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Community
Dep. Behnen "Local Law
Enforcement Officer
of the Year"
Dep. Jonathan Behnen with the
Citrus County Sheriff s Office was pre-
sented with the Local Law Enforcement
Officer of the Year Award at the Florida
Missing Children's Day ceremony in Tal-
lahassee on Sept. 12. The event was pre-
sented by the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement (FDLE) to remember Flori-
da's missing children.
Dep. Behnen apprehended a sus-
pect in an abduction attempt at the Dol-
lar General store in Hernando on June 7,
2016. The incident garnered international
attention, as the child s mother fighting
off her daughter's attacker was captured
on surveillance video and widely circu-
lated over the internet. Dep. Behnen, who
was off duty, drove into the parking lot as
Last week, representatives from FEMA met with local emergency management officials, along with county and city officials, touring numerous
the suspect ran out of the store. He jumped
areas of Citrus County impacted by Hurricane Hermine. Citrus County's storm debris contractor has begun the first of two roadside pickups of
onto action and took the suspect - 30 year-
storm related vegetative and construction debris on Monday, September 19. Plans are to start in the Old Homosassa area working from Mason
old Craig Bonello - into custody. Bonello
Creek northward. More details on page 2. Photo courtesy CCSO.
was later deemed not competent to go to
Former medical
Lecanto children found,safe
trial and ordered to undergo involuntary
commitment to a mental health treatment
employee charged
facility.
Amber Alert cancelled
"We really couldn't be more
with prescription
proud of Dep. Behnen and his actions
From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
that day," said CCSO Undersheriff Com-
The guardian, who lives in the Four
Two Lecanto children, who were
mander Buddy Grant who attended the
Corners area of Lecanto, said that the mother
the victims of a parental child abduction and
fraud
ceremony. "He exemplified the true defi-
had texted her, a short time prior to the ab-
the subject of a nationwide Amber Alert,
nition of a hero, and so did the girl's moth-
duction, asking to see the children, and the
were located in Georgia, off Interstate 75,
er. This event had a happy ending, thanks
guardian had replied that she could not see
safe and sound, by the Georgia State Police,
From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
to them."
them. A short time later, she told deputies,
and the Amber Alert was canceled on Mon-
Ms. Williams burst into her home, told her
day morning. The children, Rylan Williams,
Thirty-two
year-old
not to dial 911, and grabbed the phone from
a 3 year-old girl, and Mason Williams, a 1
Shammra Lee Ann Eynon,
her, smashing it onto the floor, when she did
year-old boy, were with their parents, 29
32, 4818 S. Apopka Ave., In-
attempt to dial 911. Williams scratched the
year-old Ryan Williams and 39 year-old Sta-
verness, was arrested by the
victim's face, picked up her children and car-
cey Williams, when they were
Citrus County Sherif s Office,
ried them away. Due to the parents having a
located in Catoosa County, GA.
Sept. 15, charged with pre-
Eynon
volatile relationship and both being drug us-
The children are currently in the
scription fraud and obtaining a
ers, according to the CCSO, the children's
custody of the Department of
controlled substance by fraud
missing and endangered status was elevated
Children and Families, and the
or deception. She was released on her own
to an Amber Alert status.
R. Williams
parents are in police custody.
recognizance.
According to Capt. Brad Smith,
Ms. Williams was ar-
According to the arrest report, a
The award (L to R) was presented by FDLE
with the CCSO's Criminal Investigations Di-
rested in Georgia on a Citrus
deputy spoke with Eynon on Sept. 15 about
Commissioner Rick Swearingen, First Lady
vision, the couple used a card card in Geor-
County warrant for burglary
a prescription for hydrocodone 10 mg, 180
Ann Scott, (Dep. Behnen) and Governor Rick
gia, which alerted them as to the family's
with battery and interference
tablets, that was written by a physician at
Scott.
general location. He said investigators were
with child custody (no bond)
Suncoast Primary Care. The report stated
monitoring cell phone usage, as well. He said
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and Mr. Williams was arrested S. Williams
that the prescription was allegedly verified
the sheriff s office knew the mother may be
on Georgia traffic charges. The
by another doctor and allegedly prepared by
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traveling with the father because they had
CCSO is working toward obtaining child
an employee at the doctor s office. Accord-
been unable to locate him. Capt. Smith stated
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custody charges against him.
ing to the report, Eynon told the deputy that
that both parents have a criminal history, but
According to the Citrus County
New deadline: Monday 12 noon at the Inglis
she'd told one doctor that the other doctor
nothing recent, and off hand, he could only
Sheriff s Office, the mother, who is home-
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had authorized the prescription, but he had
say that the mother had a previous battery
less, burst into the home of her children's
No refunds for early cancellations
charge.
Continued on page 4 - Fraud Charge
guardian, about 5:45 pm on Sat., Sept. 17.