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THE NEWSCASTER
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Deborah Russell - Editor/Publisher
Yankeetown, FL
Wednesday October 24, 2007
Tom Russell - Consulting Editor
A Publication of
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Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Newscaster Publishing
Sally Price Correspondent
Squawk Box Robber
Makes Off
With Doug Johnston
Halloween Ghost Busters
With $45k in
Halloween night in 1956 I
was 11 years old. I was allowed
Narcotics In
to go trick or treating with my
friends and we were basically
unsupervised by adults. Inv-
Pharmacy
erness was a small, close knit
community and the eyes of all adults were on
an 11 year old whether it was Halloween night
Hold Up
or any other time.
A group that included sixth graders Joe
McLeod, Steve Spivey, me and our fearless
(Inverness) At approximately 2 a.m. October
and ingenious leader, Buster Gieger, left the
16th, a lone white male entered the CVS Phar-
PTA Halloween carnival just after dark. We
macy, located at 602 W. Main Street, and con-
had planned our adventure for weeks. We
fronted the pharmacist on duty. Although he
were going to go to the haunted house on
threatened to shoot someone if he didn't get
Dames Hill and enter the house through a
the drugs he wanted, the robber never dis-
window in the back of the house.
played a gun or other weapon.
Maybe the world's heaviest "pumpkin"? A 1979 Chevrolet Corvette painted "mag-
We considered a few houses in Inverness
The robber followed the pharmacist
num pumpkin" was on display in front of the First United Methodist Church on Pleasant
haunted in those days but the old Richburg
back to the locked cabinets where the narcot-
Grove Rd., Inverness last Saturday. The car show and pumpkin fest is part of the church's
house on Dames Hill was the Mother Mary of
ics are housed, and filled a bag with oxycontin,
annual fall fund drive. Come by a pick out a pumpkin noon to dusk but don't get any ideas
all haunted houses. My good neighbor and
oxycodone and other generic drugs. The
about carving up THIS pumpkin! Newscaster Photo by LuAnn Shaw
mentor Bobby Sweat had explained to me that
pharmacist told detectives that the man stole
the house was haunted because a man came
DCA Balks at Yankeetown's
in excess of 3,000 pills, valued at more than
home early from a hunting trip one night to
$25,000. Members of the agency's Vice &
find his young wife with another man. He cut
Continued on page 3 - Robbery
Citrus Co. Makes Comprehensive
Plan Amendments
the man and his wife's heads off in a fit of
rage. It is told that the house remained vacant
since that time because the two lovers who
website for your review.
were murdered visited the house every night
A spokesman for the Florida Dept. of Com-
By Tom Russell
Arrest in Murder
to try and find their heads.
munity Affairs said Yankeetown's submission
Newscaster Editor
I asked my mother about this story and
for amending its comprehensive Plan is in-
Case
she said the Richburgs were the last people
Following an article that appeared in the
complete and was returned in its present form
she knew of living in that house and she saw
October 17 issue of the No See Um News
because all the information required by
Beverly Hills -- Citrus County Sheriff's Office
Mrs. Richburg in the post office the day be-
(nsun) titled "proposed amendments to the
Florida's administrative code was not in-
detectives have arrested Christopher R. Muzzi,
fore and her head was still attached. I still
Yankeetown comprehensive plan rejected by
cluded. Yankeetown officials submitted the
17, of Beverly Hills for the
Continued on page 3 - Squawk Box
DCA" there was a firestorm of criticism by
new plan to the state on October 11, 2007. D.
murder of Benjamin Fee, 18,
Councilman Ed Candela, Councilman Larry
Ray Eubanks, Plan Review and Processing
of Beverly Hills. The mur-
Adopt A Pet
Feldhusen and Councilman Doug Dame that
Administrator said the submission was miss-
der occurred on the evening
the article mischaracterized the intent of the
ing: a copy of staff memo and a summary of
of Monday, October 15th. On
see page 2
Oct. 15th letter from DCA rejecting the town
the plan amendments content and effect for
Tuesday, October 23rd,
government's proposed amendments to the
the town of Yankeetown's proposed amend-
Sheriff Jeff Dawsy held a
Yankeetown Comprehensive Plan as "incom-
ments; three copies of the town's Future Land
news conference at the Cit-
plete". Candela took exception to the use of
use maps and the abutting properties adjoin-
rus County Sheriff's Office. Benjamin Fee
the word "REJECTED" as did Mayor Dawn
ing the subject area; and three copies of the
The purpose of the news conference
Clary in this week's column in The Newscaster
towns current Future Land Use Maps.
was to recognize the outstanding efforts of
(see page 15). The complete copy of the of
Eubanks said in his letter that maps that
the detectives involved in the case and to
the DCA letter dated October 15, the Yankee-
were submitted do not clearly identify all the
disclose information that is available at this
town transmittal letter dated October 8 can be
proposed uses. He further stated that the pro-
point in the investigation. Citrus County
read on-line at www.thenewscaster.com
Continued on page 15 - Yankeetown-DCA
Continued on page 5 - Murder Investigation