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Former hotel VP accused of drunkenly slapping teenage Disney World restaurant hostess over dress code snub

A South Carolina man is set to make his first court appearance next month after he was accused of slapping a teenage hostess at a Walt Disney World Resort restaurant three times in the forehead, while under the influence, after she refused to seat him due to the restaurant’s dress code. 

John Munro, 64, of South Carolina, was arrested and charged with battery after an altercation involving him and a 19-year-old hostess at Cítricos inside Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort back in November.

Munro, no stranger to luxury hotels, was the Vice President of Hospitality, Sales, and Marketing at the prestigious Sea Pines Resort in Hilton Head, where he lives.

Karen Moraghan, the spokesperson for the South Carolina property, told Fox News Digital that Munro is no longer employed by The Sea Pines Resort. 

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On Thursday, Moraghan confirmed to The Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette that Munro was placed on administrative leave “amid review of this personnel matter.” 

According to the arrest affidavit obtained by Fox 35 Orlando, on Nov. 19, 2023, deputies with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to the resort in reference to a battery. 

A preliminary investigation revealed that just before 7:30 p.m., a restaurant hostess was checking a family in who had a reservation for three. However, the group arrived with four people; two women and two men. 

According to the arrest records, one of the men, identified as Munro, was not dressed in accordance with the restaurant’s dress code. 

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He was wearing swim shorts and a T-shirt and Cítricos’ website states that “guests are expected to dress accordingly in attire that respects the restaurant’s sophisticated and upscale aesthetic,” adding explicitly that swimwear isn’t allowed. 

Because Munro was wearing “swimming shorts and a T-shirt,” he was told by the hostess that he would not be allowed to dine with his family, the report stated. Munro seemed to understand but said he’d wait with his group until they were seated. The hostess agreed to his request, but the situation escalated when she took the group to be seated moments later. 

According to deputies, Munro followed the party of three to their table even though he was told he was not allowed to do so. 

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“Please don’t allow him to sit with us, he is really drunk, underdressed, it’s my birthday, and I’m embarrassed,” one of the woman told the hostess, according to the affidavit. 

When the hostess told Munro that he couldn’t sit with the group, he “began to repeatedly slap her forehead” three times while stating her name, which he read from the name tag on her shirt, deputies stated.

The hostess sustained no injuries and declined medical treatment, and wished to pursue charges, deputies said. 

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Deputies caught up with Munro, who they said was apparently intoxicated based on his “slurred speech, glossy red eyes, and constant repeating that he was going to sue Disney,” the arrest affidavit said. 

Munro was arrested and released on a $1,000 bond the next morning.

Surveillance video from the restaurant was not available, but prosecutors plan to use police body camera footage from the incident, according to Florida court records.

Munro entered a plea of not guilty and is expected to appear in court for a pre-trial conference hearing on Feb. 16. 

Dive team claims to have found body of missing Orlando woman Sandra Lemire in pond near Disney World

A dive team in Florida claims to have found the body of a woman who went missing 11 years ago.

Sunshine State Sonar said their search team located the body of Sandra Lemire submerged in a van in a pond near Disney World. The group posted photos and videos of a red van being pulled from the pond in Orlando.

According to police, Lemire was last seen leaving her grandmother’s home in Orlando in 2012. Police said she was on her way to Kissimmee to meet a man she had met online through a dating service. Police said she frequently met and dated men through the internet.

She was last seen leaving a Kissimmee restaurant driving her grandmother’s 2004 red Ford Freestyle van. 

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Orlando Police confirmed to Fox News Digital that a 2004 Ford van was found in a body of water on World Drive on Sunday.

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Osceola Sheriff’s deputies and the Orange County Sheriffs Dive team assisted in the response.

Police are working to identify the remains found inside the van. When questioned by Fox News Digital, police would not comment on whether or not the body was Sandra Lemire.

Officials said the Florida Highway Patrol is handling the traffic crash investigation. 

A preliminary report by the FHP states that a Ford Freestar van was traveling on the State Road 417 southbound exit ramp to World Drive when, for unknown reasons, the van’s driver ran off the roadway and entered a retention pond. 

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As a result of the crash, officers stated that the van became completely submerged. The specific date and time of the crash remains under investigation.

The medical examiner’s office will provide an update once they have positively identified the deceased, police said. 

Trump calls out immigration crisis during Iowa caucus rally, says he will keep world peaceful, safe

Former President Donald Trump rallied voters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, during a “Commit to Caucus” campaign event Saturday, focusing on his agenda and calling out “the worst, most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America.” 

“We don’t like corrupt politicians like Joe Biden. Without question, this is the worst president, most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America without question,” Trump exclaimed, in anticipation of next month’s Iowa GOP presidential caucuses. “And I promise you this, if you put me back in the White House there, rain will be over and America will be a free nation once again.” 

When speaking about keeping America safe, Trump said he would immediately implement travel restrictions on terror-plagued countries.

“I will immediately restore and expand the Trump travel ban on entry from terror-plagued countries and I will implement strong ideological screening on all immigrants as we have no choice,” he said. “If you hate America, if you want to abolish Israel, if you sympathize with jihad[ists], then we don’t want you in our country, and you’re not going to come into our country.”

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Adding to his remarks on a travel ban and current unrest in the Middle East, Trump pointed to the historic Abraham Accords, and described how he would make sure there was worldwide peace once again if elected.

“So for four straight years, I kept America safe. I kept Ukraine safe. None of this stuff would have happened. And I kept the entire world safe,” Trump said. 

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Trump added he would do everything in his power to keep the United States out of a war. 

“I will prevent World War III. I will prevent it. On my first day back in the White House, I will terminate every open-border policy of the Biden administration, stop the invasion on our southern border, and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” Trump said. 

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“We are a nation that has lost its way, but we are not going to allow this horror to continue. Three years ago, we were a great nation, and we will soon be a great nation again,” he said. 

SEAN HANNITY: The world is imploding, US more divided than ever under Biden

FOX News host Sean Hannity breaks down the state of the world under President Joe Biden. Hannity shows how Biden broke his promises to unite the country, lower temperatures and keep the border secure. 

SEAN HANNITY: Welcome to “Hannity” and also welcome to Biden’s disaster of America. Now, tonight, Israeli soldiers, they are on the ground in Gaza battling Hamas. Other units from the IDF they are clashing with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Americans and hundreds of others, they are still being held hostage underground in Gaza, a network of 300 miles of underground terror tunnels to kill Israelis and to take them hostage. That is the war that Hamas has been waging against Israel, now going on for decades. Now it’s time for Israel to win this war. At the same time, we have U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Syria. They continue to come under attack from Iranian proxies all around the region. We have two powerful U.S. carrier strike groups that are now in the Mediterranean Sea, not far from Israel. Keep in mind, this is your state of the world under your president, Joe Biden.

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And in our country, a level of antisemitism, outright left-wing bigotry and hatred. It is on the rise in a way I never thought I’d see in my lifetime. And I doubt many of you thought you’d see in yours. And by the way, have you noticed the border is an utter disaster? Under Joe Biden, over eight million illegal immigrants will cross into this country by the end of this year. Maybe as high as nine, maybe as high as 10 million. That is roughly the population of New York City. This is your State of the Union under Joe Biden, your president. This includes, by the way, at our border, 659 people from Iran. Why are Iranians coming to our border? 538 from Syria, along with thousands of others, special interest aliens from the Middle East. Why are they coming here? Who’s paying for them to come here? Why isn’t there any real vetting of the people crossing that border? Because I’ll tell you right now, the next 9/11 is almost certainly being plotted and planned from inside our country. Thank you, Joe Biden.

Now to the Democrats watching this program tonight. The ones that voted for Joe Biden. I ask you tonight, are you happy? Are we not better than this? Is this what you wanted? Is this what it looks like when, quote, the adults are back in charge? Because in 2021, it was Joe Biden who promised to lower the temperature, unite the country. He said our borders were closed and secure. They have lied to us again and again and again. But after three years of nothing but weakness, lying, dishonesty, confusion from a guy, frankly, that can barely speak or walk. The world is imploding and America is even more divided than ever. Weakness always invites this kind of chaos. But don’t worry. Because, according to his brilliant Vice President, Joe Biden, is alive and running for reelection. He’s actually alive. What a standard.

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Relatives of loved ones killed, kidnapped by Hamas plead for help: 'The world has to step up'

A distraught family member described on “FOX & Friends” Wednesday seeing videos of her relatives being taken from their home in southern Israel by Hamas. 

LeElle Slifer said she recognized her mother’s cousin, Kinneret, in a newly surfaced video of hostages whose hands were tied as they walked alongside Hamas terrorists. Additional video showed four lifeless bodies with physical characteristics matching the hostages.

“She texted us that morning. She was in the house with her husband, her daughter, her son, and her daughter-in-law and her little granddaughter, three years old. They were all there celebrating the holiday, and she said she was safe,” Slifer told host Steve Doocy, who was also overcome with emotion over what happened to the family. 

“Then we started seeing videos from the terrorists that she’d been taken, reports from her husband that their daughter was taken, their son, their daughter-in-law, their granddaughter… and we just kept searching for news, and we didn’t know for so many days.”

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Her voice began to break. “Then I saw the video online, and I had to tell my family in Israel that I had seen [her] laying on the ground lifeless, and we still haven’t recovered her body yet.”

Before disappearing toward Gaza, Hamas militants tied Kinneret’s son’s hands and shoved him into a vehicle with his wife and three-year-old daughter. Another member of their kibbutz – or community – was shoved in the trunk.

When they encountered a tank, the terrorists stopped the vehicle and got out, giving Slifer’s loved ones a chance to escape.

“[They] knew that if they didn’t do something, they would be as good as dead,” she said. “So they jumped, ran from the car…” Kinneret’s son hid in a field with his daughter for 24 hours until silence replaced gunfire and shouting. He then made his way back to the kibbutz.

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“Thank God they’re alive,” Slifer said. 

But Kinneret’s daughter-in-law had to hide someplace else and has been missing since. Slifer said the family has to assume the worst has happened: that she has been taken hostage in Gaza.

“This is jihad. There are no rules in jihad. They’re raping women in fields. They’re beheading babies. They’re executing the elderly in the street. They’re taking [people] back to Gaza to use as human shields. It’s appalling. And the world has to step up and get these hostages out,” she continued.

Terror in the Holy Land also devastated Ofri Levy, whose family was kidnapped by Hamas. She begged for their rescue on Wednesday.

“The only thing we know is that they were taken to Gaza on Saturday,” she told FOX News. Video showed her sister-in-law holding her two sons as they were taken from their home by Hamas terrorists.

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“We knew [she] and the kids were taken because we got this video in already on Saturday. We didn’t know anything about my brother until yesterday, which was his birthday, and it was the first time we got any picture of him, any sign of life, and we saw him in a picture surrounded by terrorists leading into Gaza.” 

“He was bleeding from his head,” she said. “One of the terrorists had a hammer in his hand.”

Levy said her brother stayed in contact with her via text messages leading up to the kidnapping, telling her he was terrified as he heard explosions, gunfire and screaming in Arabic.

“The last text I got from him was 9:45 Saturday saying they were coming inside their house. Later, we also saw a video of them breaking inside my brother’s house,” she explained.

“I can’t think of anything else. They have to come back home. They have to join us again…” she added.

The death toll continues to climb in the harrowing days since war broke out Saturday. As of early Wednesday, nearly 2,100 have been killed on both sides of the conflict, including more than 1,200 in Israel.

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Post-Trump World, GOP Split, Black History Month | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO)

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