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  • Marion County Sheriff's Reports for 10-07-2011

    An Ocala woman took down a robbery suspect who tried to give her money to provide him an alibi.
    The attempted robbery took place on the evening of Oct. 3 near 25th Avenue, when the victim told investigators he was walking away from an ATM and toward his car.
    The victim said a man later identified as John Ashua Meekin, 25, of Ocala, approached and asked for money. The victim said he didn’t have any money and Meekin pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the victim, who then put his car into gear and sped off.

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  • Marion County Sheriff's Reports for 2-17-12

    Two women were arrested for retail theft, one a felony, after an incident at Bealls on Feb. 7. The women entered the store, and one, April Dawn Riffel, 31, of Southeast 36th Avenue, was reportedly viewed by loss prevention officers taking several pieces of jewelry and placing them in a shopping cart. She then went to the juniors female area and took two juvenile tops.
    At the same time, Katrina Renee Childers, 25, of Southeast 26th Court, was observed with several pieces of female clothing.

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  • New homeowner finds air conditioner missing

    The air conditioning thefts that seem to be in vogue nowadays hit the southwest area recently.
    A man who purchased a home on 116th Place found, when he arrived the day after closing, that the airconditioning unit was gone. Copper lines and power lines had been cut.
    The missing unit is valued at $4,500.
    Two residents of Stone Creek were arrested recently after an incident in their neighborhood.

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  • Marion County Sheriff's Reports for 1-27-2012

    A man who said he was in the area to sell magazines was accused of misdemeanor possession of marijuana after he was checked by a deputy near an empty store in Friendship Center.
    Deputies stopped Laron D. Richardson, 22, of the Panhandle city of Baker, and a North Carolina man who was with him. The men said they were trying to sell magazines in the neighborhood. A pocket knife was seen clipped to Richardson’s pocket, and he was asked to empty his pockets. In doing so, a small bag of what later proved to be marijuana was taken out.

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  • Marion County Sheriff's Reports for 12-23-11

    Pamela J. Griffin, of Southwest 79th Circle, Ocala, was arrested Friday, Dec. 16, on one count of organized fraud and 12 counts of uttering a forged instrument (forging a check).
    According to a news release, detectives developed the case after learning Griffin deposited into her account several checks from several businesses for which she worked, located in The Villages, according to reports. The evidence allegedly shows Griffin deposited a check Dec. 10, 2010, and continued depositing checks through Oct. 26, 2011. The deposits totaled $13,754.91.

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  • Marion County Sheriff's reports 12-9-11

    A man who went to check on his father’s empty house ended up confronting, then chasing an alleged burglar, who was later arrested and charged.
    The man allegedly encountered William T. McLaughlin, 17, in the kitchen with a case of beer. The suspect ran with the homeowner’s son chasing, from the home in Country Oaks. McLaughlin, of Southwest 37th Lane, was briefly detained by someone in the Rasmussen College parking lot, but got away toward Fore Ranch.
    He was arrested later and accused of residential burglary and petit theft.

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  • Marion County Sheriff's Reports for 12-2-2011

    Three drivers were cited in the past week in the southwest area for driving under the influence, including an 81-year-old woman and another woman whose car almost rear-ended a deputy.
    An 81-year-old woman was seen driving after dark with no headlights and failing to stay in a single lane. When the deputy tried to stop Roberta J. Irwin, 81, of Southwest 96th Avenue, she kept going, but eventually had to stop when her car was blocked by traffic.
    She told the deputy she didn’t know he was behind her.

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  • Marion County Sheriff's Reports for 11-18-2011

    The Marion County Sheriff’s Office is trying to identify and locate a suspect who jumped a counter to snatch nearly 800 pills during a grand theft.
    Around 1:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 11, a white male, about 6-feet 2 inches tall and weighting about 250 pounds, entered the CVS pharmacy, 10255 S.W. 86th Circle, Ocala (along State Road 200 at the intersection of 103rd Street Road) and jumped the rear pharmacy counter. He grabbed two large bottles of hydrocodone and fled on foot across S.R. 200 and ran southwesterly down 103rd Street Road.

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  • Suspect charged in identity theft case

    On Sunday, Nov. 6, around 3 p.m., deputies conducted a traffic stop on a silver Dodge Magnum for a tint violation. The driver, Mario Vargas, did not have a valid driver’s license. The passenger initially gave deputies a false name and date of birth. With Vargas’ consent, deputies searched the car and found marijuana and cocaine.

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  • Chase reaches 110 mph

    An attempt at a routine traffic stop turned into a 110 mph chase on Oct. 24 and resulted in multiple charges against the alleged driver.
    Eric Danzell Humbert Jr. of 107th Place, Dunnellon, faces charges of possession of marijuana less than 20 grams, felony fleeing and eluding, resisting without violence and no valid driver’s license.

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