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Kids Shop With A Cop
Citrus Sheriff’s Dept. Takes Up
Search For Missing Plane, Body Found
Thanks to the generosity of some big-hearted area businesses, organizations and indi-
viduals, 70 youngsters and their families will once again have the opportunity to take part in
According to Gail Tierney, Citrus County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer, the
a very festive seasonal event this month. The Sheriff’s Office Juvenile Affairs Unit, working
U.S. Coast Guard recovered a human body in the Gulf of Mexico, Dec. 8, about 20 miles off the
closely with the Homosassa Wal-Mart and Inverness Wal-Mart Supercenter, earlier had solic-
coast of Yankeetown. The body was taken to the medical examiner’s office in Leesburg.
ited referrals from the county’s elementary school guidance counselors to assist deserving
Officials do not know if the body is one of two men believed to have crashed into the Gulf
students and their families with a free-of-cost shopping spree, pre-shopping dinner and spe-
around 6:45 p.m., Nov. 30. Darien Peckham, 35, and Zachary Schlitt, 28, of West Palm Beach,
cial gift for each shopper, present wrapping and the makings of a full family feast for the
were en route from Tallahassee to Tampa's Vandenberg Airport, when air-traffic controllers in
holidays.
Jacksonville reported that their single-engine, fixed-wing Beechcraft airplane had dropped off
On Tuesday, Dec. 9, youngsters enjoyed a kid’s meal, courtesy of the McDonald’s by the
radar and had possibly crashed into the Gulf.
Homosassa Wal-Mart. Then, at 6 p.m., with a $100 gift card in hand, children were escorted
On Dec. 2, the U.S. Coast Guard suspended its active search for the missing plane. The
through the store by deputies who helped them pick out gifts for their parents, siblings and
Citrus County Sheriff's Office had been assisting the Coast Guard since Dec. 1 and returned to
other family members. The children are always encouraged to buy something for themselves,
the search site, Dec. 2 and later, due to greatly improved weather conditions. They were
too. The same festivities will be repeated on Thursday, Dec. 11, at the Inverness Wal-Mart
searching site about 14 miles off the coast of Homosassa, in an attempt to locate the missing
Supercenter and the McDonald’s inside the store. In addition to Sheriff Jeff Dawsy and his
plane, using the agency's side scan sonar unit. Deputies on board the vessel said that the
deputies who give of their time and expertise as shopping elves, Sheriff’s Office volunteers
sonar unit has performed flawlessly, and that they were hopeful of finding the missing craft.
and others will be on hand to wrap the children’s purchases for gift giving at the holidays.
The families of the 70 lucky youngsters also will be presented with a turkey, plus all the
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trimmings, for a holiday feast of their own to remember. If any individual or organization
wishes to donate funds to this annual holiday event, there’s still time. Just make checks
the victim said that she'd checked the balances on several of her other credit cards and had
payable to Shop With a Cop and call Dep. Joe Faherty, the event’s organizer, for pickup. A
learned that two Chase credit cards had been used in Citrus County, numerous times, to obtain
message may be left for him by calling 726-4488 during regular business hours.
cash advances. One of the Chase cards had over $1,000 in cash advances charged to it, and
According to Faherty, 100 percent of the monies raised goes directly to the kids.
the other one had over $10,000 in cash advances charged to it. When the victim checked her
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Bank of America credit card, she learned that over $14,000 in cash advances had been taken
out on the card since August, 2008. When she called American Express, she discovered that
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over $1,000 in cash advances had been placed on that card, as well. The victim told detectives
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that she never uses her credit cards to make cash advances, and that she still has possession
of her credit cards. After she'd confronted Dumal about the use of the credit cards, she said,
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Dumal had not returned to her home.
Detectives located Dumal on Dec. 1st and arrested her on the CVS robbery charge.
They also spoke with her about the credit card case. Dumal admitted that she'd used the
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victim's credit cards without the woman's knowledge or permission. She said, when the woman
confronted her about using the cards, the woman had alleged that $50,000 had been taken, but
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she'd actually taken about $30,000. She said that she would sneak a card out of the woman's
purse, use it to make a cash withdrawal, then sneak it back into the purse. She said the victim
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did not notice the mounting balances because the victim's mail stacks up and is unorganized.
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Woman Dies in Homosassa Crash
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A 53 year old Brooksville woman died in a one car crash near Homosassa last Thurs-
day. Susan Desiree Price of Brooksville was driving a 2005 Jeep SUV.
printed matter, subject to subtractions & or additions.
The woman's vehicle was traveling north on county road 491 west of Cardinal St
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shortly before 9 p.m. December 4th (Thursday). As the SUV approached Cardinal St., Price
failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway. The vehicle traveled off the roadway and onto the
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shoulder of the road where it struck a fence and overturned. The vehicle then collided with a
tree and came to final rest upright on the shoulder.
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