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Election ReCap

2016 General Election - Citrus

Election Date: 11/8/2016

Levy County on page 11

Registered Voters:

105,672

Ballots Cast:

80,860

Voter Turnout:

76.52%

Precincts Reporting:

31 / 31

President - Vice President

Donald J. Trump (REP)

68.32%

54,377

Hillary Clinton (DEM)

28.60%

22,765

Gary Johnson (LPF)

2.16%

1,722

Darrell L. Castle (CPF)

0.23%

182

Jill Stein (GRE)

0.60%

476

Roque De La Fuente (REF)

0.09%

Deputy Michelle Tewell, Eastside Community Resource Officer with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office, bonded with numerous farm animals Sat.

79,590

at the Farm City Festival in Inverness. The festival was held at Liberty Park, 9:00 am - 2:00 pm, with a parade at 10:30 down N. Apopka St.

United States Senator

to the park. Photo courtesy CCSO.

Marco Rubio (REP)

Human Remains

Mother and daughter arrested on

62.34%

48,727

Found Near

Patrick Murphy (DEM)

drug and theft charges

30.72%

24,014

Bronson

From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.

Paul Stanton (LPF)

The deputy viewed

3.63%

video surveillance that showed

A mother and daughter were arrest-

From the Levy County Sheriff Dept.

2,840

the younger woman - the

ed at the Inverness Walmart, Nov. 9, each

Tony Khoury (NPA)

daughter, 25 year-old Kimberly

Based on a tip that human remains

charged with retail theft and drug posses-

1.06%

Ann Blom, 34 S. Jeffery St.,

are buried on the property, the Levy County

sion.

828

Beverly Hills, donning a cam-

Sheriff s Office executed a search war-

According to the Citrus County

K. Blom

Bruce Nathan (NPA)

ouflage sweater and walking

rant at 9830 NE 105th Avenue in Bronson,

Sheriff s Office, the agency was informed

1.33%

out of the store wearing it. The

late Thursday afternoon, Nov. 10. Numer-

that two females were in the store, loading

1,038

arrest report stated, that even

ous teams descended upon the area due to

up a shopping cart. The loss prevention of-

Steven Machat (NPA)

though she was chewing on

the "suspicious death investigation," as the

ficer requested that deputies be dispatched to

0.49%

the plastic tab that attached the

press release referred to the case, which

the store.

381

price tag to the sweater and the

include the Levy County Sheriff s Office,

When deputies arrived, the women

Basil E. Dalack (NPA)

price tag was in the left front P Blom

the District Eight Medical Examiner s Of-

had been detained by the store officer, who

0.42%

pocket of the shorts she was

fice, specially trained K-9 cadaver dogs

told deputies he d noticed the two women

331

wearing, she said she d forgotten she was

and the C. A. Pound Human Identification

acting in a suspicious manner, select-

78,159

wearing the sweater.

Laboratory (CAPHIL) from the University

ing items and concealing them in reusable

Repres.in Cong. Dist. 11

The mother, 52 year-old Patricia

of Florida in Gainesville. The teams began

Walmart shopping bags. When the women

Daniel Webster (REP)

Ann Blom, also of 34 S. Jeffery St., Bev-

the search in an unimproved area of the lot,

attempted to exit the store after passing all

67.62%

erly Hills, said that when shopping, they al-

and are continuing to dig in order to unearth

points of sale and not paying for the items

51,514

ways place items to be purchased in reusable

the remains, but the status of the search has

in their shopping bags, the officer detained

Dave Koller (DEM)

shopping bags which they unload in order to

not been updated since the original press re-

them and escorted them to the loss preven-

Continued on page 8- Election

lease.

tion office to await the arrival of deputies.

Continued on page 3 - Theft