Clay Sheriff Suspends Four in Wrongful Arrest
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We Insure HOMES Jane DiLoreto Ironman Chattanooga Agency awaits track coach 215-2121 – Sports 3701193-01 THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014 WWW.CLAYTODAYONLINE.COM VOLUME 47, NO. 28 75¢75¢ Clay sheriff suspends four in wrongful arrest Set of new procedures Clay County Sheriff’s Of ce could arrest He said a key in the mix-up was detectives’ in place at agency the wrong woman twice in ve months has failure to show victims a photo array, as ended with four suspensions and a set of well as searching for the suspect without By Eric Cravey new procedures at the agency. using her middle name. Managing Editor Sheriff Rick Beseler said sloppy police In disciplinary hearings held July 2, work was the root cause in the arrest of Beseler suspended Det. Mark Maertz, Sgt. GREEN COVE SPRINGS – An internal in- Ashley Nicole Chiasson, 28, of Chalmette, Robert Curry, Det. William Roberts and Lt. vestigation aimed at nding out how the Ashley N. Chiasson Ashley O. Chiasson La., once in January and again on May 27. SEE ARREST, 23 $64,175 lien removed from Keystone property By Gregory A. Phillips Staff Writer In Tuesday evening’s Clay County Board of County Commissioners meeting, the board consisting of Diane Hutchings, Doug Con- key, and Chairman Wendell Davis voted 3-0 to lift a more than $64,000 lien from the property located at 5950 Plantation Court in Keystone Heights. The lien was initiated over the delin- quency of Adolfo S. Hernandez to maintain his property and who was cited by Code Enforcement for junk on the property, junk cars, and non-permitted structures over the course of more than two years. At $75 dollars a day, the ne grew from 2011 through 2014. The issue that ensued came when Rob- STAFF PHOTO BY RANDY LEFKO ert and Amy Winter bought the property in Shriner’s on parade January 2014. During the course of closing Members of area Shriner’s Club cruise down the road in their mini cars and motorcycles during the annual Keystone Heights Fourth of July parade. SEE BCC, 2 The best deals! •New Vehicles •Pre-Owned •Service & Body Shop INSERTS GEICO gordonchevy.com • 1166 BLANDING BLVD. 2 CLAY TODAY • July 10, 2014 COMMUNITY CLAYTODAYONLINE.COM by Clay County Mary Jo [email protected] Memories [email protected] 1930’s Drs. Lake and its bridge were major summertime attractions for local boys n the Hoover times of the 1930s, there wasn’t much going on in the sleepy little Itown of Orange Park. And for adolescent boys who could manage to evade chores the place to hang out was Doctors Lake or the bridge across its mouth. The bridge was new, a WPA project, and drew all ages waiting to watch it operate. It was built of cypress wood and steel in a design technically known as a swing bridge. Locals called it - The Crank Bridge - and it did both, simultaneously. The Doctors Lake swing bridge was a WPA project that brought not only convenience but also entertainment at a time when everyone needed both. When the signal (usually a loud holler or a squawking air horn) came to open the bridge, the tender and his helper choice of Yerkes Laboratory doctors, were Lake. With room to expand, J.V. Carnes Co. ered up before sunrise to make sh stew. would strike out for the middle of the a special treat because many were novice became the hub for a rapidly growing com- Some days would nd the boys out on bridge. There, they would insert a huge sailors and required several tries to navi- mercial shing industry in the area. Early the lake making islands by piling hyacinths T-shaped bar into the center of the span gate the narrow opening. mornings were a frenzy of activity, with as high as he could reach, then, climbing and take their places on each end of the T. Most mornings before daylight, a boats pulled up along the full length of the on top. Slowly walking clockwise and using brute parade of motorized shing boats came dock. Each catch was unloaded, headed, Other days the boys might be found strength, they would crank the span and it slipping under the bridge from a night of gutted, weighed and a price negotiated on directing traf c when a group of porpoises would swing perpendicular to the rest of pulling big channel cats from the St. Johns the spot. Waste was piled up on the beach showed up to give an impromptu show the bridge creating a pair of openings. River headed to Carnes Fish Plant near and the rest packed in boxes with ice and tossing sh around in the river until the Come the weekend - the crank stayed where Carnes St. dead-ends into the lake. moss and loaded into waiting trucks which traf c jammed to a complete stop. Cars hot. Streams of large pleasure boats J.V. Carnes, originally from Steubenville lit out for Jacksonville and points unknown. just froze in the road and passengers (revelry in full gear) passed through, Ohio, began operation of a sh processing By the ‘30s and hard depression, the bailed out to lean on the bridge and watch. destined for weekend homes on Doctors plant in Jacksonville in 1893. His rst site catches got weak and only the hard core But…if nothing was going on at the Lake maintained by prominent Jacksonville in Orange Park was a two story building on shermen were still at it. Fish heads that lake, there was always the town’s only stop families. the town pier at the end of Kingsley Ave. use to stay stacked on the shore till they and go light at the corner of Kingsley and Tall-masted sailing boats, the craft of In 1914 the plant was moved to Doctors were only t for free fertilizers were gath- Roosevelt Blvd to watch. to the property. Within one month they had lar, pointed out that there would be no way submitted for this project were rejected for cleaned up the property, addressing each they should have gotten title to the prop- being non-responsive. BCC violation issued by the code enforcement erty if they were purchasing it via a loan. All the bids were in the $750,000 from page1 of cers. The Winters then requested that “If a loan were involved, then there range, but CORE was able to whittle down the lien be reduced to $0 since they had would be title insurance and the title would its bid to a more manageable $143,000. It it was pointed out to them that the prop- cleaned up the property. The special Mag- never have been issued until the lien was was explained that the reason behind the erty had a lien attached to it. The couple istrate who originally issued the lien said cleared and that couldn’t have been re- lower bid was that the scope of the project contacted the Code Enforcement Division that he thought that would be the proper moved the same day the phone call was was lowered. Not all of the down spouts of the county government to ask a few way to move forward as did Parrish. made,” said Davis. are to be replaced, there will be no sand questions. “After looking at pictures of the prop- The employee who gave the erroneous blasting and some parts of the arena which “They were told, in error, that the lien erty, I would say that they [the Winters] information to the Winters has been coun- are not in imminent danger will be reno- followed the property owner and not the invested quite a bit of money in cleaning seled and is still working for the county as vated instead of replaced. property. There was a new employee who up that property. So I will move that we of July 9, 2014. The error cost the county “I’m glad to hear there is a long term was not familiar with the process at that accept the recommendation [of Parrish] to $3,500 in admistrative costs along with strategy plan so some things are done ev- time,” said Holly Parrish, Director of Eco- have the lien removed,” said Commissioner the $60,675 in nes. ery year so we don’t get caught with the big nomic and Development Services Depart- Hutchings. In other BCC business, the board de- items all at once,” said Davis. ment. “They asked for that in writing and Questions were raised by both Davis cided to pull from the consent agenda ap- The agreement will go back to com- received it in writing.” and Conkey about how the Winters could proval pending review of the Grand Pavil- mittee for reworking before being brought After the purchase was complete the have proceeded through closing without ion Improvements agreement with CORE back before the board for a vote. Winters discovered that the lien did attach this issue being raised. Davis, in particu- Construction Company. Originally, the bids POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Clay Today, 3513 U.S. Hwy 17, Fleming Island, FL U.S.P.S. (063-800) Publisher: Jon Cantrell Sales & Marketing Periodical Postage Paid at Orange Park, Florida Managing Editor: Eric Cravey NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS This newspaper assumes no nancial responsibility for Sales Manager: Peg Oddy typographical errors in advertisements, but when noti ed promptly will reprint IN CLAY COUNTY, MAIL DELIVERY OUTOFCOUNTY & OUTOFSTATE Sta Reporter: Gregory A. Phillips correctly the part of the advertisement in which the typographical error ap- Subscription Rate Subscription Rate Sales: Susan Sawyer, Phyllis Vancas pears.