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Wednesday March 21, 2012
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Permit No. 14
Sally Price - Correspondent
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Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Squawk Box
Bagging For Tips
At Food Ranch
With Doug Johnston
Students
from
Yankeetown School will
be bagging for tips at Food
Ranch Supermarket this
weekend. The effort is part
of a campaign to raise mon-
ey for the students to attend
the annual session at Pigeon
Key Marine Science Camp held in Pigeon
Key, an Island in the Florida Keys.The
camp has been attended over the years by
YTS students.
The program is part of the non-
profit Pigeon Key Foundation & Marine
Science Center. The four day session
provides a fun atmosphere for students to
participate in a learning environment and
workshops that teach valuable lessons
in marine biology and conservation of
our great marine resources here in Flor-
ida. The camp is attended by more than
30,000 students from over 1,000 schools
Tournament boats await their start order on Lake Rousseau at sunrise Saturday morning for the Annual Bass Tournament, More on pages 5 and
throughout the United States annually.
Warrant Leads IPD to
12, Photos by Lee Paulet
The camp has been in operation for twen-
South Levy
ty years.
Pigeon Key is a five acre is-
Meth Lab Bust
Residents Irked
land and the Pigeon Key Marine Science
Center encompasses all of that Island.
From Inglis Police Dept.
The waters surrounding the isle are rich
ordered to stop and get on the ground. Baker
Over New Mine
with marine life. The workshops provide
replied, “You don’t have nothing. It was just
Two officers with the Inglis Po-
hands-on experiences with marine mam-
garbage.” About that time, the officers no-
lice Department went to a local residence,
mals, reef fish, the reef system, inverte-
ticed two additional people at the residence,
March 13, attempting to locate a person on
Application
brates and hard and soft corals found in
a man and a woman. While patting-down
an arrest warrant and ended up arresting four
the Florida Caribbean waters.
Baker looking for weapons, they found a
people on felony drug charges.
sandwich bag containing a white powdery
Officers Tim Rogers and Shannon
By Newscaster Correspondent
susbstance which Baker said he used as a
Goodman arrived at the the residence of
Sally Price
“cutter.” The substance later tested positive
Vincent Louis Baker, 40, located at 44 Vicki
For well over 100 years now, the
for pseudophedrine. Baker was secured in
St., Inglis, around 1:30 p.m., as the person
Cedars of Lebanon Cemetery has been a fi-
the rear of the patrol car while the officers
they were attempting to locate is known to
nal resting place for folks in the south Levy
investigated what they suspected was an ac-
associate with him.
County area. Multiple generations of fami-
tive meth lab.
As soon as the officers arrived, they
lies have been laid to rest at the quiet, well-
The other three were detained.
saw Baker, who was carrying items in his
kept cemetery, tucked out of sight from the
They were identified as Jenna Michelle Fos-
hands, walking toward the back of the prop-
traffic on U.S. Hwy. 19, approximately 6.4
ter, 23, 94 Debra St., Inglis; Janette Aleksan-
erty with a woman. At the same time, the
miles north of Inglis.
drovic, 36, Hazelton, PA; and Samuel Gar-
report stated, Baker noticed the officers, and
Cedars of Lebanon Cemetery is so
rett, 28, 152 Breezy Way, Inglis.
Continued on page 4 - Squawk Box
was “visably startled.” He turned and began
revered by msny in the area that a cemetery
The officers then went to the area
running toward the residence. Ofc. Rogers
clean-up and pot luck dinner is held there,
Inglis
where Baker had thrown the objects. They
reported, that due to his knowledge of Baker
several times each year, along with an annu-
located a cold pack, a syringe with a hy-
and his activities, he immediately suspected
al fish fry reunion which brings out dozens
Election
podermic needle and a bottle of lye. Levy
that Baker was carrying methamphetamine
of long-time area residents.
County Sheriff s Office (LCSO) Deputy
(“meth”). Baker was ordered to stop. He
Results:
The peace and solitude enjoyed by
Alan Breeding arrived about that time. The
paused behind his vehicle, a green van, then
visitors at Cedars of Lebanon is being chal-
officers entered a motor home and found nu-
began running in the opposite direction, to-
See page 8
lenged by an application for a Special Ex-
merous items used in the manufacturing of
ward the woodline, where he threw the items
Continued on page 3 - Mine Application
Continued on page 4- Meth Bust
he was carrying into the woods. Baker was