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Crime journal
A look around the bay area.
By Times staff
Published December 29, 2006
BRANDON DRIVER GETS ONLY TRAFFIC CITATION IN BOY'S DEATH A substitute school teacher who struck and killed a Brandon High School student in a crosswalk this month has been issued a traffic citation and will not be criminally charged. Kami Bell, 22, was cited for failure to use due care under special hazards, a civil infraction, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said Thursday. She will face up to $500 in fines during a court hearing to be scheduled for next year. Bell, of Valrico, struck and killed Camden Allen White, 15, about 7:15 a.m. Dec. 4 as he walked in a crosswalk on Victoria Street at Meade Street in front of Brandon High School. Camden's relatives were outraged when they heard from a reporter about the citation and lack of criminal charges. INVERNESS Citrus jail escapee caught far away Authorities captured the escaped Citrus County inmate at 5 p.m. Thursday, more than 100 miles from the Kensington Fire Station where he walked off a work detail the day before. Jose Felix Malagon-Cervantes, 25, faces a charge of escaping while in transport or working on roads, a second-degree felony. He was found in Holly Hill, north of Daytona Beach. Also arrested was his 20-year-old girlfriend, Santana Schiedenhelm, who was charged on an unrelated count of filing false information to law enforcement. SUN CITY CENTER New Jersey driver dies in I-75 wreck A 56-year-old New Jersey man died in a traffic crash shortly after midnight on Interstate 75 near Sun City Center, the Florida Highway Patrol says. The deceased driver, whose identity has not been released, was headed north in the outside lane of I-75 in a 2003 Chevrolet when a 2004 Chevrolet driven by Robbie Colemire III, 34, of Foster, Ky., rammed into the back of the vehicle, troopers said. Investigators think the lights on the back of the 2003 Chevy weren't working, and Colemire didn't see the vehicle in time to avoid the crash, said Trooper Larry Coggins. Colemire braked, but the impact of the crash sent the first vehicle off the road into trees and shrubs on the east side of the interstate, troopers said. The driver of the first vehicle, who was not wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead at the scene. The man's next of kin has not been identified, and the man's connection to Florida wasn't known, Coggins said. Colemire and passenger Bronica Kavanaugh, 25, were not injured. NEW PORT RICHEY Daughter accused in theft from safe Burglars pillaged a house in Golden Acres just after Wednesday turned to Thursday, stealing a safe that held $10,000 in cash and nearly $30,000 in jewelry. And how did they find the safe? The Sheriff's Office reports say it was the victims' daughter who helped. Paige Gruzlewski, 24, was arrested and charged with burglary of a residence. She was held Thursday at the Land O'Lakes jail in lieu of $20,000 bail.
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