A3 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2019 | YOUR COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER SINCE 1874 | $2 Lake City Reporter LAKECITYREPORTER.COM + PLUS >> SUNDAY 1B Dog 1D No need to keep creating LEE has his criminals ESCAPES day Travel Tales Opinion/4A YET AGAIN See 2A $2,500 loss LO native vies for TV crown Pallets jacked, kids tricked at ‘Ultimate H’ween display for local FFA Cowboy’ 8A Fifth-generation Florida cowboy and Live Oak native Jared Lee can be seen on TV starting tomorrow. See 8A. Pumpkin-racks pilfered; city cops are on the case. By TONY BRITT A RECORD-BREAKING TRUNK OR TREAT Operation [email protected] Green Light October is when you get to play tricks on people in the spirit of Halloween. But on Friday, Columbia High FFA students were the victim of How to something worse when thieves stole 50 wooden pallets from the lot on U.S. Highway 90 where they hold their annual Columbia FFA Pumpkin Patch keep folks fundraiser. Theft will “According to the victim, they’re from losing hamper the heavier-duty, group’s painted pallets annual and they’re worth jobs over about $50 a piece, fundrasing so about $2,500 effort. all together,” said Sgt. Mike Lee, tickets Lake City Police Department public information officer. Most non-criminals could get Lee said Columbia High School FFA suspended licenses back so members were setting up their pump- they can go to work, pay bills. kin patch and had unloaded about 62 wooden pallets in all. Most were painted blue and some were painted By CARL MCKINNEY red. The group returned to the high [email protected] school to get more supplies and when Murray Smith, a sergeant they returned, 50 of the pallets — only with the Columbia County the special heavy-duty ones — were Sheriff’s Office, remembers Photos by TONY BRITT/Lake City Reporter stolen. a time when speeding tick- PALLETS continued on 7A ets were about $25 in many cases, and he thought that still 4,500 kids seemed a little steep. Now, a traffic citation can easily total hundreds of dollars, Cops: Fake check storm gates amounting Program to a couple for used car lands for starters will only be days’ pay for some Ham. man in jail By TONY BRITT in effect one people. [email protected] week and And those By CARL MCKINNEY Trunk or Treat drew a ends Friday. without [email protected] record number of children the money — 4,500 in the first two rack up A deal struck online for the sale of a hours — to the Wilson Park snowballing collection fees and 2002 Chevrolet Camaro went sideways and Darby Pavilion area interest, which can eventually after the owner met Friday evening. cost them their driver’s licenses and deprive them of the means who he thought was At one point they were waiting close to two hours travel to or from work without a buyer at the Save-A- risking more trouble. Lot on U.S. Highway to get inside. The line down Hernando Avenue “It just compounds the 90 in Lake City, depu- went behind the court- issues,” said Smith, spokes- ties say. house, came back up person for the Sheriff’s Office, Mike Hammond Justice Street and ended on which is helping the Columbia Johnson Jr., 30, of TOP: Columbia County public library employees Emma County Clerk of Court’s Office Johnson the steps of the tax collec- Hamilton County, tor’s office. Miles (left) and Kate Duong, dressed as characters from spread the word about a pro- handed over a fraudulent cashier’s They ran out of candy Alice in Wonderland, share a laugh with a visitor Friday eve- gram offering people a way out check for $7,993.7 at an arranged meet- within the first hour but ning at Trunk or Treat. ABOVE: Robert Stalvey and Hagan of the hole — but it’s a limit- local businesses donated Stalvey, 7, came dressed as Luigi and Mario. Here Hagan CHECK continued on 7A more to keep things going. accepts candy from Steven Flores. 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Certain restrictions may apply. Call for details. 2A SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2019 LOCAL LAKE CITY REPORTER SHERIFF’S OFFICE QUICK HITS Scripture of the Day K-9 gets well-deserved rest “My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:” Sheriff Mark Hunter — Proverbs 1:8 (KJV) on Friday presided over a retirement ceremony at the Sheriff’s Operation Center for a valued team member. Thought for Today K9 Bak, one of four A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or canines used at CCSO, taste not the Pierian spring. was retired after a stellar career. Bak, who joined — Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English writer CCSO in August 2014, is a multi-purpose dog able to track, locate objects or peo- Winning Lottery Numbers ple, apprehend suspects, Pick 3: (Friday p.m.) 0-3-6 and detect narcotics. But Pick 4: (Friday p.m.) 8-2-7-1 he has earned his rest and Fantasy 5: (Friday) 1-11-19-26-29 will live out retirement at his handler’s home. 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