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![]() About a dozen agents raided the Big Pine Key business, placing Willi, 51, and Osorio, 35, in handcuffs in front of the store while agents searched the business and collected evidence. A grand jury indicted Willi and Osorio on July 10 on nine counts: One count of conspiracy to commit firearms trafficking, two counts of firearms sales to a prohibited person, one count of illegal sale of firearms by a federally licensed dealer in violation of Florida state law and five counts of failure to keep proper records by a federal licensed firearm dealer. Both men face a maximum of 55 years in federal prison if convicted on all counts. Their business also was indicted and faces as much as $2.25 million in fines. Magistrate Judge Lurana S. Snow unsealed a 17-page indictment outlining the government’s allegations against the men Thursday that states the case began on Sept. 3, 2014 when a convicted felon working as an undercover informant bought a Remington .308-caliber bolt action rifle from Willi at the store, according to records. The government’s case is based on that purchase and other alleged transactions:
BY ADAM LINHARDT AND TIMOTHY O’HARA ~Key West Citizen |
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[“Eden pines canal”] I’m amazed! There are some people who want a dirty and dying canal? My little head is unable to hold that thought. Let’s review – We all bought a piece of property on a canal system. Unfortunately the design was wrong, and now we are left with a dirty and dying canal. It stinks so bad, that very few want to go in it – including the fish. And it is rated as one of the worst canals in the Keys. So poorly rated, that the government is willing to install a remedy. And yet there are homeowners who are against that? I seriously cannot hold that thought in my head. How many of you have become so dead to the world that all of your decisions are made out of spite and anger? You moved to “Paradise”. At least honor that part of yourself in which you were inspired by the beauty around you. Sign the petition, please! |
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[Property Rights] Do owners get compensation for sewer the easement? Owners receive compensation solely for grant easements. A grant easement is one in which the owner is approached by a person, company or government who needs to use part of the owner’s land. After discussion and negotiation, a price is agreed upon for the easement. Owners receive no compensation for easements that occur over long periods of time, such as a person who uses a dirt road to access his property. That easement ripens after a prescribed number of years and no compensation is paid. Link |
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In regard to Money Key I helped plant the trees, and at that time it was privately owned. I think it still is. We hauled the trees on a pontoon boat. Later we took fresh water to help them get started. |
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[“Life in the homeless lane”] Well, I bought the laptop some years ago, and have found another homeless person, who is an IT pro, who works on it. Before I ran out of money altogether, I paid a company in India to look out for my laptop for one year. They do a good job, too. I also have a back up laptop, which I also bought several years ago, which I use when the main laptop is on the blink. I sometimes use free online computers at the county library, the Senior Citizen Center on Truman Avenue, and Florida Keys Community College library. I go where wi-fi is free: county library, Senior Citizen Center, Harvey Government Center, Sippin’ Internet Cafe, on Eaton Street, near Tropic Cinema, where I buy a V-8 juice, $2.15 and often a 3-egg spinach omlette with toast made from their homemade bread, $6.50. I have no place to live, sleep where I am able, and at KOTS [the city’s homeless shelter]– no rent. I eat most days at the soup kitchen, which serves better food, nutrition-wise, and larger servings, than most Key West restaurants. I get around on a junker bicycle, which I bought cheap and put good tires and tubes and two good baskets, front and rear, on it. I receive monthly Social Security retirement benefits, net $745 to me after Medicare deducted, close to $100 per month for that. Don’t recall criticizing the soup kitchen on Flagler Avenue, but sometimes have been critical of pushy envangelists who sometimes show up there, usually from Glad Tidings Tabernacle Church. Was sometimes critical of pushy evangelists at Glad Tidings soup kitchen at Higgs Beach, but that was over a decade ago. En route to being in this fiscal condition currently, I gave away over $350,000 to needy people and organizations since February 2006. In an earlier time, I gave away a lot more than that, en route to being homeless. Maybe I should give the $745 a month Social Security away, too, to be indigent. Actually, I do give some of it away. What I don’t do with it is buy narcotics: booze, cigarettes, spice, coffee, marijuana, etc., which is what most homeless people I know do with their monthly check from Social Security, the VA, etc. Meanwhile, I still work just as hard as ever, if not more hard, in ongoing spiritual warfare with demons and their human proxies, for which human beings do not pay me. I still get attacked a lot, like this reader comment Deer Ed sent to me from the CT, which I have not read in months. You folk still reading the CT can go to goodmorningkeywest.com any day and see what I got into lately, there’s a new post there every day, usually up by noon. And now there is a PayPal button, for people who want to donate to keeping that website going. ~ Sloan |
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SeaProbe has claimed the probe I found, but they are not sure who they made it for. They want to unload the data and see who it belongs to. I’m going to let them take it and hope they keep us in the loop. I will share what ever info they give me with CT readers. |
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[Misappropriation of Funds] The State mandated that the Keys be sewered–period. The voters chose to enact a tax to help fund this mandated sewer. I have searched high and low, used every resource and trick known and nowhere could I find in the mandate or the Enactment of the Voters, the authority or direction given to the Monroe Country Board of Country Commission to divert $14,000,000 and give it to the FDOT to repair a dilapidated bridge access to a City of Marathon Tourist Attraction. And was there direction given in the mandate to divert $5,000,000 to purchase a defunct Marina in Key Largo for future speculation? If anyone has access to the information pertaining to the authority and/or direction please notify the CT. |
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I tried to opt out from getting annoying ads from AT&T and Yahoo, but they make it so complicated that you give up. Designed that way, of course. |
[Who Cares Department] Woman catches mailboxes left open by carrier. Link |
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I wish the sushi man at Winn Dixie had a grill to cook that fish well done! |
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[“I wonder how Sloan can afford a laptop computer with Wi-Fi, yet still need to go to soup kitchens for free food”] Probably the same way that the bums asking for money on the corner, who are wearing nicer sneakers than I am, never seem to be lacking for cigarettes. |
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I was riding my bike yesterday on the bike path where it continued across US 1, so I stopped and waited for the traffic to clear. A large truck in a long line of traffic stopped in front of me to let me cross. I didn’t want to seem ungrateful, but I waived him on. It has been my experience that when a vehicle stops like this in the middle of the road, at least one impatient yahoo will try to pass him. A very dangerous situation for the bicyclist. Thank you for stopping, but please don’t anymore. |
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Happy birthday Wilko Johnson! Dr. Feelgood – Roxette |
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Just because a person is homeless does not mean they can’t have a computer and phone. New comers and developers have forced rents so high people are renting beds for $700 a month to 2 different people. Night shift person gets in from work and the other paying dayshift person is getting out of the bed and leaving. That’s $1400 a month the person renting is receiving for that one room. And why should someone that’s called Monroe County home for 10 to 30 years be obligated to leave because greedy people have created a housing nightmare in Monroe County? Just because some of the homeless are unsightly they are still residents and members of our one human family. They are not going nowhere. Deal with it! I personally enjoy giving the worst I can find gift cards for drinks and dinner at tourist spots just to piss off the Got-miners. |
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[Put The Elderly In Prison] we should place the elderly in prisons because they will get a shower every day, video surveillance in case of problems, three meals a day, access to a library, computer use, TV, gym, doctors on-site, and free medication if needed.Put criminals in nursing homes and they’ll get cold meals, lights off at 7pm, two showers a week, live in a smaller room and pay rent at $4,000 a month! ? It’s pretty sad that we treat prisoners better than the elderly |
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I’m curious, how long has this sewer debacle been going on? 10+ years? And in all this time has anyone called 60 Minutes? I understand they love these kind of fiascos. |
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[Scanning For Dummies] Directions to scan something on your multi-purpose printer.
6. After it scans click: File > Save as > (at the top left of the scan software) and select where you want to save it on your computer (Documents, duh!) |
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I got a coupon in today’ mail that read: Circumcisions 1/2 off! |
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[Free Boobs] Ladies please, before you use the kid’s college fund there are other options! Link |
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When Nestle refused to watch a documentary about the exploitation of African children in the cocoa industry, the documentary’s director, Miki Mistrati, set up a giant screen next to Nestle’s headquarters in Switzerland and played it there. |
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Looks like one of the big cruise companies is now in the pity the poor business. They have cruises to Cuba and other places where you get off the boat to help the poor and do whatever your skills can accomplish to better the poor’s living standards. Oh joy, I cannot wait to help some low life piece of crap who could care less about betterment when they only want to get stoned and laid. The bleeding heart management of this huge conglomerate will destroy cruising as we know it. Idiots! |
![]() Thanks for getting in touch about the buoy you found. It is part of the Global Drifter Program Satellite-tracked surface drifting buoy observations of currents, sea surface temperature, atmospheric pressure, winds and salinity. The buoy normally has a cloth drogue attached, but I presume from the photo it came off prior to recovery. The float (sphere) transmits data to a satellite which is used to track the drogue/buoy movement (not GPS). If it is returned to us, we may learn something that could improve the design in the future, thereby enhancing the health and well-being of the program. Thanks again for looking into the buoy and in advance for returning it, Jeff Wingenroth Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory of NOAA. Global Drifter Program link |
[90# On Your Telephone Scam ] I received a telephone call last evening from an individual identifying himself as an AT&T service technician who was conducting a test on the telephone lines. He stated that to complete the test I should touch nine (9), zero (0), the pound sign (#), and then hang up. Luckily, I was suspicious and refused. Upon contacting the telephone company, I was informed that by pushing 90#, you give the requesting individual full access to your telephone line, which enables them to place long distance calls billed to your home phone number. I was further informed that this scam has been originating from many local jails/prisons. Do not press 90# for anyone. The GTE Security Department requested that I share this information with everyone I know |
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[UFO] Holy crapola! This has to be the weirdest evidence of swamp gas mistaken for UFOs. Video |
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Why is there a Wounded Warrior Project. What does that say about our Government?? Why won’t the Government take care of the people that signed the blank check. Why can the government give away money to countries that are trying to destroy us but they can’t find enough money to take care of the people who fought and bled for a policy that is only about making money. |
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What is this world coming to when all you see anymore on the TV and the web is useless sports stars, actors, sissies, people complaining about everything and news that is nothing more than tabloid gossip? |
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[Crooks] Looks like both Ledarius Dontavious and Javarus Martaviatus Sanders several hours apart were up up to criminal activity in the Upper Keys last Wed. nite, according to the Sheriff’s site. |
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After a few weeks of the usual 85/85 (temp/humidity) days, we caught a break and it’s beautiful outside. Even the once 75 ft snow piles in Boston have finally all melted. My car passed NJ state inspection and all is right with the world. |
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Join veterinarian teams around the world as they undertake groundbreaking operations to try to save animals’ lives. Find out how pioneering human medicine is transforming ways to look after animals in some of the most remote places on earth. Link |
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I love to pull up your site and find a new day’s information. It is like a gift. Thank you. (Ed: Aw, shucks!) |
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You need to check out Bistro 31. They have really stepped up to the ‘plate’. The food is good and the portions are incredible. Don’t forget Monica either! |
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Organic food promoter Jerome Rodale died of a heart attack on the couch of The Dick Cavett Show after saying that he’d probably live to be 100 years old. He was 72. James Fixx the jogger died of a heart attack on Johnny Carson, I think |
![]() DEF: Suit n, The disguise some ware to hide ineptness. DEF: Retail n, A hebrew word for legal piracy DEF: Blog n, A web page suggesting Freedom of Speech until you realize BB is watching. DEF: Concealed n, A shopping bag full of large kitchen cutlery DEF: Cleavage n, The groovy area broads flaunt but you dare not gawk at. |
[Creepy Department] In 1838 Edgar Allan Poe wrote a novel about 4 shipwreck survivors stranded in a boat before they killed and ate a cabin boy–Richard Parker. In 1884, a boat was stranded with only 4 survivors. 3 of the men killed and ate the cabin boy, also named Richard Parker |
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