times Thursday, December 30. 1982 3 Pasco County man gets life term for raping two children By LINOA PERRY Pnco Times Stall Wriiar When detectives investigated that case, they found in his home more than 100 Polaroid pictures of naked children from the neighborhood. Those pictures led to Lowe's arrest for raping two other young girls in the same age-range. The Pasco County Grand Jury indicted Lowe in March 1981 on three counts of raping girls under the age of 11, a capital offense in Florida (although the Supreme Court ruled last year that death is not an appropriate punishment for that crime). A Circuit Court jury in November convicted Lowe of the "lesser-included" offense of attempted rape in the initial case.
It found him guilty as charged of handling and fondling. In the second case, another jury in December convicted Lowe as charged. Lowe changed his plea Dec. 20 to no-contest in the third case. IN OTHER COURT action Wednesday, Cobb sentenced one of the 14 defendants in the so-called "DC-6 case." Cobb found Frederick Ballone guilty of conspiracy to traffic in excess of 10,000 pounds of marijuana and fined him $5,000.
It was an identical sentence handed to Ballone's brother Louis one month earlier. Both men were given 20 days to pay the fine. They could have gotten five years in prison. Ballone of Gainesville was never formally arrested. One of his attorneys, Charles Waller, told Cobb that Ballone would waive that "technicality" and submit to the arrest after the sentencing hearing.
Ballone pleaded no-contest. ASSISTANT STATE Attorney Phil Van Allen said the state was opposed to the agreement reached on the sentence between Cobb and Ballone's attorneys. The Ballones were accused of arranging to have the big airplane's cargo unloaded in April 1980. Pasco County sheriffs deputies could only estimate that the plane carried about 21,000 pounds of marijuana before they found the plane mired and abandoned in an open field in central Pasco. They vacuumed a small bag of marijuana residue left in the plane for evidence.
Fourteen men, most from out of state, were arrested in connection with the case. DADE CITY A Dade City man who was convicted of raping two neighborhood children wag' sentenced Wednesday to life in priaon. According to the sentence handed to him by Circuit Judge Wayne L. Cobb, Julius Lowe, 57, will be 82 before he has a chance for parole. Cobb also gave Lowe a 30-year sentence that will run at tKa a i a a a tko 1 i fo OAnianA ftr airamnra1 rana i wMiaaw a uu miw I i nviivviivv waas wu rt and handling and fondling of another girl.
LOWE WAS arrested in January 1981 and charged with raping and handling and fondling a 5-year-old girl. Exploding device shakes Inverness shopping center t) I 1 By ANN MARIE LASKIEWICZ Citrus Timaa Staff Writer I Blackie home safe and sound Betty and Paul Ferguson were reunited with their dog Blackie this week. The co*cker spaniel was missing from the couple's fenced-in yard Dec. 1 1 They advertised in local newspapers about the dog they had loved and cared for since he wandered onto their property as a stray four years ago. Blackie was returned by a couple who live down the street and had been out of town since the dog disappeared, Mrs.
Ferguson said. get to a telephone, Presti said. "It didn't cause any property damage," Presti said. "The reason nobody got hurt was the stores were closed." Presti said shoppers who were walking near the store told him the explosion rattled the store windows, and residents in the Inverness Highlands said the explosion shook the windows of their homes. Inverness officer William Tyner collected the remaining pieces of the plastic bag.
They will be sent to the Florida State Fire College laboratory for analysis. Bill Hoppert, Inverness fire prevention officer, said the incident is still under investigation. INVERNESS A makeshift bomb exploded in Citrus Plaza in Inverness Tuesday night, shaking the windows of local stores but causing no damage, Inverness police reported. The device, a plastic bag containing liquid and a burning wick, exploded as Inverness firefighter Ed McKiernan watched from nearby about 9:15 p.m., officer Jack Presti reported. McKiernan had been riding a motorcycle through the parking lot when he noticed the burning wick and the bag in front of the Toy King store in the shopping center.
McKiernan was going to call the fire department but the bag exploded before he could fx i i Glidewell from Page 1 Hernando Timat OLIE STONEROOK Pasco County boy, 10, is mauled by friend's dog "fey JUDY BRENNAN Paaco Timat Staff Writar it was about later became the subject of a grand jury investigation. The same grand jury indicted County Commission Chairman Barry Doyle for, among other things, accepting a loan from a representative of the firm that bought the hospital. Richard Famiglietti, who made the loan was appearing before the board and the subject of discussion was tape recordings of earlier meetings. "ARE THERE any deletions from the Doyle asked, any voids in the tapes?" "I erased 18 seconds," Figurski joked. What was said after that is reported on the transcript as "inaudible." "Doctor," corrected Commissioner Sandra Werner "Doctor," responded Figurski.
"You can call me anything you want," said Giglio. Now there's a straight line Hollingsworth is unlikely to ever hand Young. The same transcript also contains what may be this year's entry in the "Things I Said in Jest That I Wish I Had Never Said at All" category. The meeting was destined to become a matter of controversy because the hospital sale that ear, scratch and bite marks down his back and right arm. Keith is left-handed, "but the dog had a hold of his right arm," Mrs.
DeWitt said. Keith ripped the skin on his right arm when he pulled from the dog's mouth. The incident happened at about 10:30 a.m., Tuesday at the pasture behind Douglas San-ford's home at 2 Hillbrook Zephyrhills. The DeWitts live across the street at 29 Hillbrook Ave. round up the cows," said Denise DeWitt, Keith's 30-year-old mother.
"Keith was helping so they could get through and ride their bikes. "They were heading toward the house when that dog just attacked my son. I don't know how, God, I don't know how, but Keith managed to get away." He got away with gashes and bite marks above and below his right eye, behind his right ZEPHYRHILLS When Keith DeWitt offered to help his friend finish the daily chores early Tuesday, it cost the 10-year-old several days in the hospital. His friend's dog Joey attacked the child who had petted him in the past. "They were out in the pasture trying to Husband sues clinic over wife's death By LINOA PERRY Paico Timaa Staff Writar nn Ml" ft 1ST S1IUL III "As a result of the low potassium level and other omissions of due care," Mrs.
Urish suffered cardiac and respiratory arrests April 27, 1981, and died May 15, 1981, the suit alleges. Urish's attorney, Larry Beltz of St. Petersburg, said Mrs. Urish was 59. Dr.
Ritchie Plummer, medical director of the Holiday clinic, said the suit's allegations are "inaccurate." According to notes on her chart, Plummer said, Mrs. Urish's potassium levels were normal when she was admitted to the program. She was prescribed potassium and her potassium levels were monitored weekly, he said. Mrs. Urish was also advised to continue seeing her family physician and to stay on medication he prescribed, Plummer said.
Her last visit was April 3, and she did not keep her April 6 appointment, he added. LA-Z-ROCKER DADE CITY A Holiday man suing a West Pasco weight reduction clinic says his wife died last year because of a restrictive diet prescribed for her there. John P. Urish filed the suit Tuesday in Pasco County Court asking for damages in excess of $5,000 and a jury trial. According to the suit, Urish's late wife Ruth was placed on a weight reduction plan Feb.
10, 1981 at the American Medical Clinics Inc. in Holiday. Mrs. Urish told the clinic that she was flaking medication for high blood pressure, According to the suit. "Despite that knowledge," the clinic placed Mrs.
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The Brooksville Fire Department was called to the house at 86 Park at 3:26 a.m. by neighbors who were awakened by the sound of the blaze, a Hernando County sheriffs deputy's report said. "My men could see the smoke when they pulled out of the station," Brooksville Fire Chief Paul Steckle said. The house is owned by Laura Collins of Hollywood, the deputy's report said. The cause of the fire was unknown Wednesday, but Steckle said arson is not suspected at this time.
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The spokesman would not release the nature or extent of Miss Calloway's injuries. Miss Calloway, a student at the Sun- coast Beauty School, 209 U.S. 98 was 1 sitting atop the trunk of a friend's convertible sports car when the accident occurred at about 4 p.m., a witness said. Miss Calloway and other students at the school had just finished classes for the day, the witness said. Miss Calloway was being given a ride across the parking lot to her car when she I either tried to get out of the car or slipped off the moving vehicle, the witness said.
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