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Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Wednesday, June 19, 2013 PORT CHARLOTTE — Authorities found a man’s body Tuesday in the garage of a Port Charlotte home that had been the site of an attempted shooting and arson hours earlier. Donald Hierspiel, 51, allegedly broke into a home on the 700 block of Riviera Lane…

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Tuesday, June 18, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — A man who had recently been released from Charlotte County Jail showed up at his former residence with an ax and demanded the current tenants leave, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. One of the victims told authorities he was asleep…

Englewood Sun (FL) – Saturday, June 15, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — More than a dozen people, occupying about half the courtroom at the Charlotte County Justice Center, held one another close and wiped tears from their eyes Friday as they awaited the sentence of the father of a 2-year-old boy who shot and killed himself…

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Sunday, June 16, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — An inmate at the Charlotte County Jail has come forward with accusations of mistreatment by jail authorities in connection with the death of a jailed homeless man. The death occurred the morning of June 9 at the facility, while the homeless man…

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Thursday, June 13, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — Lightning struck all around the perimeter of Charlotte Correctional Institution Tuesday evening. There was no lapse in time before the thunder arrived. The storm was already there. Thunder roared as Gerald Burns, a former corrections officer at the facility, related the horrific…

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Thursday, June 13, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — The Fleming Island, Fla., man found guilty in April of raping an 11-year-old girl was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday at the Charlotte County Justice Center. Twentieth Circuit Judge George Richards sentenced Christopher Maurice Roberts, 37, to a mandatory term of…

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Tuesday, June 11, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — Authorities are investigating the second inmate death at the Charlotte County Jail in less than two weeks. Thomas Robert Andreasen, 48, a homeless man who had been arrested on a panhandling charge, was found unresponsive in his cell Sunday morning, according to…

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Friday, May 31, 2013 PORT CHARLOTTE — Two men were arrested Wednesday after detectives caught them ‘hanging out’ in a local park , according to a Charlotte County Sheriff’s report. However Jonathan Lowell Porter, 63, of the 1100 block of Kenwood Avenue, and Paul Alan Schaffer, 65, of the…

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Monday, June 10, 2013 PORT CHARLOTTE — Diana Santi, 66, of Punta Gorda, has been an animal lover since she was a little girl, a characteristic that followed her into adulthood. When Hurricane Charley hit in 2004, she adopted an abandoned dog that had been roaming the streets. Then,…

Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Saturday, June 8, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — For the first time in more than 18 years, the Punta Gorda Police Department has a new crime scene investigator. Ashley Handley, 22, of Punta Gorda, is young, she’s fun, and she isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty. (Her predecessor, Pat…