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Wednesday March 3, 2010
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Permit No. 14
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Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Squawk Box
With Doug Johnston
Keeping
A
Straight Face
My friends who had
grandchildren before ours
came along kept telling me
that is an altogether differ-
ent experience. I remem-
ber Jimmy and Sue Roland in particular
telling me that I wouldn’t be able to “get
enough” of my grand kids when they fi-
nally arrived. They were right but, I had
forgotten some of the rules of engagement
when entertaining toddlers.
My three year old grandson Wesley and
two year old grandson Gabriel don’t get to
play together as much as we would like.
Wesley lives with his parents in Ocala
and Gabriel lives with his parents in New-
berry. In 2006 I picked them up on most
Thursdays and we have an adventure, as
we call it. My daughter Amanda, who is
Wesley’s mom, usually accompanies us.
One item I had forgotten is to beware
if a three year old gleefully says to a two
year old when they are in the back seat of
a car that you are driving “Hey Gabriel,
watch this”!
“Watch this” can mean a lot of things,
The Sorensen family: Betsy with a towel, Sara on a towel, John (on the far left in the water) needing a towel, and Frank watching all the towel-
most of them bad. In this case it meant
ing from the railing, all vacationing from Oslo, Norway and enjoying a brisk Friday afternoon in our 47F weather at Rainbow Springs State Park
Wesley, despite being strapped into a car
in Dunnellon. The 72F spring head-water temperature and bright sunny Florida skies have the Norwegian Sorensen family giving two thumbs
seat, had discovered the automatic win-
Two Dunnellon Men Arrested
up. TheNewscaster/Mike Moore.
Two Men
dow switch and was showing Gabriel how
to make the windows go up and down.
Thank goodness for automatic door and
on Trafficking Charges
Arrested in
window locks.
I had almost forgotten too about that
Three people were arrested by the
sound that comes from the bathroom
McKechnie while a detec-
Wildlife
Citrus County Sheriff’s Office, Feb. 16, af-
when the toilet flushes and you hear one
tive apprehended the men
ter the Inverness B & W Rexall Pharmacy
of them say to the other, “uh-oh”. That
inside the store. As the
Management
contacted the CCSO that they were attempt-
never has a good ending. Thank heavens
deputy approached, Vick-
ing to fraudulently obtain controlled sub-
our cats are too big to fit down the com-
ers was handing the bag of
stances.
mode. In this case it was a toy shark that
medication to Dethlefs, the
Area Theft
Joseph K. vickers, 32, 10094 S.W.
had come home in a McDonalds’ happy
report stated. The detective
152nd Place, Dunnellon; James Allen Deth-
meal. I guess they wanted to see if the
identified himself to the
Vickers
lefs, 47, 7484 S.W. 150th St., Dunnellon;
shark could swim.
men and escorted them out-
On February 12th Andrews Wild-
and Hillary Jean McKechnie, 24, 1731 S.W.
The most fearful of all sounds that come
side.
life Management area officials reported the
40th Ter. E., Gainesville, had each turned
from them if they are playing in another
The pharmacist told
theft of two Chainsaws one from a locked
in three prescriptions from a south Florida
room well within earshot, but out of sight,
the detective that the three
shed and another from the bed of an employ-
physician for oxycodone 30 mg, ocycodo-
is silence. That usually can be a bad thing
had come in together and
ees truck. The thefts occurred on 2/10/2010
ne 15 mg and alprazolam 2 mg. The report
too. If it suddenly strikes me that they
handed-in the prescriptions
while the defendants were working in the
stated that the weight of the mens’ oxyco-
have been silent for a few minutes I run to
for “both patients” at the
area.
done was 45.36 grams, and the woman’s
the room they are playing in and often find
same time. McKechnie had
The Defendants boss and other
Dethlefs
oxycodone totaled 22.68 grams, and all the
something not so good like they have mi-
wanted to pay for her medi-
witnesses placed the two in the area of the
prescriptions had been obtained on the same
raculously found a new use for silly putty,
cation through Medicaid, but was denied, so
theft and stated that they had chain saws in
date, Feb. 15.
(it looks strange balled up and in the cat’s
she went outside to call for approval. The
their possession matching the description
As McKechnie was leaving the
liter box, or sticking to the ceiling).
pharmacist stated that vickers paid for Deth-
of what was stolen. When witness’s con-
pharmacy, the two men were still inside
Of course the thing I have to remind
lefs’ prescriptions with a credit card in the
fronted the defendants about the saws they
making their purchases. A deputy detained
Continued on page 2- Squawk Box
Continued on page 3 - Trafficking Charges
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