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Homicide
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In the patrol car, Det. Atchison and Sgt. Jerry Dixon had a brief discussion with
Sputa. According to the arrest report, he said that he and Bartlett had gotten into a physical
altercation, that he’d started hitting her, then he’d choked her. He said he’d hit Bartlett hard
enough to knock her out, then he’d pulled her to the location behind the shed where depu-
ties had found her. When Det. Atchison told Sputa that his girlfriend was deceased, Sputa
replied, “If she’s dead it’s from my hands,” the report stated.
Mr. Sputa, was transported to Citrus Memorial Hospital, due to his gunshot wound.
At the hospital, Det. Atchison took a recorded statement from Mr. Sputa in the presence of
Dep. Jeremy Laughlin. He again stated that he’d hit and choked Bartlett, that she’d died by
his hands, and he’d shot himself afterward due to what he’d done to Bartlett.
Sputa was transported from Citrus Memorial Hospital to Tampa General Hospital
for treatment of his injuries. On March 18, Det. Atchison traveled to Tampa General Hospi-
tal to check on Sputa’s condition and was able to obtain another statement from him. In this
brief conversation, Sputa stated that the fight between he and Bartlett had ended behind the
shed, right where she’d been found. He said he’d killed her by “choking her out.”
The physician from the Florida District Five Medical Examiner’s Office in Lees-
burg who performed the autopsy on Bartlett, Wendy Levezzi, M.D., Deputy Chief Medical
Examiner, ruled Bartlett’s death as “homicide by undetermined means.”
Alice Marie (Young) Priest, Yankeetown
Seventy-nine, lifelong resident of Yankeetown passed on
March 20, 2011 at HPH Hospice Citrus Care Center in Lecanto. Alice
was born July 24, 1931 to John and Ada (Nichols) Young on an island
off Allen Park Road, Yankeetown, and spent most her life in some
Two peacocks found, white female & blue male - Please call to claim
way on the waters that brought the family their livelihood. She fished
at an early age with her father John and knew the gulf, creeks and
Two peacocks were found on March 27, around 6:00 p.m., in the area of Allen Ave. in Inglis.
fishing holes better than most men. This knowledge with her love of
They are being held at the Inglis/Yankeetown Animal Control Facility at the Inglis Police
the water was what kept her and long time love, shrimper Jack Sparks,
Department. both appear to be fully grown and somewhat tame, One is a fully-colored male
close.
(blue, green, black and grayish), and the other is an all-white female. To claim, please con-
Their life and time together was one of wild fun experiences
tact Inglis animal control at (352) 447-0303.
Dolphin Rescue
on sea and land and while she was in Hospice herself she managed
to visit Jack in another Hospice before his prior passing this year. Alice waited tables and
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cooked in the old Oyster Bar (now Charlies Fish House) in Crystal River and at the Dinner
and volunteer, Mike Dunn went on to say “ Thank you for doing what you did today, staying
Bell in Dunnellon. When she wasn’t cooking and serving fish she was selling it for the lo-
with and protecting this injured dolphin, we probably would never have found it out in the
cals she grew up with. Alice was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter, Alice Lorene
open Gulf if you hadn’t stayed with it.” The exhausted dolphin apparently had entangled
Juday Burnett; 2 brothers, Marshall and J.W. Young and a half brother,Charlie Nichols; 2
itself in a crab trap and had drug it along for quite some time. The heavy crab cage and
sisters, Lucille Spradley and Thelma Oliver. Survivors include 2 sons, John C. Rollen of
line caused injury to it’s tail and therefore the dolphin could not swim and was just barely
Gainesville, FL, and Roger D. Reinhart of Yankeetown, FL; 2 daughters, Tina Rollen Bow-
floating above the waterline. Hopefully the dolphin taken to the Mote Marine Laboratory
man of Dunnellon, FL, and Patricia Rollen of Crystal River, FL; 3 brothers, Hollie Young
will make a full recovery and one day be released back into the wild.
of Yankeetown, FL, and Lester and Luther Young, both of Inglis, FL; 2 sisters, Melvena
Stephens of Inglis, FL, and Mary Head of Homosassa, FL; 11 grandchildren; 24 great-grand-
children; and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
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