1 THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Fake bills Search is on for flood area walk-up gunman By TONY BRITT 40 years old, with dreadlocks to the middle through the drive through window. Counterfeit [email protected] of his face. Perez reported that the suspect appeared at According to Lake City Police Department the window holding a yellow Dollar General $50’s, $20’s, $5’s Local authorities are searching for an armed reports, around 12:24 a.m. officer Larry bag, demanding that she fill it with money. man who walked up to a fast food restaurant Thomas was dispatched to McDonald’s, 491 Perez said she told the man she did not circulating here. drive-through window early Wednesday and SW Main Blvd., for an attempted armed rob- have a key or pass code to open the cash pulled a pistol on an employee in a failed rob- bery. draw, but the man again demanded that she By TONY BRITT bery attempt. Unable to get cash, the suspect Teresa Perez, a McDonald’s employee, fill the bag. Perez again explained to the [email protected] fled on foot. told authorities she had just taken a food Authorities are looking for a black man, 35- order when she saw a black, handgun coming GUNMAN continued on 6A The Lake City Police Department has launched an investigation into counter- feit currency after at least 10 Flood victims losing out on relief local businesses called and reported customers passed or attempted to pass the fake bills. According to Police Department reports, begin- ning July 15, several business- es have been the victims of counterfeit currency. Police reports noted the fake bills have been $50, $20 and $5 bills. •July 15, around 8 p.m., the clerk from S&S Food Store No. 33 on North Marion Avenue, reported an unknown black man presented a $50 bill for a $3 item during a busy time in the store. The customer was given his $47 change and left the store. The clerk discov- ered the bill was counterfeit BILLS continued on 3A Identity of woman in coma a mystery From staff reports LIVE OAK - Suwannee County authorities are asking the public for help in identi- fying a woman found badly injured Monday at the inter- section of U.S. Highway 90 and 153rd Road near Live Oak. The woman was taken to Shands Jane Doe Hospital in Gainesville Photos by JASON MATTHEW WALKER and HANNAH O. BROWN/Lake City Reporter where doc- TOP: A home and vehicle are seen submerged after Tropical tors placed her in a medically Storm Debby. LEFT: A pump dumps water into a retention induced coma. The woman pond in front of the Dollar General Store on County Road is white, in her mid-20s and 252B. ABOVE: Cecil Byrd and Chris Craft hang a sign earlier has blue eyes and brown hair. this month for the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center, located at 484 SW Commerce Drive, Suite 145, in the Westfield Square COMA continued on 6A Shopping Center. Meanwhile, as recovery efforts continue, many county residents are being turned down for federal assistance because they didn’t fill out the paperwork properly. Anthrax hoax See story, Page 3A. lands Jasper woman in jail JASPER — A Jasper woman Econ board targets additional sites is facing nine counts of mail- ing hoax anthrax letters to the By HANNAH O. BROWN well as potential options EDAB member Terry Dicks added. offices of U.S. Sens. Marco [email protected] for future sites. The intermodal site was also discussed as Rubio and Bill Nelson. EDAB member Glenn an obvious place of economic potential. Federal prosecutors say The Economic Development Advisory Owens said knowing the “The biggest thing that creates non-growth 45-year-old Kathryn Cohen Board narrowed their focus for economic infrastructure helps pri- as it relates to government is that the focus Allen was arrested Tuesday in development within the county to four main oritize sites already identi- becomes so broad that nothing ever happens,” Jasper. She had an initial court areas for future development: Bell Road, fied. county commissioner Jody DuPree said. “I appearance in Jacksonville Ellisville, Highway 47 and the Intermodal site, “This gives us three think that if you are going to accomplish any federal court but it was not also known as the RACEC Catalyst site. viable options without Clanton of it, you have to focus your vision to what is immediately clear if she had Lake City Director of Utilities Dave Clanton big costs upfront, 47, Bell manageable and allow it expand from it.” an attorney. gave a presentation to the EDAB Wednesday Road and Ellisville,” Owens said. on utility infrastructure currently present as “Now we’re fishing with three big hooks,” SITES continued on 3A ANTHRAX continued on 6A Vol. 138, No. 131 Opinion . 4A CALL US: TODAY IN COMING (386) 752-1293 96 73 People. 2A PEOPLE FRIDAY SUBSCRIBE TO T-Storm Chance Obituaries . 5A THE REPORTER: Advice & Comics . 3B Stewart, Colbert Local news Voice: 755-5445 Fax: 752-9400 WEATHER, 2A Puzzles . 4B coming back.. roundup. 2AWEATHER 2A LAKE CITY REPORTER DAILY BRIEFING THURSDAY, JULY 26, 2012 Page Editor: Rick Burnham, 754-0424 Celebrity Birthdays Wednesday: Wednesday: n Rocker Mick Jagger n Actor Jeremy Piven is Afternoon: 8-0-3 Afternoon: 1-5-4-5 Tuesday: is 69. 47. 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Thought for the Day The network announced Raef could not be Bieber pulled over when In a suit filed in New Wednesday that Jon immediately reached for officers signaled to, but Raef York City on Tuesday, “Hell ain’t half full.” Stewart has extended his comment. If convicted, did not stop. MGA Entertainment says - Cormac McCarthy contract to host “The Daily he faces up to one year in Bieber was cited for it paid a $1 million advance The cards are included Show” through the middle county jail and $3,500 in speeding and released. to the company that han- in the recently released of 2015. Stephen Colbert fines. 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