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Deborah Russell - Editor
A Publication of
Wednesday March 30, 2016
Inglis, FL 34449
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Community
Register For Fire Training
Class Now
The registration deadline for
fire/rescue training with the Citrus
County Sheriff s Office is April 14.
Tuition is $140. Enrollment is twenty
students for "Private Fire Protection
Systems I."
Classes will run 8:30 am - 7:30
pm, April 18 -21 at the Fire Training
Center located at 1300 S. Lecanto Hwy,
in Lecanto. The program is a study of
private fire protection and detection
systems, such as sprinkler and stand-
pipe systems, chemical extinguishing
systems, and detection systems and de-
vices.
Each system is discussed as
to its need, construction, or preventive
maintenance and individual uses. The
class is Part of Fire Inspector I and Fire
Officer 1 series.
For more infomation or to reg-
ister for the class, please contact Linda
Fritz by phone at 352-527-7621 or by
A single-vehicle traffic crash in Inverness, March 22, resulted in traffic being rerouted for several hours. Several agencies were on the scene
email at lfritz@sheriffcitrus.org.
assisting with the traffic and cleanup, including deputies and fire/rescue personnel with the Citrus County Sheriff's Office, along with Nature
Coast EMS. Photo courtesy CCSO.
LCDPS Community
Man charged with fighting woman
Inglis woman
Training Program
turns herself in for vehicle, then fighting deputy
Learn hands-only CPR, First
Aid Basics, Proper Fire Extin-
Shannon - who refused to get out of the ve-
for retail theft
From The Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
guisher Techniques and more!
hicle - and she began to drive south on S.
Levy County Public
What started out as an incident of
Bea Ave. in an attempt to locate her friend
mistaken identity on the part of a woman,
so he could assist her. However, she was un-
Safety Complex, 1251 NE
From The Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
evolved into a man fighting her in an attempt
able to find her friend, so she sent her friend
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Robin Mae Surber, 40, 9851 Hwy.
to steal her vehicle and the subsequent arrest
text messages asking for his location, when
32621. 6:00pm April 13,
40 East, Inglis, was arrested by the Citrus
of the man on numerous felony charges.
Shannon attacked her. She said he grabbed
County Sheriff s Office, March 25, charged
The Citrus County Sheriff s Of-
her cellular telephone and threw it out of the
2016
with retail petit theft (value more than $100,
fice began an investigation
passenger window, then struck her several
but less than $300); resisting an officer
into the incident on March 22,
times with his closed fist. The victim told
Call 352-486-5209 or
without violence; and flee or elude a law
when deputies were called to
deputies that Shannon tried to take control
enforcement officer with agency logo, and
email sseverance@levydps.
Citrus Memorial Hospital in
of the steering wheel while also trying to
lights and siren activated, while speeding, in
Inverness to speak with the
push her out of the door, and he was pressing
com for more information.
disregard of safety. Her total bond was set at
battered 28 year-old victim.
on the gas pedal, while she was attempting
Shannon
$12,000.
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The victim told depu-
to apply the brakes. During this struggle, the
The report stated that Surber turned
ties, that she was enroute to pick up a friend
victim s vehicle struck a fence and several
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herself in at the Citrus County Detention Fa-
who was walking along S. Bea Ave. in In-
bushes along S. Bea Ave.
cility, later in the day of the incident.
verness, when she came upon a man walk-
The victim said, at one point, the
See page 9
Surber told the arresting deputy
ing on the street and stopped to pick up the
vehicle door was open, and if she had let go
that she d gone into a Walgreen s Pharma-
man she initially thought was her friend. She
of the steering wheel, she would have fallen
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cy (the location was not specified) to get a
said the man, later identified as Troy James
out of the car and been run over by the tires.
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prescription filled, that afternoon, that she d
Shannon, 28, 2800 E. Dove Ct., Inverness,
She said he was trying to take her vehicle
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walked around for a couple hours waiting
entered the vehicle and sat in the passenger
from her, and she thought she was going to
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for the prescription, but never received it.
seat without permission.
die. The vehicle finally stopped on the side
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The victim said she didn t know
Continued on page 12 - Aggravated Battery
Continued on page 4 - Retail Theft