Southside Site a Hit Cops Stop Truck with Explosive Devices on Board Michigan Man Faces Weapon Charges After Passing Weigh Station
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By JAMIE WACHTER [email protected] WHITE SPRINGS — A Michigan construction truck was hauling destruc- tive devic- es on Interstate 75 on Photos by TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter Tuesday Elesia Ford, right, pulls out a cotton swab as she prepares to collect a sample from a person getting tested morning, COURTESY ALACHUA COUNTY for covid-19 Wednesday morning at the Southside Sports Complex. accord- SHERIFF’S OFFICE Minshall ing to the Homemade explosive Florida devices that looked like Testing runs smoothly at sports complex Highway Patrol. hand grenades were After not stopping for an found on a Michigan By TONY BRITT open weigh station, an FHP truck traveling south on [email protected] sergeant stopped the south- Interstate 75 on Tuesday bound two-axle truck to morning. The county’s newest covid-19 test- conduct a commercial vehi- ing site hit a home run Wednesday. cle safety inspection along credit card from the A steady stream of vehicles poured the interstate in Hamilton “House of Dank Cannabis into the Southside Sports Complex County before moving the Company” that contained on Wednesday morning as the new stop to the Farmer’s Market marijuana. Minshall told testing site opened. off County Road 136 near authorities he did not have Tom Moffses, the administra- White Springs. his medical marijuana tor of the Columbia County Health During the stop, author- license with him. Department, was appreciative of the ities smelled marijuana During a subsequent new venue. and the driver — 30-year- search of the truck, troop- “The road entrance to where we’re old Billy Joe Minshall of ers found a handgun in testing is over half a mile long so that Otsego, Michigan — stat- Minshall’s backpack that from a traffic perspective we’re not ed the truck was not regis- was reported stolen out going to have traffic back up like we tered, according to an FHP of Kalamazoo, Michigan, were starting to have in Fort White report. according to the report. and also in downtown Lake City,” he The report adds that The gun was loaded with 14 said. without asking, Minshall rounds of ammunition. Tammy Norris, right, collects information from a person at the grabbed a black zippered Southside Sports Complex covid-19 testing site Wednesday morning. TESTING continued on 3A back about the size of a EXPLOSIVE continued on 3A Four covid-19 deaths Housing market strong for sellers added in Columbia Despite pandemic, ing the best looking mar- of 2019. sales in the second quar- realtors report shows ket. The numbers from Suwannee County sell- ter of 2020, compared to Correctional outbreak As of Wednesday morn- area market is solid. Suwannee and Hamilton ers were getting 94% of 158 closed sales in the sec- leads to 400-case ing, Columbia County had counties are much small- median percent of the orig- ond quarter of 2019, a 5.1% increase in Suwannee. 2,941 total covid-19 cases, By TONY BRITT er sample sizes with no inal list price, a reduction decrease. [email protected] Staff report in which 1,440 (49%) were mobile sales included in of 0.5% from the second “In Columbia we were linked to correctional insti- the data, he added. quarter last year. off a tiny bit, but I’m not Local health depart- tutions and 205 cases stem Business may be a lit- According to the Florida Sellers in Hamilton sure that it was due to ment officials reported five from long-term care facil- tle slow in the Columbia, Realtors 2020 second quar- County, meanwhile, were covid as much as it’s due deaths, four in Columbia ities. Suwannee and Hamilton ter report, the local hous- getting 97% of the median to the fact that we have County and one in The individuals con- County housing markets, ing market sales remain percent of the original list little inventory right now,” Suwannee County, related firmed to have the virus but signs from all three strong despite a lack of price, an increase of 6.9%. Gherna said. to covid-19 on Wednesday. has ranged from 0-102 years county’s single family inventory. “When you get into The median sales price The deaths of four old, with the median age housing sales show the Gherna said the data Suwannee and Hamilton increased by 15.2% in the Columbia residents brings of 43. earmarks of a strong sell- shows the median list per- County (data), you could second quarter of 2020 the county’s death toll to 20 Of the cases, 2,800 peo- ers’ markets during the cent of the original price get one house sale that to $190,000. Last year the people. ple are from Lake City, 117 second quarter of 2020. received for single family could really skew the data,” median sale price was The residents were an from Fort White, 11 are Dan Gherna, the Lake home sales was above 90% Gherna said. “There’s $165,000. 81-year-old man, an 86-year- non-Florida residents, six City Board of Realtors in each of the counties. enough sales in Columbia The average sale price old woman, an 86-year-old people are being reclassi- executive vice president, In Columbia County, the County, with 150 sales, that for Columbia single family man and a 100-year-old fied, four are from Lulu, two said the single family median percent of the orig- one or two houses could homes also increased in the man, who all died after con- are from White Springs and housing sales markets for inal list price received was make a difference, but not second quarter of 2020 by tracting covid-19. Officials the address of one person is all three counties looks 97.2% in the second quarter as much.” 4.5%. A year ago, the aver- did not release the names of pretty good overall, with of 2020, a 0.2% increase In Columbia County the victims. OUTBREAK continued on 2A Columbia County hav- over the second quarter there were 150 closed MARKET continued on 3A Vol. 146, No. 105 Obituaries . 3A CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER (386) 752-1293 Opinion . 4A Advice & Comics . 5A SUBSCRIBE TO THE REPORTER: 90 73 Classifieds . 6A Voice: 755-5445 Sports . 8A Fax: 752-9400 Showers likely, 2A 2A THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2020 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER Report: Pickup smashes door QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day “What? know ye not that your body is the tem- in lawnmower shop burglary ple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are By TONY BRITT of the business was shattered when entered the business, removed three bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your [email protected] he arrived at work, appearing to have Stihl trimmers and placed them in the body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” been struck with a large object. bed of the pickup truck before he fled — 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV) A Lake City man found an uncon- The owner later from the scene. ventional way to use the rear end of reviewed the store’s The business owner was able to his pickup truck, allegedly using it surveillance footage provide police officers with the sur- Thought for Today to break a glass door in a smash and and reportedly saw a veillance footage and still images Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by grab burglary at a local lawnmower white, single cab Ford were shared through social media to the seeds you plant. shop. pickup truck with a assist in identifying the suspect. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scot- Kerry Gill, 57, of a Southwest missing tailgate enter Around 8 p.m. the LCPD was noti- tish writer Church Hill Way address, was charged Gill the parking lot, the fied by the Columbia County Sheriff’s with property damage, unarmed bur- report states Office that the truck used in the bur- Winning Lottery Numbers glary and grand theft in connection A middle-aged white man was seen glary had been found and it still had with the case. Gill also had an active exiting the vehicle and checking the shattered glass from the business on Pick 3: (Tuesday p.m.) 7-4-7 warrant for his arrest. He was booked front door of the business. The report the vehicle. Pick 4: (Tuesday p.m.) 8-0-1-8 into the Columbia County Detention said the man, later identified as Gill, The driver of the vehicle was identi- Fantasy 5: (Tuesday) 11-15-27-30-35 Facility on $45,000 bond. returned to the vehicle and drove in fied as Gill, who had an active warrant According to a Lake City Police reverse, striking the front door of the for his arrest in Columbia County. He Department report, the owner of S&S business. was then arrested and charged in the See an error? Mowers noticed the front glass door According to the report, Gill then burglary. The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, please call the editor.