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Squawk Box
Big Brother is here, & he
may send you a
traffic ticket for $158
Rita Surber of Inglis called The
Newscaster Comment Line recently, com-
plaining about receiving a traffic ticket in
the amount of $158 due to one of the traffic
enforcement cameras in Dunnellon snap-
ping a picture of her car tag.
The intersection where the inci-
dent took place was U.S. Hwy. 41 at Pow-
ell Rd. during late afternoon on Dec. 20.
She said she turned right on a red light after
coming to a stop, at least she thought she
had completely stopped until she received
notification of the violation and fine. “I had
been turning there for over twenty years
and had never gotten a violation,” she said.
The notice informed her that she would
not receive points against her driver’s li-
cense if she paid the fine prior to the due
date. “But I think, if you receive a viola-
tion on something, you should also receive
points,” the caller said.
The notice informed her that it
was sent in relation to the Dunnellon Po-
lice Department’s Intersection Safety Pro- Kayakers heading up the narrow channel to Three Sister’s Springs in Crystal River Saturday got a good view of the over 200 manatees that were
gram, and instructed her to send the $158 jammed into the sanctuary at the mouth of the famous spring. An official count in the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday was
to an address in Tempe, Arizona. “It’s a 453 not counting the ones gathered at Three Sisters Springs. The canal outside the sanctuary boundary lines was full of every age of swim-
rip-off,” she chuckled good naturedly, “A mers, snorkelers, kayakers, boaters all hoping to have a close encounter of the manatee kind. There are some strict rules about the manatee
way of theft.” Her husband also comment- and you better know them before you launch that boat or jump in that water. Continued on page 5 - Manatee Survey

Fatal Shooting Two home invasion suspects arrested

ed, “crooked,” he said, several times.
Dunnellon’s traffic light cameras
were installed in late October - two at U.S.
41 and Powell Rd., one at U.S. 41 North
and Brooks St., and one at U.S. 41 South.
Warnings were issued the first thirty days,
but violators now receive fines of $158.
This brought to mind a complaint
I’d heard about a similar camera enforce-
ment program in Louisiana by a man who
purchased his son an older-model SUV, but
left it in his name since he would be pay-
ing the insurance. In the two years since he
purchased the SUV, he’s paid slightly more
that $1,000 in camera-related fines for var-
ious offenses, such as his son speeding on
off-ramps or running red lights. Since his
son doesn’t want his father lecturing him
about the fines, he’s avoided telling his fa-
ther about the fines until they’re past the
due dates and the fines have greatly in-
creased. I feel that this is a good example
of why many parents turn prematurely
gray! Lucky for the father, points are not
accumulated against a vehicle owner’s
driver’s license in Louisiana for camera-
Continued on page 4 - Squawk Box
in Crystal River
From Citrus County Sheriff Dept.
The Citrus County Sheriff's Dept.
is investigating a shooting that took place
Monday night in the victim's front yard after
a call about 9:30 p.m.
Scott Sumner Standard, 46, was
shot outdoors in the yard at his home ad-
dress of 1119 S. Urchin Point.  A commer-
cial fisherman, Standard was pronounced
dead shortly before 10 p.m. by emergency
medical services (EMS) personnel on scene.
No arrests have been made in the
case at this time.  The victim’s autopsy was
scheduled for Tuesday morning at the medi-
cal examiner’s office in Leesburg.
The alleged shooter in the case
is a neighbor who lives nearby.   Deputies
have been dispatched numerous times over
many months regarding an ongoing dispute
between the two over civil issues involving
property lines and easements.
From Citrus County Sheriff's Dept. drug paraphernalia charges and one count of
The two suspects in a Homosassa
home invasion, reported at 9:30 p.m., Jan.
19, were both arrested, separately and in dif-
introducing contraband
into a county detention
facility. He is being held
at the Citrus County De-
ferent locations, within two days of the inci-
tention Facility in Lecan-
dent. Both were arrested on Citrus County
to with no bond on the
warrants for home invasion and possession
home invasion charges
of a firearm by a convicted felon.
and a $16,000 bond on Wilder
William Christopher Wood, 29,
the drug charges.
3909 Horace Allen Rd., Lecanto, was taken
On the night of
into custody the following afternoon, Jan.
Jan. 21, U.S. Marshals
20, after being spotted by CCSO deputies as
located and arrested 34
a passenger in a blue Ford pickup truck in
year-old Robert Raymond
Crystal River. Deputies made a traffic stop
Wilder of Crystal River in
on the truck in the area of Meadowcrest
Lakeland, Florida. Assis-
Blvd. near Gulf to Lake Hwy. Wood dropped
tance from the U.S. Mar-
a baggie containing 2 grams of metham-
shals Service was enlisted
phetamine on the seat as he was ordered to
by the sheriffís office when
step out of the truck and was additionally Wood
they determined that Wild-
charged with possession of methamphet-
er was no longer in the Citrus County area.
amine and drug paraphernalia. At the jail,
On the afternoon of Jan. 24, CCSO Public
a second baggie containing a small amount
Information Officer Gail Tierney said that
of methamphetamine was found in his pos-
Wilder would be transported to the Citrus
session, and he was charged with a second
set of possession of methamphetamine and Continued on page 3 - Home Invasion