Lifestyles Sports Lifestyles Editor Osceola County Peter Covino reviews track preview THIS SUNDAY Nightmare on Elm Street Blue-ray collec- tion.”... Page A-5 Page B-1 Serving Kissimmee, St. Cloud, Poinciana, Harmony, Narcoossee, BVL 117TH YEAR • SATURDAY EDITION • 50 CENTS MARCH 9, 2013 Local Police news Murder suspect requesting to Group trying to combat senior St. Cloud hunger represent himself during trial Members of a grow- daycare ing senior community By Fallan Patterson fornia man who requested to represent 2011 behind a wooden fence in the who, given our current Staff Writer himself in a 1975 grand theft trial after backyard of the then-vacant house at owner economic climate, are The man accused of killing his teen- determining his appointed public defend- 819 Carolina Ave. in St. Cloud. That facing an issue far more age girlfriend and leaving her body in an er may be too overburdened with cases. house is a two minute walk from Gug- widespread and alarm- abandoned St. Cloud backyard is plan- Bleckman will ask Guglielmini a series lielmini’s home. arrested ing than most would like ning to represent himself in his murder of questions to not only determine the Jung was last seen Memorial Day, to think – senior hunger. trial scheduled for next defendant’s competency May 30; her father reported her missing for sexual See page A-2 month. but also his willingness to to the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office Anthony Guglielmini, represent himself. June 3. 21, who was charged According to court Jung and Guglielmini were engaged abuse with second-degree mur- records, Guglielmini’s in a domestic-violence filled, on-again, der, after allegedly kill- current attorney is listed off-again relationship, St. Cloud police By Fallan Patterson ing his 16-year-old girl- as Frank J. Bankowitz, of Chief Gauntlett said, adding that investi- Staff Writer County friend Ashley Jung, filed a Orlando. gators believe the girl willingly met with A St. Cloud day- her alleged killer at the time of her death, motion for a Faretta hear- Guglielmini Bleckman could Jung care owner was arrested appoint Bankowitz as possibly at the vacant house, although it Osceola County ing, during which Ninth Wednesday for allegedly Judicial Circuit Court Judge Mark Bleck- back-up council as defendants are rarely was not known as a youth hangout. sexually abusing an under- EMS reports man will determine if Guglielmini is com- allowed to represent themselves alone. “It is our belief his actions led to some age female relative who data breach petent enough to be his own attorney. Guglielmini was arrested nine months See Guglielmini, page A-2 did not attend the pre- Osceola County EMS, The hearing is named after a Cali- after Jung’s body was found June 23, school. the county’s ambulance James Ferguson, 73, agency, has issued a notice was arrested by members to residents about a data of the St. Cloud Police breach affecting records of 2013 Miss St. Cloud Department’s Criminal a number of local patients. Investiga- Advanced Data Pro- tion Unit cessing’s contract provider for allegedly Intermedix, which man- molesting a ages billing for the ambu- 13-year-old lance agency, learned on girl who Oct. 1, 2012 that one lived in his of its employees improp- St. Cloud erly accessed and disclosed home. Ferguson certain patient account He was information in connection arrested after the girl’s with a scheme to file falsi- mother discovered diary fied federal tax returns. entries the girl had written alleging the sexual encoun- See page A-3 ters took place over the last two weeks, St. Cloud Police Department Sgt. Denise Roberts said. According to the charg- ing affidavit, the girl told detectives Ferguson, who owns Rocking Horse Pre- school Academy on Ten- Would you eat meat nessee Avenue in St. from a horse if it was Cloud, began touching her offered at your favorite breasts and genitals in late restaurant? January. The girl’s mother told • Yes, I would. police she became con- • No, I would not. cerned after her daugh- • I would want to ter confirmed the numer- taste it first. ous sexual encounters • I’m not sure. had occurred and took her daughter to St. Cloud Regional Medical Center Vote at for an examination. www.around Ferguson was charged osceola.com News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan with multiple counts of The 2013 Miss St. Cloud was crowned during the St. Cloud Life event held March 2 at the St. Cloud Civic sexual battery with a victim Results from the Center. The title brings with it a college scholarship and the responsibility of representing her city and the under the age of 18; lewd Feb. 23 Question of the St. Cloud Greater Osceola Chamber of Commerce, who sponsors the pageant, at local events. The winner’s or lascivious molestation week: name was not available at press time Friday. with a victim under the age of 16; and child abuse/ Would you get involved domestic violence. if you witnessed a crime He was being held at occurring? the Osceola County Jail without bond. • Yes, I would. – Gateway Airport tower could Murder suspect still sought The girl’s mother told 77.3% police Ferguson and the • It would depend on close if the sequester occurs in Kissimmee cold case girl previously had a dif- the crime. – 14.3% ficult relationship and she • I’m not sure – 5% By Ken Jackson particularly in the air traffic sector. By Fallan Patterson lot of the same people live thought it was strange `• No, I would not. – Staff Writer “Travel and tourism dollars Staff Writer in the area.” when the pair became 3.4% The sequester — the federal are essential to Central Florida’s It’s been nine years since Balderas was found in closer recently but didn’t spending cuts that took effect economy,” Grayson said in a 22-year-old Kelly Ann Bal- room 116 of question it. release on his congressional web- March 1 — won’t be making deras was found murdered the Breeze Ferguson denied touch- site. “Visitors create jobs. As we news just in Washington. in a Kissimmee motel room. Inn March 6, ing the girl, telling detec- approach the busy summer travel 2004, by the Locally, Osceola County could Since then, the motel has tives during his three-hour season, we cannot afford exces- motel’s own- see the toll it takes as domestic been remodeled into a tran- interview the girl’s mother sive delays or other cuts that ers James programs see cuts, part of the sitional residence for home- asked him to speak with undermine passenger comfort and Christie the teenager about puber- $28.7 billion reduction in discre- less men and the neighbor- and safety.” Smith, who ty. Index tionary spending that were part hood has changed. of the federal plan intended to entered the He claimed the girl Grayson was That hasn’t stopped Bal- serve as incentive for Congres- room due Balderas wanted to know about deras’ mother from faithfully sional debt reduction committees to a strong the “birds and the bees” Page A4, Editorial expected to visit the bringing flowers, candles and to trim $1.5 trillion over 10 years. odor, which they thought and he explained to the Page A6, Sports The biggest impact locally airport this weekend memories to 900 E. Vine St. was coming from a cat litter teenager how she should could be the closing of the control Diana Moa fights tears box. masturbate when she has Page B4, Community tower at the Kissimmee Gateway along with other city each year as she remembers Balderas was found sexual thoughts, according Airport. The Federal Aviation officials to rally sup- her daughter with family and between the bed and the to the affidavit. Page B1, Lifestyles Authority has listed it, along with friends who gather near the wall covered with her pillow Parents whose children Page A2,3 Local news towers at Orlando Executive Air- port for Gateway corner of Vine Street and and wearing a white T-shirt; attend Rocking Horse Pre- port and Lakeland Linder Region- Airport. Magnolia Street on the anni- there was obvious trauma to school Academy were con- Page C1, Classi ed al Airport, on a six-page list of air versary of her death. her body. cerned Wednesday about traffic control facilities that could “It’s like somebody com- Friends hadn’t seen her in Ferguson’s arrest as they As examples of cuts that may Page C3, Legals lose funding and be closed. mitted the perfect crime, and three days. came to pick up their chil- directly affect local residents, U.S. Congressman Alan that’s impossible,” Moa said An employee of Outreach dren, with several parents benefits to military personnel like Page B6, Obituaries Grayson, who’s 9th District from her Polk County home Ministries reported seeing removing their children tuition assistance and the TRI- includes Osceola County, has Thursday. “It’s just amazing been staunchly against these cuts, See Sequester, page A-3 nobody knows nothing. A See Balderas, page A-3 See Police, page A-2 Page A2, NEWS-GAZETTE • Online All The Time • www.aroundosceola.com • Saturday, March 9, 2013 Guglielmini Group trying to combat senior hunger Continued from Page A-1 By Victor Ocasio senior hunger, Florida ranked manages is doing its part with sort of confrontation and found with the body, includ- later dropped. For the News-Gazette ninth in the nation. its own Stop Senior Hunger ultimately her death,” he ing a gold bracelet reading Michael Jung has said They are our parents, “They [seniors] are not initiative running now until said in a press conference “I love you.” he believed Guglielmini grandparents, aunts, uncles unnoticed,” said Bill Roberts, April.