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Deborah Russell - Editor/Publisher
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Wednesday December 5, 2007
Tom Russell - Consulting Editor
A Publication of
Permit No. 4
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Newscaster Publishing
Sally Price Correspondent
Squawk Box Teen Facing
Murder
With Doug Johnston
Lexington trip: Part III
Charge In
A favorite part of any of our
football trips is interacting with
the opposing team's followers.
Inverness
In places like Baton Rogue,
Knoxville, Tuscaloosa, Oxford,
Colombia and Auburn I en-
Shooting
gaged in conversation and playful banter with
those folks and thoroughly enjoyed it. In Lex-
Sometime in the early morning
ington, we were greeted by a totally different
hours of Saturday, October 6, 20-year-old
type of football fan at our hotel.
Mario Jean-Jacques of Orlando was shot to
After we unpacked we headed to the hotel
death in Inverness.
lobby to get directions to Commonwealth Sta-
His body was discov-
dium. We passed a couple about our age in
ered at 5:49 a.m. di-
the hall and I acknowledged them and started
rectly off of Trail 10,
a conversation by commenting on how
which intersects with
Kentucky's Blue they were wearing looked
Pleasant Grove Road
an awful lot like Gator Blue. The couple
(CR 581).
mumbled something and quickly walked away.
Following mul-
Gasoline Tank replacement project in Inglis hits a set back. See full story on page 4-
We were on the receiving end of a cold recep-
tiple trips to Orlando
-Photo by Sally Price
tion from just about every Kentucky fan we
and working closely
ran into in the hotel. One KU fan said that it
Inglis Mine Hearing Draws
with both the Orange
would be a long trip back to Florida and we
and Osceola County
wouldn't be smiling after the game.
Andrew Peralta
Sheriff's Offices, Cit-
We decided to walk to the stadium and
Fire From Area Residents
rus County detectives had sufficient prob-
check out the area that afternoon. When I
able cause to have a warrant issued as of
inquired about directions at the hotel's front
By Sally Price, Newscaster Correspondent
October 22. That warrant charged Andrew
Continued on page 3 - Squawk Box
900 feet long and 50 to 55 feet deep but could
Miguel Peralta, 18, of Orlando with first-de-
go down to 100 foot or more. A grid of these
A Levy County Planning Commis-
Food Ranch
gree premeditated murder.
lakes, that will breach the aquifer, will be
sion (PC) meeting in Bronson Monday night
This past Tuesday, detectives once
created while mining approximately 40 acres
had 83 concerned South Levy residents in
The Newscaster
again traveled to Orlando to notify Jean-
a year with a proposed mine life of 100 years.
the audience. Tarmac America, LLC. repre-
13th Annual Holiday
Jacques' family that his murderer was on his
The water from the lakes will be reused over
senting Plum Creek Timberlands, LP was pe-
way back to the United States. During the
and over to wash the aggregate returning it
Window Painting Contest
titioning the PCB for a Special Exception to
course of their investigation, detectives
and the silt to the lakes. In the beginning over
allow a major mining operation on approxi-
Saturday Dec. 8, 2007
learned that after the crime was committed,
500 trucks a day could carry the product to
mately 4700 acres several miles north of Ing-
Peralta fled from the states to the Dominican
sites within a 100 mile radius of the mine with
8am-12noon
lis on the west side of Hwy 19. Approxi-
Republic, a Latin American island country in
80% of the trucks going south through Ing-
mate 4600 acres will be mitigated. Operations
the Caribbean. Investigators began working
lis. Recommended operation times will be 7
would include blasting, excavation, crushing
hand in hand with the U.S. Marshals Service
Fun
AM to 7 PM. The blasting window will be 8
and processing limerock. According to Al
on having Peralta deported. This was ac-
AM to 5 PM weekdays when done.
&
Townsend, in charge of the Tarmac Mine, the
complished, and the defendant arrived in
Giving those for the mine the chance to
state is short on aggregate rock for road build-
Prizes
Miami Wednesday evening in the company
speak first was a sure sign of the atmosphere
ing and construction. Tarmac King Road Mine
for
of marshals.
of the room as only 2 of the 83 present spoke
is only one of five places in Florida where this
All Ages
Peralta was taken into custody by
in favor. Row by row the disgruntled tax pay-
quality of rock needed is found.
Miami-Dade officials and will be held there
ers got to express their frustration or anger at
Experts representing the mine
until arrangements can be made to transport
the mine coming to their neighborhood. Water
painted a picture rosier than those who drove
him back to the Citrus County Detention Fa-
was the major issue but decrease in property
the hour to protest another mine as their
cility in Lecanto. Citrus investigators trav-
values and 500-1000 trucks coming in and out
Cash Prizes!
neighbor. According to Townsend, a test pit
eled to Miami yesterday morning to meet with
Continued on page 5 - Mine Hearing
has been completed about 100 ft wide and
Continued on page 3 - Murder Charge