absolves
the Merlin office of any legal
I NrAt71HERAL➢.CON: CLICK ON
Tooert EXTRAS TAME, THE
WAIVER SIGNED BY BRIAN
IEPHf ORO ANO TO SEE THE
g00'S VEST -WEARING POLICY
damages associated with his
failure to wear his vest,
Broward County Sheriff
Ken Jenne is reevaluating his
department's policies about
wearing protective vests es a
result of Tephford'a slaying
during A routine traffic stop
Saturday night in Temar■c.
At a hospltel news confer-
ence Monday, with the wife
of a wounded officer al hit
side, Jenne expressed relief
that the wounded officer's life
may., have been spared
because he had been wearing
a bulletproof vest.
The wife of Deputy Corey
Carbocel said her husband
"had angels watching him"
Saturday night when he was
shot during the traffic stop.
"He's very fortunate to be
hare," Nlldy Carboccl said.
It wasn't clear whether the
vest saved Carbacci'. life. But
Tephford — who wasn't
wearing a vest — was killed,
and the death was enough to
give Jenne pause, "We're
looking at our manual right
now about making it manda-
tory,' Jenne said, "As you
know, every deputy sheriff is
given one. When 1 issue the
star to each deputy, 1 make
sure that they're wearing
The incident unfotded
ahorlly after It p.m, Saturday,
when Tephford, 34, pulled
over 4 car thorny after 11 p.m.
and called for backup. When
Carboccl arrived, a man in the
car, Identified by BSC as
Eloyn In ahem, opened fire.
Tephford, 34, WAS shot and
later pronounced dead at
Broward General Medical
Center. Cerbocci, 37, who was
standing near Tephford'*
cruiser when he was shot, will
wearing a protective vest and
is expected to make a full
recovery, doctors said Mon-
day.
Moshe Slav, a Mauna sur-
geon at Broward General, said
the vent may hale rayed Car-
bocci's life, "1 never saw the
vest, but I at Vault lit saved
him) becomes 1f Ihere la a bul-
let through the vest, the veal
saved his 11(e."
For law enforcement in
Broward County -- like many
BUM the state and nation --
wearing a bulletproof vest 1r
recommended, but not man-
datory.
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Community
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park, federal and state wildlife
agencies and regional water
teenagers to control the
spread of the Burmese python
— en exotic predator big, bad
and voreclaua enough to
potentially upset the natural
balance of the Everglades.
Researchers have found
the ,amain of a menagerie of
native wildlife, from birds to
bobcats, in the guts of cap-
tured snakes. Photographs of
one bizarre encounter last
year made the invasion
worldwide newt when a 13-
faoter exploded after swal-
lowing more than It could
digest — a stxdoot anteater.
"We know one thing, there
Is no sliver bullet for control-
ling this problem," said Ever-
glades superintendent Dan
Kimball at a news conference
at park headquarters near
Homestead.
Beyond targeting snake,' 1n
the wild, a handful of agencies
are taking aim at Importers,
Who ship in thousands of the
Southeast Asian constrictor!
annually, and make owners,
By Pebruary, the Florida
Fish and Wildlife Canaerva-
tlon Commission will con-
sider new rules requiring
owners of Burmese pythons
and four other Large cote:urlc-
tors to acquire state permits
and put the snakes in lacked
cages. Another role would
require inserting microchips
— aimllar to the IDa routinely
implanted in many furry pets
— to make it easier to track
scofflaws,
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and the South Florida
Water Managetneni District
— which has thrown S50,000
into research and started
rounding up snakes on its vett
land holdings — also are
pushing to add Burmese
pythons to a list of"injurious"
epodes, which would make it
more difficult to both import
and buy them.
It's Increasingly clear that
pythons, which can top
20 feel In length and rank
among the world's largest
snakes, aren't likely to slither
away on their own, said Snow.
RECORD NUMBERS
With nearly two months
left in the year. the number of
captures in Everglades
National Park has lumped to
142 — a 5o percent htereare
over all of 2005. White that
may not round like it lot of
snakes in a marl park, annual
captures represent only a
fraction of the actual impute.
thin.
There aro even mare
thawing up outside the park.
Bob H111, who wrangles
srtakm on state 1.nde awned
by the 5auth Florida Water
Management District, said
he's handled "hundreds" of
calls In the last few years. In
the winter, Hill sold, the
snakes particularly seem to
enjoy sunning themselves on
the L-67 East levee,
Until 2000, only about a
daaan pythons had ever been
documented in the park. For
reasons not yet understood.
It's been a steady and disturb-
ing dire since.
The python problem wart
initially caused by pet owners
no longer Able or willing to
care for a critter that is ceps.
hie, potentially, of crushing
the life out of them. A few
owners have been strangled
by overgrown pets.
While dumping la still con-
sidured a meter source of
snake*, the loser concern is
shut a foreign'species has not
only alanuged to illusive but
thrive,
The Butmeso arc breeding.
producing offspring that eat
just about anything — and a
lot of anything. Snow and Ste-
phen Seder, a University of
Alabama biologist, have esti-
mated for a python to reach
an adult breeding size of
about 70 paunch, it would
have to gulp coma 210 pounds
of marled mice, bird,, rab-
bit., raccoons and moors.
Even controlling the
snakes already out there will
be a daunting challenge.
Snow, who has tracked the
proliferation of python for
years and now Is in charge of
Boding ways to wipe them
out, said researchers are only
now developing good way,• to
track and trap creatures that
can live in just about any
Everglades habitat, wet or
dry.
They're oleo virtually
invisible, except when they
choose to sunbathe along
roads or swim in a creek.
Some dozen news photogra-
phers struggled to locate a
barely moving l0-looter freed
In a dry rawgraas prairie —
rigltt in front of their lenses.
EARLY SUCCESS
Radio -tracking has proved
a promising drat step. Last
year, scientists released four
snakes, each surgically
implanted with two 5250
radio transmitters about the
size of a lipstick tube with a
foot -long wire antenna.
Sclentiata recovered ell
four snakes and captured o
dozen others, successful
enough to up the high-tech
squad to seven far This breed-
ing aeaanm
The radio tracks also
revealed some fascinating
facts about the big snakes'
moventent through the Ever-
glades. During wet semen,
one wan recorded moving en
Mounding 20 miles or so
from the east aide of the park
all the way to Big Cypress
National Proterve.
Snow apcculatea blg snakes
are copablc of covering Eons
distances quickly, their heavy
bodies apparently buoyed by
the rising water — a trait that
also would allow them to eau•
ill cruise South Florida's net-
work of cattail.
During the drier winter,
they lend to stay in smeller
areas, such as tree islands,
which can be prey -rich wild-
life havens but atao may be
Important breeding grounds,
Because pythons are wily
hunters, patiently waiting to
pounce on passing pray, I
trap baited with a rodent or
rabbit may not he all that
effective. So researcher* are
looking far an alternative and
pnraibly more enticing lure —
geanal attraction.
They're etudying the scent
trails snakes leave behind as
chemical signals to othera of
their species. [solacing and
syntbetizing sexual scents,
called pheromones, could
become a critical tool for
attracting wily pythons into
trapa.
Snow has just !misled an
application far $102,000 in
federal funding to launch the
study.
'Snake' have some kind of
way to Lind each other," he
said "If we min gars clue to
what that la, it wilt certainly
help"
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