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A3 SATURDAY/SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8-9, 2020 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 WEEKEND EDITION Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM >> SPORTS/1B LOCAL LIFE/1D SUNDAY + PLUS YOUR City park RIGHT TO dispute 1D KNOW escalates Sean of the South BELOW CHS BASEBALL PREVIEW BELOW TASTE BUDDIES RECORD-BREAKING YEAR IN COUNTY/3A Rape charge leveled High point for housing at local pastor Antonio L. Carlisle allegedly assaulted a state prisoner. Storm By MICHAEL PHILIPS [email protected] A Florida Department of rips the Corrections education super- visor, who is also the senior pastor at a Lake City Church, South to was arrested Thursday for allegedly raping an inmate under his supervision at the Florida State Prison in shreds Bradford County, the FDOC said Friday. Columbia and Antonio L. surrounding Carlisle, 45, counties avoid senior pastor at Greater Truevine the worst of it. SEAN RAYFORD/AP Photo Carlisle Missionary ABOVE: A man talks Baptist Church on NE Kingston By TONY BRITT on the phone next to a Lane, was charged with sexual [email protected] battery and sexual misconduct, damaged postal truck at according to the FDC state- While locally reports an apartment complex ment. He was booked Thursday of downed trees and where heavy weather into the Duval County jail and power outages were passed through Thursday released Friday afternoon on plentiful, Columbia in Spartanburg, S.C. $1.5 million bond. County and surround- LEFT: Joyce Baskette ing areas were largely adds more debris to a pile PASTOR continued on 2A spared the brunt of a storm that stretched of limbs, branches and all the way to New clumps of moss that she England and resulted created while picking up in at least five deaths debris that fell in her Lake Your right across the South. City yard Thursday when high winds hit the area. to know in STORM continued on 6A TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter jeopardy? By CARL MCKINNEY [email protected] City park dispute escalates; ‘Band-Aid fix’ rejected A pair of bills gaining steam in the state legislature could end By CARL MCKINNEY LCPD Sgt. Mike Lee speaks up leaving the public in the dark [email protected] with Sylvester Warren and his about what their brother, Michael Warren, after MORE local government Tensions between members of the black a tense exchange at a local community and city officials spiked this week INSIDE is up to, especially over a dispute centered on a park. park. Sylvester Warren gath- n Our older residents in When a public works employee came to ered a group to block a public Opinion/4A the rural areas of pressure wash benches at Sallie Jerry park works employee from pres- Florida. in the northern portion of Lake City on sure washing benches, saying Under current state law, all Wednesday morning, activist Sylvester Warren it would be a meaningless counties, cities, school boards organized an effort to halt the work. gesture that fails to improve and special taxing authorities the park in a meaningful way. must post notices in the local PARK continued on 2A CARL MCKINNEY/Lake City Reporter RIGHT continued on 2A CENTS $ 25 DOWN 10 A MONTH DEAL ENDS FEBRUARY 13TH PLANETFITNESS.COM OVER THIS DEAL 2782 W. US HWY 90 • 386.319.7244 FLLakeCFeb25DwnNewsAd0120.indd 1 1/30/20 1:01 PM Vol. 145, No. 237 TODAY’S WEATHER CALL US: Opinion . 4A (386) 752-1293 Sports . 1B SUBSCRIBE TO Classifieds. 5B THE REPORTER: 65 43 Voice: 755-5445 Business . 1C Fax: 752-9400 Sunny, 2A WWWWW 2A SATURDAY/SUNday, FEBRUARY 8-9, 2020 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER Antonio Carlisle QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day Pastor faces rape charges “Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of said. “His actions are absolutely con- and took cheek swabs from him the the hand of the wicked.” — Psalm 97:10 (KJV) PASTOR trary to the core values of the Florida next day. The samples were sent Continued From 1A Department of Corrections. FDC is off to the Florida Department of moving forward with his immediate Law Enforcement’s lab for testing. Thought for Today The Lake City Reporter went to dismissal.” Analysis of the samples determined the church Friday to seek comment, According to the arrest warrant, a they were a match, according to the complaint by an unnamed inmate at arrest warrant. FDLE released its Land really is the best art. but no one was on the premises. The — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, U.S. artist phone number given on its website the Florida State prison in Bradford report on Wednesday and a warrant was no longer a working number, County was filed in which he claimed was issued for Carlisle’s arrest the and a phone number given for he was attacked on August 6 inside following day. Carlisle went straight to voicemail. the prison. The inmate told inves- Bishop Ronald W. Williams II, Winning Lottery Numbers In a press release, the FDC secre- tigators that Carlisle overpowered senior pastor at New Beginnings tary said that if Carlisle is found to him and then sexually assaulted Restoration Church in Lake City, said Pick 3: (Thursday p.m.) 5-5-7 have acted illegally, he will face the him. Investigators collected a sex- he and his congregation will be pray- Pick 4: (Thursday p.m.) 8-6-4-0 consequences. ual assault kit the next day, taking ing for Carlisle and his flock. Fantasy 5: (Thursday) 4-16-19-22-26 ““The charges against Antonio samples from the inmate’s body and “We are praying for Truevine, Carlisle are deeply disturbing and clothing. keeping them lifted up in prayer, abhorrent,” Secretary Mark Inch On January 29, investigators got and praying for him and his wife,” See an error? a search warrant for Carlisle’s DNA Williams said. The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news items. 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