To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office 239-477-1000 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.

East Naples man faces aggravated assault charges

An East Naples man going by the nickname “Flea” faces assault charges after neighbors reported that he’d “gone crazy.”

Farol Hyppolite, 32, of the 5200 block of McCarty Street in East Naples, was arrested by Collier deputies at his home on Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal mischief and obstruction of justice after getting into fights with several of his neighbors.

One neighbor reported that Hyppolite told him he was going to “slash his head off.”

According to reports, Hyppolite threatened to kill several neighbors, as he swung a machete and a hammer around.

He repeatedly struck one of his neighbor’s cars and pulled a screen window off its frame as he yelled curse words at another neighbor.

Neighbors reported that they were in fear of their lives.

An uncooperative Hyppolite was transferred to the Naples Jail Center, according to reports.

North Naples man accused of beating up pregnant ex-girlfriend

A North Naples man has been charged with aggravated battery after Collier deputies say he beat up his ex-girlfriend, who is seven months pregnant with his baby.

Johny Francois, 29, of the 1400 block of Fifth Avenue North in Naples, was arrested at his home Wednesday. He’s also charged with battery by strangulation and obstruction of justice.

According to reports, he punched his ex-girlfriend in the face, pulled her hair and threatened to kill her after she told him that another ex-boyfriend had recently called her.

She reported that he had slapped and punched her about 30 times and that he repeated several times, “I’m gonna’ kill you.”

At one point during the scuffle, she said, he put both of his hands on her throat, making hard for her to breath. After breaking away, she ran for help.

Battery arrests

? Jonathan Sloan Walker, 47, of the 1200 block of Chantry Place in Lake Mary, Fla., was arrested Wednesday by Naples Police and charged with battery and obstruction of justice after getting into a fight with his wife.

He was arrested at 240 15th Avenue S. after police say he pushed his wife until she hit a bed and fell over, and then pinned her to the bed while continuing to yell at her in a dispute about feeding their son.

? Colby Mathew Combs, 18, of the 16000 block of Edgemont Road, Fort Myers, was arrested Wednesday by Lee deputies at HealthPark Medical Center. He was charged with battery on a firefighter/paramedic. He is accused of hitting and spitting on a medic who was treating him after Combs was battered.

Drug arrests

? ?Ashley Brooke Dryden, 25, of the 14000 Schooner Bay in Golden Gate Estates, was arrested at her home on Wednesday and charged with two counts of possessing a controlled substance and possession of an opium/derivative. •Kenji Val Colin, 32, of the 2900 block of Sixth Avenue S.E. in Golden Gate Estates, was arrested Wednesday at Airport-Pulling Road and Exchange Avenue and charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to sell, possession of opium or a derivative, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

? ?Armando Garcia, 57, of the 2400 block of Osprey Landing Circle, Naples, was arrested Wednesday by Lee deputies in Lee County. He was charged with two counts each of sales of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church or school, driving while license suspended and possession of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church or school and one count each of possession of cocaine, possession of a controlled substance.

DUI arrests

? Clark Harding Shotwell, 20, of the 6400 block of Trail Boulevard in North Naples, was arrested Tuesday by Collier deputies at 5926 Premiere Way.

? Andy Guerra, 25, of the 3100 block of Cottage Grove Avenue in East Naples, was arrested on Wednesday at Rattlesnake Hammock Road and U.S. 41 East. He was also charged with driving with a suspended license.

? William W. Brown, 65, the 100 block of Pettigru Street in Greenville, S.C., was arrested Wednesday at the 2000 block of Golden Gate Parkway and Goodlette-Frank Road.

? Emily Lauren Henderlong, 25, of the 27000 block of Johnson Street in Bonita Springs, was arrested at Arbor View Boulevard and Old U.S. 41 Road.

Other arrests

? ?Kristen Marie Madden, 27, of East Naples, was arrested Wednesday by Collier deputies and charged with defrauding a pawn broker and dealing in stolen property. She’s accused of pawning jewelry she took from a roommate while living in Bonita Springs. She was arrested at 5585 Shirley Street.

? Ian Cummings, 31, of the 2000 block of Airport-Pulling Road South in Naples, was arrested by Collier deputies on Wednesday and charged with fraud and petit theft after he returned several items at the WalMart Super Center on Collier Boulevard that he and a friend, Alise Naccarato, picked up from the shelves, but never purchased.

He was arrested at 3301 U.S. 41 East.

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Police Beat is compiled and written by the Naples Daily News staff/ contributors from oral and written reports by Naples police, Collier Sheriff‘s Office, Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Marco police and other agencies. Arrests indicate suspicion of crime, not guilt.

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Police Beat: Aug. 12, 2010

To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office 239-477-1000 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.

? Lee County woman finds gas tank filled with condoms

? Wrong license plate leads to pound of pots, thousands in cash

Battery arrests

? Anthony George Maldonado, 21, of the 11400 block of Whistlers Cove Circle, East Naples, was arrested by Collier deputies Tuesday near his home and charged with burglary with assault or battery after a report said Maldonado punched another man in the face while the man was in a vehicle.

Grand theft arrests

? Joshua Wayne Woodward, 32, of the 4600 block of Sunset Road, Golden Gate, was arrested by Collier deputies Tuesday in the 4900 block of Golden Gate Parkway. Woodward was charged with grand theft, a report said, after attempting to steal a $499 TV from Kmart.

DUI arrests

? Albert Lee Layne, 52, of the 1900 block of 48th Street Southwest, Golden Gate, was arrested by Collier deputies Tuesday on Immokalee Road. It was Layne’s third violation in more than 10 years.

? Layne Derek Perkins, 41, of the 500 block of Devils Lane, Naples, was arrested by Collier deputies Tuesday in the 2400 block of U.S. 41 North and charged with driving under the influence, causing property damage and leaving the scene of a crash.

Drug arrests

? Nicole Danelle Morgan, 35, of the 2600 block of Weeks Avenue, North Naples, was arrested by Collier deputies Tuesday at the intersection of Airport-Pulling and North roads. Morgan was charged with possession of three oxycodone pills.

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Police Beat: Aug. 4, 2010

They are tour guides, airport greeters, hospital helpers, fund-raisers and more. They provide hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work for free.

They are volunteers. And, neither the struggling economy nor summer doldrums have taken a lasting toll on their numbers or hours of service.

But they aren’t always easy to find: Some area organizations have worried about finding enough help this year.

Yet help has come from a strange place: the ranks of the unemployed. Many people who have lost their jobs are volunteering to stay busy and fill gaps on their resumes.

At the Bonita Springs Chamber of Commerce, “We’ve struggled getting people to volunteer in the summer. Fortunately, we’re less busy now,” said Tiffany Esposito, communications manager.

Esposito aims to recruit five or six volunteers for the busier months of November through March. Meantime, she’s fielding inquiries from local high school students, who need service hours to graduate and who are having trouble finding summer jobs.

Margaret Baugher directs the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program at Senior Friendship Centers. The center recruits and refers volunteers to more than 60 agencies in Lee County.

When the local economy hit the skids, “we initially lost volunteers – about 200,” Baugher said of the volunteer corps of nearly 2,000 people today. Then, as Lee County’s unemployment soared – to a peak of 14.2 percent in January – “we got droves of people coming in to volunteer: people who’d lost their jobs. … Quite a few got jobs through volunteering.”

Debra Olvera, 56, is one of them. She started as a volunteer at Senior Friendship Centers headquarters in Fort Myers last July, after months of job-hunting and skills-upgrading at the Career and Service Center.

“When we moved from Texas two years ago, we thought the employment situation here was OK, but it wasn’t,” Olvera said.

After 25 years in clerical work for insurance and construction firms, a church and other organizations, office work at Senior Friendship seemed a good match. Also, Olvera lived within walking distance to center headquarters.

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Olvera volunteered as a part-time receptionist from July till November, when she was hired for that position, full-time.

Even if unpaid work doesn’t evolve into a paid job, “volunteering fills in those gaps on your resume,” Olvera said.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics surveys, one in four Americans volunteer, a rate that’s been static for 40 years. The Corporation for National and Community Service, the federal agency that oversees service programs, says volunteering rose 1.5 percent in 2008, the most recent year for which data was available.

Volunteer recruitment and training occurs year-round at the Edison & Ford Winter Estates. Over the past two years, the volunteer crew has risen from about 170 to 250. They include full-time people employed in professions as well as retirees and people between jobs, said Chris Pendleton, estates CEO. High school and college students assist in the summer day camps.

After 100 hours of service, volunteers are awarded free estates membership, which can be used for free or discounted admission to allied cultural attractions and museums.

Pendleton, however, said a thirst for learning drives most volunteers: “They want to learn about history, science, how to garden. They’re attracted to the history.”

Unemployed volunteer to get jobs, boost resumes