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Art Harris on Jane Velez Mitchell, HLN, Aug. 9, 2010

From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Join us on for HLN’s Haleigh Cummings Special on Jane Velez Mitchell this Friday, 7 p est. Journalist Art Harris will be on Jane’s fiesty panel. Read the rest of this entry »

Art Harris on JVM Aug.6: Drug Sentence Sends Message

From Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

With most low profile drug trafficking cases in the Putnam County and surrounding areas scoring beween 3-5 years for the felon, how could Tommy Croslin draw 3 to five times the amount of hard time?

For one, he’s an addict who happened to be involved with the wrong people at the wrong time — and one of the last people to admit seeing missing five year old Haleigh Cummings alive.

Sources close to the case have told us Croslin had to know what was coming after law enforcement expressed their displeasure with how little they learned about the missing child case from the high drama search he lead them on down by the St. John’s River, where Croslin claimed cousin Joe Overstreet took him and tossed Haleigh’s body. Read the rest of this entry »

Art Harris on Nancy Grace August 10 to report on Joe Overstreet felony pot bust

By Art Harris, the Bald Truth, (c) artharris.com, all rights reserved

Police swarmed the Antioch, Tennessee house of Misty Croslin’s cousin Sunday on a tip that he was among the suspects in an attempted armed robbery and assault seen driving a silver Chrysler 300.

After officers spotted the car in Joseph Edward Overstreet’s driveway, they spotted Croslin’s cousin in the front yard and began questioning him. According to the search warrants obtained by The Bald Truth and posted here, it went downhill from there:

While verifying the VIN number of the Chrysler, the officer found five pot plants growing in the back yard, and other drug paraphernalia inside. Overstreet was arrested and charged with felony pot growing; another associate was taken into custody as well, and another fled the house.

Overstreet was in the Satsuma visiting relatives days before Haleigh disappeared, then left to go home to Tennessee a day after she went missing. While others have accused him of taking the missing child from the trailer, where cousins Tommy Croslin and Misty place him, driving the blue van loaned to brother Timmy. Only Overstreet denies involvement, has been interviewed twice by Haleigh investigators and never charged in the case.

Sunday, as a SWAT team offered backup, police arrested Overstreet, and Justin Blair Hogue, 22, who was charged with grand theft, petty theft and possession of drug paraphernalia. The police affadavit says Hogue told officers he traded narcotics for the stolen Chrysler found in the driveway.

Rick Ryan, chief deputy for the Putnam County Sheriff’s Department, tells The Bald Truth investigators have no plans to travel to Tennessee to interview Overstreet, who has been interviewed twice about the Cummings case already.
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Joseph Edward Overstreet arrested, bonds out on drug charges Monday

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Joseph Edward Overstreet, 21, the so called “cousin Joe” Misty Croslin blames for kidnapping a five year old she was babysitting, was jailed Sunday night in Nashville, Tennessee, on an unrelated felony drug charge, manufacturing marijuana, and possession.

At 7:57 pm Sunday,.records show Overstreet was booked into the Davidson County Criminal Justice Center (CJC), a medium/maximum facility build in 1982 that can house 807 inmates; bond was at $7,000. Within hours, he had bonded out. Read the rest of this entry »