Press Journal from Vero Beach, Florida • 10

10A PrMs-Joumai Thursday September 12 1991 Top of the morning By The Associated Preaa Bodies Believed Missing Boaters CLEARWATER Two bodies found floating In the ocean Wednesday were believed to be those of two of three Tampa boaters missing for three days the Coast Guard said A search continued for the third missing boater Tom Wagner 44 Jose Sosa 40 and Terry Sherouse In his mid 20s left Clearwater Sunday morning for a day fishing trip 40 miles offshore and never returned and Sosa's bodies were found Wednesday about 69 miles off the coast of Hernando County said Coast Guard spokesman Lt Jg Virginia Elsesser The sca-and-alr search continued for the third boater The 21-foot fishing boat also has not been found although a cooler hatch cover and other debris were found floating near the bodies 'Mr Nasty' Bank Robber Arrested GAINESVILLE FBI agents on Wednesday arrested a man accused of being the who may have robbed up to 19 banks In South Florida Armando Soto 29 of Gainesville was being held at the Levy County Jail awaiting his return to Miami to face charges In four armed bank robberies last year according to an FBI statement At an appearance earlier before a UJEL magistrate in Gainesville Soto waived his return to South Florida A tip after the Jan 23 broadcast of a segment on the South Florida bank robberies on the television show led to consideration of Soto as a suspect agents said The banks were robbed by an armed gunman who was abusive toward employees authorities said ATF Agent Wounded In Leg MIAMI An agent of the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms was shot and wounded Wednesday while working with local officers "Apparently there was some kind of a Joint operation between ATF and our robbery section" said Metro-Dade police Detective Llictte Williams Officials said the action was a sting of a group of home-invasion robbers "They confronted some subjects and there were shots said Metro spokesman Donald Blocker Scott Adams 31 was taken to Deertng Hospital He was treated for a bullet wound through his right calf and released said ATF special agent Robert Creighton Three suspects were arrested but a fourth was still at large Wednesday evening Man Held In FAMU Student Death TALLAHASSEE A man who called police to tell them he planned to commit suicide was arrested Wednesday for the slaying of a Florida University student who had repeatedly resisted his romantic advances Police said Richard Robertson 19 of Tallahassee was charged with first-degree murder In the killing of 18-year-old Carmela Fuce of Fort Lauderdale whose nude body was discovered at her off-campus apartment on Labor Day She had been strangled with a cord Five Boaters Missing Off Keys MARATHON The Coast Guard searched Wednesday for five fishermen reported missing after they failed to return from a weekend fishing trip The occupants of the red 30-foot Scarab were expected home Monday after a weekend spent Ashing about eight miles off of Marathon the agency said The missing boaters were identified as Mario Martin Edelso Martin Gustavo Chodens Jose Rodrigues and a man known only as Victor all of Hialeah officials said Three Coast Guard helicopters and a Falcon Jet participated in Wednesday's search which covered nearly 9700 square miles Bottles For Recycling End Up In Dump MIAMI Thousands of tons of glass bottles that were carefully rinsed stored and then stashed In blue recycling bins by Dade County homeowners are now buried In the dump They will never be recycled From July 1990 to June 1991 one of every two glass bottles left for recycling In unincorporated areas Miami Beach and several small cities were broken In transit and then dumped according to Community Recycling the firm that picks up recyclablcs from about 260000 homes in Dade For the year ending in June Community Recycling collected about 20 million pounds of bottles from Dade homes said Jcanmarle Massa the company's governmental service manager Approximately 109 million pounds of that was sorted Into brown green and clear glass In a huge building In West Dade Massa said Shards of mixed colored glass are difficult to recycle because coin's must be separated by hand before they are melted down State Probing Diplomas By Mail INGLIS Florida's attorney general is trying to determine whether a correspondence high school is Just in the business of selling diplomas at 360 each What Calvary High School offers is a diploma and a 24-credlt transcript In exchange for $60 and correct answers to at least half of the questions on a school-designed 78-qucstlon exam The school Is not accredited Newspaper advertisements for Calvary's program read: "Attention: Earn HJ3 Diploma at and then give a phone number and post office box address for the school Recruitment brochures Include testimonials from people identified as former students and listed by their first names ana occupations Dr Patterson Lamb a non-public schools consultant for the Florida Department of Education said Calvary technically meets all of Florida's requirements for the right to call Itself a school "In this Lamb said "anyone can open a school teach anything use anyone for a teacher whether or not they can read or write offer what they call a high school diploma and not be In violation of the Cop Faulted In Bar Shooting CLEARWATER A police offleer violated policies on the use of deadly force when he shot an unarmed man outside a nightspot last month Investigators have concluded Tuesday's Investigative report prompted police Chief Sid Klein to ask the city to fire OfAccr Robert Mllllron Mllllron's use of deadly force was unnecessary to defend the report said "It was not reasonable for him to conclude he was facing tho threat of death or serious The police Investigation coincides with the findings of a grand Jury which Indicted tho 44-year-old ofAccr Friday on one count of manslaughter In tho Aug 16 shooting of 29-ycar-old John Crouch Child Molester Accidentally Freed GREEN COVE SPRINGS Authorities were still searching Wednesday for a convicted child molester who was accidentally freed last week from the Clay County Jail Keith Edward Hall 28 convicted and sentenced in DcSoto County to eight years in prison for molesting an 11-year-old girl was brought to Clay County to face minor charges He was mistakenly released Sept 4 when he completed serving a local sentence on three misdemeanor charges "It was a human said Sgt Chuck Vavrck a Gay County Sheriffs spokesman Deal Crumbles FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) -Prosecutors Wednesday withdrew a plea agreement with a self-proclaimed nymphomaniac and her husband charged in a prostitution scheme a day after a tabloid television show said the lawyer offered to sell a bedroom video Kathy Wlllets and her husband Broward County sheriffs deputy Jeffrey Wlllets had planned to enter guilty pleas to prostitution-related charges Wednesday But the state abruptly withdrew the plea agreement during a hearing before Broward Clroult Judge John A Frusciante The latest development came after allegations that the office of Ellis Rubin the Wlllets' attorney offered to sell a videotape of Mrs Wlllets engaged in a sex act with a former Fort Lauderdale city offtclal In the bedroom of her home in suburban Tamarac Rubin has denied any wrongdoing Rubin had at one time planned to argue that Mrs Wlllets Is a nymphomaniac who needs frequent sex as a form of therapy Her husband described by Rubin as impotent was accused of watching from a bedroom closet while taking extensive notes on the encounters Television tabloid reporter Steve Wilson said Tuesday that one of sons attorney Guy Rubin offered to sell "Inside Edition" for 360000 a videotape of WHets hold hands at hearing Wednesday AP photo Mrs Wlllets having sex with former Fort Lauderdale Vice Mayor Doug Danzlger who was known for his anti-vice campaigns "It came to the attention of the state attorney's office yesterday afternoon that both Mr and Mrs Wlllets have participated In additional criminal activity that Is not charged In the Information and was not contemplated In the plea prosecutor Joel Lazarus said Lazarus accused Rubin of negotiating the plea agreement in bad faith and conflict of interest He said he would forward information to the Dade County state attorney's office that could result In a criminal Investigation of "certain John Hogan of the Dade state attorney's office confirmed the Information was forthcoming but could not say who was being targeted Lazarus meanwhile presented defense attorneys with a new plea agreement to look over No details were released The couple charged clients from 390 to 3190 an hour and made as much as 329000 over six months Investigators said The Wlllets face trial on the original charges Oct 2 Rubin a nationally known Miami lawyer reacted hotly to the complaints and said the tabloid television show entrapped him "It now has been revealed that Inside Edition's reporter came to my office to entrap us into some Illegal or unethical Rubin said "That has been admitted by them at the press conference (Tuesday night) They never Intended to buy anything All they wanted to do was trap Rubin said no videotape deal was made with the tabloid show "Yet I have been branded tried and convicted on the front said Rubin Av Westln co-executive producer for Inside Edition responded Wednesday evening that "Inside Edition has acted consistently with appropriate Journalistic standards and has operated within the law We reject any assertion that Inside Edition engaged In any Mrs Wlllets holding a dozen yellow daisies given to her by a flower peddler outside the courthouse stood by her embattled attorney Discovery Readies Environmental Trailblazer CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) Scientist anxious to prevent further loss of ozone layer gathered to see space shuttle Discovery off Thursday with the largest most complex environmental research satellite ever built "The launch is a historical event because this Is the beginning of the environmental era of the space NASA's chief scientist Lcnnard Fisk said Wednesday "It's where we begin to use our expertise In space to begin to understand what the human species is doing to the Discovery is scheduled to lift off at 6:97 pm tonight Five astronauts will be aboard along with eight 30-day-old rats the youngest mammals to Ay in space and the subjects of muscle studies Launch director Bob Sleek said the countdown was proceeding well The weather outlook was good too 70 percent chance of acceptable conditions at launch time with the odds improving to 90 percent through the night Shuttle missions usually are scheduled for morning liftoffs Discovery's landing also is scheduled for off-hours 1:99 am EDT Wednesday at Kennedy Space Center It would be the first night landing at Kennedy Watch It Up Close In major departure from normal launch-day procedures NASA has announced that visitors who arrive at Spaceport USA between ajn and noon when the space center's gates will bo dosed win bo allowed to remain and view Discovery's launching from the parking area Visitors may also purchase tickets at SS each to bo bused to tho NASA Cause-way viewing area Inside Discovery is the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite or UARS 3740 million effort to measure the ozone layer stratospheric winds and atmospheric chemicals and energetic particles over a minimum 1 tt years It Is the Arst spacecraft to be launched in NASA's ambitious Mission to Planet Earth program Nineteen environmental research missions are planned worldwide between now and the late 1990s when a aeries of UJJ Earth Observation System satellites are to be launched Fisk said The cost of the oberservatlon program alone is estimated at 317 billion through the year 2000 with an additional 31 4 billion fear until 2020 or so re are going to have to do this kind of monitoring this kind of studying of how the Earth actually works so that we can make wise policies to protect the Fisk said Discovery's astronauts plan to release the observatory Into a 391-mlle-hlgh orbit midway through the five-day mission Tiny thrusters are to boost the satellite to its And destination 372 miles above Earth this scries of upward shoves will take four days Shuttle managers are stripping as much weight as possible from Discovery to lighten the load for the ship's climb to an unusually high orbit Tanks holding fuel for power during flight for instance were drained Wednesday as low as possible Observatory sensors will be able to scrutinize 98 percent of the globe as the craft circles the world said project scientist Carl Rebcr The sensors will be able to see to within 700 miles of the poles of particular Interest because of the shocking loss of ozone over the Antarctic In recent years "While there are variations from year to year the basic story Is getting bigger and getting deeper said program scientist Robert JMcNeaL Income Levy Equitable Tax Commission Told JACKSONVILLE (AP) The co-author of move to replace property taxes with a 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