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8B NEWS-PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1999 State Man presumed dead found alive First Pac-Man gem takes player 6 hours Faces assault charges after disappearance The Associated Press LIVE OAK While on a diving trip in the Gulf of Mexico in 1994, a man suspected of sexually assaulting a child disappeared and was presumed dead. Arwyn Carr's boat was found floating two miles offshore. His car and trailer were still figured that Carr wouldn't want to be tied too closely to any one place and would want to remain mobile. "That was purely a hunch," he said. "But I was fortunate to get an investigator out there who was willing to do some good work." Investigator Michael Rice of the Coconino Sheriff's Department scoured several trailer parks in Flagstaff, a city of 60,000, before hitting pay dirt.

Rice found a park manager who told him that a man fitting Carr's description lived there with a woman in a trailer and worked as a carpenter outside town. Carr was living under theiname of a man he used to know in Live Oak, and had obtained a phony Social Security number and driver's license, police said. When Rice approached Carr on July 1 and began questioning him, Carr acknowledged who he was and was peacefully taken into custody. Carr likely will face trial in Live Oak sometime in late September, said David Fina, an assistant state attorney in Suwannee County. "It's still a prosecutable case, and we'll be ready when he gets here," Fina said.

parked on shore. Carr's mother reported him missing and authorities searched the gulf and the nearby Steinhatchee River for his body. At the time, Can- for half a decade. "Most of them just run, they pack up their car and drive off, but to fake your own death and go to those extremes, that's quite, elaborate." Carr took a new name, left his family, and forfeited his $25,000 bond and all of his possessions, including his Suwannee County dive shop. The search began almost immediately after Carr's fishy disappearance.

Gootee said it was hard to believe that an experienced swimmer and diver like Carr would go out on the gulf alone and then drown just months before his trial. But leads dried up and surveillance of Carr's family members' phone records gave no immediate clues. Police said they eventually caught up with Carr after his mother visited him in Flagstaff recently and made some cellular phone calls that were later traced. Gootee sent photos of Carr to investigators in Coconino County, and asked them to look for Carr in a trailer or RV park. Gootee i irfn iA''u i iS Ln ii" iiiiiin.iJi Mitchell accomplished the feat during a two-day quest at Funspot Family Entertainment Center in Weirs Beach, N.H.

That's the site of the Twin Galaxies International Classic Video Game and Pinball Tournament each May. Starting anew each time he made a mistake, Mitchell finally found his groove in a game that lasted almost six hours. "At about 1.9 million (points), I went off pattern," he said. "I said to myself, 'I'm losing it here. I didn't come this far to I started talking out loud to myself, talking my way through it.

I was able to cheat death, so to speak. It was flawless the rest of the way." Gary Vincent, Funspot operations manager, videotaped Mitchell's play. "He just stayed cool," Vincent said. Though hardly a household name, Mitchell is famous among video game and pinball players, whose numbers worldwide are estimated at 500 million. At age 17, Mitchell set the world record in Donkey Kong, a title he still holds.

At one point during the 1980s, he held five world titles in video games. Today, he holds the records for Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. At game conventions or 34-year-old triumphs with 3,333,360 score The Associated Press COOPER CITY Baseball has produced 15 perfect games in more than 120 years of the major leagues. After 19 years, Pac-Man now has its first. Billy Mitchell, 34, become the first person to master the game when he posted a score of 3,333,360 on Fourth of July weekend at a New Hampshire arcade.

This was the race to the Holy Grail," said Mitchell, an entrepreneur who runs two South Florida restaurants and markets a brand of hqj sauce. one ever had played a perfect Pac-Man game before, said Walter Dfcy, chief scorekeeper for the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Score Board and editor of its Official Video Game arji Pinball Book in Fairfield, Iowa. Game experts call the feat a one in 1 (billion phenomenon. jTo attain Pac-Man perfection, one must navigate the yellow pie-shaped titje character so it gobbles each and every dot, enemy blue ghost, ener-giker and fruit on the game's 256 boards. The Associated Press PAC-MAN EXPERT: Pac-Man champion Billy Mitchell shown Wednesday in Dania, became the first person to master the video game.

contests, kids routinely ask for autographs. "It kind of humbles me," said Mitchell, married and a father of three. Mitchell says he doesn't play for fun, but only when there's a goal. However, he hopes his children don't follow in his footsteps. "I don't want them to play like I do," he said.

"I want them to go to faced charges of CARR sexual assault on a child under 12. A conviction could have brought a life sentence. His trial was only two months away. But after some solid detective work and luck, Carr was found alive and well, living in Flagstaff, Ariz. Carr, 43, was arrested and will be returned to Florida within a week to face trial on seven sex assault charges, plus an additional charge of failing to appear in court in December 1994.

"This is one of the most unusual cases I've worked," said Bill Gootee, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent who tracked Carr FORT MYERS CITY COUNCIL AGENDA JULY 19, 1999 City of Palms pi! Grand. floorplans, with just two homes per floor, create spacious, elegant residences high above the Caloosahatchee River. Please complete a "Request to Address City Council" form if you plan to address the Council and submit it to the Clerk prior to the start of the meeting. All backup for this agenda is available in the City Clerk's Office, 4 Floor, City Hall. Council Chambers, 2200 Second Street, Fort Myers, Florida PM Public Meeting open discussion for public (Speakers must present their request to speak in writing to the City Clerk's Office prior to 2:00 o'clock p.m.

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