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Grant Hawley Weller, 47, 187 Sandy St., Inglis, was arrested by the Levy County

Sheriff's Office, July 2, charged with two counts of grand theft of a motor vehicle; total bond

$20,000.

William Edward Coggins, Jr., 288 E. Cason Ln., Inglis, was arrested by the Levy

County Sheriff's Office, July 2, charged with driving while license suspended, habitual of-

fender; bond $3,000.

Brandon Wesley Cofield, 28, 153 S. School Ave., Lecanto, was arrested by the Cit-

rus County Sheriff's Office, July 8, charged with felony possession of a controlled substance

(methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia (aluminum wrapper); total bond

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$5,500. The arrest came as the result of a traffic stop for driving 62 mph in a 45 mph zone in

the area of W. Grant St. and S. Calais Ter., in Homosassa.

5093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida 34446

Jonathan Ambrose Key, 39, Inverness, was arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff's

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Office, July 8, charged with criminal mischief ($200 or less), resist an officer with violence,EMAIL (Tom Russell, Publisher) thenewscaster1@gmail.com

trespass after warning and battery of a public official; total bond $11,500.

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James Michael Whitley, 40, 4295 E. Lake Park Dr.,EBSITES was arrested by the

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Citrus County Sheriff's Office, July 9, charged with felony possession of a controlled sub-

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stance (0.3 gram crack cocaine); bond $2,000. The arrest was made as the result of a traffic

stop in Inverness when the vehicle in which Whitley was a rear seat passenger ran a stop

sign at David St. and N. Florida Ave. A K-9 officer alerted to the presence of narcotics in the

vehicle, and the crack cocaine was found on the rear seat, beside Whitley, inside an arthritis

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medication bottle. Whitley stated the cocaine was his. The front seat driver and passenger

said they'd never seen the bottle, and the crack did not belong to them. Whitley said he did

not purchase the crack cocaine, but did not wish to further discuss details of where the crack

had come from. The driver was issued a written warning for running the stop sign.

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Lelton Lee Barron, 29, 6659 W. Renee Ln., Homosassa, was arrested by the Cit-

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rus County Sheriff's Office, July 9, charged with one count of felony counterfeiting; bond

$2,000. The arrest was initiated on May 5 (2014) by the Homosassa Walmart where the

counterfeit currency was received in payment for a phone card. Barron told responding

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deputies that he received the counterfeit currency in a $250 payment for a tattoo. On June 4,

while Barron was in custody at the Dunnellon Police Department on a counterfeit currency

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charge, a CCSO detective made a digital recording (over the phone) of Barron confessing

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Levi Henderson Reid, 22, 4888 W. Pleasant Acres Pl., Lecanto, was arrested by the

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Citrus County Sheriff's Office, July 9, charged with felony lewd and lascivious battery of a

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person 12 to 16 years of age (a 14 year-old girl); bond $10,000. During a forensic interview,

the girl said that she and Reid had four inappropriate sexual encounters while he was living

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in her family's home. When the girl's family learned what had happened, they had Reid

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move out of the home. Reid denied the charges, accusing the girl of lying.

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Vontrelle Lee Edwards, 27, 3475 NE 9th Ter., Wildwood, FL, was arrested by the

Citrus County Sheriff's Office, July 9, charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted

felon (a Kel-Tec 9 mm pistol with 7 rounds of ammunition), carrying a concealed weapon

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and sell/manufacture/deliver or possess with intent to sell/manufacture or deliver a con-

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trolled substance (2.2 grams crack cocaine); total bond $17,000. The arrest came as the

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result of a traffic stop in Inverness at 11:39 p.m. for failing to come to a complete stop at

N. Florida Ave. and David St. Edwards was a passenger in the car and was not wearing a

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lis, Yankeetown, Dunnellon, Hernando, Crystal River & Homosassareport stated.

seatbelt. Edwards was on Florida inmate release status for narcotics sales, the

A K-9 deputy alerted to the vehicle, and the items were found during a search of the vehicle.

5093 S. Orwell Pt., Homosassa, Florida 34446

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Phone (352) 489-4588 Fax32, at large (homeless) in the Inverness area, was arrested

Robert Quinton Williams, (727) 362-4788

by thesit ourCounty Sheriff's Office, July 9, charged with felony possession of a controlled

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substance (0.5 mg methamphetamine). The report stated, that around 2:30 am, deputies were

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Emaildispatched to the Withlacoochee River in Dunnellon with an anonymous complaint that two

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males were in a boat stealing boat motors. A man sitting in a pickup truck (no lights were on)

attached to a wet, empty trailer, said that his friend, Robert, had awakened him to pick him

up at the boat ramp located at N. Grey Eagle and E. Spruce Dr. Robert had told him he'd be

in a ganoe, and was standing in the ganoe with a white Johnson outboard motor and a large

Yamaha outboard motor. Williams was holding the methamphetamine in his hand. Williams

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was first arrested on the possession charge. A couple hours later, he was charged with the

to start theft of aWednesday, March boat with a 25 horse four stroke Yanaha outboard

grand in our 14 ft. aluminum hull jon 26, 2014 issue.

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motor (valued at $300 or more, but less than $20,000). As Williams had been released from

Crimestoppers Levy: 1-877-349-8477

prison (grand theft) on April 13 and was committing crimes within such a short period of

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