Homeless man gets $25K reward in connection with deputy's murder

clipped from blogs.usatoday.com Crime Stoppers announced this morning that it will give a $25,000 reward to the homeless man who helped police capture a suspected cop killer in southern Florida The South Florida Sun-Sentinel says Mark Spradley will receive the money because he led investigators to Michael Mazza, a bank robbery suspect who is accused of killing the deputy who was bringing him to court on Nov. 7 in Broward County, Fla. Spradley, a Las Vegas resident living out of his car, had picked up Mazza in Hollywood and drove him to a soup kitchen, where the two had lunch. Spradley has said he took pity on Mazza because his shirt was bloodied and he was walking with a limp. ... The two drove to the pawn shop, where Spradley hoped to buy new car speakers. It was there that he recognized Mazza after seeing his mug shot on a store television set. "This is overwhelming. I wasn't expecting that much," Spradley tells the paper. "But to tell you the truth, I think I deserved it."