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Turns Himself In, Along
With His Accomplice: $1000 TAKEN FROM SCOOTER
RENTAL SHOP
Key West Police solved a
burglary case last night when
the burglar apparently got a
guilty conscience and turned
himself and his accomplice in
to police.
Robert Pryor, 53, was
charged with burglary of a
structure and felony larceny
of over $300 for the burglary,
which occurred early Tuesday
morning.
ARREST NUMBERS WAY DOWN
COMPARED TO PAST YEARS
According to arrest numbers released last week, Key West
saw a drastic reduction in disorderly activity this year during
Spring Break. Key West Police Department had arrested 60
people during Spring Break 2007 on charges ranging from sale
of cocaine and simple battery to carrying a concealed weapon
and possession of marijuana. Fifteen of those arrests were for
disorderly conduct, and 34 of those were Marchman Acts. One
was a driving under the influence arrest.
…As Long
As, When You Get Caught,
You Say You Didn’t Really
Intend To Steal the Money"
by Dennis Reeves Cooper
We told you last week that
State Attorney Mark Kohl will
not be filing charges against
School Board member Steven
Pribramsky, even though
Pribramsky admits that he
signed someone else’s name
on four checks totaling $91,500;
and even though, during the
four-month investigation,
Pribramsky refused to speak
directly to Kohl’s investigators.
The investigative report
was released to the press Monday.
In the report, prosecutors
say that they simply could not
find any evidence that Pribramsky
had any intent to steal
any money.
CRB Votes To Rescind Confidentiality Policy
by Dennis Reeves Cooper
The Citizen Review Board
(CRB) did the right thing Monday
night. The board voted
unanimously to rescind its
policy of keeping incoming
complaints about police officers
confidential.
As you may know, we
here at Key West the Newspaper
have been pushing the
CRB for several months to
change the policy, ever since we
made a public records request
for a copy of a complaint last
November and that request
was refused. Our position is
that, since the CRB is a City
agency, incoming complaints
are public records, as per the
Florida Sunshine Law.
But just two weeks ago,
CRB member Jane Rohrschneider
said she felt so strongly
that incoming complaints
should be kept confidential that
she threatened to resign if the
policy were rescinded. So, she
should have resigned after the
vote Monday night, right? But
she didn’t. Instead, she now
says she will resign sometime
in the future if the board does
not eventually reinstate the
confidentiality policy. We’re
not making this up. That’s what
she said.
Back To Yesteryear
by Charles “Sonny” McCoy
Last week, the Board of
County Commissioner took the
first official steps in the creation
of a functioning railroad train
that would initially travel just
a short distance over part of the
Old Seven Mile Bridge, between
Marathon (Key Vaca) and Pigeon
Key. The intent is to construct a
replica of the early FEC trains
that traveled down the cast coast
of Florida and would then go to
sea by traveling over the system
and viaducts that had just been
constructed over a century ago.
by Hal O’Boyle
“We must reject…the broad contention submitted
in behalf of the government that all receipts— everything
that comes in— are income…” – United
States Supreme Court, So. Pacific v. Lowe, 247 U.S.
330, (1918)
As the April 15th deadline approaches for Americans
to line up for shearing by the political class, this
writer returns once again to contemplating the criminal
rights of spring. Book banning and witness tampering
are today’s topics, the former a long tradition among
powerful public figures who fear justice, the second
more often associated with Mafia dons, also powerful
public figures who fear justice but with weaker
grammar and flashier suits.
Forcing a witness to change sworn testimony
is the crime of witness tampering. What you write
on a tax return, signed under penalties of perjury, is
“sworn testimony” by any measure.
Dear Editor:
There is an almost cost free way City officials could improve the evening rush hour traffic out of Old Town : Make George Street one way HEADING NORTH from Flagler to N. Roosevelt Blvd. Currently George runs one way southbound and is little more than a shortcut from Mr. Submarine to Discount Auto.
Changing the flow of traffic would enable people to use Catherine, United, Seminary, South, Washington and Von Phister as alternatives to Truman Avenue in order to reach US 1. Even if it increases the traffic on these streets, the burden is shared among all five. The gain: it would be the equivalent of four-laning Truman Ave. from Old Town to Garrison Bight!
Additionally, commuters who are headed from, say, Whitehead to 12th Street would never have to use Flagler or the Boulevard at all.
Katha Sheehan
Key West
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The Florida National
Organization for Women (FLNOW)
joins with other civil
rights leaders in protesting
the actions of the Largo City
Commission. FLNOW is outraged
by the discriminatory
firing of city manager, Steve
Stanton. Stanton, who was
fired after announcing that he
is transgendered, had served
letters
NOW Wants To Save Job Of
Transgendered City Manager
as the City Manager for Largo
for fourteen years.
by Valerie Ridenour
Chief Billy and
Bob Paul are hosting a
blues workshop at the
Bottlecap on Wednesday
evenings. If you’re
into playing the blues,
show up. You’ll either
learn something or teach
something!
My apologies to
Nick Norman. Somehow
our office attached
the wrong headline to
my review of this talented
performer a couple
of weeks ago. If you saw
Watherwax’s great photo,
you knew it was not
Barry Cuda. Sorry, Nick.
It may have happened
again with the date for
Jodyrae’s concert. I
checked my original. It was right. In the thirteen years
I’ve written for KWTN, this has
only happened a very few times,
so folks, please forgive us.
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