Posted on 11/24/2006 11:23:24 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
MIAMI, Nov 24 (Reuters) - A man possibly carrying a machine gun entered the headquarters of the Miami Herald newspaper on Friday, forcing some workers to evacuate the bayfront building in downtown Miami, police and newspaper officials said.
The man, who was wearing camouflage, was identified by Herald employees as Jose Varela, a cartoonist who had worked for the Herald's Spanish-language sister publication, El Nuevo Herald.
"We believe he's armed with what the security guard is describing as a machine gun," Miami Police spokesman Delrish Moss told CNN. No one was was being held hostage and no shots had been fired.
Miami Herald Executive Editor Tom Fiedler said the man apparently believed the newspaper was not being properly run.
El Nuevo reporter Rui Ferreira said in a blog that he had spoken to the gunman, who told him, "You are speaking to the new director of the newspaper and I am going to unmask all of the true conflicts in the newspaper."
Varela called the paper a "pigsty", said it made fun of the Cuban exile community in Miami and that the paper paid poorly.
"They've been making fun of people long enough and today they will see it end in violence. But someone has to pay and that person is going to be (Humberto) Castello." he said, referring to the Spanish-language paper's executive editor.
Ferreira said Varela had been in the newsroom a week ago and told former colleagues he had bought himself a sawn-off shotgun and an Uzi submachine gun because he felt unsafe in Jupiter, a Florida town he moved to after his recent divorce.
The newspaper is owned by McClatchy Co. (MNI.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
People were saying it was a shotgun.
Usually inaccurate? About the extent of most news members knowledge is playing video games.
A disgruntled cartoonist? What's this world coming to?
I wonder if his latest cartoons contained any clues as to his deteriorating demeanor.
FNC reports he has taken over the editor's office and says he's in charge.
I wonder if he's going to be able to get an evening edition out they way HE want's it before they take him down.
Cartoons trump reality in certain minds.
LOL!
I love the copyright by Lazmataz!
Hopefully, he'll stay in charge. It would be an improvement for that leftist rag.
Have they yet deterined which drug he was being 'treated' with yet? I don't believe there has been an office rampage yet which hasn't be connected/resultant of 'treatment' going all the way back to Joseph Wesbecker in Kentucky.
I heard he had a 105mm Howitzer, a bag of pickeled eggs, a red 7-11 sausage and a bottle of Yoo Hoo.
Maybe he has lots of fish. That is what we use the "wrapper" as it is dismissively known as here in SoFlo,for.
CCW VIOLATION! CCW VIOLATION!
Oooh, is HE going to be in trouble?
This is going to go on his permanant record.
Laying a mime field around him should take care of the problem.
Use an Acme portable hole to sneak them into the building.
The Miami Herald sucks.
I belive this is acceptable as long as the target is the Liberal Press.
Prayers this ends without deaths.
Ahh yes.. the 'portable hole'. My favorite.
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