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The John Kobylt Show

The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (09/26) - Fisherman Strangled in Santa Monica

The John Kobylt Show

Premiere Networks

News

4.3799 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Blake Troli comes on the show to talk about a suspect being arrested for allegedly strangling a fisherman in Santa Monica. More on the Metro bus hijacking that took place on Tuesday night. Derricke Dennis comes on the show to talk about the federal charges NYC Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on. There is some dirt on Rob Bonta that has surfaced

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0:00.0

KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobalt podcast on the IHeart Radio app.

0:06.2

We're here every day. You should be too. From one until four o'clock. We're good at showing up for work around here.

0:12.7

And then after four o'clock, if you missed anything, John Cobalt's show On Demand. That's the podcast, same as the radio show.

0:19.9

Posted shortly after four on that IHeart app.

0:23.3

Well, another day and another absurd crime story. And again in Santa Monica, and again, it's,

0:31.3

I think the term is a repeat offender. Oh my God. First of all, you ought to see the mugshot of this

0:37.0

guy. John Brooksmith, he's to see the mugshot of this guy.

0:44.7

John Brooksmith, he's accused of trying to strangle a guy who is fishing at Santa Monica Beach.

0:49.3

You can't even go fishing without somebody trying to kill you.

0:53.2

And if you can see this guy, he's got this drugged out look.

0:57.7

He's not wearing a shirt. And he looks insane. He looks absolutely insane. Let's go to Blake Troley, KFI News for all the details on this.

1:05.4

What happened here? Yeah, John. So last week, a guy from West Hollywood comes out here to Santa Monica and he goes fishing when he is approached by a suspect that police say is John Brokesmith, who's from Illinois. He's been in California, at least since April. That's when his arrest record dates back. According to Santa Monica Police Lieutenant Erica Klufi, this was a pretty scary attack.

1:29.5

We're told that Brookesmith came up behind this fisherman and put him in a chokehold.

1:34.3

Before he knew it, someone had approached him from behind and put him basically in a chokehold.

1:40.3

He was having trouble breathing, possibly lost consciousness for a little while.

1:45.1

And apparently people on the beach saw this.

1:47.1

They were actually able to confront this homeless guy and he took off.

1:51.0

Now, police were able to, they arrived, they were able to get a description from people who were on scene here in Santa Monica.

1:58.2

They were able to canvas the beach and take him into custody pretty quickly.

2:01.8

As you say, they said he is from Illinois, he's homeless, he hasn't been in California too long,

2:06.9

but in the time that he has been in California, he has quite the arrest record.

2:11.5

His most recent being here in the L.A. area, in L.A. itself, I want to go through some of the arrest that I was able to get on

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