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Sunday Favorites: Maroons Unchained
Slave Rebellion Leads to War and Cost Country Millions Published Sunday, May 19, 2013 12:05 am by Merab-Michal Favorite MANATEE COUNTY – The largest slave rebellion in American history is seldom talked about. It is a story of self-emancipated Africans, knocking down the bounds of pain and degradation, freeing themselves to grab the most basic of…
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FBI investigating former Edison instructor
Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Saturday, May 18, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — A former assistant instructor at Edison State College Charlotte Campus is under investigation by the FBI on charges of child pornography. He faces multiple sexual battery charges in Charlotte County after he reportedly engaged in sexual activity with underage girls, including a…
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Three arrested in grow house bust
Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Saturday, May 18, 2013 PORT CHARLOTTE — A routine stakeout Sunday took an unexpected turn when deputies got a whiff of some potent purple haze marijuana thriving inside an elaborate grow house on the 21300 block of Hepner Avenue, according to a Charlotte County Sheriff’s report. Three were arrested…
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Two men arrested in Placida robbery
Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Friday, May 17, 2013 PLACIDA — Two Rotonda West men were arrested Wednesday in connection with the armed robbery of a local convenience store Tuesday evening, as well as a Rotonda residential burglary that occurred a few nights prior, according to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office. Karl William Recine,…
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Man ‘bugs out’ at carwash
Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Thursday, May 16, 2013 CHARLOTTE HARBOR — A Palmetto man was arrested Tuesday at a local car wash after he allegedly started an altercation with employees when they couldn’t get the bugs off his pickup, according to a Charlotte County Sheriff’s report. Thomas Marion Murray Jr., 45, was charged…
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Defense says: Melissa Harding-Jones to stand trial
Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Wednesday, May 15, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — The woman charged in connection with the 1999 death of 4-year-old Pilar Rodriguez finally will stand trial in September, after nearly two years of failed plea deals, her defense attorney, Robert Barrar, said Tuesday. Attorneys on both sides appeared before 20th Judicial…
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Report: Woman replaces drugs with water
Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Tuesday, May 14, 2013 LEE COUNTY — A 24-year-old Port Charlotte pharmacy technician was arrested Wednesday in Lee County for allegedly stealing liquid narcotics and replacing them with sterile water while working at HealthPark Medical Center in Fort Myers. Jessica Danielle Bramble, of the 22300 block of Oceanside Ave.,…
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Man’s death stuns neighbors
Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Saturday, May 11, 2013 PUNTA GORDA — Carl Edward Patrick, or ‘Ed’ as his friends called him, had a tough exterior. Neighbors said the 54-year-old Punta Gorda man often rode his Harley-Davidson to his favorite local haunt and lived a ‘biker lifestyle.’ However Patrick’s hardened shell melted like butter…
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Authorities seize 85-90 farm animals
Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Friday, May 10, 2013 SOUTH OF PUNTA GORDA — New details have emerged in the animal -cruelty investigation that turned into a marijuana grow house bust April 23, according to Charlotte County Animal Control. Pablo Cauz, 49, of the 32600 block of Oil Well Road, Punta Gorda, could face…
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Business owner recovering after tractor mishap
Originally published in Charlotte Sun (Port Charlotte, FL) – Saturday, May 4, 2013 PORT CHARLOTTE — The owners of Covertrends, a flooring business in Port Charlotte, like to keep the store quiet. Eerily quiet, with no white noise from a radio and no one talking on a phone in the background. Unless there is a…
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