1 THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2013 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | 75¢ Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM Fired officer sues city Ex-LCPD officer in 2009. Brown was taking a man sus- If that discretion is exercised, the Shea Rebecca Brown and her pected of a parole violation to jail officer must destroy the marijuana files suit for bias, attorneys filed suit in Jacksonville in April 2009, and found a small in the presence of a fellow officer, wrongful firing. federal court July 30 against former amount of marijuana on him. Brown said. state attorney Robert “Skip” Jarvis, According to her, the LCPD per- According to the suit, Brown met By TONY BRITT and former Lake City Police Department mits officers to use their discretion with officer Ivan Useche at a local STEVEN RICHMOND captain Rudolph Davis, retired as to whether to charge individuals restaurant and destroyed the mari- A former Lake City police officer LCPD chief Carlton Tunsil and the with possession of misdemeanor juana by grinding it into the ground is taking legal action against the city city of Lake City, among others, for amounts of marijuana seized as con- with her boot. FILE and several individuals following sexual and racial discrimination as traband which had not yet been Former LCPD Officer Shea her criminal trial and termination well as wrongful termination. formally taken into evidence. SUIT continued on 3A Brown. LAUNCHING KIDS INTO THE SCHOOL YEAR Ice cream breakfast charity event set Holiday Inn seeking to raise $2,000 for Give Kids the World. By AMANDA WILLIAMSON [email protected] Pancakes and eggs? French toast and sausage? How about ice cream, chocolate syrup and whipped cream? The local Holiday Inn and Suites will host an ice cream social Saturday to support the Ice Cream for Breakfast Campaign, which raises money to help children will life-threatening illnesses at Give Kids the World Village. “For nearly 25 years, Give Kids the World has served up smiles and memories in our whimsical Ice Cream Palace with all-you-can- AMANDA WILLIAMSON/Lake City Reporter eat ice cream all day, every day,” Richardson Community Center administrative assistant Nicole Smith, right, and United Way of Suwannee Valley Best Neighborhood’s coordinator said GKTW president Pamela Renée Cobb stand among piles of school supplies to be handed out at the Richardson Community Center Backpack Giveaway on Saturday. The Landwirth. “Wish children and event starts at 8 a.m., and organizers expect the supplies to go fast. their families enjoy unlimited cones, sundaes and shakes, with a buffet of topping options whenever they want — even for breakfast.” Backpack giveway helps local kids Give Kids the World Village is a 70-acre, nonprofit “storybook” resort in Orlando where termi- Event scheduled become colored mountains as box of crayons, one box of The giveaway is a com- nally ill children and their fami- the Richardson Community colored pencils, glue sticks, bined effort by United Way of lies can experience a week-long, for Saturday at Center prepares for its annual pencils and an eraser. Children Suwannee Valley, the Board cost-free fantasy vacation. The Backpack Giveaway on can also receive free immuniza- of County Commissioners, resort launched its Ice Cream for community center. Saturday. tions and haircuts throughout the Richardson Community Breakfast campaign on July 21, Lasting from 8 a.m. until the event. Center/Annie Mattox Park National Ice Cream Day, and it will By AMANDA WILLIAMSON noon, the giveaway will provide “We have children who have North Inc., Jazzy Cuts, Lake continue through Sept. 2. [email protected] 450 community students back- a need for school supplies and City Barbers and Stylists and According to the Holiday Inn packs full of supplies to start backpacks,” said Renée Cobb, the county Health Department. general manager Rod Butler, the lue sticks tumble the upcoming school year. United Way of Suwannee Children must be accompa- hotel, at 213 SW Commerce Drive, from their boxes, Each kit will contain one Valley Volunteer Florida Best nied by an adult to receive a hopes to raise $2,000 through the piles of composition backpack, one composition Neighborhoods coordinator. bag. The quantity of backpacks campaign. books line the table notebook, one packet of paper, “We’re trying to meet that The event lasts from 9 a.m. until Gand backpacks one three-pronged folder, one need.” BACKPACKS continued on 3A FUNDRAISER continued on 5A Three arrested following brawl By STEVEN RICHMOND station, at [email protected] which point T h o m a s Three individuals were jumped out arrested Tuesday evening and used a after a brawl at a county handgun to home, Columbia County fire several Sheriff’s deputies report. Flowers shots at Austin Tyler Thomas, the family’s of 182 NE Craig Ave., vehicle, the Jimmy D. Flowers, of 3147 report said. SW Centerville Ave., Fort Spain and White and Jordan Ashley family were Kimbrell, of 147 SW 47th f o l l o w e d Place, Fort White, were to their taken into custody, accord- home, at ing to the arrest report. Kimbrell which point John Spain and his fam- T h o m a s , ily were shopping in a K i m b r e l l local Dollar General store a n d about 6 p.m. Tuesday when F l o w e r s Thomas, Kimbrell, Flowers w a l k e d and other individuals onto their JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter arrived and began arguing p r o p e r t y with Spain’s family both in Thomas and began Looking for the skate park the store and in the parking p h y s i - lot, deputies report. cally assaulting Spain’s Codey Bohannon, 17, does a jump while skateboarding down Veterans Street. ‘I thought they were going to build a skate The group followed Spain park here. I’m pretty disappointed,’ said Bohannon, who has been skating since he was 7. ‘I was looking forward to skating and family to a nearby gas BRAWL continued on 5A here every day. There’s no skate park in Lake City. 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