1 THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Heist may not have happened here Police change course, hotel may not have occurred eled to Maryland for a funeral audit revealed that only the key Gilliam, who wrote Tuesday’s there after all. earlier this month and stayed in card issued to Cox had been used story, LCPD Officer Craig release more facts in The victim, an Indiana woman, hotels in West Virginia and North to enter her room. Strickland called the newspaper’s alleged $20,000 theft. stayed in hotels in three different Carolina as well as Lake City dur- City police originally withheld account, published Tuesday, states during her trip and does ing her trip. basic facts of the case, releasing “incorrect.” not know when the jewelry went She made police reports in all only the name of the alleged vic- “The [police] report clearly By ROBERT BRIDGES missing, according to informa- three states, according to Van tim, a list of the items allegedly states that the victim stayed at [email protected] tion released Tuesday by LCPD. Bennekom. stolen, the date of the alleged three different hotels during her The woman, Janice Mildred On Wednesday, the owner of theft and the hotel at which it was journey from Indiana,” Strickland Lake City Police Department Cox, 73, of Fort Wayne, Ind., win- the Hampton Inn and Suites, said to have occurred. wrote. “She packed her jewelry now says the $20,000 jewelry ters in Florida, according to Lt. where Cox stayed in Lake City In an email Wednesday to Lake heist reported Friday at a local Clint Van Bennekom. She trav- on March 12, said an electronic City Reporter staff writer Derek HEIST continued on 3A Mother Fire hoses tested slain by son, say police Luraville man reportedly told Suwannee deputies ‘he wanted her to listen to him.’ By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] SUWANNEE COUNTY — A Luraville man faces charges of second-degree mur- der after allegedly stabbing his mother to death on Monday. According to Suwannee County Sherif f’s Of fice, Kenneth Hooker, 44, stabbed his mother, Rose Lawson, in the chest with a small fold- ing knife but did not call for medical assis- tance. Lawson died as a result of her wound. Hooker Police responded to the house as a result of a concerned call from Hooker’s sister, the sheriff’s report said. Hooker informed the responding officer that he stabbed his mother during an argument “because he wanted her to listen to him.” Suwannee County Sheriff Tony DEREK GILLIAM/Lake City Reporter Cameron said this wasn’t the first time Lake City Fire Department Firefigher Scott Hale tests a 1 3/4-inch hose on the Ladder 1 fire engine Wendesday. The fire department his deputies had been called to the resi- tested more than 2,000 feet of hoses to make sure they do not leak and can hold pressure. The test is done once a year for each engine dence shared by Hooker and his mother. in the department. The test is required by the Insurance Services Office and recommended by the National Fire Protection Association. “There’s just constant arguing and bick- ering between him and her,” Cameron said. When officers arrived, Hooker was “very, very much” under the influ- ence of alcohol and didn’t appear to be remorseful, Cameron said. However, the Panel OKs STABBING continued on 3A bill to let Greer gets teachers 18 months be armed By KELLI KENNEDY for theft Associated Press MIAMI — Public and private school By MIKE SCHNEIDER principals could designate teachers and Associated Press other school employees who would carry concealed weapons on cam- ORLANDO — The former chairman pus at all times in an effort to make of the Republican Party of Florida was schools safer, under legislation that won sentenced Wednesday approval Wednesday from a state House to 18 months in prison committee. for stealing $125,000 in It gives principals the option to desig- party funds, complet- nate one or several school employees to ing the fall of a man carry concealed weapons. The designee who once was one of would be required to complete the same the most powerful training that bank and courthouse secu- political figures in the rity guards complete in addition to the state. Greer statewide firearms training. Principals Jim Greer, 50, was could also decline the concealed weap- COURTESY PHOTO sentenced in an Orlando courtroom, ons option altogether. more than a month after he pleaded Proponents of the bill argued that Egg hunting time guilty to four counts of theft and a single since the state can’t afford to put a count of money laundering. The guilty school resource officer on every cam- Children scramble to gather treats at last year’s inaugural Lake City-Columbia County pleas in February ended Greer’s trial pus, the gun legislation is a common- Chamber of Commerce Easter Egg Hunt at Wilson Park. This year, there will be a thousand before it started. sense alternative. eggs stuffed with candy and other fun treats along with several “prize eggs” hidden in the Circuit Judge Marc Lubet handed down But several lawmakers expressed res- park, according to a news release from Jackie Kite, city community redevelopment adminis- ervations about placing more guns on trator. 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