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Deborah Russell - Editor/Publisher
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Wednesday January 9, 2008
Tom Russell - Consulting Editor
A Publication of
Permit No. 4
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Newscaster Publishing
Sally Price Correspondent
Squawk Box Citrus Man
Charged
With Doug Johnston
A Christmas Tale: Part Two
With Sexual
After my mother opened her
present from me on Christmas
morning, she did her best to act
Battery on a
unaffected by the attention my
sisters had given the cherub I
had bought her. The three girls
Child
had really made a spectacle of my choice of
gift. Mama thanked me with a straight face
The Citrus County Sheriff's Office re-
despite the giggling and hee-hawing by my
sponded to a Hernando residence, Dec. 29,
sisters. She said it was beautiful.
after the resident reported that a man was at
Many years later, I had returned from a
his home, trying to take his daughter. Depu-
stint overseas in the U.S. Army and started
ties arrived at the residence around 10:30 p.m.
my own family and my sisters all had families
and spoke with the resident, who stated that
too. At a Christmas Eve gathering sometime
the man was inside his
around 1982 I took my children into the bed-
home with his daughter,
room that used to be our parents to measure
and he was not sure if she
their height on the door that is a virtual record
was still alive.
The Levy County ambulance and paramedics met this boat as it arrived with the boater at the
of our family s growth over the years. On the
Deputies forced entry
Hwy 40 boat ramp. Four fishermen along with the Inglis Police helped get Robert Clark of
wall in that bedroom was the cherub I had
into the residence and
Homosassa from the boat to the stretcher where he was transported to a hospital.
given my mother more than 20 years earlier. I
spoke with the man, 31-
Photo by Sally Price
was exhilarated. I called to my sisters, look
year-old Everett Leon
Man Rescued After Spending A
what is here, I said. All these years and Mama
Everett Nichols II Nichols II of Floral City,
still has my gift. Where are the gifts you all
who had barricaded himself and the 9-year-
gave Mama that year, I asked Elsie, Carol and
old girl inside the bathroom. Nichols refused
Night in the Gulf in Life Vest
Connie. That was truly my time for vindica-
to come out of the bathroom and kept request-
tion. I really made a deal about Mama saving
ing more time. Deputies could hear the girl's
the cherub.
By Sally Price, Newscaster Correspondent
voice; she told them that Nichols did not have
The next year the cherub mysteriously dis-
a weapon with him. Deputies thought they
Mark Miller, Matt Woodard, Wayne
appeared. I naturally blamed my sisters for
could hear Nichols striking the girl and forced
McKinney and James Selsor of Leesburg left
disposing of the angel, but Mama defended
their way into the bathroom by kicking in the
from the boat ramp at the end of Hwy 40 in
them and said when she had the room painted,
door. They found Nichols and the girl stand-
Yankeetown on a casual fishing trip Sunday
she took it down and thinks it must have been
ing in the bathtub, wearing no clothing.
morning in a 20 foot Mako. While fishing
accidentally thrown out. I have my doubts
Nichols was taken into custody without inci-
approximately 15 miles offshore the men kept
about that story.
dent.
hearing something over the boat and wave
Continued on page 3 - Squawk Box
Emergency Medical Services arrived
noise that sounded possibly like a man
shortly and transported the girl and her fa-
calling "help me".
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ther to Citrus Memorial Hospital for treatment.
A search started but the man calling for
According to the report, the girl had sustained
help could not be seen because of the sun.
Mark Miller, Matt Woodard, Wayne
Details on
several strikes to her face. She told one deputy
Continuing to search, the 4 men spotted 4
McKinney and James Selsor of Leesburg,
that Nichols had digitally penetrated her rec-
feet of the bow of a 17 foot bow rider walk
Lake County found themselves heroes Sun-
Page 2
tum as he had forced her into the residence.
through boat sticking up from the Gulf waters
day after they rescued a man floating in the
The report stated that the father had a lacera-
approximately 16 miles off shore in 20 feet of
Gulf over night on a PFD.
tion to his throat from the knife and cuts to
water. Attached to the line on the front of the
1/2 mile away from the boat they found a man
his hands and arms from breaking the bed-
boat was a pair of wet jeans with the line run
floating on a drenched personal floatation
room window.
through the belt.
device. (PFD). The men said he had no
The father told deputies that Nichols had
Really being smart thinkers, the men took
strength left to get in the boat and the four
knocked on his door and asked for assistance
a GPS reading of the boat and tied their own
pulled him on board. Having spare clothes,
in getting his vehicle out of the sand. He
anchor onto it to stop the drift. Off on the
Continued on page 4 - Man Rescued
Continued on page 4 - Man Charged
mission to find the voice that they had heard,