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Ann Dugger: Love flows for lives taken . .2 Unsolved Murders . .10 FUGITIVES Protect and Serve . .3 Missing Persons . .11 CAPTURED 2718 Tossing of the Roses pictures . .5 Forewarned JSO Most Wanted . .13 MISSING Howell: False Report of a Crime . .6 Busted; Nassau Most Wanted . .14 PERSONS Hats Off: Vic Micolucci . .7 is Forearmed Baker, Bradford, Clay, St Johns Wanted . .15 FOUND 179 Forewarned is Forearmed . .8-9 Pgs. 8 & 9 Special Thanks . .16 AVAILABLE ONLINE 24/7 M AY 2015 WWW.JUSTICECOALITION.ORG Volume 22 • Number 14 • FREE Florida focuses on finding absconded sex offenders “For real? Am I being punked?” Dennis Bustle Mother’s reaction at FDLE Special Agent in Charge Jacksonville Regional Operations Center overturned conviction Most convicted sex of - fenders and all career of - of Kalil’s killer fenders in Florida are required to register their By Shirley Shaw addresses with law en - forcement. These ad - Lynnette Roebuck was in California when a re - dresses are available to citizens through two porter from a local television station called to tell her online registries: Florida’s Sexual Offenders Frederick Wade’s murder conviction in the death of and Predators Registry and Florida’s Career Kalil McCoy had been overturned. “I couldn’t believe Offender Registry. When an offender fails to it,” she said. “I asked him if I was being punked and, register, not only is valuable public safety in - if so, it was a malicious trick. He assured me it was formation lost, but the offender is also send - true – the announcement had just been made – and ing a message that he/she refuses to abide my heart dropped.” by Florida’s laws. Immediately thrust back to those horrible days Fortunately, a new initiative between nearly four years ago when she first received a call FDLE and our law enforcement partners is that her beloved daughter was missing, Lynette working to ensure offenders who fail to com - couldn’t believe she’d have to live through another ply with their registration requirements are trial. Hearing the details of how her daughter was located and arrested. The initiative began shot in the head by Frederick Wade, a classmate driv - last July and has already resulted in more ing the car in which she was a passenger, who ob - Kalil McCoy than 100 arrests and 70 additional offenders jected to her rolling down the window. How he lied judge had failed to explain the possibility of a lesser being brought into registration compliance. about the shooting being an accident. How he and the three other males in the car plotted to dispose of her manslaughter charge. She wondered if Wade was out If you’re not familiar with Florida’s Sex body, possibly even burning her. How he finally de - of prison, walking the streets. No, she was told, he’s Offender and Career Offender Registrations, cided to dump her at a relative’s daycare facility so in Duval jail awaiting the next trial scheduled for now is a good time to acquaint yourself with the “family wouldn’t have to look for her so long.” May. them. Both registries provide a quick and How could this happen? She learned that the 1st Thoughts of Kalil are always forefront in Lyn - easy way to identify offenders living in your nette’s mind; however, the dark days when her District Court of Appeals had overturned the convic - For Real? community. tion, citing faulty jury instructions in the first trial; the (Continued on page 4) The Florida Sexual Offenders and Preda - tors Registry allows citizens to search using the name of an offender or by using an ad - dress. You can also search facilities of higher Special Prosecution Unit education to determine if a registered sex of - fender is enrolled, volunteers or is employed By Angela Corey prison, followed by three years of from seven other transactions, at the school. All Internet identifiers, includ - probation, for her involvement in which totaled more than $26,000, ing email and instant message name The Special the scheme which dates back to were deposited into the Defen - searches, are available on this registry. You Prosecution 2009. Tumpkin was arrested in dant’s own bank account. can even sign up to be notified when a regis - Unit, simply June of 2014 and pleaded guilty to Tumpkin’s victims were lo - tered sex offender moves into your neighbor - known as Spe - four counts of Mortgage Fraud cated all across the country. The hood. cial Pros here and one count of Schemes to De - company, Homeward Residential, Florida’s Career Offender Registry allows at the State At - fraud in December of last year. paid the victims back once the citizens to quickly search a name to deter - torney’s What we found was that be - fraud was discovered. Tumpkin mine whether or not someone is a career of - Office, is re - tween June 2009 and January has now been ordered to pay resti - fender. Citizens can also search by address, sponsible for 2012, Tumpkin worked as a loan tution totaling over $49,000 to her county, city or zip code. the prosecution of public corrup - officer at Homeward Residential, former employer. Both websites mentioned in this article are tion cases, white collar crimes and which is a mortgage processing We are so proud of the work below. Take a few minutes to familiarize other complex litigation. Special company. During this time frame, ASA Licandro did in this case. We yourself with this information and be safe. Pros handles many cases that deal the Defendant added fictitious also thank Detective William Florida Sexual Offenders and with fraud which end up affecting fees disguised as legal services to Fitzgerald of the Jacksonville Predators Registry: people from across the country. numerous short sale transactions. Sheriff’s Office Economic Crimes http://offender.fdle.state.fl.us Recently, Special Pros, led by Fictitious fees collected from six of Unit who served as the lead detec - Career Offender: Assistant State Attorney Joe Lican - the transactions, totaling more tive in the case. With the hard http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/coflyer/home.asp dro, convicted a Jacksonville than $23,000, were deposited di - work of our local law enforcement woman in a mortgage fraud rectly into the account owned by part ners we sought and receiv ed scheme. Brandee Tumpkin, 29, the Defendant’s mother. We also justice for these fraud victims. was sentenced to two years in found that fictitious fees collected The views, opinions and positions The Justice Coalition is a grass roots, non-profit (501(c)3), non-partisan organization that operates on contributions, expressed in articles submitted by monthly and/or periodic proceeds from fundraising events and newspaper advertisements, etc. Please help us continue our advocacy for contributors to the Victims' Advocate newspaper do not nec - innocent victims of violent crime in NE Florida. Visit our website at www.justicecoalition.org or call (904)783-6312 to see how you can be a part of this vital service. essarily reflect the views of the Justice Coalition Love flows for lives taken – tossing roses into the river By Ann Dugger rating the ongoing flow of love gural event and hoped we will and memories. do it again next year. It was so Mother’s I was saddened to see the gratifying to see the great Day. A spe - young ones present who were turnout, even though the cial day that grieving for their mothers. My weather was threatening with evokes var - heart was broken when I heard storm alerts and trees being ied emo - one child say “I miss my Mom” blown over in nearby neighbor - tions, a as he tossed his rose into the hoods. Janice Lowe, General bittersweet river, and others who expressed Manager of the Landing, time for the same thing about missing quickly made arrangements for most of us. their Dad. I think of the two us to use the Blue Room up - If we’re mothers, receiving young children whose mother stairs. We moved inside for the flowers or gifts or being treated was viciously slain in Middle - program which was emceed by to a nice dinner by our children burg, the young girl kidnapped TV personality Casey Black De - is a special treat. But if our own and assaulted by the murderer. Santis (who did a great job), and mothers are deceased, memo - No matter what we do for them, by the time we went to the river ries may be painful as we miss nothing will ever replace the to toss the roses the evening their loving presence. Nothing love of their mother. was beautiful. can take the place of a mother’s Then on the other side, there All the violence occurring in love. were the mothers, the parents, our country these days, espe - I pondered that last month who were grieving the loss of cially here in Jacksonville, is so I want to express my deep appreciation to George Egan when we observed National their children. This Mother’s disturbing – and it brings with (pictured above) and the Paul & Klare Reinhold Founda - Victims’ Rights Week (VRW) Day is especially painful for it a new group of grieving tion in Clay County for recognizing the Justice Coalition here in Jacksonville. On Mon - Lynnette Roebuck whom we are mothers. Raquel Gomez, Katani and me with an award and a $5,000 contribution. Cele - day night of that week the Jus - featuring in the lead story of the Pollydore, Angela Robinson brate Clay, an initiative of the Foundation, believes that tice Coalition hosted its first May Victims' Advocate.

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