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Mostly cloudy TWO PALATKA HIGH STARS 20% chance of rain 70 | 59 MAKE ALL-STATE TEAM, 7A For details, see 2A www.mypdn.com PALATKA DAILY NEWS THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 2016 $1 Morning crash results in one fatality tion for hours Wednesday. officials said. Putnam County emergency U.S. 17 was closed about According to state Highway Patrol Trooper Jacob Register said the workers and state Highway officers, a Ford F150 truck was travel- driver was ejected from the vehicle and Patrol investigators examine 4-and-a-half hours ing in one of the southbound lanes of died prior to emergency responders a damaged Ford pickup U.S. 17 when, for unknown reasons, arriving. truck whose driver crossed Palatka Daily News the vehicle veered to the left, crossed All four lanes of U.S. 17 were closed, over the median on U.S. 17 the median and both northbound and motorists were diverted onto side and crashed into a guard rail EAST PALATKA — A single-vehicle lanes, struck a guardrail and stopped roads until about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. The driver died. crash killed the driver and blocked in a ditch. The identification of the driver was CHRIS DEVITTO/Palatka Daily News traffic on U.S. 17 near the weigh sta- The crash occurred about 10 a.m., not released. PCSO takes lead in death investigation of body found Daytona Beach woman was found in cemetery BY ALLISON WATERS-MERRITT Palatka Daily News Putnam County Sheriff’s Office detec- tives said the department is now the lead investigative agency in the murder inves- tigation of a 22-year-old pregnant Daytona Beach mother of two whose body was found in September in a remote cemetery in East Palatka. Shaquierra Pinckney was reported missing by family members Sept. 1 to the Daytona Beach Police Department. Workers preparing a gravesite at Gethsemane Baptist Church Cemetery found Pinckney’s body Sept. 4. On Sept. 18, St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office deputies found Pinckney’s 2001 Honda Accord after Daytona Beach detectives began searching for the car. Pinckney Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Dominic Piscitello said Daytona Beach initially was the lead agency in the investigation because INSURANCE LOWS Pinckney was reported missing from that area. Putnam lags behind state average in residents signed up for health insurance “We played more of an assisting role,” Piscitello said. However, unanswered questions as to where Pinckney was killed shifted the BY THE NUMBERS BY ASIA AIKINS WHAT DO Palatka Daily News investigation to Putnam County. YOU THINK? “Because of the inability to establish a any Putnam County residents jurisdiction of (where) the death could face penalties when filing What do you think about the (occurred), we are taking the lead in the 17,595 their taxes this year, as more than health insurance situation in investigation,” Capt. Gator DeLoach said. People insured in Putnam 54,000 Putnam residents were Florida and Detectives said Pinckney had recently County as of Sept. 30 without health insurance in 2015, Putnam County? moved in with family in Daytona Beach. Maccording to the state Office of Insurance Email Letters to She previously lived in New York. Regulation’s most recent report. the Editor to During her move to Florida, Pinckney As of Sept. 30, the report said, 17,595 of the publicforum@ accessed and placed posts on an escort sec- $695 72,000 Putnam residents were enrolled in health palatkadailynews. tion of a popular adult website. The penalty in 2016 for not care plans. com. Letter writers must include “She was a prostitute,” Piscitello said. Bates, Hewett and Floyd Insurance Agency Vice full name, daytime phone “Pimps use the site for human trafficking.” having insurance President Benji Bates said local insurance agents number and address. There is Piscitello said Pinckney had a boyfriend have been busy helping Putnam residents keep up a 350-word limit. in New York, and detectives interviewed with the Affordable Care Act and the insurance him. 18.3% mandate since the mandate was upheld in 2012. “She wasn’t (in Florida) long enough to Despite penalties, Bates said, many Putnam ONLINE develop a lasting relationship,” Piscitello Percentage of people not residents are still uninsured. said. insured in Florida in 2014 “Unfortunately, you have a lot of people who For information about health Piscitello said there are no suspects, but say it’s cheaper to pay the penalty than to pur- care requirements detectives are working on a time frame chase coverage,” he said. “As the penalties go up, and penalties, leading to Pinckney’s death. it might be cheaper to just go ahead and get the visit the Health “We believe she was alive at a specific 24 Care Marketplace time,” Piscitello said. Days before the marketplace’s at www. Pinckney had two children and was 2016 enrollment deadline See INSURANCE, Page 5A healthcare.gov. about four months pregnant when she died, authorities said. [email protected] By mail, 2 sections VOL. 128 • NO. 5 The Voice of Classified/Legals ............ 9A Obituaries ....................... 3A INDEX PALATKA, FLA. 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Periodicals postage paid at Palatka, FL, Palatka Daily News, est. 1885, TODAY IN PUTNAM is published daily Tuesday through In 1924, the Putnam County Saturday by the Palatka Daily News, Inc., Country Club was sold at a sheriff’s POSTMASTER: Send address changes to sale to H.A. Davis for $500. Formed Palatka Daily News, P.O. Box 777, in 1921, the property was purchased Palatka FL 32178 for $7,700, and $10,000 was invested MAIN NUMBER ..... 312-5200 on improvements. In 1952, a load of 66 five-gallon Business hours are 8 a.m. to jugs of moonshine valued at $2,500 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. was captured in East Palatka en route from MacClenny to Miami. Call about classified or display ads, questions about circulation or any other newspaper business. Call TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY with news tips at any time. 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