r £-J DON'T LET SECTION INSIDE: 1 ARTHRITIS BIG ARTS CRAMP YOUR CRAFTS FAIR STYLE—PAGE IB THIS SATURDAY 3 SECTIONS, 72 PAGES VOLUME 14, NUMBER 3 island NOVEMBER 27,1986 SANIBEL AND CAPTIVA, FLORIDA Police unearth stolen goods at Sassman home Left: SaniM Police , Sanibel family face various found mtyre thnn fnyi*..' charges in 'unique case* in thentticat 525l' • Umbnlla fond. Hire,. By Matt Perez .- ; ., (0CITH ItW fwltM e uidm ifnthrr a fvtr nf ive members of a Sanibel family who •. Ihf vinrpthan oO IJUPS -allegedly terrorized their neighbors, iinged .: < in Threat A. "' ": F a vendetta against police, and stole property a ail over the island, will spend Thanksgiving in jail on various charges including grand theft, dealing in - ' thv rijUs cnnfixctti&l stolen property and aggravated batten,1. - from thv Salmon, "V Tho chargi's'arose from a Nov. 19 fracas which . house huiy bifn idiii- began when Sanibel police responded to an attemp- j lifyd fi.« xfalcji. A -Ao ted burglary complaint and ended, police say, with ^i • Ji-raiiber Hornet and the father and his three sons attacking the officers 5 a .SiS-calilicr Hem- -and with the mother trying to run over the officers o ihgijmj rrjiorted as ''' •with a car.;;1 ' :.•-', . •" . , " •-.-;.£ - stolen to policed urre Q- The events that ledto what'police are calling an important and unique case has been market! by: • ; — the arrest Wednesday night of Saspmfih, "18, e" his wife Antoinette, 43, and their sons Alexander, y. 23, Victor, 22, and Henry, ID, on charges ranging from grand theft and attempted burglary to ; - resisting arrest and aggravated assault. "\ Four FinnisK tourists were staving at that ad- : -. dress, acconling to jwilice. They nave since left the , - — the discovery of two rifles stolen from.5351 , ; island. They are Ossi M. Salmi'nen. S5, Taimi X..T: Howeii.Diiyuti Koad, weapon silencers and other . Saliminen, 55/Richanl KorCmann, S3, and Atija stolen Hems at thiiSassman home. • ,]-• " Kortmann, 53. of Helsinki, Finland. During an inventory of item3 found in the . ... ;; The serond warrant, executed Saturday, came.. Sassman home, police found linens and kitchen : after police had seen items in the home such as a equipment'reported stolen from Casa Ybel resort; a ; rental video-cassette recorder and video tapes that ay telephone that had been rip[>cd off a wall in : - , matched the description n{ items previously : - . .15tark, r la.; construction equipment from White and reported stolen, - . ." ' Sons construction; and parts of a fireplace reported : 'stolen from a house unuer construction in Gulf „. p. Eventually, they found more than 50 rifles and Ridge^ubdiyison. • •' . -• •-; : pistols in the closets and attic of the house. .^ : : ; Sassman, a retired customs .inpi#et<jr,"sa>'S, he is The two rifles reportedly found in the Sassman \ . a gun collector.; " • '-"-' '" " " - attic are owned by a'man who lives in tlie subdivi- : sion who said he knew the family, but was not a : i Lt. Lew Phillips also said Kassman was a gun col- - close friend of theirs. "I went over and I saw, but \~ lector and that there was nothing -wrong with own- ing guns. "You can have"as many'guns as you \" : ' still don't believe they took them," he said Saturday, want. You can't have stolen guns,' he said. -~ after police called him in to identify the stolen !! According to the policy inventory! there also was "weapons. .--"--" '• '•• • ' •';" - ' ;',V •;•-. ' ' . Police have been searching the Sassman property sufficient ammunition to stock all of the weapons. _-= at 5251 -Umbrella-Pool Road since they obtained a ;« Phillips said. However, he added that a few of the _ warrant to enter the home Friday night With the :! jc pistols;were starter-gunp used in competitive rac- first search warrant, they were looking for two .„• pistols, a ,45-caliber and a smaller weapon, which" * [• Parts of a 11*84 Jeep CJ7. which the Sassmans last were allegedly used by Thomas and Henry. Sassman § year had rt-pyrtcd stojen in Miami, were found in -iii an attempted burglary of a house Wednesday - "'""its, the attic and buried in the yard. Police said ., night at 52% Umbrella Pool Road adjacent to the': - man hail e<»l!pct«l insurance money on the : : Sassman homei - - . •{- £|i ^ , • please st^e SASSMAN, 5A i wetlands conservation district, was "sensitive ; land," Webb outlined fix "findini*? of fact" recom- . Stbr|ge|park's !?'$:% ; mondin^ denial of the project. Findings cf fact.are ' icrittria used by the commission to approve or deny. Variances or other mcasdrea under the land ! ' • . development code..;: • v. ' • ." 7 ; ;• Webb cited a"public perception" that there was ;. i too much commercially zoned land already on ; Sanibel. He said he did hot agree with Jenks con-" - damage' ; terit'ion that "cheap land is necessary- for the pro- :ject."-L V • • :"••'+.;• V , ."_ :• Jenks had said that he bought the property - 4 Commission unanimously ;>;•": :: ; behind Bank of the Islands for a fraction'of the cost recommends-denial of plan: :! ; that commercial zoned land would cost and that this • inexpensive land was neccsuary for the indoor and outdoor storage facility because such facilities do .".. " -By Earl^Hattman--^. / i " •'••'•.- -h '•- , ^'.''.' J. not yield the high revenues of other commercial r - a uses. : .,.- ••. • -.- • ' ^ •--•• '••'>'.' ••'' •'= ": ' illiam \Vebl^ chairman of Sanibel's planh-'-- ji.- Webb said the land development code's intent is -^ ,; ing commission, gave Realtor Bert Jenks' = tc limit the impact on environmentally sensitive e V " . - .... ^controversial planned storage facility off. ; : Cash Ybcl' R6»|.ft blow Tuesday by recommending • * land: Two dwelling uriiis would be allowed on the ~_ J. its denial, a recommendation which his fellow com* E 8.8 acres in the upland and lowland wetlands, and ^ •*'• ;- mlssioners endorsed unanimoiialy to city council. -••• 5 -"the proiosftl is airoady for more than that." . j-, Vf -• :• After Jenks outlined his objections to thred of 30 *.' He calfeil the. facility an intrusion into the interior ."•; •. conditions for a special use district for th*» mini-fc 'tlanils conservation/district, which the LDC lists.. -, •'•' storage and electriceTsubstation, and provisions he Architect Jdf St. Cyr (uttindingitiurinfj hi* presntta- : 21 findings of fact to'prohibit, and said the storage tinnUi Sanittet planning comttmsUm vfliert Jenks': ; parkAvouid "jeopardize the future of similar parcels' ':. - •, ' • "would make, Webb gave }»'s "alternative" to the ; *. (seated cotter) requeat for a'xtofngs park. Gary • ; of land." V ' ; v 4 ~ ' ' : *>J.; j.'W! " ; Sayingthe land, which lies within the interior Beardslcy h stated iti the foreground. ; ,;r. ;; _\ • please see PARK, 6A ..Or ;•• •X'-V o 1 •^BSpwy «•§>• *• J? v^i^ ^ * H-J 2A D NOVEMBER 27 1986 D ISLAND REPORTER the island eye dtli\ered to inothir Leopard ,. 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