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Sunny Isles Beach Police uniformed officers responded to the scene regarding a call for service. As they arrived, they discovered the body of a deceased male and two males with lacerations. Both males were transported to area hospitals to receive medical treatment.
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http://www.molokaitimes.com/articles/8519112833.asp
By Kate Gardiner
Robert Spruiell, locally known as Kamuela Kamakana was
murdered in
The men were transported to area hospitals for treatment. Miami-Dade Police Department public information officer Mario Rachid said one person was “mortally wounded by some sort of a sharp object.”
Spruiell owned Kamuela’s Ohana, d/b/a Paddlers’
Details of the situation are limited however a press release
from Paddlers’
See story from CBS 4 Miami
Also see details and history from the Miami Herald
Anyone with information concerning this case is urged to contact Miami-Dade CRIMESTOPPERS at (305) 471-TIPS
http://www.miamiherald.com/519/story/539545.html
SUNNY
Details emerge in Sunny Isles hotel slaying
The man stabbed to death in
Posted on Tue, May. 20, 2008Digg del.icio.us AIM reprint print email
BY DAVID OVALLE
dovalle@MiamiHerald.com
Robert Spruiell, an
Spruiell, 38, a father of three, died Sunday morning at
about
His associate, Jeremy Johnson, 22, of
The third man in the fight, Jesus Cisneros, 42, has cooperated with Miami-Dade homicide detectives. No arrests had been announced as of Monday evening.
For years, the subscription-sales industry has come under fire for questionable business practices and allegations of mistreatment of ''agents'' -- usually teenagers and young adults -- hired as independent contractors to travel the nation selling subscriptions.
But his supporters say Spruiell unfairly got lumped in with shadier elements of an oft-derided industry.
''He was adamantly opposed to drug use, personally and by people associated with his companies,'' said his Oklahoma-based attorney, Cynthia Becker. ``He took a lot of pride in doing the right thing.''
About two weeks ago, Spruiell and his sales crew checked
into the Golden Nugget,
On Sunday morning, he and Johnson confronted Cisneros, the man he suspected of peddling drugs, inside Room 205.
Cisneros told police he grabbed a knife to defend himself and stabbed both men. Mortally wounded, Spruiell staggered to the walkway outside, collapsed and died. Johnson was hospitalized.
A former U.S. Navy sailor who fought in the first Gulf War,
Spruiell -- whose mother is Hawaiian -- also owned the only bar on the small
His Hawaiian name was Kamuela Kamakana. Called the Paddler's
''We don't make a lot of money, but we're just here for the community. He is going to be missed here,'' said restaurant administrator Alicia Montemayor.
A MIXED LEGACY
In the magazine subscription industry, Spruiell leaves a
mixed legacy. He ran nearly a dozen companies in
Brian Hooley, an employee at Prestige Sales in
At Prestige, $1,000 bonuses are paid for reaching certain
goals. Another of his companies, Integrity Sales, shows a photo of teens on a
white-water rafting trip in
Critics say young people, many of them runaways, are paid little and forced to work under grueling conditions.
Better Business Bureaus have also taken exception to industry practices -- including salespeople claiming to be earning money for student trips or that magazines will be sent to troops overseas.
Spruiell's ex-wife, Karleen Hillery, and her former business associate, Jonathan Tork, have earned notoriety in the industry.
Seven young people from one of her companies, Youth Employment Services, were killed in a 1999 traffic wreck. She later settled a multimillion dollar suit with the state.
Spruiell met, married and divorced her after the accident.
The wreck, however, spurred outrage. Phil Ellenbecker, whose teenage daughter Malinda Turvey was a sales agent and died that day, has run a website for nine years dedicated to exposing the industry.
''They're pulling in inner-city kids from broken homes, and a lot of these kids are innocent,'' Ellenbecker said. ``They have no idea what they're getting into.''
Spruiell's supporters say he had worked to distance the companies from his ex-wife and Tork, who was once fined $50,000 by the federal government for giving out fake subscription receipts.
`WORKED EVERY DAY'
Ellen Buckley, director of the National Field Selling Association, said, ``He worked every day of his life. He would never allow anything bad to happen to his agents.''
Still, negative press followed Spruiell.
In December, two subscription sellers associated with
Integrity Program LLC -- Travis Rowley, 23, and Michael Lee, 21 -- were charged
with murdering an elderly couple in
A few weeks later, detectives in
Spruiell took pains to conduct background searches, his friends said.
Still, spurred by the deaths, the city of
''Brutal murders -- a very ugly situation,'' said Assistant City Attorney Peter Pierotti, who had just questioned Spruiell in a deposition three weeks ago.
Kate Gardiner of The Molokai Times contributed to this report.
http://www.krqe.com/Global/story.asp?s=8357141
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Scene of Robert Spruiell murder on Sunday.
Murder suspects Travis Rowley (left) and Mike Lee.
Delsa McCracken.
Assistant city attorney Greg Wheeler
Employer of murder suspects killed in stabbing
Posted:
Scene of Robert Spruiell murder on Sunday.
Murder suspects Travis Rowley (left) and Mike Lee.
Delsa McCracken.
Assistant city attorney Greg Wheeler
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The owner of the magazine-sales company
that employed two men charged with killing an
The death of Robert Spruiell will change the lawsuit the
city of
"Shock and surprise, I can say after 15 years in the practice of law I've never had a case where a party was murdered in the middle of a litigation," Wheeler added.
Spruiell's company sold magazine subscriptions door-to-door
and hired two salesmen who later allegedly murdered an elderly couple--Tak and
Pung Yi--in their northeast
Doors are shut a little tighter on Avenida la
"She was a good, good lady, and he was a good man," McCracken said. "I just don't even like to think about it."
Travis Rowley and Mike Lee where soon charged in the brutal slayings. Both remained jailed pending their trials.
McCracken, 85, said she now double checks that her doors are locked.
"You bet I do," she said. "All the time."
The murder case shone a light on Integrity Program LLC and its operations which have been under a cloud of controversy in several states.
"They didn't have permits," Wheeler said. "They didn't have tax numbers, which means they weren't paying taxes here.
"They weren't registered with the state or registered with the city."
Out of the killings came a bill before the
And the city of
Police in
Wheeler said the city still plans to follow the money and will amend the civil suit to go after Spruiell's estate.
They're trying to set an example that shifty and shady sales
people are not welcome in
KRQE | Reporter: Kim Holland | Web Producer: Bill Diven
http://www.alohapolitics.com/?p=406
http://www.molokaitimes.com/articles/8520225216.asp
Arrest made in murder of Paddlers'
By Kate Gardiner
Suspect charged with murder, burglary, kidnapping
Paddlers’
Spruiell owned and operated many businesses on the mainland
from
According to the Miami Herald, Spruiell and Johnson
confronted a man they believed was trying to sell drugs to Spruiell’s sales
people. The two entered room 205 of the Golden Nugget Hotel,
Cisneros told police he grabbed a knife for self-defense and stabbed both men. Spruiell was dead at the scene.
Johnson was arrested at
Magazine sales businesses, including many of those belonging to Spruiell, his ex-wife and his former business partner Jonathan Tork, have drawn media attention for everything from the treatment of employees to the criminal behavior of those employees, most of whom are independent contractors.
According to the Herald, two subscription sellers associated with one of Spruiell’s companies, Integrity Program LLC, Travis Rowley, 23, and Michael Lee, 21, were charged with murdering a couple in Albuquerque, N.M.
According to the Albuquerque Tribune, Tak Yi, 79, and wife Pung Yi, 69, were found Dec. 4 at home. Yi was bludgeoned to death; his wife was raped and suffocated.
Another Integrity contractor, Corey Finley, 21, was arrested
a few weeks later in
The Herald quotes the director of the National Field Selling Association, Ellen Buckley, “He worked every day of his life. He would never allow anything bad to happen to his agents.”
Those who knew Spruiell, or Kamuela Kamakana, as he was known on the island, were saddened by the loss. Most remembered him as an easy-going man with a strong business sense and big ideas including franchising the restaurant.
Immediate changes included a popular tri-weekly poker
tournament and a grand prize sending the winner to
Employees of Paddlers’
See story from CBS 4 Miami
Also see details and history from the Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/540903.html
Posted on Wed, May. 21, 2008
Co-worker charged in Sunny Isles hotel slaying
BY DAVID OVALLE
A traveling magazine salesman was charged Tuesday with
felony murder because his co-worker was stabbed to death during a brawl that
started when the two stormed the room of a
Jeremy Johnson, 22, was charged with second-degree felony murder, armed occupied burglary and kidnapping with a weapon.
Police say he and co-worker Robert Spruiell, 37, traveling
magazine salesmen from Prestige Sales in
They believed Cisneros was selling drugs to other of their ''agents,'' young men and women who travel the country hawking subscriptions.
Spruiell, a father of three who runs nearly a dozen magazine
subscription companies based in
In
Cisneros, who said he acted in self-defense, cooperated with police and has not been charged.
Johnson, of
He also was wounded and taken to
On Tuesday, he was booked into Miami-Dade County Jail.
Spruiell, Johnson and a group of agents had been at the
Golden Nugget hotel,
Spruiell had received a bout of bad press in recent months after three subscription sellers -- independent contractors working with one of his companies -- were arrested on murder and rape charges in New Mexico and California.
http://www.themolokaidispatch.com/send/send/2067
Paddlers Inn Owner Slain in
Filed Under: Announcements
Local employees still reeling from the loss.
Paddlers Inn owner Robert Spruiell, known on
Robert Spruiell, owner of Paddlers Inn in Kaunakakai, was
found dead with stab wounds this past Saturday in
According to a Paddlers spokesperson, an employee of Spruiell’s mainland magazine sales business had asked the owner for help confronting a suspected drug dealer. The spokesperson said Spruiell was stabbed along with other individuals.
On
“I really want it to be more like a family oriented place where families can enjoy their meals together,” said Spruiell in an interview this past January.
Five years ago, Spruiell was visiting
“His own words were that he loved
Spruiell’s mother, Haunani Kamakana, is a
Representatives from Kamuela Estates, Inc. have said business at Paddlers Inn to continue on as usual.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/story/562355.html
Salesman's death in
The death of salesman Robert Spruiell in Miami-Dade has sent shock waves on a rural Hawaiian island going through tough economic times.
BY DAVID OVALLE
dovalle@MiamiHerald.com
Posted on
In the coming weeks, Robert Spruiell's family will spread
his ashes on a nine-acre piece of earth where he hoped to retire. The land sits
atop a hill, its back to the Kamalo mountains, the rest a stunning view of four
This is
Spruiell traced his heritage to this 260-square-mile island of only 7,500 people, mostly native Hawaiians, who pride themselves on living more like their ancestors than the over-Americanized isles.
Along the way, he bought the Paddlers Inn Restaurant and Bar, a vital employer and the island's sole night spot.
But a trip to
Spruiell, the owner of various door-to-door magazine
subscription sales companies in
He and another employee, Jeremy Johnson, 22, had gone to confront a guest who they believed had been selling drugs to their salespeople staying in the hotel.
DEATH IN
In the confrontation, Jesus Cisneros, 42, stabbed Spruiell to death and slashed Johnson about seven times.
Because Spruiell and Johnson committed kidnapping and occupied burglary by breaking into Cisneros' room, police say, Johnson is being held responsible for the death.
He is charged with second-degree felony murder. His arraignment in Miami-Dade Circuit Court is Tuesday. He had pleaded not guilty.
Spruiell's story, by all accounts, spanned the globe.
His father, a U.S. Navy seaman, met his wife while stationed
on the islands. She hailed from the large and well-known Kamakana clan of
Spruiell grew up in
''As he grew up, Hawaiian family was around all the time. He had a lot of respect for the Hawaiian culture,'' said his father, Bob Spruiell Sr.
Spruiell also served in the U.S. Navy during the first Gulf
War. An
While the industry brought bad publicity -- his company was
sued this year by
Four years ago, Spruiell returned to
Gonsalves decribed island life and its people this way:
``The ocean is the ice box, the mountain is where they get substance from deer
and pig.
Though much of his family lived in
After just one day, he bought the land where he hoped to build his retirement home. He also hoped to bring his Molokai-native mother, Haunani Kamakana, to live with him there.
''He wanted to give back to his Hawaiian heritage, be part of the community,'' Gonsalves said.
The fish-shaped island, smack center in the island chain,
boasts spectacular sea cliffs, lush rain forests and a twin-tiered waterfall
called
It was also home to Kalaupapa, a historic former colony for people suffering from leprosy, or Hansens' disease.
''The people here don't want to be like the rest of the
islands. We've been fighting development for 30 years,'' said well-known
But these days, the island has been in tumult.
The Molokai Ranch, which owns 66,000 acres, or a third of the island, was thwarted in an attempt to build luxury homes. So it closed its cattle and resort businesses, including a lodge, bungalows, a golf course and a movie theater.
More than 100 workers lost their jobs. Last week, the ranch sounded alarms by announcing it would stop water and sewer services, affecting some 1,200 customers.
HAWAIIAN PLANS
With this troubled atmosphere as a backdrop, Spruiell -- whose Hawaiian name is Kamuela Kamakana -- had hoped to make a difference last October with the purchase of the Paddlers.
A novice in the restaurant business, he had revamped the kitchen, upgraded the sound system, and added live concerts and poker and movie nights.
''We don't make a lot of money, but we're just here for the community. He is going to be missed here,'' restaurant administrator Alicia Montemayor said after his death.
Molokai Ranch closed, the Paddlers is now the only place to serve a social hub after hours. It also employs 43 people, not an insignificant number on an island where the unemployment is now hovering about 10 percent.
''Every little thing now becomes a big thing. Every job counts. Not only that, it's a good place for people to let out their frustrations, to eat and to have a good time. Somewhere to go in the evening,'' said activist Ritte.
For now, Paddlers will continue to operate as usual, his family said.
The Paddlers website, in his honor, put up a slide show of photos taken during Spruiell's April visit.
By month's end, family members will take a ferry to
Later, Gonsalves and a friend, Kanalu Young, a professor at
the
And in the coming weeks, a probate court in
''The family wants the restaurant to succeed,'' Bob Spruiell Sr. said.
Kate Gardiner of The Molokai Times contributed to this report.
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Corp. Name: PRESTIGE SALES LLC
Domestic Address 24820 N 16TH AVE #110
PHOENIX, AZ 85085
Statutory Agent Information Agent Name: REGISTERED AGENT SOLUTIONS INC
Agent Mailing/Physical Address:
638 N FIFTH AVE
PHOENIX, AZ 85003
Agent Status: APPOINTED 12/17/2007
Agent Last Updated: 01/24/2008
Additional Incorporation Date: 12/17/2007 Corporate Life Period: PERPETUAL
Domicile: ARIZONA County: MARICOPA
Approval Date: 12/19/2007 Original Publish Date: 01/22/2008
Member Information ROBERT SPRUIELL
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PHOENIX,AZ 85085
Date of Taking Office: 12/17/2007
Last Updated: 12/19/2007
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Integrity Sales
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Integrity Program Website: integritypgm.com
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Magazine Fulfillment Services - Operated by Robert Spruiell
Integrity Sales, Inc. - Operated by Robert Spruiell
Integrity Program, Inc.- Operated by Robert Spruiell
Circulation I - Operated by Karkeen Hillery
Circulation II - Operated by Karleen Hillery
SERVICES UNLIMITED PLUS - Operated by Karleen Hillery Spruiell/Robert Spruiell
National Community Clearing, INC - Operated by Karleen Hillery
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DYNASTY SALES
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KAYS NATURALS - Karleen Hillery Crew
Kay's Naturals website: ournaturals.com
Crew Name: 029
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Subscriptions Plus - Operated by Karleen Hillery
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