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Wednesday March 31, 2010
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Permit No. 14
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Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Squawk Box
With Sally Price
Job Numbers Not
Good For Our Area
State of Florida un-
employment rate moved up
to 12.2% in February, more
than 1.1 million Floridians are currently
unemployed and the state has lost 211,500
jobs in the past year. Florida has the sixth-
highest unemployment rate in the country
with the national rate being 9.7 in Febru-
ary.
According to Janet Walsh from
Workforce Connection over Marion,
Levy and Citrus County, numbers for the
3 counties are above the state average of
12.2. The website for February shows
Levy County at 14%, Citrus County at
14.5% and Marion County at 15.4%.
Walsh also said there are few jobs in the
region but people needing jobs should be
checking the Employ Florida Marketplace
at their website employflorida for job can-
didates and employers as well.
Locally Inglis and Yankeetown
Withlacoochee Technical Institute massage therapy student Sara Denny practices her technique during a “ten minute tune-up” session with a
have created stumbling blocks for growth
SRRMC hospital associate. Students & the hospital recently concluded a five week internship that provided 396 ten minute "tune-ups".
Man Arrested On
CCSO Arrests Two C.R.
in employment and the commercial and
residental sector. Commercial growth af-
fects the revenue returned to the towns.
Sexual Battery
Men For Burglary
A 4 year commercial moratorium in Yan-
keetown has totally halted any business
& Molestation
growth. The seafood industry has found
Two Crystal River men were ar-
got into an argument with
itself stifled by state laws and regulations,
rested by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office,
them about it. He said that
but the town has not helped those involved
Charges
March 25, after a call was received of a bur-
Rowe and Legros left in
with boat parking and off loading of their
glary in progress.
the red Chevy S-10 pick-
product leading to loss of income or quit-
According to the arrest reports, the
up truck. This is when the
Morriston-On September 4, 2009 Detective
ting the industry altogether. It amazes
victim told deputies, that while he was at
sheriff’s office was noti-
Roger Bell arrested Ruben Sanchez-Perez
me that Yankeetown would designate a
work, his wife had called to tell him that two
fied about the incident.
for sexual battery and
Fisherman’s park to honor the industry
white men had loaded an air conditioning
A deputy called
lewd and lascivious mo-
the town was founded on but do nothing
unit into a red Chevy S-10 pickup truck and
Legros on his cell phone
lestation on a child under
to help the industry survive. Changes in
had left their yard with the unit in the back
and asked him to return
12 years of age.
comprehensive plans made to control
Rowe
of the truck. He said the air conditioner had
to W. Tangerine Ln. He
On
Septem-
growth in town while loosening restric-
been purchased for a rental unit and had not
complied, and both he and
ber 3, 2009 the victim
tions in the wetlands and islands amaze
yet been installed. He said they’d kept the
Rowe returned. Two de-
reported to the Levy
me more so.
air conditioner beside a shed in their fenced-
tectives met the men and
County Sheriff’s Office
Inglis has gone it’s rounds with
in yard located on N. Holiday Dr.in Crystal
asked Rowe what he was
that Sanchez-Perez has Sanchez-Perez
River.
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doing with the air condi-
sexual assaulted her since
According to the reports, the victim
tioning unit. He replied
she was 6 years of age. The victim is known
went to W. Tangerine Ln. and saw the two
that he’d made a deal with
to Sanchez-Perez and would often stay with
men cutting the air conditioning unit coils
the victim to exchange the
the suspect at 2990 SE 199 Terrace Morris-
Legros
and removing the compressor.
unit for some used chain
ton, Florida. Sanchez-Perez is from Mexico
The report stated that two other
link fence. He said that
but recently acquired a legal resident card.
witnesses also watched the men cut the coils
he and Legros had gone to the victim’s resi-
Sanchez-Perez was arrested and transported
and remove the compressor. The witnesses
dence and loaded the unit into the truck and
to the Levy County Jail with a $ 200,000
identified the men as Nathan John Rowe,
removed it from the property. Rowe said,
bond.
32, 353 N. Rock Crusher Rd. and John A.
that during the argument, the victim told him
On March 24, 2010 Sanchez-Perez
Legros, 41, 6462 W. Moss Ln.
he’d grabbed the wrong unit, however, there
plead to 25 years in prison on the lewd and
The victim stated that he confront-
was only one air conditioning unit there.
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ed the men about the air conditioner and
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