Wrong Man Arrested At His Grandmother's Funeral

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A man was arrested at his grandmother's funeral because Broward County sheriff's deputies thought he was a murder suspect. But it turned out they had the wrong man.

Sheriff's spokesman Hugh Graf said deputies received credible information from a tip that the suspect who had been on the run for two years was going to be at a funeral Saturday at the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Fort Lauderdale. They thought Donovan Lightbourn, 20, fit the description.

Graf said deputies waited for a moment when Lightbourn was alone at the cemetery to arrest him. But relatives and witnesses said they had just buried Brenda Lightbourn, 65, when at least 10 deputies stormed the gravesite, grabbed Donovan, slammed him against a car and handcuffed him.

Some deputies drew their guns, relatives said. They said one of the deputies threatened Donovan with a Taser stun gun. Graf said some investigators had their weapons drawn, but they didn't point them at anyone, and one deputy had a Taser that he kept to his side.

Detectives were looking for Kareem Lightbourne, 26, of Lauderhill, who is wanted in a fatal December 2002 shooting and a kidnapping. Kareem Lightbourne is 5-foot-7, weighs about 170 pounds and has a short haircut, according to a sheriff's press release issued in 2002.

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Kareem Lightbourne is 5-foot-7, weighs about 170 pounds and has a short haircut, according to a sheriff's press release issued in 2002.

Donovan Lightbourn stands 6 feet tall, weighs 230 pounds and wears dreadlocks. He says he doesn't know Kareem Lightbourne.

Kareem Jobbar Lightbourne (From browardcrimestoppers.com)



Donovan Lightbourne (US Navy vet who recieved medical discharge in May for kidneystones)


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