FL FL - David Brener, Esq., 59, Fort Myers, Oct 2018

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Court records filed in mid October held attorney David Brener in contempt of court because he had not shown up for hearings to defend his client, Jose Bonilla, accused of shooting into a crowd on Oct. 17, 2015, at Fort Myers' Zombicon.

David Brener, attorney of accused Zombicon killer, is missing
https://www.winknews.com/2018/11/05/attorney-of-accused-zombicon-killer-missing/

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  • #2
https://matrix.leeclerk.org/
18-MM-001508 : State of Florida vs Brener, David Allen
Offense Date Charge
10/18/2018 1. CONTEMPT OF COURT CIRCUIT OR COUNTY Statute: 900.04 No Charge - No Level


Defense attorney accused of kicking, punching bank employee

Tuesday, May 8th 2018
https://matrix.leeclerk.org/
18-MM-000775 : State of Florida vs Brener, David Allen
Offense Date Charge
05/04/2018 1. BATTERY Statute: 784.03 Misdemeanor - First Degree
Date Hearing Time Location
11/21/2018 Docket Sounding - Adams, James R 8:30 AM Courtroom 1-A


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  • #3
Is he actually missing or just absconded? Any attempt to locate? MP report filed?

Not a whole lot to go on, is there?
 
  • #4
Foul Play? or a reason to 'disappear' ? . . . :eek:
https://matrix.leeclerk.org/

18-CA-000312 : GAVER, MARK Plaintiff vs BRENER, DAVID Defendant
Case Type: CA Contracts and Indebtedness
Date Filed: 01/24/2018


Date Description
10/30/2018 Order Setting Case Management Conference 12/18/18 @ 9:40


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  • #5
Why would a defense attorney kick and hit a bank employee? Sounds like off the wall behavoir.
 
  • #6
Why would a defense attorney kick and hit a bank employee? Sounds like off the wall behavoir.
He’s a very “special” attorney... scrapes under the radar somehow after doing multiple bad things to multiple people.
 
  • #7
Hi there, I just joined this site after doing a search for more articles on him. I knew him personally, he was my step father for a while, my mom is the woman that he “didn’t” kidnap and brutally beat for many years. I can confirm that he is (was?) missing. Police were at my former residence and my mother’s searching for him, which I find as weird because we have a no contact order against him. They recently divorced officially and in the divorce he has been forced to repay my mother for her suffering (not nearly enough, if you ask me) and has given her nothing. My theory is that he’s missing to avoid paying her anything because a) he’s a sociopath and doesn’t want to give my mom what is legally hers, and b) he has no money because it’s all gone up his nose or to pay off witnesses in his cases.

Okay, there is my take, I have no paperwork to prove any of this - only experience, which I realize doesn’t weigh much. I’m here because I want to see if he has been caught or is still missing, because to be honest, it makes me uneasy knowing that he’s breaking the law like this... if he will do this what else will he do?

Or maybe there’s been foul play because he owes David so much money, and David Graver is the type of man that also knows some pretty ruthless people.

Anyway, if anyone can figure anything out, I will be grateful!
 
  • #8
Hi there, I just joined this site after doing a search for more articles on him.
Anyway, if anyone can figure anything out, I will be grateful!
Hi Goaskmoz and welcome to Websleuths. I'm so sorry to hear what you and your mom went through. Please contact a moderator to become a verified insider in this case. That will allow you to post your personal knowledge of this case without providing a verified main stream media source.
 
  • #9
Hi there, I just joined this site after doing a search for more articles on him. I knew him personally, he was my step father for a while, my mom is the woman that he “didn’t” kidnap and brutally beat for many years. I can confirm that he is (was?) missing. Police were at my former residence and my mother’s searching for him, which I find as weird because we have a no contact order against him. They recently divorced officially and in the divorce he has been forced to repay my mother for her suffering (not nearly enough, if you ask me) and has given her nothing. My theory is that he’s missing to avoid paying her anything because a) he’s a sociopath and doesn’t want to give my mom what is legally hers, and b) he has no money because it’s all gone up his nose or to pay off witnesses in his cases.

Okay, there is my take, I have no paperwork to prove any of this - only experience, which I realize doesn’t weigh much. I’m here because I want to see if he has been caught or is still missing, because to be honest, it makes me uneasy knowing that he’s breaking the law like this... if he will do this what else will he do?

Or maybe there’s been foul play because he owes David so much money, and David Graver is the type of man that also knows some pretty ruthless people.

Anyway, if anyone can figure anything out, I will be grateful!
Thank you for sharing yours and your Mom's story. Please be safe, the both of you. You never know if he could turn up unexpectedly. I hope obviously that he won't, but be extra vigilant.

It might be a good idea if you became a Verified Insider. Completely confidential, Tricia is great and none of your information is shared unless you share it yourself. This way here, you don't have to provide links to MSM articles to prove what you are saying.
 
  • #10
Foul Play? or a reason to 'disappear' ? . . . :eek:
https://matrix.leeclerk.org/

18-CA-000312 : GAVER, MARK Plaintiff vs BRENER, DAVID Defendant
Case Type: CA Contracts and Indebtedness
Date Filed: 01/24/2018


Date Description
10/30/2018 Order Setting Case Management Conference 12/18/18 @ 9:40


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Or maybe there’s been foul play because he owes David so much money, and David Graver is the type of man that also knows some pretty ruthless people.
I am curious about the MARK GAVER possible 'foul play' angle. I was a bit shocked while digging through the court records of both Gaver and Brener.

I wonder how long David Brener and Mark Gaver have known each other; who they know in common; perhaps Brener's disappearance is a hired hit by someone recently released from prison?

Yesterday, I started a Websleuths thread about Mark Gaver:
MD – Mark Ian Gaver, 56, Federal bank fraud & money laundering, 2008-2016 *GUILTY*
 
  • #11
I am curious about the MARK GAVER possible 'foul play' angle. I was a bit shocked while digging through the court records of both Gaver and Brener.

I wonder how long David Brener and Mark Gaver have known each other; who they know in common; perhaps Brener's disappearance is a hired hit by someone recently released from prison?

Yesterday, I started a Websleuths thread about Mark Gaver:
MD – Mark Ian Gaver, 56, Federal bank fraud & money laundering, 2008-2016 *GUILTY*
I can ask my mom what she knows about him, and let you know what she knows. She so far has just mentioned how awful of a man he is as well, but nothing else really.
 
  • #12
Hi Goaskmoz and welcome to Websleuths. I'm so sorry to hear what you and your mom went through. Please contact a moderator to become a verified insider in this case. That will allow you to post your personal knowledge of this case without providing a verified main stream media source.
Working on it! Thank you for your condolences and direction.
 
  • #13
I am curious about the MARK GAVER possible 'foul play' angle. I was a bit shocked while digging through the court records of both Gaver and Brener.

I wonder how long David Brener and Mark Gaver have known each other; who they know in common; perhaps Brener's disappearance is a hired hit by someone recently released from prison?

Yesterday, I started a Websleuths thread about Mark Gaver:
MD – Mark Ian Gaver, 56, Federal bank fraud & money laundering, 2008-2016 *GUILTY*
Just talked to mom - the guy, Gaver, knew David only through hiring him. So they aren’t “friends” or even know mutual friends. Gaver found out about him from another lawyer who recommended him.
 
  • #14
the woman that he “didn’t” kidnap and brutally beat for many years
^^ as reference, this is a 2017 news article about that 2016 case:
Fort Myers attorney acquitted in domestic battery case
Friday, October 6th 2017, 6:05 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, October 6th 2017, 6:41 PM EDT

A jury has found a Lee County criminal defense attorney not guilty in a case of domestic battery.

David Brener's wife claimed he beat her, urinated on her, and kept her captive in their Fort Myers condo for days in 2016.

Two men and four women heard the case for five days, hearing from just two witnesses, the accuser and the accused.

They returned not guilty verdicts on all four charges: false imprisonment, felony battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of cocaine.
[...]
 
  • #15
^^ as reference, this is a 2017 news article about that 2016 case:
Fort Myers attorney acquitted in domestic battery case
Friday, October 6th 2017, 6:05 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, October 6th 2017, 6:41 PM EDT

A jury has found a Lee County criminal defense attorney not guilty in a case of domestic battery.

David Brener's wife claimed he beat her, urinated on her, and kept her captive in their Fort Myers condo for days in 2016.

Two men and four women heard the case for five days, hearing from just two witnesses, the accuser and the accused.

They returned not guilty verdicts on all four charges: false imprisonment, felony battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of cocaine.
[...]
OMG, that poor woman! How did he get away with this?!?!?! Four women heard this along with two men, and they let him off?
 
  • #16
OMG, that poor woman! How did he get away with this?!?!?! Four women heard this along with two men, and they let him off?
When you’re a DA you understand how the law works. He manipulated some witnesses and provided enough doubt in her story to get away with it. It makes me sick and sad.
 
  • #17
When you’re a DA you understand how the law works. He manipulated some witnesses and provided enough doubt in her story to get away with it. It makes me sick and sad.
I am so sorry to hear all that she went through. How sad that anyone could be so easily manipulated like that, that they would hurt a victim further like this.
 
  • #18
Lawyer of accused Zombicon shooter missing
Updated: Wednesday, November 21st 2018, 9:03 PM EST
[...]
On November 21, David Brener's landlord filed an eviction notice saying the attorney declined to pay rent in October or November at his Fort Myers rental condo on First Street.

On the same day, an attorney representing Brener went before Judge Adams for a hearing connected to David Brener's battery case from a parking lot fight in May 2018. Brener was not in court for the hearing, and discussions about the attorney were held at the judge's bench as opposed to in open court.
[...]

https://matrix.leeclerk.org/
18-MM-000775 : State of Florida vs Brener, David Allen
Offense Date Charge
05/04/2018 1. BATTERY Statute: 784.03 Misdemeanor - First Degree
Date Hearing Time Location
11/21/2018 Docket Sounding - Adams, James R 8:30 AM Courtroom 1-A

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  • #19
This is like the case of the Ft Lauderdale guy that went missing so he wouldn't have to pay $450,000 that he was behind in child support. Just disappeared on his paddle board . Some people will do anything to avoid paying someone money.
 
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