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Sally Price - Correspondent
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Have a Safe and Happy Easter
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Levy
Deputies
Arrest
Car-Jacker
According
to Lt. Evan Sullivan,
Public Information
Officer for the Levy
County Sheriff's Of-
fice, 31-year-old Jen-
nifer D. Marino of
Longwood, Florida
was arrested by
Deputy
Joseph
Sabbag, April 2, and
Jennifer Marino
she was transported
from Williston to the Levy County Jail in
Biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute rescued a
Bronson.
small female manatee calf from the Withlacoochee River at the Richard and Leslie Dasch home in Yankeetown on
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office
Thursday, April 2. The baby manatee was moved to Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa. Photos by Sally Price
had issued a BOLO (be on the lookout) for a
stolen, silver 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse with
Tiny manatee
Dunnellon Man shot & killed after
Florida tag vumber 931-VNE. According to Lt.
Sullivan, Jennifer Marino, had escaped from
“The Centers” in Ocala and had forced the
firing at CCSO deputies
rescued in
driver from a Mitsubishi and fled the scene.
The Levy County Sheriff’s Office re-
The Citrus County Sheriff's Office
rived at the residence, the man opened fire
ceived a report of a female acting suspiciously
Yankeetown,
responded to a domestic dispute 911 call at
and fled the scene in a blue Dodge Ram pickup
in the Williston area, and deputies located
5:47 a.m. Monday morning at a residence
truck, with deputies in pursuit at speeds that
Marino at 4751 N.E. 185th Ave. Marino was
north of C.R. 39 near Citrus Springs, that
at times exceeded 100 mph. During the chase,
taken into custody on the Marion County
recovering at
ended with a shootout and the death of a 48-
the man fired numerous times at deputies, and
charges, without incident, and she was trans-
year-old man who was later identified as
also a couple times at a Marion County school
ported to the Levy County Jail where her bond
Michael Wolff of Dunnellon, who has a prior
bus, east of S.R. 200, but the driver was not
was set at $25,000.
Lowry Park Zoo
arrest record.
injured and no children were on board. Sev-
Continued on page 10 - Car-jacker
According to CCSO Public Informa-
eral times, stop sticks were thrown onto the
tion Office Heather Yates, when deputies ar-
By Newscaster Correspondent
Continued on page 8 - Man Shot
Sally Price
Homemade bomb found during Inglis
Biologists with the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and
traffic stop, four agencies Involved
Wildlife Research Institute rescued a small
female manatee calf from the Withlacoochee
A former Muncie, Indiana woman
River at the Richard and Leslie Dasch home
Dowd asked Case and her passenger, Barry
was arrested by the Inglis Police Department,
in Yankeetown, Florida on Thursday, April 2.
Smith, to step out of the vehicle while it was
at 11:30 p.m., March 6, at 26 Hwy. 40W and
According to officials, the tiny calf
searched. A unit from the Levy County
Michigan Ave., after a traffic stop for a tag
is one of the smallest manatees ever rescued
Sheriff's Office arrived on scene and assisted
light violation. The incident eventually in-
by the FWC Marine Mammal Stranding Team,
in the search. Officers located a grinder in
volved three additional agencies, and the
measuring just over 3 feet in length and
Case's purse, which she said belonged to her
driver of the vehicle, 19-year-old Chelsea Jean
weighing only 50 pounds. "Suki" was taken
fiancee who "grinds up pot in it."
Case, was finally booked into the Levy County
to Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, where she is re-
In the center console, a small cylin-
Jail at 5:10 a.m.
ceiving 24-hour care from the zoo's manatee
der was found "that appeared to be a home-
Who’ s in charge: New Inglis Mayor Bill
char
According to the arrest report, Case
rehabilitation team.
made destructive device" the report stated,
Lake, left or town clerk Sally McCranie,
was stopped by a Officer Dowd of the Inglis
The name "Suki" was given to the
"approximately three to four inches in length,
right. More details on the Inglis Easter
K9 Unit, and his K9 partner Boston, a trained
baby manatee because she was found cling-
capped and sealed at one end, with a wick
Egg Hunt and Central Park dedication on
drug sniffing dog, alerted Dowd to the pres-
ing to the Dasch's boat, Suki Sweet ll, which
protruding from the top. The device appeared
page 12.
Continued on page 8 - Baby Manatee
ence of narcotics inside the vehicle. Officer
Continued on page 10 - Homemade Bomb