Police Beat: Oct. 18, 2010

18. October 2010 · Comments Off · Categories: Drugs, Family, Home, naples, News · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Lee County felony arrests 10-18-10

Lee County felony arrests 10-18-10

Crime Incidents Database with Map

Search by crime, date, neighborhood and day of the week for criminal incidents reported by the Collier County Sheriff’s Office during the first six months of 2009.

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 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.

? 25-year-old Bonita Springs woman arrested after bar fight

? Lee County man accused of raping family’s babysitter

? Lee County man charged with hosting underage house party

Other arrests

? Danielle Valerie Hutton, 34, of the 3100 block 30th Avenue SE, Golden Gate Estates, was arrested Sunday by Collier deputies at the intersection of Fourth Avenue SE and Everglades Boulevard South. She was charged with criminal mischief of more than $1,000.

? Jessica Nicole Hincapie, 28, of the 15000 block of Upwind Drive, Bonita Springs, was arrested Sunday by Lee deputies in the 21000 block of Stoneybrook Golf Boulevard in Estero. She was charged with disorderly conduct/brawling, fighting.

? Dustin Joseph Tarvin, 20, of the 17000 block of Johnstown Court, Fort Myers, was arrested Saturday by Lee deputies near Miller and Morris Roads in Fort Myers. He was charged with leaving the scene of a crash resulting in property damage.

? Calvin Pettrey, 52, of Painesville, Ohio, was arrested Saturday by Marco Island Police in the 1000 block Anglers Cove in Marco Island. He was charged with burglary.

? Leland Thomas Jr., 44, homeless, was arrested Sunday by Collier deputies in the 200 block Boston Avenue, Immokalee. He was charged with two counts of trespassing and two counts of possession of a harmful new legend drug without a prescription.

? Alfonso Matyises, 38, address unknown, was arrested Saturday by Collier deputies at the Hess station, 11655 Collier Blvd. He was charged with resisting law enforcement, trespassing and theft under $100.

Grand theft arrests

? Douglas Jay Purvis, 22, of the 10000 block of Akron Place, Fort Myers, was arrested Sunday by Lee deputies in Lee County. He was charged with using an anti-shoplifting device and two counts of grand theft.

? Herode St. Pierre, 29, of the 4500 block Coral Palms Lane, Golden Gate, was arrested Sunday by Collier deputies at home. He was charged with grand theft auto, obtaining property by impersonation and fraud by obtaining property worth less than $20,000.

DUI arrests

? Dian K. Lane, 59, of the 28900 block Vermillion Lane, Bonita Springs, was arrested Sunday by Florida Highway Patrol at the North Collier Hospital. She was charged with DUI and damage to property with personal injury after she was involved in a traffic accident at Immokalee Road and Juliet Boulevard.

? Paul D. McCallion, 49, of the 9400 block of Springview Loop, Estero, was arrested Friday by Lee deputies near Stoneybrook Golf Boulevard and Courts in Estero. He was charged with DUI with a blood alcohol content of more than 0.15.

? Claude Esperence, 40, of the 11000 block of Whistlers Cove Boulevard, Naples, was arrested Friday by Florida Highway Patrol troopers. He additionally was charged with refusing to take a DUI test.

? Christopher Michael Lameo, 18, of the 6600 block of Crestridge Loop, Fort Myers, was arrested Sunday by Lee deputies near Six Mile Cypress Parkway and Plantation Road. He was additionally charged with driving while license suspended possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and possession of alcohol by a person younger than 21 years old.

? Javier Ayala, 33, of the 5000 block of Southwest 2nd Court, Naples, was arrested Sunday by Florida Highway Patrol troopers in Lee County.

? Brian William Markowski, 28, of the 8800 block of Woodgate Manor Court, Fort Myers, was arrested Sunday by Lee deputies near Lakeridge Road and South Cleveland Avenue in Fort Myers.

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Police Beat: Oct. 18, 2010

Unemployed volunteer to get jobs, boost resumes

19. June 2010 · Comments Off · Categories: Economy, News · Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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