FLORIDA: Former Breitart Columnist Charged With Attempted Murder After Shooting At Sister’s Boyfriend

He’s also CPAC’s 2011 “Blogger Of The Year.” From the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel:

A prominent political blogger was arrested Saturday and charged with the attempted murder of his sister’s boyfriend, authorities said.

Javier Manjarres, 43, a South Florida-based blogger in the conservative movement with a national following, was arrested after he left his sister’s boyfriend with a broken nose and bullet holes in his blue Dodge Ram pickup truck, according to a police report.

Manjarres’ sister and her boyfriend, Jason Holowinski, 36, had an argument on Friday evening, the report said. She told investigators he grabbed her by the neck during the argument and then dropped her off at Palmetto Park Shopping Center in Boca Raton.

Sometime later, Manjarres’ sister told Holowinski to pick her up in the parking lot at the back of the shopping plaza. Holowinski pulled up next to her and opened the passenger door.

But then Manjarres appeared, stepping into Holowinski’s truck and hitting him in the face with his fist four to five times, the report said.

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In 2011, Javier Manjarres won the CPAC award for Blogger of the Year for his work on his website The Shark Tank. He also moonlighted for Breitbart until December 2015, writing a series of columns that were harshly critical of Marco Rubio and supportive of Donald Trump.

UPDATE: This guy has quite a history:

This is not his first run-in with the law. According to a Jan. 19, 2012 report in the Miami New Times, Manjarres was arrested in June 1995 for burglary with assault. Manjarres allegedly drove to the home of a man who was at the time dating Manjarres ex-girlfriend.

The Miami New Times reported that, according to a Palm Beach County police report, Manjarres broke down the man’s front door and punched him. The man suffered bruises and a busted lip. The newspaper said Manjarres pleaded guilty and served two years of probation.

Manjarres’ earned a notorious reputation in conservative circles for launching relentless attacks on candidates who failed to toe the Tea Party line, earning him the Conservative Political Action Conference 2011 blogger of the year award. Manjarres was also well-known throughout the industry for insistence on pay-for-play advertising in exchange for favorable coverage.