Tampa man injured when motorcycle, car collide

Times staff writers

© St. Petersburg Times, published February 18, 2000

TAMPA -- A 21-year-old Tampa man was in critical condition Thursday night after his motorcycle hit a car.

Chivarsky Navarra Corbett, of 1001 Longshoreman Court, was traveling east on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard on his 1991 Honda motorcycle about 9 a.m. when he was hit by the driver of a 1997 Toyota trying to turn off MLK and onto 22nd Street, police said. Corbett suffered broken bones and a head injury and was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital.

The driver of the car, Clara Cason Williams, 49, of Tampa, was not injured. No charges had been filed Thursday.

Two killed in head-on crash on U.S. 41

RUSKIN -- Two men were killed Wednesday night in a head-on collision on U.S. 41.

Benjamin Lewis Hill, 69, of 4120 Cockroach Bay in Ruskin, was southbound when his 1994 Oldsmobile drifted across the median and into the northbound lanes of U.S. 41 shortly before 8 p.m., the Florida Highway Patrol said. Hill, who was not wearing a seat belt, slammed into a northbound Pontiac. The impact killed Hill and the driver of the Pontiac, 71-year-old Charles Powhatan Moncure, of Fairfax, Va., who was wearing a seat belt.

Deputies: Woman wanted ex-boyfriend's legs broken

TAMPA -- Hillsborough sheriff's investigators have arrested and charged a Land O'Lakes woman with hiring someone to break her ex-boyfriend's legs.

Investigators got a tip that Cheryl Bradarich, 29, wanted to hire someone to hurt 34-year-old Patrick Parisi of New Port Richey, an arrest report said. An investigator posed as a hit man, and Bradarich arranged to pay him $500 if he broke both of Parisi's legs, the report said.

She is charged with solicitation to commit aggravated battery. She posted bail and was released.

Scientology acts to keep autopsy pictures private

LARGO -- Photographs taken during the 1995 autopsy on Scientologist Lisa McPherson should not be made public, the Church of Scientology argued in a motion filed Thursday.

The photos would "aggravate the hostile publicity which the church has already received" from being charged in McPherson's death, Scientology lawyers argued. The church's worldwide headquarters in Clearwater is charged in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court with abuse of a disabled adult and illegally practicing medicine on McPherson, a longtime Scientologist who died in the care of Scientology staff members.

Man guilty of murder in Tampa resident's death

LARGO -- A jury found Thomas Dale Burttram, 40, guilty of first-degree murder late Wednesday in the death of Robert Edgar Farrell. Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Mark I. Shames sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Farrell, 21, of Tampa encountered Burttram at Westgate Mobile Home Park in Largo in December 1998, police said.

The men, who had argued weeks before, argued again. This time Burttram, who lived in the park, left and returned with a .357-caliber Magnum handgun. He shot Farrell once in the head.

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