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Squawk Box
May 3rd Tarmac Hearing
Creates More "Buzz"
By Tom Russell, Newscaster Editor
The Tarmac King Rd. mine near
Inglis was granted a conditional use per-
mit by the Levy Planning Commission in
April. May 3rd Tarmac will face another
hearing before the Levy County Commis-
sion. Undoubtedly many more questions
will be presented by the public. A few
issues have been sent to The Newscaster
and give us a look at what’s ahead.
Inglis Real Estate broker and
Inglis planning commission member Dar-
ryl Diamond informs us that the Army
Corp of Engineers has yet to approve the
project. More on Mr. Diamonds com-
ments later in this column.
Yankeetown Councilman Jack
Schofield, in a letter posed the following:
“the proposed Kings Road Mine stated
that if the project caused a loss of pota-
ble water to a private or public well Tar-
mac would mitigate and replace the well.
No detail other than a short statement.
(Newscaster 4-20-11 edition, letters to the
Gathering eggs is priority #1 during the 7th Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Homosassa Wildlife Park last Saturday morning. According to the
editor). If you are interested you need to
park spokesperson, over 200 children were on hand for the event, which included trinkets and goodies. Golden Egg winners were Aspyn Ra-
review the water use permit,SWFWMD
Homosassa Doctor Arrested for
faniello (8) and Ryan Austin Lange (4). TheNewscaster/Mike Moore
well complaint instructions require Tar-
Levy Man
mac upon complaint within 48 hours they
Arrested on Trafficking Prescription Drugs
have to notify SWFWMD about the com-
plaint. Tarmac will perform a preliminary
study to determine whether their water
withdraws created the problem and must
to traffic in hydrocodone. Bunker’s bond
From the Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
notify SWFWMD in 72 hours the result
Murder Charge
was set at $1.5 million.
Gordon Frank Bunker, D.O. (Doc-
of their independent study.
When the CCSO investigation of
tor of Osteopathy) a 71 year-old medical
If the permittee (Tarmac) deter-
Bunker determined that
practitioner from Homosassa, was arrested
mines they were not the cause, they have
From the Levy Co. Sheriff Dept.
he was selling large
by detectives with the citrus County Sher-
On April 8, 2011 the Levy County
Continued on page 8 - Squawk Box
quantities of the con-
iff’s Office, April 19, on a warrant charging
Sheriff’s Office received
trolled substance to
him with drug trafficking and conspiracy.
Custom
a call from Gary “Andy”
street-level dealers, un-
According to the sheriff’s office, they have
Andrew Sullivan at 6430
dercover agents with
been investigating Dr. Bunker’s “illegal ac-
Wood Products
N.W. 170th Street Trenton,
the sheriff’s office and
tivities” for several years.
Fl. Sullivan stated that his
special agents with the
With an arrest warrant in hand,
girlfriend, Summer Lynn
Florida Department of
members of the sheriff’s office, along with
Home - Industry - Marine
Bunker
Keller allegedly got into
Law Enforcement were
other state and federal agencies, arrived at
an argument with a relative
able to make multiple undercover controlled
Dr. Bunker’s office located at 5311 S. Sun-
Sullivan
Your plans or ours
on the phone earlier in the
purchases of prescription hydrocodone pills
coast Blvd., Homosassa, and conducted
day. Sullivan stated that he and Keller then
throughout the county. During these trans-
an extensive search of the premises and a
argued over the contents of the conversation
actions, thousands of pills were exchanged,
50 years experience
second unspecified location, to record the
with Sullivan’s relative.
according to the sheriff’s office, and these
doctor’s inventory of all his controlled sub-
Sullivan alleges that after his argu-
pills were tracked to Bunker and his medical
stances. They discovered “huge discrepan-
ment with Keller he spoke to a friend on the
Wood Products Division
offices by various investigative techniques.
cies” in the doctor’s drug inventory, accord-
phone. After Sullivan’s phone call with the
The Florida Department of Health
ing to a press release by the CCSO.
friend he allegedly started looking for Keller
Enviro Group of Florida, Inc.
issued an emergency order suspending Bun-
The warrant charges Bunker with
and he is unable to locate her. Sullivan
ker’s medical license, citing a flagrant dis-
two counts of trafficking in hydrocodone
states that he looks throughout the residence
352-586-9598
over 28 grams and one count of conspiracy
Continued on page 3 - Trafficking Charge
Continuted on page 4 - Murder Charge