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Wednesday August 31, 2016
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Mike Moore - Photojournalist
Community
12th Annual
Citrus County Veterans
Benefit Golf Tournament
The Twelfth Annual Citrus
County Veterans Golf Tournament will
be held September 10, 2016 at the Citrus
Hills Golf and Country Club Course for
the benefit of the Citrus County Veterans
Foundation, Inc.
Check-in for the four-person
scramble will be at 7:30 a.m. at the Tiki
Bar with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m. In-
dividuals and groups short of four per-
sons will be combined to make a team.
You do not need to be a veteran to par-
ticipate.
Registration form and donation
of $55.00 per person must be received
no later than August 31. Each partici-
pant's donation includes golf and cart,
beverages on the course and lunch at the
The Marion County Sheriff's Office Dive Team participated in a Dry Suit Refresher Course on the Rainbow River in Dunnellon last week. Dry
country club. The tournament features a
suits are used for protection in contaminated and cold water. The course allowed team members to review the proper use and care of their dry
Hole-in-One prizes and door prizes.
suits. Photos courtesy MCSO.
Charitable tax-deductible con-
Nine arrests related to
Abduction
tributions for door prizes and hole spon-
sorships for $425, $325, $225 or $125
Homosassa drug house
Suspect deemed
are greatly welcome.
Participating golfers should
make their check or money order pay-
incompetent for
From The Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
paraphernalia. (3) Delores Faye Orsic, 51,
able to Citrus County Veterans Founda-
Homosassa, possession of a controlled sub-
Earlier this month, members of the
tion and send it with their registration
stance (methadone); (4) Jody Gene Guiney,
trial
Citrus County Sheriff s Office, Tactical Im-
form to Citrus County Veterans Founda-
62, Homosassa, possession of a controlled
pact Unit (TIU) received a complaint about
tion, c/o Citrus County Veterans Servic-
substance (methadone); and (5) Cody Mel-
a residence located at 5740 S. Ocelot Pt. in
es, 2804 W. Marc Knighton Court, Key
vin, 41, Lecanto, narcotics paraphernalia.
From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
Homosassa. According to the complaint, a
#13, Lecanto, FL 34461-7718 no later
The traffic stops resulted in several
large volume of vehicle, bicycle and foot
than August 31.
On Tuesday, Aug. 23, the Citrus
narcotics cases being generated. Probable
traffic was coming to the residence, but only
The Foundation is a 501 (c)
County Sheriff s Office was
cause was established for a search warrant
staying a short amount of time before leav-
(3) not for profit entity that has provides
notified that 30 year-old Craig
for the residence, which was executed, Aug.
ing - which is consistent with narcotics ac-
grant emergency financial assistance
Leslie Bonello of Inverness
25, at the residence (5740 S. Ocelot Pt.,
tivity.
to local honorably discharged veterans
has been deemed incompetent
Homosassa). When the search warrant was
When TIU members began con-
and their surviving spouses. Since the
to proceed to trial on charges
executed at the home, numerous drug items
ducting surveillance of the residence they
Foundation's inception in 2004, over a
related to the attempted abduc-
were found, including cocaine, liquid co-
observed about 30 cars arriving at the resi-
quarter of a million dollars have been
tion of a 13 year-old girl from Bonello
caine, marijuana, various prescription nar-
dence and departing within a short period of
provided.
the Dollar General store, lo-
cotics, cocaine and methamphetamine para-
time, so a two day operation was conducted
For more information or a reg-
cated at 2560 N. Trucks Ave. in Hernando
phernalia, three firearms and ammunition.
in which surveillance was conducted on the
istration form, please visit the Citrus
on June 7.
As a result of the search, four
residence and traffic stops were made on ve-
County Veterans Foundation Web site
Two doctors who were assigned
people in the home were arrested:(1) Jason
hicles leaving it.
at www.citrusvf.org or contact Janet
to evaluate Bonello to determine whether
Michael Sarchiz, 41, Homosassa, posses-
As a result of the traffic stops con-
Gramann at 352-527-5915.
he was competent to proceed to trial in the
sion of a controlled substance with intent to
ducted on vehicles leaving the home, sev-
criminal case against him. Based on these
Pigskin Predictors
sell, possession of a controlled substance,
eral arrests were made: (1) Michelle Rose
evaluations, the court found that Bonello
possession of cannabis under 20 grams and
is Back!
Nance, 37, Crystal River, two counts of
was not competent to go to trial. Instead,
narcotics paraphernalia; (2) Samuel Dean
possession of a controlled substance (meth-
the court ordered for Bonello's involuntary
Whaley, 36, Homosasa, possession of nar-
See page 8.
amphetamine and alprazolam), possession
commitment to a mental health treatment fa-
cotics paraphernalia; (3) Jennifer Whaley -
of cannabis under 20 grams and narcotics
cility.
possession of narcotics paraphernalia; and
paraphernalia; (2) Jeanette Marie Carroll,
On the day of the attempted abduc-
(4) Kristopher Dustin Rhoades, 24, 5740 S.
37, Homosassa, possession of a controlled
tion, the girl was in the store, shopping with
Ocelot Pt., Homosassa, on a failure to ap-
substance (methamphetamine) and narcotics
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