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Pair charged in East Englewood burglary

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by CCSO

Robert E. Reames

Char­lotte County Sheriff’s detec­tives Thurs­day arrested a man and a woman and charged them with bur­glary of an Engle­wood East home in the 9400 block of Kla­math Falls Avenue.

Arrested were Robert “Bobby” Eugene Reames, 30, of the 14300 block of Mor­ris­town Avenue, South Gulf Cove, and Nicole Lynn Guil­foyle, 29, of the 3200 block of  Spice­wood Drive in Gulf Cove.

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Englewood man charged in shooting

Saturday, February 4th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by SCSO

Don­ald G. Smith

A 74-year-old Engle­wood man faces charges of  aggra­vated assault with a deadly weapon after a Thurs­day shoot­ing in the Olde Engle­wood area.

Don­ald G. Smith of the 900 block of Caples Street was arrested and held on $100,000 bond in the Sara­sota County Jail pend­ing a March 2 arraignment.

Accord­ing to the Sara­sota County Sheriff’s report, Smith fired a hand­gun at the intended vic­tim, a 54-year-old Engle­wood man, who was mow­ing a lawn at the time. The man, who owns a lawn ser­vice, was on a rid­ing mower when, accord­ing to the report, he saw Smith lean­ing against his truck with a hand­gun about 60 yards away. The man told deputies he ducked as he saw Smith aim and fire, then drove his mower around the cor­ner, ran to the house and asked the his lawn cus­tomer to call 911

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Speeding bust leads to Englewood drug bust

Friday, February 3rd, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by CCSO

John Anthony Porter

Char­lotte County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an Engle­wood East man and charged him with drug pos­ses­sion after he refused to pull over while being pur­sued for speed­ing, accord­ing to a Char­lotte County Sheriff’s Office press release.

The man, John Anthony Porter, 26, of the 7100 block of Eldridge Street, ignored the pur­su­ing sheriff’s car and drove home, telling deputies to get off his prop­erty and they couldn’t do any­thing to him on his property.

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Fire leaves home uninhabitable

Monday, January 30th, 2012 by Mark Chapman

A house fire early Fri­day in Tan­ger­ine Woods left the home unin­hab­it­able, but no one was injured.

Accord­ing to a press release from Engle­wood Fire Chief Brian Gorski:

At 12:58 a.m. Fri­day, Jan. 27, the Engle­wood Fire Depart­ment responded to a report of a struc­ture fire at 850 Seabrook Court in Tan­ger­ine Woods. Engine 71 arrived on scene at 1:07 a.m. and reported see­ing smoke com­ing from one side of the com­po­nent home. Fire­fight­ers were approached by the home­owner, who had a gar­den hose in his hand. The home­owner informed the fire­fight­ers that he was a retired fire­fighter and that he had been try­ing to put some water on the smoke that was com­ing from under his home.

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Woman kidnapped, beaten, left at bridge

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 by Mark Chapman

A woman told Sara­sota Sheriff’s Office deputies she was forced into a pickup truck late Mon­day night, beaten and left near the Man­a­sota Beach Road bridge.

Accord­ing to a sheriff’s report, the woman said she had been forced into a green Dodge Ram pickup in the vicin­ity of Baf­fin and Ster­ling roads in Venice by three peo­ple, a man and two women, all described as being in their early 30s. After beat­ing her, she said, she was left near the bridge, and she called for help from the bridge ten­der about 10:20 p.m.

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Charlotte detectives need help ID’ing suspect

Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy CCSO

An ID theft sus­pect is shown in a sur­veil­lance cam­era photo using an ATM.

Updated Tues­day, 7:30 a.m., new photos.

Char­lotte County Sheriff’s detec­tives are again ask­ing the pub­lic to help iden­tify sur­veil­lance pho­tos of a credit card fraud and grand theft suspect.

The woman opened a credit card in a Port Char­lotte victim’s name, then used it at var­i­ous stores and bank ATM’s from Port Char­lotte to Braden­ton. Detec­tives have received new sur­veil­lance pho­tos in this ongo­ing case. One is from a Wells Fargo ATM in Port Char­lotte, another at a Braden­ton Well Fargo ATM, and she is dri­ving a Ford van as shown.

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Woman airlifted, man charged in Rotonda crash

Monday, January 23rd, 2012 by Mark Chapman

A Port Char­lotte woman was air­lifted to Lee Memo­r­ial Hos­pi­tal in Fort Myers Fri­day night after the car in which she was rid­ing struck a palm tree.

Accord­ing to the Florida High­way  Patrol report, the woman, 71, suf­fered crit­i­cal injuries when the 2005 Dodge Van trav­el­ing east on Rotonda Boule­vard East near Gas­par­illa Road left the road and drove into the median, strik­ing a palm tree, The dri­ver, Frank Harold Paul­son, 73, of Port Char­lotte, backed the car off the median and resumed dri­ving, the report said.

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Help locate missing man

Saturday, January 21st, 2012 by Mark Chapman ,
with photos by courtesy SCSO

Richard Van­de­walle

A 54-year-old South Venice man is miss­ing and may be endan­gered, and the Sara­sota County Sheriff’s Office is seek­ing the community’s help in locat­ing him.

Richard Van­de­walle, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, white with brown hair, left his Loy­ola Road home Fri­day morn­ing and has not returned. He was last seen dri­ving a 2006 tan Ford F150 pickup truck with Florida tag 453L-R-L. He may be wear­ing a brown Artistree Land­scape shirt.

Van­de­walle has gone miss­ing before and was found in need of med­ical atten­tion and dehy­drated. His men­tal capac­i­ties may be deteriorating.

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