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STC EDITION -FINAL TODAY 8272 Partlysunny THURSDAY I 8172 Chance of showers FRIDAY 8172 Partly cloudy Weather news from The Post's Kim Miller: "1 myPalmBeachPost.comweatherplus Wednesday LIVE RADAR: PALMBEACHP0ST.COM WFATHFR ON THF RACK PACF OFSPORTS The Palm Beach Post REALNEWSSTARTSHERE February 21, 2018 Final Edition $2.00 LOCAL, Bl LOCAL, Bl ACCENT, Dl GRANDVIEW IS PALM BEACH COUNTY'S FIRST FOOD HALL BUSINESS, B7 GRAND CLASSICA SET TO SAIL FROM PORT OF PALM BEACH EX-DEPUTY 'BELLIGERENT' BEFORE FATAL SHOOTING TAMING THE BEAR Some Honda Classic pros not thrilled with Bear Trap POST IN-DEPTH MISSING DELRAY WOMAN Charge: Husband lolled wife then sank cat amaran POST COVERAGE BROWARD SCHOOL SHOOTING West Boca students' protest: 12-mile walk 90 of school makes 4-hour trek to Stoneman Douglas High. Bennett gets complaint on day he's sentenced for role in coin theft. By Eliot Kleinberg Palm Beach Post Staff Writer MIAMI Lewis Bennett murdered his wife, Isabella Hellmann, on the high seas in May, then deliberately sank his catamaran in an ultimately failed attempt to stage an accident, prosecutors allege in a federal complaint issued Tuesday, the same morning Bennett was sentenced in Miami on related coin-theft charges. The complaint, charging him with second-degree murder, never says how investigators believe Bennett killed the 41-year-old suburban Delray Beach real estate broker, his bride of three months and the mother of their child, and doesn't specifically detail that he did. But it lays out a series of missteps and apparent lies it says all point to a deliberate scheme by the seasoned sailor to have the sea swallow his crime.

Bennett is set to be back in court at 2 p.m. today in Miami for his initial appearance on the murder charge, which carries a sentence of up to life in prison. In those early hours of May 15, Lewis Bennett is alleged to have killed Isabella Hellmann, then tried to cover his tracks. MAPONLINE See an interactive map of the Isabella Hellmann case at myPalmBeachPost.com. west of the Bahamas, the complaint alleges, Bennett poked holes in both of his catamaran's hulls from the inside and popped open two portholes below the water line.

It says he later admitted doing almost nothing to find his wife, devoting all his efforts to loading onto a life raft foodstuffs, water, a satellite phone and a homing device. And some of the tens of thousands of dollars in coins whose 2016 disappearance, while Bennett worked as a mate aboard a yacht in the Caribbean, led to Tuesday's hearing at which the 40-year-old Bennett was sent to prison for seven months. The Complaint continued on A8 India Goodman, a Pulse nightclub survivor, comforts Marjory Stoneman Douglas High students about to board buses Tuesday for Tallahassee, where they plan to plead for change. In another call for action, West Boca High students left school at 9:30 a.m., reaching Douglas High at 2 p.m. melanie bellthe palm beach post ALSO INSIDE West Palm Beach officials call for tighter gun controls, A7 RUSSIA INVESTIGATION Lawyer pleads guilty to lies in Russia probe the tired mass of students walked from 9:30 a.m.

until reaching the northeast corner of Douglas High at 2 p.m. They were met by a crowd of Douglas High students and neighbors who cheered in support. That corner of the fenced-off high school is shrouded in flowers, photos, signs and crosses honoring the victims. A few kids were treated for dehydration after the walk, said Palm Beach County schools Super-West Boca conti nued on Al 0 By Lulu Ramadan Palm Beach Post Staff Writer PARKLAND For 17 minutes at West Boca Raton High School on Tuesday, the campus fell silent to honor 17 killed in a high school shooting 10 miles away. But within seconds, the halls were consumed by the roaring sound of students leaving in droves and chanting in support of fallen classmates.

About 90 percent of West Boca High's students walked out Tuesday, hundreds of them making the roughly 12-mile, four-hour walk to Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a mass shooting left 17 dead last week. "Being silent wasn't enough," said Eduardo Soto, a freshman at West Boca. "We had to do something." With clothes drenched in sweat, 'Beauty out of chaos': Parkland grieves together after mass shooting Attorney untruthful about ex-Trump aide, Ukraine, Mueller says. Eileen Sullivan and Kenneth P. Vogel 2018TheNewYorkTimes WASHINGTON An attorney whose firm was accused of whitewashing abuses by the former president of Ukraine in cooperation with Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, pleaded guilty Tuesday to lying to the special counsel investigating Russian election interference.

The attorney, Alex van der Zwaan, worked in London for the prominent New York law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom. He was accused of making false statements regarding communications he had with Rick Gates, a longtime associate of Manafort and a former Trump campaign aide, about work they did in 2012 for the Ukrainian government, according to court papers. Both Gates and Manafort have been charged by special counsel Robert Mueller with money laundering and violations of tax and lobbying laws and have pleaded not guilty. The investigation into the two men is centered on foreign lobbying work they did before they worked on Trump's cam-Attorney continued on A14 By John Pacenti Palm Beach Post Staff Writer PARKLAND They came with their tears. They came with their prayers.

They came with their anger and their protest signs. Just like they came after Columbine, after Sandy Hook, after the carnage at Virginia Tech University, they came Tuesday to the makeshift memorial along the chain-link fence in front of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, a quintessential American suburb whose quiet forever ended with the rapid fire of an AR-15 one week ago. Others couldn't bear the sight of the school. They headed to a nearby park where yet another shrine has flowered, where 17 angel statuettes Parkland continued on A10 INDEX Classifieds C9 To subscribe: Call 561 -820-4663 2018 The Palm Beach Post Vol.110, Number 14,5 sections Nearly 130 killed inSyria It was some of the deadliest bombardment of the region in three years. A3 Crossword Dear Abby Deaths Lottery Movies D9 D9 B4 B2 D8 1 1 0 0 0 0 West Boca High School students walked to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on Tuesday, melanie bellthe palm beach post Scoreboard C7 28TH ANNUAL A Howard Alan Event DOWNTOWN STUART (561) 746-6615 i Art fcstivoC Osceola St.

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