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Area Police Beat
Gina M. Martin, a 47 year-old
white female from Homosassa, is on the
Levy County s Most Wanted List of July
22 on an arrest warrant for violation of
probation (petit theft). Her bond was
listed as none.
George Arthur Trey Junior
Henderson, IV, 20, 11495 NW 112th
Ct., Dunnellon, was arrested by the Cit-
rus County Sheriff s Office, July 21,
charged with felony grand theft ($300 or
greater, but less than $5,000). His bond
was set at $2,000. The report stated that
a deputy saw Henderson driving a red
2008 Honda all-terrain vehicle with no
lights across Carl G. Rose Hwy. near
the Citrus/Marion county line near the
Kangaroo station, heading toward Red s
Restaurant. Henderson insisted he’d
paid $4,500 for the vehicle, but he had
no ownership papers and the vehicle was
registered to another person who said
he d sold the ATV to another person who
was contacted and said the vehicle was
stolen, and he knew no George Herder-
son.
Kindi M. Donaldson, 34, 2 Taft
FWC officials (DEP)
armed with a search warrant signed by Levy Judge Stan Griffis entered the property of
St., Beverly Hills, was arrested by the
A& D Salvage in Inglis Wednesday morning. The owner, Drew White said the search warrant mentioned among other things, the improper dis-
Citrus County Sheriff s Office, July 19,
posal of waste oil in the soil. He said in May of this year the DEP inspected the property and he was given a letter of compliance stating the
after making a threat to a witness that
property was in compliance with state and federal rules on the handling of hazardous waste.
was overheard by two detectives who
Woman Charged with child abuse
FWC Serves Search
placed her under arrest for tempering
with a witness/victim/informant (bond
$5,000) and violation of probation (cred-
& man with child neglect
Warrant on A&D
it card fraud) which started on June 20,
2013 and to conclude on June 19, 2015
seizures, exhibiting raspy breath-
Salvage/Recycling
(no bond).
From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
ing and becoming unresponsive,
Timothy Michael Pearson, 26,
An Inverness couple was arrested
the report stated.
7398 S. Sorrell Ave., Homosassa, was
By Tom Russell, Newscaster Editor
by the Citrus County Sheriff s Office, July
Det. Kathleen Liotta doc-
arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff’s
20 and 21, after an investigation into the
umented a large bruise on the ba- Wood
Office, July 19, charged with traffic or
Attorney: “It would be an extremely
extensive injuries suffered by a five week-
by s left temple, another bruise on
endeavor to traffic in stolen property,
old infant female who was brought to Citrus
troublesome scenario if a police dept.
the left side of her face by her chin
grand theft ($300 or more, but less than
Memorial Hospital on July 16. After testing
and some marks on her abdominal
could disqualify every member of this
$5,000) and burglary of an unoccupied
showed that the child had bleeding on her
area.
commission simply by launching an
residence. His total bond was set at
brain, she was transferred by ambulance to
The detective inter-
$20,000. He s accused of taking a 42-
investigation into their conduct.”
All Childrens’ Hospital in St. Petersburg.
viewed Wood and Gerald Alonzo Williams
inch flat-screen television from a resi-
Peggy Sue Wood, 20, was charged
Williams, 22, who is a co-defen-
According to FWC spokesperson
dence on W. Apian St. in Homosassa.
with one count of knowingly and unlawfully
dant on a related case, along with family
Karen Parker a search warrant was served
The owner said the burglary occurred
committing aggravated child abuse causing
members and other witnesses, to learn that
Wednesday at A & D Auto Salvage and
when he was in Maine during June 15 to
great bodily harm, permanent disability or
there are no medical issues with this child,
Recycling of Inglis (25 Hudson St.) and
July 15. Pearson is accused of selling the
permanent disfigurement to the child (abu-
who has a healthy appetite and normally eats
FWC investigators have been working on
Vizio TV that had cost the owner $600
sive head trauma resulting in bleeding on the
four ounces of formula per feeding and usu-
the property using trackhoes. “They are out
for $150. He had allegedly sold the TV
victim s brain, retinal hemorrhaging in both
ally sleeps through the night.
there again today (Thursday) and the inves-
to a friend of the owner, and a friend of
eyes, multiple rib fractures and fractures to
The report stated that Wood had
tigation is still on-going” Parker said. Park-
the person who had purchased the TV
her legs). Wood was also charged with one
told the emergency room doctor that the
er would not say what they were looking
had recognized the TV as being like the
count of knowingly and unlawfully commit-
older child had kicked the infant in the head,
for. No update has been received from the
owner s TV and contacted the owner
ting child neglect by failing to take the child
but she told Det. Liotta that the older child
FWC office. The salvage yard has been
about it.
for medical treatment after she began having
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