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A3 + PLUS >> Prison guard jailed on conspiracy charge, Story below MOAA SOCCER Meet LCDR CHS girls Steve Casto host Chiles See Page 3A See Page 1B THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2018 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $1.00 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM World’s longest wheelie 2A COREY ARWOOD/Lake City Reporter ‘Fresh Deputy start’ Graham ends gets his in jail kidney Photos by COREY ARWOOD/Lake City Reporter Ex-guardian left town First responders from CCFR cut off the roof of this SUV to remove a local couple after the driver 13-year law enforcement with runaway, say cops. ran a stop sign and was struck by a pickup traveling north on County Road 242, officials said. veteran grateful for life- saving gift from stranger. By CARL MCKINNEY [email protected] Brutal crash leaves 3 hurt By COREY ARWOOD [email protected] A teenager who escaped By COREY ARWOOD A complete stranger has from state custody went on a [email protected] offered a Columbia County road trip with her ex-guard- Sheriff’s Office deten- ian, who was hoping for a A local couple had to be cut from the wreckage tion deputy the greatest chance to of a collision that brought down traffic lights and Christmas “start a slowed progress through a busy intersection on gift of all — whole new the outskirts of Lake her kidney. life,” court FHP: Driver City Wednesday. Demarcus documents A silver 2010 Graham hit utility pole has been show. Chevrolet Equinox after collision at fighting end- Eleanor intersection. ran a stop sign short- stage renal Ruth ly after 2 p.m. at Houston Graham disease for Houston, 40, the intersections of over a year. of Northwest Turner Avenue, County Road 242, SW Sisters Welcome Road and And with only seven percent might still get a new life — for SW Dyal Avenue and was T-boned by a north- kidney function while wait- a couple of years, and behind The 2010 Chevrolet Equinox collided with a ing on a depressingly long bars. WRECK continued on 2A utility pole and knocked down traffic lights. transplant list, his future was Houston faces a charge of anything but certain. A story interfering with the custody in Wednesday’s Lake City of a minor, a third-degree fel- Reporter documented his struggle. ony that carries a maximum Prison guard jailed on conspiracy charge He learned the news that prison sentence of up to five a matching donor was found years. By CARL MCKINNEY locked-up lover, according whistle on his relationship that same day during one of Houston told the Florida [email protected] to an arrest affidavit. with her and an arrange- his four-hour, three-days-a- Department of Law Angela Marie Cooper, 37, ment the pair made. week, dialysis sessions, and Enforcement that she knew it A Columbia Correctional of McAlpin, was booked into In October, the inmate, gladly accepted the offer. was wrong to head to Alabama Institution guard plotted Columbia County Detention who had since been “Considering the way with a 14-year-old no longer in to bring contraband cell- Facility on Monday on a transferred Hamilton things are nowadays, the her custody, but did it anyway phones and cigarettes into criminal conspiracy charge climate of everything, a total the prison on behalf of her after an inmate blew the GUARD continued on 2A Cooper FRESH continued on 2A KIDNEY continued on 2A Vol. 144, No. 174 CALL US: TODAY’S WEATHER Opinion . 4A (386) 752-1293 Obituaries . 5A STUDENT FOCUS SUBSCRIBE TO Sports . 1B THE REPORTER: 59 40 Meet Rhett Feagle, 6A. 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Task Force went to Cooper’s QUICK HITS Continued From 1A sexual contact, the inmate Cooper answered, but house and asked her to talk said, but he “admitted the acted as if she could not to them outside. Scripture of the Day Correctional Institution, relationship was moving in hear. Confronted with the alle- asked to speak with a that direction,” the affidavit The inspector started tex- gations, Cooper admitted “Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, Florida Department of states. ting Cooper, posing as the to meeting with individu- make known his deeds among the people.” Corrections inspector. Cooper agreed to smug- inmate. als at the cemetery near — 1 Chronicles 16:8 (KJV) The inmate claimed he’d gle in 15 phones, several Cooper acknowledged her home to obtain con- been in a romantic relation- packs of cigarettes and sev- the imposter inmate, traband — but not drugs, ship with Cooper when he eral ounces of MDMA, the but said she couldn’t talk only phones and cigarettes, Thought for Today was at CCI, according to the inmate claimed. because she was with her according to the affidavit. The two most powerful warriors are patience affidavit. Cooper met one of his husband, the affidavit Cooper reportedly and time. Cooper had been intro- contacts at a cemetery states. turned in seven phones and — Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, Russian novelist ducing contraband into the to pick up the goods, the When asked if she still 32 packs of cigarettes. CCI annex, the inmate told inmate said. had the contraband, Cooper Authorities were given an inspector during an Oct. Before the contraband didn’t answer either way — permission to search her 17 interview. could be brought into the telling the “inmate” to call home for the MDMA, but Winning Lottery Numbers The inmate said he reg- prison, the inmate was her the following Friday none was found. ularly used a contraband transferred to HCI. after 7:30 p.m., according to Cooper faces a charge Pick 3: (Tuesday p.m.) 9-2-0 phone to communicate with The inmate called Cooper the affidavit. of conspiracy to introduce Pick 4: (Tuesday p.m.) 4-2-4-4 Cooper during her off-duty with the DOC inspector Instead, DOC and the contraband. Fantasy 5: (Tuesday) 2-4-9-14-29 See an error? The Lake City Reporter corrects errors of fact in news items. If you have a concern, question, or suggestion, please call the editor. Corrections and clarifications will run in this space. Thanks for reading. Submissions The Lake City Reporter accepts photographs and caption information to run at the discretion of the editor. 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