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Page A-9 Page B-4 Page B-1 Serving Kissimmee, St. Cloud, Poinciana, Harmony, Narcoossee, BVL 117TH YEAR • SATURDAY EDITION • 50 CENTS MAY 25, 2013 Schools Missing soldier from Don’t look down Board approves using electronic devices at St. Cloud declared dead meetings School Board By Fallan Patterson appeared the early morning Medical Battalion, 44th Medi- members will now be For the News-Gazette of April 14, 2012. cal Brigade, as a health ser- able to access their Missing Fort Bragg soldier The case is still active and vice specialist. personal computers Kelli Bordeaux, who hailed her family and friends con- “Being a soldier to Kelly or other electronic from St. Cloud, was declared tinue to search for the U.S. isn’t something she’d jeopar- devices during meet- dead this week by authorities Army private first class, who dize for anything,” Bordeaux’s ings, due to a poli- just one year after she went was last seen around 1:20 older sister, Olivia Cox, said in cy change approved missing, enabling her family a.m. at the Froggy Bottoms a press conference last year. Tuesday. to collect her military benefits. bar in Fayetteville, N.C. “Missing work isn’t something See page A-3 Brig. Gen- According to police reports, that’s in character for Kelli. eral David convicted sex offender Nicho- This is an out of character K. MacEwen las Holbert told authorities he thing to happen to my sister.” declared the gave Bordeaux a ride home Bordeaux’s family and Local 23-year-old from the bar and dropped her friends have searched the dead Monday off in front of her apartment woods behind the rural bar based on the complex the morning she dis- and other areas of interest findings and appeared. near Fayetteville without Memorial Day Holbert, a former bar hand results. recommenda- Bordeaux closings tions of the who is currently in jail on an Bordeaux grew up in Board of Inquiry, according to unrelated charge, is consid- Osceola County and attend- Local governments and Fort Bragg, N.C. officials and ered a person of interest in ed St. Cloud High School utilities have a message for published reports. the Bordeaux case but has not where she was a straight-A residents this Monday: The declaration does not been charged. student, Cox said. She pre- Enjoy your Memorial mean Bordeaux is difinitively Bordeaux was reported viously worked at a Sonic Day holiday, and we’ll see dead; it just allows military missing after she failed to restaurant in St. Cloud, where you on Tuesday. benefits to be transferred to show up for duty at Fort the marquee last year read her family, which may include Bragg Army base, where she “Come home safe Kelli. We See page A-3 her estranged husband, who was assigned to the 601st miss you.” was reportedly in Florida visit- Area Support Medical Com- Bordeaux’s Facebook ing relatives when he wife dis- pany, 261st Multifunctional See Soldier, page A-3 County Residents, proactive force Commission to helped reduce crime Do you think this year’s Osceola County high decide on reports, authorities say school graduates will find life more difficult than privatizing By Ken Jackson community involvement. their parents did? Staff Writer “Citizens having an active News-Gazette Photo/Andrew Sullivan tourism Osceola County has some role in their community makes . Workers contracted by Osceola County performed • Yes. effective law enforcement our county a repairs and applied fresh paint to the historic • No. department units as proved by the lat- safer place,” Hansell said. Osceola County courthouse this week, work that • I’m not sure. est statistics from the Florida required the use of a bucket lift to reach the highest • I have no opinion. By Ken Jackson “We will con- Department of Law Enforce- point of the building’s cupola. Such height comes Staff Writer ment. tinue to use with a great view: on the horizon, at left, is the JW Vote at Osceola County staff But, the county also has this report www.around will spend the next three some vigilant residents will- and others to Marriott, nearly eight miles away. osceola.com months working with a ing to take ownership of their work to stay ahead of the consultant to determine communities — according to Hansell Results from the if privatizing Experience local law enforcement offi- emerging crime May 18 Question of the Kissimmee, the county’s cials. trends and for determining allo- Police news week: department of tourism The proof? It’s in the num- cations of resources.” development, is the most bers. The FDLE released its Regarding the Kissimmee What grade would you financially and strategically 2012 Annual Uniform Crime Police Department efforts, currently give the Obama sound way to go. Report last week, and locally Chief Lee Massie said, “The Kissimmee man dies after administration? In response to a the news was almost all posi- Kissimmee Police Department request to study the issue tive. has adopted the Intelligence driving into retention pond • A – 42.6% he received from Board Locally, 701 fewer crime Led Policing philosophy, which • F – 35.5% of County Commission- reports were filed in 2012 encourages the police to work A Kissimmee man was and the into the retention • B – 7.7% ers, Vice Chairman Fred (10,588) than in 2011 collaboratively with other law killed early Friday morn- pond near The Loop shop- • C – 7.1% Hawkins Jr. and County (11,289) in Osceola County, enforcement agencies, private ing after he drove his car ping center, patrol reports • D – 7.1% Manager Don Fisher laid representing a 6.2 percent sector partners and the commu- off the roadway near The stated. The car then totally out during Monday’s meet- overall drop. nity in ensuring that we are all Loop and into a reten- submerged into the pond. ing how staff will study the The Sheriff’s Office’s working together to proactively tion pond, where it sunk, The driver was removed matter, including how to cleared 34.2 percent of prevent and solve crimes when authorities said. from the car by the Kis- choose the consulting firm possible. Another component Index cases in 2012, higher than According to Florida simmee Fire Department and some other initiatives of this philosophy is to know the police departments in St. Highway Patrol reports, Rescue Dive Team and was that can be implemented who the habitual offenders are Cloud (30.2) and Kissimmee the 39-year-old Kissimmee pronounced dead at the before the study comes in. and focus on that element.” Page A4, Editorial (26.3) and above the overall victim, who was not iden- scene. Fisher said the three- county average (31). The biggest decreases Page A8, Sports month study was neces- countywide were in robbery tified at press time Fri- Total reports by the Osceo- day morning because next Arrest of Poinciana sary because of the wide la County Sheriff’s Office reports (227 to 209), motor of kin had not been noti- man closes burglary Page B4, Community amount of opinions and were down 7.8 year to year vehicle theft (439 to 367), input he received on what fied, was driving a 1994 cases Page B1, Lifestyles in 2012. Sheriff Bob Han- aggravated assaults (1,290 to Osceola County, as a tour- sell attributed that to a well- 1,166) and larcenies (6,490 to Honda Accord north on With one arrest Wednes- ist destination should be Page A2, Local news trained force of deputies and 5,692). John Young Highway, day, Osceola County Sher- about when he studied the support staff. Overall, the crime rate per approaching Osceola Park- iff’s detectives cleared four matter. Page C1, Classi ed Proactive, aggressive 100,000 residents (3,769.8) way at about 1:06 a.m. For burglary cases of Target “I don’t have the experi- Page C3, Legals and intelligence driven law represented an 8.5 percent unknown reasons, as the stores. ence in tourism to make enforcement aid tremen- decrease year over year. victim attempted to make Angel Diaz, 29, 1002 an educated analysis,” he a left turn from the high- Morvan Lane of Poinci- Page B6, Obituaries dously in reducing and solving Contact Ken Jackson at said. “We have a strategic crime,” he said this week. way and onto the parkway, ana, a registered felon, plan. We can do more than 321-402-0435 or by email at At the same time, he cred- kjackson@osceolanews he traveled northwest onto See County, page A-7 ited citizens showing their gazette.com. the shoulder of the road See Police, page A-7 Page A2, NEWS-GAZETTE • Online All The Time • www.aroundosceola.com • Saturday, May 25, 2013 I Will Co-Sign Your Loan! 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