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The Newscaster/Nature Coast News
Citrus Adopt-A-Shore Cleans Up
Sexual Battery - Continued from page 1taken place in a van while she
Tons of Litter
sexual abuse. Marcy said that some of the incidents had
was driving, some had taken place at Laramee’s residence and some had taken place at her
residence, and that on several occasions. they had driven to a residence to purchase crack
By Newscaster Correspondent Sally Price
cocaine.
This is the 18th year concerned residents and organizations of Citrus County have
Laramee and Marcy were both transported to the Citrus County Detention Facility
come together the 3rd Saturday of September for National Adopt A Shore Cleanup. This is
and held without bond.
just one event in the week long list of ways Save Our Waters Week makes people more con-
Hernando Man Arrested on Molestation Charge
scious of how important our water resources are and that we must conserve and keep our
precious water clean.
William Ben Butler, 69, 3334 E. Nancy Ct., Hernando, was arrested by the Citrus
A jon boat was off loaded at the shore that was almost waist high and it all came
County Sheriff’s Office, Sept. 16, on a charge of lewd and lascivious molestation of a child
off of Baxter, Banana and Buzzard Islands in Kings Bay. Reports from the county recorded
under the age of 12. The 11-year-old victim told authorities that she spent
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8,480 pounds or 4.24 tons of trash and throw aways by humans collected Saturday morn-
several afternoons at Butler’s house during the summer, the report stated,
ing before noon. Last year over 10,000 pounds of trash was picked up from the waterways
and that on several occasions he hugged her and touched her inappropri-
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including lakes, rivers, retention ponds, ditches and creeks all over Citrus County. The
ately when he pulled away, that on one occasion while they were eating
incredible collection is sorted and recorded into 80 different categories. These statistics are
lunch, he’d made an inappropriate gesture with his tongue, and on another
used to study what is thrown away and change laws and packaging to help the cause.
occasion he’d made a remark about seeing an undergarment.
She said he’d stared at her and made her feel uncomfortable.
Butler was interviewed and admitted to hugging the victim, but denied
Butler
any deliberate touching, and corroborated the account of the gesture he’d
made, but denied making a remark about the victim’s undergarment. The
report stated that Butler “kept repeating that all the girls are lying about him.” Butler was
placed under arrest and transported to the Citrus county Detention Facility. His bond was set
at $20,000.
Brian A. Mullally, M.D.
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with the sorting and recording of the massive collection of human discards collected in just 4
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short hours. This pile came from King’s Bay and the ditches along Cutler Spur which eventu-
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ally flow into the bay near Three Sister’s Spring. Photo by Sally Price
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Citrus Final budget, millage rate down from last year
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which is 8.95 percent less than the rate that it would take to collect the same amount of tax
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