? Sheriff’s office investigating abduction attempt of 12-year-old girl

? Deputies: Woman steals coworker’s car after getting kicked out of home

? 18-year-old charged with Golden Gate home invasion

? Teen charged in Immokalee home burglary

? San Carlos couple’s home burglarized while they were inside

Domestic assault arrests

? A 16-year-old boy whose address was not released was arrested Monday by Lee deputies at South County Regional Library, 21100 Three Oaks Parkway in Estero. He was charged with battery/domestic violence. He is accused of hitting his mother with drum sticks.

? Michael P. Hunt, 44, of the 1000 block of Danford Street, East Naples, was arrested by Collier deputies Monday at home. Hunt was charged with battery, after reports said he beat his live-in girlfriend.

? Margaret Ann Jacobs, 40, of the 5000 block of Hickory Wood Drive, Golden Gate Estates, was arrested by Collier deputies Sunday at home. She was charged with battery/ intentionally causing bodily harm to another, after reports said she hit her boyfriend several times while drunk.

? Gabrielle Leigh Pynckel, 20, of the 13000 block of Hickory Run Lane, Fort Myers, was arrested Monday by Lee deputies at home. She was charged with two counts of battery/domestic violence. She is accused of hitting her father and sister during an argument.

DUI arrests

? Adolfo Eugeno Briceno, 24, of the 3000 block of Santa Barbara Boulevard, Golden Gate, was arrested by Collier deputies Monday near the 3000 block of Pine Ridge Road.

? Renee Lynn Etter, 44, of the 14000 block of Pleasant Bay Lane, Golden Gate Estates, was arrested by Marco Island police Monday near the 500 block of N. Collier Boulevard.

? Benjamin Jacome, 44, of the one block of Walnut Street, East Naples, was arrested by Marco Island police Monday near the intersection of Kendall Drive and N. Collier Boulevard.

Drug arrests

? Dustin C. Cuevas, 25, of the 3600 block of Carson Road, Immokalee, was arrested Monday by Lee deputies in Lee County. He was charged with possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia.

Grand Theft arrests

? Keith Anthony Middleton Jr., 20, of the 600 block of Jefferson Avenue, Immokalee, was arrested by Collier deputies Monday near the 600 block of Jefferson Avenue. Middleton was charged with grand theft $300 to $5,000, after reports said he stole the tires and rims from his neighbor’s car.

? Mabel Puertas, 44, of the 8400 block of Bamboo Road, Fort Myers, was arrested Monday by Lee deputies in Lee County. She was charged with grand theft between $300 and $5,000.

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: Nov. 30, 2010

? 3 men accused of armed home invasion to collect marijuana debt

? Chokoloskee woman charged with “doctor shopping” for prescription drugs

? Naples High School student charged with trying to pickpocket $13 from classmate

? Hyatt employee accused in cash theft, missing shoes

? Estero woman suspected of shoplifting at Dillards

DUI arrests

? Joshua Hurley, 30, of the 1900 block of Visland Avenue in North Naples, was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol officers on the southbound ramp of the Interstate 75 and Pine Ride Road interchange on Monday and charged with DUI, driving under a suspended license, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance and refusal to submit to submit to a urine test.

Battery arrests

? James Larry Tackett, 58, of the 8100 block of Albatross Road, Fort Myers, was arrested Monday by Lee deputies at home. He was charged with battery/domestic violence. He is accused of pushing his wife, causing her to fall into a dresser and then to the floor.

Drug arrests

? Darrel Priestly, 27, of the 500 block of 107th Avenue North in North Naples was arrested by Collier County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Monday night at the corner of Flamingo Avenue and Vanderbilt Drive in North Naples and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.

? Theophilus Malcom Washington, 17, of the 12000 block of Rock Brook Run, Fort Myers, was arrested Monday by Fort Myers police in Lee County. He was charged with possessing less than 20 grams of marijuana, illegally possessing a firearm by a minor, fleeing law enforcement officers, leaving the scene of a crash resulting in property damage, grand theft auto and driving without a valid license.

Grand theft arrests

? Christopher Emmanuel Nash Jr., 17, of the 7300 block of Penzance Boulevard, Fort Myers, was arrested Monday by Fort Myers police in Lee County. He was charged with grand theft, resisting a loss prevention officer and robbery/home invasion.

? Ryan C. Baumgart, 26, of the 9200 block of Coach House Lane, Estero, was arrested Monday by Lee deputies in Lee County. He was charged with dealing in stolen property and false declaration of ownership to a pawn broker. He is accused of stealing jewelry in October from a house in the 6000 block of Sand Trap Drive in Estero.

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: Nov. 23, 2010

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TECO Peoples Gas workers hope to have natural gas service restored to all business and residential customers in Lee and Collier counties by Friday, a spokesman said Sunday night.

An estimated 1,000 have been reconnected as of this morning with about 6,200 to go, Rick Morera of TECO said.

Those customers have been without natural gas since Thursday afternoon, when a digging machine on a road project cut into an unmarked natural gas line on Colonial Boulevard near State Road 82 in Fort Myers. The accident caused a fiery explosion that knocked out gas service and has cost area restaurants weekend business that could mount into millions of dollars.

?Based on our experience with events like this, it realistically takes a week before we get every customer back in service,? TECO Peoples Gas spokesman Rick Morera said.
?Friday would be that day (when all service should be restored).?

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Map: Restaurants affected

Mario Santos, 26, the Posen Construction worker who was driving the machinery that severed the line, remained in critical condition Sunday night at Tampa General Hospital, according to a nursing supervisor. Santos suffered burns on 50 percent of his body.

Meanwhile, Tampa Bay-based TECO continues to focus on restoring service to business customers first.

?We?re focusing on restoring service to as many commercial customers as we can, but it?s a fluid situation,? Morera said. ?When we?re working with commercial customers, if we have an opportunity to work residential customers in the area and get their service relit, we will do that.?

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TECO crews worked on restoring power in all affected areas from Fort Myers to Naples on Sunday, and that plan will continue today.

Morera said the Fort Myers Beach area, with about 400 impacted customers, has been mostly restored. The numbers of impacted customers in other Southwest Florida cities wasn?t disclosed.

Doc Ford?s restaurant on the Beach has been up and running with a full menu since Saturday morning.

After the line break, the restaurant had to close Thursday night, then opened Friday with a limited menu, using outdoor grills.

?We did the best we could with what we had,? manager Wade Craft said.

Estero?s Claire Haggar is also making the best of the situation. Claire and her husband, Roy, usually go out to eat on Saturday night, but after calling around and finding many restaurants closed, they decided to stay in.

?At first, we thought we might just go to Subway, but then, we decided to stay in and have leftovers,? Claire Haggar said.

Unlike electricity, which can be restored by repairing a single power line, natural gas requires several steps to restore service. First, each customer?s gas service has to be shut off and locked down by a representative of People?s Gas.

Morera said TECO has visited about 85 percent of its affected customers to complete that first step as of Sunday night.

Next, the gas mains have to be repressurized to the appropriate level and inspected. Then, TECO crews will visit each customer and ensure natural gas service is restored and pilot lights are relit.

Those who aren?t home will find a tag on their door when they return, with a number of how to reach TECO representatives to reschedule a visit. But the company is urging customers to try to have someone available at their home or business to allow entry to crews.

With customers returning to work today, Morera admitted that it would be difficult to find some residents home.

?No doubt that becomes something we plan for starting (today),? Morera said. ?We may visit residents very early in the morning or late in the day when we have a better chance of getting them.?

More than 200 TECO Peoples Gas workers worked from daybreak until 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Morera said. He declined to say how much the company has paid in weekend overtime.

?We?re not focusing on the cost,? Morera said. ?We?re focusing on what it?s going to take to get all customers back in service. That?s our priority.?

Five more days of no gas

Natural gas service in Southwest Florida was shut down Thursday because there is only one line in which to route the fuel’s flow through most of Lee and Collier counties.

When it was severed by a construction worker, it carried a multimillion-dollar price tag and sent another dagger into the hearts of business owners struggling to stay afloat in the worst recession since the Great Depression.

Graphic: Southwest Florida’s gas network
Related: Gas restored to about 500 customers

Gas, which powers everything from dryers to water heaters to residential and commercial ovens, was turned off when the main supply pipe that runs from the Caloosahatchee River in northern Lee County to Fiddler’s Creek in southern Collier County was hit by a road worker.

Lance Horton, a senior project manager with Tampa-based TECO who headed up the building of the system in the late 1990s, said Saturday alternate supply lines have not been built.

“There is yet no redundancy,” Horton said. “As systems go, this one is immature.”

Gas service to this area began in 1998.

“We don’t have ways to reroute the gas as yet,” he said. “Those will come based on customer growth.”

Horton said in older systems – such as in St. Petersburg, Tampa and Miami that have used natural gas for almost 100 years – time has allowed TECO to develop work-around routes so only small sections of homes and businesses are affected if there is a line break.

In a newly developed area such as Southwest Florida, building alternate routes where there are few customers is usually cost-prohibitive.

“Since the system is originally designed based on where the customers are located,” said TECO spokesman Rick Morera, “it is difficult and costly to build redundancy not knowing the direction of future growth.”

Area businesses continued to suffer Saturday.

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“My business was barely surviving in this grim economy,” said Mike Lavin, owner of Gulf Gate Laundry in Naples. “It is possible this shutdown will do me in.”

For some, though, better times were at hand.

Service to the company’s highest priority customers – hospitals and elder care centers – was restored Friday night. By Saturday evening, crews working 15-hour shifts, had an estimated 500 users up and running.

And Morera said “work in the Fort Myers Beach and downtown areas has gone well.”

For others, however, it could take the better part of a week before gas service resumes.

Restoring service is a complicated and lengthy process, Horton said. It includes a representative visiting each customer.

“Our goal is one visit. That’s a tough objective,” he said. “A business might be closed and we can’t get in touch with them. Or someone’s not home. That’s why it takes a week to get all the service back.”

Those visits include turning the gas off at the meter, turning it back on and reigniting a pilot light.

“We work on a mandated protocol for safety,” he said. “We don’t want our customers turning the gas on or off.”

TECO’s assault on the problem resembles, in many ways, how a utility company goes about getting the lights back on following a hurricane.

The company has set up a large staging area at its Fort Myers headquarters just west of Interstate 75 near Luckett Road. More than 200 technicians and repair personnel have come from all over Florida to help.

Horton said the trouble here has not presented insurmountable problems.

“All situations are unique,” Horton said, “and all are similar. You have different geographics, and in this situation, it is a little more difficult because our 7,200 customers are spread out across 50 miles.

“But we know what to do, and how to handle it.”

One gas line, and it was cut

Anyone who’s watched

Bill Barnett deftly dance around a controversial issue or stay on his toes looking for an opportunity to promote Naples will not be surprised to learn the mayor has been cast in a ballet.

Barnett will make a cameo appearance in a presentation of “The Nutcracker” on Dec. 12, according to a news release from Naples Ballet Inc.

Barnett’s collegial, easy-going style makes one wonder whether “The Nutcracker” is the appropriate work, but it doesn’t do to question the choices an artist makes in pursuit of his craft.

The mayor’s participation is bound to raise the profile of the fledgling ballet group, which formed in 2009 and stages its performances at Gulf Coast High School.

In spite of its best efforts since then there are still many out there who don’t know their derrière from a hole in the ground when it comes to ballet.

With that in mind, here are some common ballet terms, their dance definitions and misperceptions ballet neophytes in Naples might hold as we prepare for the mayor’s debut.

* Allegro: Brisk and lively movement; not that allergy medicine that may cause headache, dizziness, diarrhea, vomiting, pain in the arms, legs, or back, cough, hives, rash, itching, difficulty breathing or swallowing, swelling of the face, throat, tongue, lips, eyes, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs or hoarseness.

* Arabesque: A position with one leg stretched straight out to the back; not someone who likes like they might be from Oman.

* Barre: The railing along the wall of a studio; not a place to go drinking in Olde Naples.

* Cambré: A bend from the waist in any direction; not the park across the street from City Hall.

* Eleve: Rising to point, not that headache medicine that may cause rash, ringing in the ears, headaches, dizziness, drowsiness, abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, heartburn, fluid retention and shortness of breath.

* En haut: a term is used to indicate a high position of the arms, not, when following “f,” a term used to describe Naples in August.

* Jeté: A jump from one foot to the other foot; not a pile of rocks extending out into the Gulf to keep beach sand in place.

* Labanotation: This is a system of dance notation invented by Rudolf von Laban; not all the things that have been written about Jackson Laboratories coming to Collier County.

* Minuet: A dance in 3/4 time introduced in the 16th Century; not one-sixtieth of an houre.

* Passé: A movement in which the pointed foot of the working leg is made to pass the knee of the supporting leg; not “American Idol.”

* Swan Lake: A well-known 19th Century ballet by Tchaikovsky; not a retention pond full of Muskovy ducks that’s been renamed by a developer. * En travesti: A female dancer dancing a male role or a male dancer dancing a female role; not, when following “f,” the whole firefighters vs. EMS thing.

* Vaganova: A method of ballet developed from the Russian technique; not that erectile dysfunction medicine that may cause headache, facial flushing, upset stomach, bluish vision, blurred vision, or sensitivity to light.

* Turnout: A stance in which the legs are rotated outward from the hips so that the knees (and feet) point in opposite directions; not what the folks at Naples Ballet Inc. are hoping to drive up by enlisting the mayor’s talents.

To find out more about Naples Ballet Inc.’s December presentation of The Nutcracker, featuring Mayor Bill Barnett, call 732-1000 or visit www.NaplesBallet.org

Connect with Brent Batten at naplesnews.com/staff/brent_batten

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7:39 P.M.The News-Press and news-press.com are following a Lee County gas line explosion on Colonial Boulevard near Treeline and State Road 82 involving a construction worker.

All of TECO?s 8,000 customers in Lee and Collier counties will be without gas for several days as the Tampa-based gas company begins the lengthy process of restoring service.

Company representatives will have to personally visit each customer to cut gas service, company spokesman Rick Morera said. And after they fix the break and return pressure to the lines, technicians must go to each home or business turn the gas valves on and re-ignite pilot lights. The law prohibits customers from igniting the lights themselves.

?This is going to be a difficult and lengthy repair,? Morera said. The company will prioritize hospitals and schools when it begins the restoring service and may bring in help from other companies in the state.

Region-wide service cuts are rare, Morera said, though the company had a similar service interruption in Jupiter in May when more than 10,000 customers lost service for several days.

No one has gas, according to Arturo Brawn, manager at Cantina Laredo off Big Pine Way in the Bell Tower Shoppes.

But, he?s still cooking his enchiladas.

?I still have a full restaurant because the majority of my equipment is electrical,? Brawn said. ?We have stoves and steamers that keep the food hot and we can still make any type of enchilada.?

He said he spoke to the city this evening and was told the issue with would be fixed by the end of the night.

Brawn said the restaurant will be closing at their normal time.

The only hiccup is he?s running out of corn tortillas and will be switching to flour ones soon and they can?t serve steaks because they cannot use the grill.

?I?m at the door asking people, ?where are you going?? we?re the only ones serving food,? Brawn said.

7:27 p.m. update

TECO has confirmed 8,000 customers this evening in Lee and Collier counties are without gas.

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The company doesn?t know how long they?ll be without their supply. They have to assess the damage.

Those customers are commercial and residential, according to a TECO spokesperson.

Several restaurants at Bell Tower Shops are taking a hit in sales after their gas supply was cut.

Restaurants as far south as Bahama Breeze at U.S. 41 and Six Mile Cypress have reported gas outages.

Carrey Smith, a server at Taste of New York, said the impact on business there will be huge.

?All of our customers pretty much left,? Smith said.

The restaurant is still serving cold subs and salads.

Bistro 41 and Blue Pointe both confirmed their gas supply was out, but managers there declined to comment.

Arturo Braun, manager at Cantina Laredo, said the restaurant is managing with electric equipment.

?We?re still open, but we?re serving a limited menu,? he said.

6:49 p.m. update

The Fort Myers Police Department has identified the victim of this afternoon?s construction accident as Mario Santos, 30, of Bonita Springs.

The westbound lanes of Colonial Boulevard are expected to remain closed until midnight. The eastbound lane has reopened. Drivers are asked to avoid the area.

Fort Myers police suggest drivers take Gateway Boulevard or Daniels Parkway.

6:32 p.m. update

Several restaurants at the Bell Tower could not serve hot dishes tonight due to having their gas supply cut off by the explosion. Patrons are advised to call ahead to see when service will be restored.

6:01 p.m. update

After the fire broke out, passerbys in the Publix Plaza gathered to watch the flames.

Most scattered after a couple of hours.

Businesses in the area have not reported any impact as of 4 p.m.

Inside Publix, in the deli section, Nichole Shepherd, 19, of Lehigh Acres said the explosion sounded like a sonic boom that reverberated the walls.

?I didn?t know what it was,? Shepherd said. ?And it seemed like no one else heard it because it gets pretty loud back there.?

It did cause a box of cups to fall from a shelf right in front of one of her co-workers.

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Ken Bennett, fire marshal for the Lehigh
Acres Fire District, said that the best way to address a gas fire was to turn off the gas and let it burn out.

Authorities earlier in the afternoon did just that.

?Believe it or not, unless there?s a hazard nearby that forces you to put it out right away, that?s the safest thing to do,? Bennett said. ?It eventually dies down, once there?s no gas, but in the mean time it?s under a lot of pressure.?

Bennett said it usually takes the flames at least an hour to die down and burn up the fuel.

4:53 p.m. update

The severely injured construction worker jumped from the bulldozer, according to Fort Myers police.

4:45 p.m. update

The eastbound lanes of Colonial Boulevard have reopened. The westbound lanes remain closed.

The seriously injured construction worker is being taken from Lee Memorial to a hospital in Tampa.

4:19 p.m. update

TECO Peoples Gas reports at this time approximately 300 residential and 50 commercial customers are without service. TECO has approximately 3,500 customers in Lee County

Compressed natural gas (CNG) trailers, which will help stabilize pressure on the system, are en route.

3:57 p.m. update

Steve Byrne, a Fort Myers firefighter, said “it sounded like a jet engine. It was pretty intense. When we got there, it was roaring.”

The flames shot up 50 feet or higher when it was burning, he said.

Firefighters were pumping water from a hydrant at the CVS store down the street to a fire truck, which then used the water to help extinguish the blaze.

3:22 p.m. update

Capt. Chris Bevan of the Fort Myers Fire Department said the gas was shut down about 30-60 minutes ago. Now, the fire department is spraying the backhoe with water to make sure everything is out.

Also, the worker who was injured suffered burns to over 50 percent of his body, Bevan said.

3:41 p.m. update

Fort Myers police say a second victim, also a Posen construction worker, was treated and released on scene with minor injuries.

3:22 p.m. update

TECO Peoples Gas reports that the pipeline break has been contained.

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As soon as access can be gained, construction of a bypass around the break will be attempted.

A small number of customers are out of service at this time.

Posen Construction is required to contact OSHA to investigate the fire.

3:04 p.m. update

The injured worker is in critical condition at Lee Memorial Hospital.

Fort Myers police are waiting to notify the construction worker?s family before releasing his identity.

Flames aren’t visible anymore as the fire appears to have been almost completely extinguished. Thick black smoke continues to pour out of the ground where the explosion occurred.

3:02 p.m. update

Lee County transportation director Paul Wingard said Posen employees were mixing stone into the dirt – a vital step in stabilizing the soil below the roadbed.

“There must have been a gas line close to the surface,” Wingard said.

This is not the first accident on the site for Posen.

Posen employee Tom Maines, 58, was injured on the same site in late June after a piece of a crane boom fell on him. Crews were working on the boom on the south side of Colonial Boulevard near the Home Depot, county officials had said.

Lee County hired Posen in March 2009 on a $16.7 million contract to widen the road between Interstate 75 and State Road 82. The company is also widening Summerlin Road as part of a $25.1 million contract with the county.

The Summerlin project is 10 months behind and millions of dollars over budget after crews there were forced to rebuild an overpass and environmental regulators found asbestos chunks in the fill.

The injured construction worker was with Posen Construction, the main contractor on the widening of State Road 82.

Fort Myers police suggest drivers take Gateway Boulevard or Daniels Parkway since Colonial Boulevard is closed.

Russ Reed with FPL came out with another worker to look out for their feeder, which lies just west of the fire that continues spouting off billows of smoke and flames.

“It doesn’t look like it’ll affect it,” Reed said. “But, we’re going to watch it and make sure to keep everybody in service.”

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If the wires burn down, it would directly affected the area locally, which includes the Publix plaza and CVS.

2:50 p.m. update

Kenny Winstead, a witness who was driving by, said he heard the explosion that sounded like a sonic boom.

“God help who was on it,” he said, referring to the backhoe that is completely engulfed in flames.

He said you could still hear hissing from the gas line.

2:47 p.m. update

At 1:46 p.m. today, the Fort Myers Police Department responded to a construction accident near the intersection of State Road 82 and Colonial Boulevard, according to the Fort Myers Police Department. Upon arrival police learned a construction worker on a bulldozer severed a natural gas line and caused an explosion. The construction worker was transported to Lee Memorial Hospital trauma alert. Right now Colonial Boulevard is shutdown between State Road 82 and Treeline Avenue.

The fire department also is on scene. Police expect the road to remain closed while repairs are made to the gas line.

Rick Morera, a spokesman for TECO, a Tampa utility, confirmed that construction equipment pierced an 8-inch gas main. The company doesn?t know how many customers will be affected by the explosion.

A Marine Corps veteran at the Blockbuster video store in the Crossroads Plaza at State Road 82 and Lee/Colonial Boulevard heard the explosion.

“It was like a Humvee blew up,” said Chance Hood, 36, who estimated the explosion occurred about 250 yards away. “We didn’t know what it was.”

Hood said the explosion shook the plaza.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Office is directing traffic. Traffic heading east toward Lehigh Acres is blocked at Colonial Boulevard.

2:26 p.m. update

Motorists are asked to avoid the area of State Road 82 and Colonial Boulevard because of a gas line explosion. Both directions of Colonial are closed starting at Treeline Boulevard. Both directions of State Road 82 are closed at Forum Boulevard and Gateway Boulevard. Both directions of Lee Boulevard are closed at State Road 82.

The Lee County Sheriff?s Office is now assisting the Fort Myers Police
Department with the investigation.

2:08 p.m.update

Reports of heavy equipment hitting a gas line, sparking a fire, have caused Colonial Boulevard to be closed at Treeline to SR 82 both directions. SR 82 is closed between Gateway Blvd and Forum Blvd both directions. The Fort Myers Police Department responding.

This is a developing story. Check back for more updates, photos and video.

Explosion cuts gas service to 8,000

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.

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Drug arrests

? Dylan Edward Lee, 18, of the 17000 block of College Club Loop, Fort Myers, was arrested Monday by

Florida Gulf Coast University police in Lee County. He was charged with possession of a controlled substance without a prescription and possession of paraphernalia.

DUI arrests

? Nicole Levine, 25, of the 3800 block of 29th Avenue NE, Naples, was arrested Sunday by Collier deputies on the 1000 block of Pine Ridge Road.

? Jerry Mateo, 27, of the 3600 block of Justice Circle, Immokalee, was arrested Sunday by Collier deputies on 1300 block of New Market Road West.

? Brittany Monique Rogers, 22, of the 15000 block of Palm Isle Drive, Fort Myers, was arrested Friday by Lee deputies near McGregor and Cypress Lake Boulevards. She was charged with a DUI with a child inside the car and two counts of property damage.

? Maggie Dannae Carpenter, 25, of the 9900 block of South Colonial Walk, Estero, was arrested Saturday by Lee deputies near 23rd Street Southwest and Joan Road in Lehigh Acres. She was additionally charged with driving while license suspended/second offense.

? Ashley Elizabeth Johnson, 20, of the 28000 block of Fowler Court, Bonita Springs, was arrested Saturday by Lee deputies near Matanzas and Sanibel Roads in Fort Myers. She additionally was charged with possession of alcohol by a person younger than 21 years old.

? Osvaldo Noe Leiva Merida, 26, of the 1800 block of Sunshine Boulevard, Naples, was arrested Sunday by Lee deputies in Lee County.

? Brittany Lynn Evans, 21, of the 1000 block of South Golden Elm Drive, Estero, was arrested Sunday by Lee deputies in Lee County.

? Scott Adams Rowles, 39, of the 4400 block of Pine Ridge Road, Naples, was arrested Sunday by Florida Highway Patrol troopers in Lee County.

? Eduardo A. Weiner, 23, of the 20000 block of Larino Loop, Estero, was arrested Sunday by Lee deputies in the 11000 block of Interstate 75 in Lee County.

Domestic violence

? America Martinez, 26, of the 500 block of Dorothy Billie Jimmie Way, Immokalee, was arrested Sunday by Collier deputies at home. She is accused of stealing her husband’s phone and hitting him in the face. The couple recently separated, but are still legally married.

? Jessica Champion, 21, of the 3100 block of Barrett Drive, Naples, was arrested Sunday by Collier deputies at home. She is accused of punching her boyfriend in the eye and ripping his front pocket.

? Catarino Cardona, 25, of the 26000 block of Cape Verde Lane, Bonita Springs, was arrested Friday by Lee deputies at home. He was charged with battery, resisting a law enforcement officer without violence and aggravated assault with the deadly weapon without the intent to kill.

? Samuel James Renshaw, 18, of the 15000 block of Sonomoa Drive, Fort Myers, was arrested Saturday by Fort Myers police in Lee County. He was charged with battery/domestic violence.

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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The estimated 500 African-American high school football players in Lee and Collier counties have zero men of their race in varsity head coaching positions. Since 1969, there have been 101 varsity head football coaching hires in Lee County. Four times those hires have gone to African-Americans and there are none presently. Where are all the black head coaches.

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