KEY LARGO 305.451.5700 make. MARATHON 305.743.4397 home. KEY WEST beautiful. 305.295.6400 keysfurniture.com WWW.KEYSINFONET.COM WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2014 VOLUME 61, NO. 39 G 25 CENTS IN THE COURTS Judge tosses Cay Clubs case By DAVID GOODHUE U.S. District Court Judge Civil case dismissed ‘with prejudice,’ civil action a motion to dismiss filed in [email protected] James Lawrence King dis- against a April that the company missed the Securities and meaning the SEC cannot refile it anew defendant ceased all normal operations A federal civil fraud com- Exchange Commission’s within five in October 2007. plaint against Cay Clubs, the case against Cay Clubs Keys to Las Vegas. statute of limitations of the years of the King apparently agreed. resort real estate company Monday “with prejudice,” Lawyers from Cay Clubs SEC complaint had run out. alleged He wrote this week that the that owned — but never meaning the agency cannot and the SEC did not return The agency investigated Cay offense. SEC failed to establish its developed — hundreds of reopen its allegations that the messages seeking comment. Clubs for seven years, but it Caycase, even “after nearly seven Keys properties during the company was really running In his ruling King blasted did not file its complaint Clubs years of investigation, after housing boom, was dis- a $300 million Ponzi scheme SEC attorneys for taking too against Cay Clubs until CLARK defense the close of all discovery and missed this week and cannot that defrauded more than long to bring its case against January 2013. attorneys Kenneth P. Hazouri be brought back. 1,000 investors from the Cay Clubs. King said the Federal law mandates and Leon H. Handley said in See Cay Clubs, 3A ENDURANCE ON THE WATER Deadly 2 months on Keys waters Volunteer Fire Department, Six have died arrived with FWC officers to in what seem search for the missing man. O’Conner found Harllee’s to be accidents body underwater near a channel marker where he By KEVIN WADLOW had been diving. Harllee was Senior Staff Writer pronounced dead when they [email protected] got to shore. Harllee’s dive gear was The past five weeks on sent to local experts for test- Florida Keys waters have ing, associate medical exam- been deadly. iner Dr. Peter Gillespie said Two deaths from a scuba- Tuesday. No cause of death diving accident and an appar- has been confirmed. “Some- ent drowning last weekend times with the [equipment raised to six the number of and medical] testing, it takes people who have died in a little while,” Gillespie said. water-related incidents since On Saturday, the body of early April, according to William George, 69, was reports from the Monroe found floating face down in an County Sheriff’s Office and Islamorada canal off George’s Florida Fish and Wildlife San Remo Drive home. Conservation Commission. A neighbor told Deputy Mark Harllee, 54, of Fort Ray Jodlowski that he saw Photo courtesy ROY PAYNE Pierce died while scuba diving George’s body floating next Sunday while on a Mother’s to a boat in the canal. There Veteran Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Lt. Roy Payne and his wife, Angie, at the Blue Mountains, Day visit to his mother’s were tools on the boat, indi- two hours west of Sydney, Australia, in April 2013. The Sugarloaf couple took part in the Ironman Australia event home on North Key Largo. cating George may have been in Port Macquarie. He was diving by himself working on it, deputies noted. off a boat, about 150 yards Layton resident Dalia from shore, while his mother Perez, 71, died Thursday Elnora and wife Emily after a neighbor heard her For Payne, lots of pain watched from shore. When calls for help from a canal off Mark did not surface to show South Layton Drive. marathon for those not triathlon racing and its world one of 14,795 athletes to them he was OK, Elnora Perez was seen hanging FWC officer, familiar with perhaps the championship race each year receive any designation swam out to where he was onto a personal watercraft in ironman racer world’s most grueling sport. in Hawaii is the most exclu- [gold, silver or bronze] and diving. She found Mark’s the canal while she shouted Payne, a 25-year FWC sive such event in the world. was one of 5,758 in the U.S. tickle stick but no sign of her to her husband. Moments is All World veteran and Sugarloaf Key Of the designation as a to receive any designation,” son. She returned to shore later, the neighbor saw Perez resident, was rewarded on Silver All World Athlete, “I Berglund said. and called for help. drifting in the water, Sheriff’s By RYAN McCARTHY March 26 for his dedication was excited. I didn’t know it Payne completed three Brian O’Conner, an Office spokeswoman Becky [email protected] when he received a letter was coming; I just kind of got iron-distance races (140.6 emergency medical techni- from Ironman headquarters in it in the mail,” Payne said. total miles) and three half cian with the Key Largo See Deaths, 3A Florida Fish and Wildlife Tampa declaring him a Silver According to Ironman iron-distance races (70.3 Conservation Commission Lt. All World Athlete for 2013. spokesman Dan Berglund, total miles) in 2013 alone, Roy Payne has a more-than- The distinction means the there are gold, silver and taking second place in the DRAGONS AT THE BEACH appropriate last name for a 49-year-old Payne’s overall bronze classifications for All Gator Half Triathlon in man who’s completed 17 full finishes in 2013 “positioned World Athlete awards. Gold is Bradenton and the Bone “iron-distance” triathlons. you in the top 5 percent of” for top 1 percent finishers, Island Half Iron Distance That’s a 2.4-mile swim men ages 45 to 49. while silver is for top 5 percent Triathlon in Key West. followed by a 112-mile bicy- Ironman is the most rec- and bronze for the 10 percent. cle ride and a26.2-mile ognized name in distance “Globally, [Payne] was See Payne, 3A KEY WEST Finish line for Roosevelt is close 23, 2012, and on May 5 was million of the project cost. were two lanes of incoming 2 years for 90.2 percent complete, The city is putting in $4.3 from the Triangle at boulevard Walters said. million for a new sewer Roosevelt and U.S. 1 and He said crews from the main and the Florida Keys none going out. That pre- construction Miami-based DeMoya Aqueduct Authority is vented access to businesses Group Inc., contracted for adding $5.4 million for a on the boulevard. By SEAN KINNEY the work by the state Florida new water line. Outbound traffic was Department of Transpor- “We’ve worked together rerouted to South Roosevelt Two years and about two tation, are now focused on on some key points and Boulevard and Flagler Photo courtesy CHRSTINE CANEVARI weeks into the $41.5 million the Salt Run Channel Bridge. DeMoya has done a tremen- Avenue. Crews aboard dragon boats — long, sleek boats bearing reconstruction of North “In addition,” Walters said, dous job; they’re really After business owners dragon designs that originated in ancient China — get Roosevelt Boulevard in Key “work will continue on water working hard,” Mayor Craig complained directly to ready to battle it out at last year’s Battle in the Bay Dragon West, the end is in sight. lines, sewer laterals, drainage Cates said. Transportation Secretary Project spokesman Dean and utility work for the entire When work started, Ananth Prasad last summer, Boat Festival in Marathon. This year’s races, benefiting the Walters projects completion length of the project.” North Roosevelt Boulevard cash-strapped Heron housing facility for the chronically in July. Work began on April The state is paying $31.8 was configured so there See Roosevelt, 3A mentally ill, are Saturday at Sombrero Beach. Story, 6A Printed Danise D. Henriquez, C.F.C. INDEX TAX COLLECTOR NOTICE OF TAX SALE Monroe County on 100% NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON THE 1ST OF JUNE 2014, AT KEY P.O. Box 1129, WEST, COUNTY OF MONROE, STATE OF FLORIDA AT 8:30AM TAX Key West, Florida 33041-1129 SALE CERTIFICATES WILL BE SOLD ON THE FOLLOWING LOCATION OF TAX SALE: recycled DESCRIBED LANDS TO PAY THE AMOUNT DUE FOR THE TAXES www.bidmonroe.com Classifieds . .5B HEREIN SET OPPOSITE NAME, TOGETHER WITH ALL COST OF SUCH Certificates are now available Tax rolls SALE AND ALL ADVERTISING, NO PERSONAL CHECKS WILL BE for viewing and bidding ACCEPTED FOR PAYMENT FROM THIS DAY FORWARD. on this web site. 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