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Are You Ready for
Hurricane Season?
By Gail Tierney, Citrus County
Sheriff PIO
Don’t Miss CCSO’s
All-Hazard Expo on May 19
As of early April, Colorado State
University’s renowned forecast team is
predicting that the 2012 Atlantic hurricane
season, which runs from June 1 to Nov.
30, will have reduced activity.
Team members anticipate a
below-average probability for major hur-
ricanes making landfall along the U.S.
coastline and in the Caribbean, but remind
all coastal residents that it only takes one
hurricane to make it an active season for
them.
The team is calling for
the possibility of 10 named storms, includ-
ing four hurricanes. Two of them could be
intense. The probability for at least one
major hurricane landfall on the Gulf Coast
is 24 percent, and that probability jumps
to 34 percent for at least one major storm
to track into the Caribbean.
A pair of Julia butterflies (Dryas iulia) resting between flights in the conservatory at Homosassa Butterfly off Cardinal Lane. The unique attrac-
That’s why the Citrus County Sheriff’s
tion owned by Robert Vigliotti propagates and displays 15 different species of indigenous Florida butterflies including Monarch and the Zebra
Office emergency management team
Longwing, which is the Florida state butterfly. TheNewscaster/Mike Moore Photo
works closely with community members
Three Arrested on Drug
Airboat Mishap
year-round to stress the importance of be-
ing not only prepared, but ready to protect
Charges After Traffic Stop
their family, home and business from se-
Injures
vere weather and other hazards.
Maintaining a well-stocked disaster kit,
Three men were arrested on drug-
clear liquid Goldsmith said was probably
as well as an often-rehearsed family (and/
related charges, May 8, following a traffic
Homosassa
camp fuel (the substance tested positive for
or business) disaster plan, is only one key
stop in Homosassa.
meth and weighed more than 200 grams).
to survival. When faced with a major di-
Arrested were Scott Anthony Gold-
Another deputy arrived at the scene of the
saster, citizens should know it could be as
smith, 41, Homosassa; Casey Byers, 35,
Woman
traffic stop and spoke with Byer, who said,
long as 72 hours before any kind of public
3739 N. Honeylocust Dr., Beverly Hills; and
according to the report, that earlier in the
assistance is available.
Douglas Dale Naylor, 40, Homosassa.
evening he d helped Goldsmith clean up
On Saturday, May 19, the agen-
According to the arrest reports, a
meth garbage from meth cooks (production)
FWC Investigating
cy’s emergency management section will
Citrus County Sheriff s Office deputy was
by burning them in a burn pile, and that his
hold its free, family-friendly all-hazard
patrolling Cypress Blvd. West in Sugarmill
fingerprints would be on the jar of meth oil.
and informational expo at the National
A Homosassa woman was seri-
Woods around 1:30 a.m. and noted that the
Goldsmith said the test kits in his
Guard Armory, 8551 W. Venable Street, in
ously injured in an airboat accident Sunday,
lens cover on the driver s side tail light was
pocket were for his pond, but they woud test
Crystal River.
May 13, on the Withlachoochee River.
broken. The deputy stopped the vehicle, a
positive for meth. He said he d purchased
From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., visitors
Nicole Lee Aspinwall, 30, was
red Ford Ranger, at Sycamore Cir. and Wild
ephedrine for a person who is known to cook
will have the chance to see displays, watch
with Robert Joseph Miller, 36, and her
Olive St. Goldsmith, the driver, was issued a
meth, that he d been giving the person mon-
demonstrations, pick up handouts and re-
children, Tyler Eversoll, 15, and Hailey
traffic citation for the infraction.
ey in order for him to manufacture meth, He
Dickens, 10, according to Florida Fish and
Upon questioning, Goldsmith told
Continued on page 8 - Squawk Box
named several items used in the manufac-
Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)
the deputy that he had nothing illegal in the
turing of meth that would be found in the
Army Corps of
investigators.
vehicle such as narcotics or explosives. He
burn pile and in an outside shed, along with
The four were parked on the dry
granted the detuty permission to search the
cannabis plants growing inside and outside
Engineers Tarmac
riverbed at the Rutland flats (Sumter County)
truck.
of his residence. Deputies searched the truck
off the Withlacoochee River, and the airboat
The deputy located several items
again and found other items used in drug
Draft Report
was not running. Around 1:30 p.m., Miller
used in the production of methamphetamine
manufacturing.
cranked the motor, thinking that Aspinwall
(“meth”), including pH strips, a pipe cutter
Goldsmith gave permission for his
See page 4
was getting into the vessel. However, she
(used to dismantle lithium betteries), coffee
residence to be searched and drove his truck
filters, a funnel and a glass jar containing a
Continued on page 3- Drug Arrests
Continued on page 4 - Airboat Accident