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County Administrator sets process to Lecanto Woman Arrested On Battery Charge
Just before 10:00 p.m., June 21, the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched
review the public interest insthebuilding permitting questions to Lecanto, 4444 W. Shady Knoll, due Rosecomplaint of a battery. According to the deputy’s
senator process to resolve case
to a
report of his investigation, Catherine
Figieri threw a telephone at one victim, struck
In recognition of
the same person in the chest with her fist and also scratched the person on the back causing
about an agricultural building owned by Florida Senator Charles Dean, County Administra-
bruising and swelling. The report stated that Figieri had also threatend to cause bodily harm
tor Brad Thorpe has designated Dennis MacNeil, the county’s building official, to take over
to the same person and another person. Figieri was arrested and charged with two counts of
the technical review, permitting and inspections to bring the building into compliance with
aggravated assault and one count of misdemeanor battery. She was transported to the Citrus
a recent ruling by the Florida Attorney General’s office. MacNeil will report directly to
County Detention Facility without further incident. Her bond was set at $5500.
Thorpe for the case.
Burglary - Continued from page 1
The question was whether the building qualified for an agricultural exemption
from local permitting initially granted, and the Attorney General’s opinion indicated that as
banana trees in front. The deputy located the man’s home and obtained the man’s last name
constructed, it was not exempt.
Drug Charges - Continued from page 1
from his mailbox. When the deputy knocked on the man’s door, there was no answer, but
as the deputy was leaving, the resident, Nickolas “Nick” James Vanbelkum, 30, 20048 S.E.
112th Ave., and his girlfriend pulled up in a van. The deputy reported that Vanbelkum’s
physician whose name was on the prescription told investigators that the person whose
live-in girlfriend gave written consent for him to search the residence. The deputy was as-
name was on the prescription was not a patient and that the prescription blank had been
sisted in his search by two additional officers with the LCSO and an officer with the Inglis
stolen and forged.
Police Department. The officers located several items that were identified as coming from
The second incident took place at the Publix Pharmacy in Crystal River on March
the victims’ residence, including three distinctive decorative lamps, jewelry boxes, costume
21st, involving the same physician and the same drug, methadone, and the prescription in
jewelry and music CD’s. Vanbelkum confessed to taking the items. Valbelkum was charged
the same person’s name (who had already been arrested), with both Parks and Trunzo pres-
with burglary and grand theft.
ent and making the transaction and taking possession of the methadone, the report stated.
The third incident took place on April 3rd. The fraudulent prescription had been
stolen from a Citrus County physician and forged, written out for 180, 30 mg oxycodone
tablets, according to the report. The pharmacy technician recalled the incident and gave
detectives a copy of the driver’s license that had been attached to the back of the fraudulent
prescription.
Investigators first spoke with the couple at a Crystal River residence, then at-
tempted to interview them in a patrol car. At first, Trunzo agreed to the interview, but then
decided to have her attorney present during the interview. Investigators told Trunzo that she
was under arrest and for her to remain seated. The report stated that she became upset and
attempted to exit the vehicle, so a detective grabbed her shirt near her left shoulder, in order
to stop her, and another detective handcuffed her. Detectives were able to interview Parks,
who agreed to answer questions without an attorney present. He said that the prescription
blank had been stolen, and he had written it out in the name of the person who had already
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been arrested.
Parks and Trunzo were each charged with three counts of obtaining a controlled
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