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Wednesday May 14, 2008
Permit No. 4
Mike Moore - Photojournalist
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Sally Price Correspondent
Squawk Box
With Mike Moore
Love Your Mother
Mother's day 2008 came
and went this past weekend. I
called my mom and told her the
obligatory happy day, then also
told her that I had been thinking of her when
Amazon came `a calling' to my inbox and was
sending her a couple of little paperbacks that
I know she'll enjoy. Yep, I was thinking about
her all right; I was thinking about her and how
easier it is for her now that I'm grown and
being shredded by my own teenagers, com-
pared to when I was the teenager and she
was the one being shredded.
One thing you have to know about
my mother is that she was the shrub growing
in the middle of the forest. That is to say her
frame size was (and still is) `petite' while my
father and my brother and I all grew to be a
head taller and half again heavier in weight.
Although scrappy in her own right, she never
really had a fighting chance physically against
us if it ever came to blows because we all
Bobby Hall (left photo)from Greg's Car Center looks for a place to hook up the car driven by Dawn Brower of Inglis, involved in a two vehicle
outgrew her early on in life. Feeding us kids
wreck on the barge canal bridge Monday night. (right photo) Inglis Police Dept. Brandon Roberts stands by as LCSO CSI Michelle Arnold
well just enhanced the disparity in size and
dusts for prints on the phone used to make a bomb threat call Monday morning. Photos by Sally Price
Inglis Police, Deputies
made us all the more difficult to handle; of
Crash On
course, she just developed `alternatives'
when it came to discipline; that's probably
Bridge Sends Investigate Bomb Threat
where I learned (at least in part) my talent of
strong verbal persuasion and out right con-
niving that I talk about often.
Made From Local Phone
Ah, mom. You used the talents given
Driver To
to you to try and keep two brothers half again
your size and weight from roughing each other
up at any given opportunity; you used lever-
By Sally Price, Newscaster Correspondent
Hospital
age and political clout to put your point across
dispatched the Inglis Police Department to
when our heads were so far in the clouds we
the convenience store, but the suspect was
According to Levy County Sheriff
couldn't (read: didn't want to) hear your man-
gone. Sullivan said Inglis Police Department
Dept. Public Information Officer Lt. Evan
dates. Mom was the one who would resort to
then called back to the LCSO to request their
Sullivan, Monday morning at 7:56 AM the
By Sally Price, Newscaster Correspondent
any measure to make her point known when
LCSO Crime Scene Investigator come and pro-
Levy County Sheriff's Office received a 911
we would so callously smudge out and cross
cess the crime scene.
call from a suspect made from the pay phone
Monday
evening
Dr.
Continued on page 3 - Squawk Box
LCSO CSI Michelle Arnold was dis-
located at the Kangaroo convenience store
P.Bickkasani, his wife, children, brother and
patched to process the crime scene. The small
at the corner of Hwy. 19 and Hwy. 40 in Inglis.
sister-in-law, of Crystal River were headed
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area around the public phone was sealed of
Sullivan said the suspect said "a bomb was
north from Crystal River for a short visit in
with crime scene tape by Brandon Roberts,
going to go off at Zachary Cement Plant in
Yankeetown. According to Bickkasani, as he
Meeting on
Inglis Police Department while CSI Arnold
Brooksville at 2:30 PM" The caller then hung
came up to the top of the bridge, a car headed
dusted for prints and completed her investi-
up.
south was weaving toward his lane and back.
gation. The investigation is continuing.
This is their third bomb threat. LCSO
Levy Nuclear
He said he got as close to the bridge
wall as he could but the car came over in his
get checked out. The Bikkasanis both said
lane and hit the front driver's side of his ve-
49, of Inglis, and for at least five miles she had
Plant
how very lucky they were.
hicle, then hit the wall and spun around end-
been on and off the road. Brower had to be
Trooper Dunigan said if people saw
ing up headed north again behind him.
extricated from the car and was transported
June 5, 2008
a driver driving erratically they should call
Florida Highway Patrol Trooper
to a helicopter south of the crash site.
*fhp. North and south bound traffic was tied
Dunigan who works Citrus County said James
Dr. Bikkasani told Trooper Dunigan
up over one and one half hours waiting for
Moffett of Homosassa, a witness heading
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he had someone coming to pick his family up
the crash scene to be cleaned up.
south, had been behind Dawn Noreen Brower,
and 3 of them would go by the hospital and