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Area Police Beat

Anna Roberts, 26, 124 N. County Club Dr., Crystal River, was arrested by the

A single-vehicle crash Lecanto on

year-old David Bobowski of Lecanto. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the crash Chiefland Police Department, Sept. 24, charged with petit theft from merchant (second of-

occurred at 10:45 p.m. on County Road 491 (S. Lecanto Hwy.), north of Cason Court. Mr. fense). Her bond was set at $1,000.

Lawrence Lemontagne, 59, 18240 SW 99th Lane, Dunnellon, was booked into the

Bobrowski was driving a 2004 Toyota pickup truck. The report stated, due to available in-

formation, the investigator determined that Bobrowski was traveling north on County Road Levy County Jail, Sept. 26, charged with driving under the influence (of alcohol or drugs).

491, left the road and drove onto the west shoulder of the road for unknown reasons. On His bond was set at $2,000.

Jeffrey Joel Horrell, 23, 25 Tronu Dr., Inglis, was arrested by the Levy County

the shoulder, the truck collided with a culvert, overturned and came to rest on its right side

Sheriff’s Office, Sept. 30, on an out-of-county warrant.

facing north. Mr. Bobrowski sustained fatal injuries and expired at the scene of the crash.

Joshua E. Ellis, 35, 1715 S. Iriquois Ave., Homosassa, was arrested by the Cit-

The crash remains under investigation and details are subject to change. The report

rus County Sheriff’s Office, Sept. 30, charged with resisting an officer with violence, two

stated that Mr. Bobrowski was not wearing a seatbelt, and alcohol was not involved.

Incarcerated man charged with

counts of simple battery of an officer and refusing to sign a citation regarding an animal. His

total bond was set at $12,250. According to the report, the incident started when deputies

checked at Ellis’ residence, looking to serve another man with an arrest warrant. The officers

abusing a second child

left Ellis’ property, and contacted an animal control officer to check on Ellis’ dog. She gave

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Ellis a verbal warning and wrote him two warning citations for tying a malnourished dog to

A man who had been arrested, Sept. 7, on four counts of aggravated battery against a tree without food or water. The dog got out of the fenced area and the officer attempted to

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a four year-old Beverly Hills boy (four cigarette burns to the child) was ar-

serve Ellis with another citation for having a dog at large. He refused to sign the citations

rested again on Sept. 28, charged with one count of aggravated battery (one

and threw the citations citationattheofficer. 

 and the  book    The deputies were called back

cigarette burn) to the first victim’s three year-old brother. Randy James Brat-

and attemptedto  and   oneofstrikinghis sunglasses.

  arrest Ellis,  he punched at   the deputies,  

ton, 28, of Beverly Hills was still incarcerated at the Citrus County Detention

After Ellis tased, becamecompliant   was custody. 

 was he    and  taken into 

Facility from the first arrest (on $40,000 bond) when he was arrested on the

    Robert Heaney,N.RestonTer.,wasarrestedbythe • 

Sean  •  19. 2630   •   Hernando,     Cit-

additional charge last Friday.

County withan

rus  Sheriff’s Office, Oct. 1, charged  burglary of  unoccupied conveyance.

Bratton had admitted to having burned the four year-old boy prior

His bond was set at $5,000. He took off to avoid deputies who took him into custody for

to his arrest on Sept. 7, but denied having burned the three year-old boy or

fleeing and eluding an officer. He had a woman’s purse in his vehicle that he is accused of

having any knowledge of the boy being burned. Bratton stated that a family

taking by breaking into her vehicle.

member had burned him (Bratton) with cigarettes, when he was a child. He also stated that

he has an alcohol problem and had planned on entering rehabilitation prior to his Sept. 7

Shell Super Stop

The investigator showed Bratton copies of several letters that had been sent to

Bratton during his incarceration. Bratton stated that the letters had been written by the vic-

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U.S. 19 at C.R. 40

tims’ mother, under a false name, because he is not supposed to have contact with her. Ac-

cording to Bratton’s Sept. 7 arrest report, when the childrens’ mother was contacted by a

detective on Sept. 7, she denied that anyone had abused her children and became “extremely

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confrontational” toward the detective.

Because the three year-old victim told law enforcement that “Randy” had burned

him with a cigarette, and the medical staff on the child protection team said that the younger

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child’s injury is consistent with a healing cigarette burn, Bratton was charged with one count

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of aggravated child abuse against the younger child, with his bond set at $10,000 on the new

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