a local man says he's being tortured by a man he knows and why it's lasted three years

live from the station taking action for you, this is abc action news. the front hood here. >> new at 11:00 a family says a stalker has terrorized them for years. >> so far police haven't made an arrest. good evening. i'm wendy ryan. the victims say this all started when a dui driver crashed into their yard. >> tonight abc action news reporter cameron pollom shows us why police are struggling to catch the suspect. >> reporter: over the last three years. >> basically this whole side had paint over it. there was paint all over the front hood here.

has spent too many days and too much money at local body shops. so the other one was 6,000 fever hundred dollars. three weeks -- $6,500. >> reporter: that's because three weeks ago that vehicle looked like this, white paint splashed on the hood, doors and everything in between. >> this here is the last police >> reporter: while it's the second time he's paid a massive bill for paint splatter he's shelled out thousands for tires, not once, not twice but 15 times. >> $7,623.31. >> reporter: the worst part, cummings believes it's the same dui driver that crashed into his yard three years ago that he was called to testify against. >> we know who it is for the most part, but we just -- they need more to make it stick. >> reporter: but so far the culprits haven't left a shred of evidence revealing who they are. sadly cummings parents have also been targeted by the suspect forced to repaint two cars. >> they are considering moving

>> reporter: but a renewed effort by crime stoppers offering a $3,000 reward has renewed some hope for cummings that someone will come forward so he can leave this mess that just won't seem to stop behind. in st. pete i'm cameron polom, abc action news. family, tonight the mother of baby chance who disappeared and later was found buried in just a diaper in a shallow north port grave is starting to serve a 25 year prison sentence. 32-year-old kristen bury collapsing in court today pleading no contest to failing to protect her 8-week-old son. prosecutors are saying she watched as her husband joseph walsh beat the boy and then stuffed a baby wipe down his throat. the parents left chance to decompose in his crib eventually burying him in the woods.

told the judge her daughter deserves a harsher punishment. >> understand i will always love my daughter. she's my flesh and blood, as chance was to her and fortunately i do have the mother instinct. so this is extremely difficult. the mother is supposed to protect her child at all costs and that wasn't done. >> her daughter took a plea deal and will testify against her husband. so far no trial date has been set for joseph walsh. good evening, everyone, temperatures right now mid-50s across the metro, low 40s across our northern counties. on average temperatures about 5, in some cases close to 10 degrees warmer right now than they were this time yesterday. so we're no longer worrying about a freeze tomorrow morning, but it's going to be chilly. there's no doubt about that.

the low to mid-40s across our northern counties, 50s across the metro and then the rain and storms arrive late tomorrow into friday. the details coming up in a couple minutes. tonight a central florida teacher is looking for a new job, officials saying bonnie dixon claimed to have a degree from the university of florida, but it turns out her diploma is fake. officials are saying tonight she never attended classes there. tonight an emotional homecoming and family and friends of a retired tampa police detective who is fighting cancer right now pray this homecoming will also save his life. we'll see how a community took action to help bring him home. >> reporter: when jose feliciano's ambulance stopped outside tampa international jet center and his family saw him for the first time, it was pure joy. >> i never thought i'd be able to get him back home. >> reporter: his daughter

everything that's happened over the past week. she says her father battling gastric cancer was stuck with bad care in puerto rico. then they got a miracle. >> this would not have ever happened without the community and the support they have shown and i thank them from the bottom of my heart. >> reporter: that support came from donations to feliciano's gofundme account. he needed $30,000 for an air ambulance to get draft at moffitt cancer center. after a news report on monday that seemingly impossible number was reached. >> i want to say thank you to them from my family. >> reporter: feliciano spent 26 years with the tampa police murderers and drug dealers. line. that service to his community is why his family, especially his daughter, never doubted that he would be brought back here to tampa for treatments. >> he's definitely my superhero. he puts everyone first versus himself.

released this photo from inside the ambulance of feliciano's former partner hugging his good friend, an embrace filled with home. >> to see him here and know that he's going to be in the best treatment, to get the best medical treatment that he deserves. >> and now that feliciano is in tampa that doesn't mean his treatment is paid for. the family expects thousands of dollars in medical bills. if you would like to help, we put a link to their fund account on our website at -- to their gofundme account on our website at www.abcactionnews.com. right now investors around the word very jittery after another brutal day on wall street, the market crashing below $27 a barrel, the lowest price in 12 years. to recover slightly closing the day down 247 points. and those oil prices already causing fallout, tonight devon energy announcing

devon is one of north america's largest processors of natural gas liquids, but it's not all bad news tonight. wal-mart is announcing pay raises for nearly all hourly workers, the superstore increasing minimum wage to 10 bucks an hour late february and that's not just minimum wage earners. the store is saying all hourly pay raise. the move affects more than 1 million employees and it's all part of an effort to combat chronic turnover. the ceo of the florida seminole tribe gambling operation in tallahassee today pushing lawmakers to renew their gambling agreement. the table games portion of the deal expired in october and so far the tribe ignored a state request to close the tables. the casino is still offering blackjack and poker, but if lawmakers don't renew the gambling deal could eventually be forced to shut down those card games, the tribe telling us 3,700 jobs depend on those tables staying open. >> and these particular

children in school, do not know where they stand and i take that responsibility very seriously. >> governor rick scott is saying he will sign the deal if it clears the legislature. now to an update on that kent state professor being investigated for potential ties to isis, professor julo peno speaking out for the very first time tonight, the allegations breaking in the school newspaper. the editor confirmed the fbi agents interviewed him asking questions about the 55-year-old associate professor who converted to islam. peno says tonight he's done nothing wrong. >> everything that i've done is perfectly legal. i fulfilled my duties as an american citizen by speaking out on issues that some people find controversial, of course. >> in 2011 peno shouted death to israel during a campus lecture given by an israeli

have triggered the current investigation. from pakistan, investigators saying militants timing their attack on a university to insure maximum bloodshed. and opened fire on a crowd of poetry reading. pakistani police put the death toll now at 21. and the pentagon tonight is saying president obama is making it easier for the u.s. military to strike isis targets in afghanistan. before today the military could only pursue isis elements if they posed a directs threat to specific area. engagement isis is now designated as a foreign terror forces to actively pursue militants in afghanistan. meanwhile the attacks like the ones in pakistan and paris on the minds of local police here to keep your family safe at the gasparilla children's parade this weekend and the adult parade next weekend. this year tampa police are

something, say something. 21 different agencies will help tampa police keeping you and your family safe. police tell us they will target underage drinking and something new this year, drones. >> i think that's a good idea because people don't know how to control those things. can you imagine a remote control car running around in the parade? it's the same kind of idea. >> also next week a voicemail will go out to all parties in hillsborough county re-- parents in hillsborough county reinforcing that zero tolerance policy. coming up a mom walks into her child's daycare and was outraged, straight ahead the photos going viral tonight that she took. >> an officer threatens to shoot a man legally carrying a handgun. ahead changes for a sheriff who wants to make sure this never happens again. >> and a scent is great, but that citrus candle could put your whole family in danger, straight ahead a new warning

welcome back. it's a terrific stop that went viral -- traffic stop that went viral, a citrus county man held at gunpoint during a traffic stop. >> now the sheriff and others are pushing for changes in the law hoping a situation like that one doesn't happen again. >> we are live tonight in pinellas county with the details on this story. >> reporter: the florida sheriffs associations is behind this including the pinellas county sheriff who is the legislative chairman of this organization. so the proposal promises to protect more than 1 million florida concealed carry permit holders who follow the law. mark sahar has been a concealed carry permit holder for several years. >> i don't carry a lot. i have carried at times and i have never ever had a situation where anybody realized i was carrying. >> reporter: but what if mark or someone else who is a

firearm and someone sees it. >> so far it hasn't applied to me. >> reporter: today the florida sheriffs association released information about a proposal to protect people from getting arrested or prosecuted if their weapon is accidentally visible. it happened to a citrus county man in 2009. he, a permitted gun owner, was arrested after an officer spotted it under his shirt. >> what i think it does is it defines that gray area so that any officer to witness this would have greater direction let's say in determining whether or not there was a violation of the law or not. >> reporter: the proposal would create immunity for a gun owner who accidentally displays a firearm and officers would be required to let the person explain the mistake. if that does happen, the person could not be convicted. to be arrested a person would have to deliberately show their gun. >> most concealed carry permit holders, in fact, the vast

they don't want to break the law. so what i think this does is define the law narrow enough that there should be really no excuse for somebody being prosecuted for openly carrying when it was obviously a case where the wind blew his jacket open or something like that. >> reporter: the florida serves association says they -- sheriffs association says they will continue to work with members on this proposal. >> thank you. new at 11:00 we're just learning jennifer kessy's parents are planning to hold a news conference friday. it's been 10 years since the florida native went missing 2006. officers tell us details will be discussed of her disappearance. in a post on their website tonight the family says there have been no new leads in this case.

tonight after finding a daycare worker sleeping on the job. take a look. the dallas woman says the employee was asleep on a table. you see it there. instead of watching around a half dozen children. the family filed a complaint with the state. now the owner of that daycare told us the woman was not asleep for very long, but the mother who spotted the sleeping unacceptable. >> i walked out with him. anybody could have walked out with him and she didn't know. >> over the past two years that very same daycare has been cited more than 20 times. taking action for your health tonight, if you have citrus scented candles in your home, you will want to listen to this next story, new research saying it can react with other elements creating a cancer causing agent. the study looked at chemicals in six homes in england over five days. homes with scented candles and cleaning products had the

ozone, it creates formaldehyde which is associated with several different types of cancer. this is probably my favorite story of the day, breaking nfl news, the buffalo bills tonight hiring the first full-time female assistant coach in nfl history. special teams quality control coach. bills head coach rex ryan done an outstanding job over the past seven years and promotion. now the most accurate weather team in florida, abc action weather. >> if you've been playing any kind of sports outside lately, you've been wearing a couple layers because it's been cold. >> nothing like what they'll have upnorth. it's going to be a big blizzard in the mid-atlantic this weekend, a couple feet of snow and i asked these folks here would you go? >> no way. >> have we lost our mind? they're not fun. >> i would go.

we had well over 300 people respond and 61% said no way. i would never do it, but it's going to happen this weekend and that cold air wrapping around is one of the reasons why we are going to be seeing another chance of a freeze come saturday night and again on sunday night, but obviously no snow to deal wind chill there's a look at titan doppler radar -- to deal with. radar. primarily in the fortunatelys -- 40s and 50s. you'll have to bundle up with temperatures in the low to mid- 40s after a high in the mid- to upper 60s. tomorrow we're back in the low 70s for one day and then it gets cold again. tampa 54. in and that's one of the main to warm up over the next several hours. clearwater and st. pete the temperatures at 50 degrees. so as i mentioned, a little bit of cloud cover. it's going to be streaming in from the gulf.

cloud cover, but any kind of tomorrow morning we start warmer and end a lot warmer when we top out in the lower 70s, so big changes there. there's that cloud cover i talked about with futurecast tomorrow morning, otherwise a pretty nice day, but the cloudiness will thicken by late tomorrow night and on friday deal with it again. now at this point it doesn't look like the atmosphere is going to have nearly the energy that the last couple of fronts have, but you still have got to throw in the possibility of a couple strong thunderstorms. so we will continue to track it. we'll watch it. we'll have more tomorrow because there's always a chance one of these storms could go severe. now behind it things begin to clear out by late friday night and saturday morning the winds pick up. gusty and cold but -- it's gusty and cold, but it should be fine for the gasparilla kids parade saturday. there are those forecast highs back to where we should be in the low 70s, but we drop right back down again with highs in

here it is. there's the national picture. all the bread and milk are gone already across the mid-atlantic because blizzard warnings are in effect with up to two, maybe locally 3 feet of snow. it's going to be one for the record books and wrapping around all this cold air bringing it down there, as i said, even for us we'll see nor cold snap come saturday night -- another cold snap come saturday night and again on sunday night. southeast wind 5 to 10 knots, a foot or 2 of chop in the bay, gulf temperature mid-60s. there are your upcoming tides,en is rise 72 2 , sun -- sunrise 72 2 , sunset 6:01. 72 the forecast high thursday. that will be the warmest day. first thing friday morning there is a chance for rain and potentially a couple strong storms. if there are any severe cells that develop, we'll have it for you and update it to facebook as well.

by 5:00 or 6:00 friday night. saturday look at the high windy weather, 57 the high and folks, it's not even going to feel that warm because you factor in the wind, we're going to be dealing with wind chills so you'll have to bundle everybody up for the parade if you're heading over and as we start off with a freeze, another freeze monday morning and finally warming back up by the middle of next week. and one of their players are definitely on the outs. tk explains next in sports. the i-team only on abc

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hello, folks. we are darn sure now that jonathan juran is done with the lightning, his agent notifying the bolts they are shutting the kid down from playing in the minors to avoid any unnecessary injury. juran failed to report to tonight's nhl game between syracuse and toronto. the lightning immediately suspended him without pay. to hockey's newest cry baby will sit while the lightning get ready to take on the blackhawks tomorrow night.

standing the end of the year last year and they took us out. they're a well deserving champion and now we get to meet one more time during the regular season and it just so happens that we're both on -- we're on a bit of a major run. there's no question. this game probably means a little bit more. all right. flexibility will be the key to the defense approach with the buccaneers. the coach likes to devise the defense around the strength of his players. abc action sports john sable has more on this story. >> reporter: after a year away from football mike smith is >> this would be the 1 place that i would come and very, very excited because of my relationship with dirk. >> reporter: both coaches have been around the nfc south for years. they know what other are capable of. so smith's defense will now >> in this day in age you have to give different looks. you can't line up in the same

flexibility. >> reporter: sounds a lot different from what lovie smith's philosophy was in his tampa two defense. mike smith has been on the job a day and a half and has laid out his goal for his defense next season. >> we've got to focus on getting off the field on 3rd down and taking the ball away and stopping the run. those will be the three things that i will be talking to our guys about. >> reporter: one area where the bucs strag led last season was their -- struggled with last season was their lack of a pass rush. >> if you don't affect the quarterback and put pressure on the quarterback, they're going to cut you. so it's going to be imperative that we get pressure on the quarterback. >> reporter: john sable, abc action sports. the heat is on at the australian open. media from around the world are looking for those 16 professional tennis players who reportedly fixed matches and novak djokovic appears to be in the middle of it.

his 2nd round win over quentin hales from france when he was bombarded with questions. djokovic defended himself when he was accused of losing his match on purpose back in 2007 by an italian newspaper. >> i have nothing more to say. i said everything i needed to say two days ago. until somebody comes out with the real proof and evidence, it's only a speculation for me. if you're trying to create a story about that match or for that matter, any of the matches of the top players losing in the early rounds, i think it's just absurd. all right. men's college hoops tonight usf lost to central florida and the 15th ranked usf women upset by memphis tonight 88-87 in overtime. we're back in a minute. >> closed captioning is brought to you by lakeland toyota, save

definitely going to be a chilly start to your thursday, but look at the afternoon, back in the low 70s. >> for continuing coverage on all our top stories head over to www.abcactionnews.com.