A3 + PLUS >> Hamilton guard jailed on bribery charges, Story below LOCAL FOOTBALL Lake City Reporter Bell is back wins top award for Tigers Story below See Page 1B THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM CCSO TOBY WITT: ATV SRWMD can’t feigned ditch interest cops in deal By CARL MCKINNEY May have been a stall
[email protected] tactic to keep governor A speeding four-wheeler couldn’t out of the mix, he says. outrun law enforcement Tuesday morning, and neither could the By CARL MCKINNEY driver, Columbia County deputies
[email protected] say. Mason Paul It seemed like there was a light at Redd, 28, of the end of the tunnel in the years- Northeast Amanda long legal battle between a property Street in Lake City, owner and water man- faces charges of agement officials. But fleeing and eluding, that hope is now dead, Redd criminal traffic vio- and the case, which lation and resisting has cost taxpayers mil- arrest for the ATV chase he led a lions, is likely to keep deputy on — plus charges of drug dragging on. possession and possession of drug Witt Jeff Hill says the paraphernalia for what authorities Suwannee River Water found during the pursuit, accord- Management District unjustly took ing to a Columbia County Sheriff’s his family farm over the replacement Office report. of a rusty pipe, and the agency’s ATV continued on 2A state-appointed board has shot down a settlement offer backed by the county. The water management district Hamilton previously indicated it would be amenable to the deal, said County guard jailed FILE PHOTOS Commissioner Toby Witt, who inter- In this 2014 file photo, Jeff Hill poses with the rusty pipe at vened on Hill’s behalf and now wants on bribery the heart of his dispute with water management officials.