Editor’s Note: The Sheriff’s Office Weekly Rap-Up comes out on Friday afternoon If you have a submission, please send it to me and I will be happy to include it. Send it to [email protected], or in the courier to Deputy Becky Herrin, Media Relations Division, Headquarters building on Stock Island. This publication can be viewed on line at www.keysso.net/employees/weekly_rap_up/weekly_rap_up.htm March 18, 2016 New Specialty Plates to Support Law Enforcement The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) is proud to announce two new specialty plates available now for purchase. The Fallen Law Enforcement and Florida Sheriff’s As- sociation plates will be available in all tax collector offices by November 6, 2015 to be proudly displayed on Florida registered vehicles. The Fallen Law Enforcement plate was created by the Criminal Justice Academy class of 2014 at Pinellas Park High School in Largo, FL. The plate, memorializing fallen law enforcement officers, is $25 in addition to state registration fees. A portion of rev- enue generated from sales will go towards the Police and Kids Foundation, Inc. to invest in the operation of the foundation. More information can be found at www.policeandkids.com Founded in 1893, the Florida Sheriff’s Associa- tion is made up of 67 Sheriffs of Florida to support the needs of the state’s law enforcement community. The purchase of this $25 specialty tag, on top of regular registration fees, will be used to develop and provide advanced and specialized training for criminal justice officers. Visit their website to learn more, www. flsheriffs.org. Floridians can now select from 124 specialty plate designs that were created to support collegiate, envi- ronmental, wildlife, military, sports, and special interest groups. The designs can be viewed on the DHSMV website at https://www.flhsmv.gov/ html/tagbrochure.pdf. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles: providing A Safer Florida by securely maintaining the records of more than 19 million reg- istered vehicles and over 15 million licensed drivers, as well as providing safe travel along Florida’s high- ways. To learn more about DHSMV and the services offered, visit www.flhsmv.gov, follow us on Twitter @ FLHSMV or find us on Facebook. Thanks for helping on the farm By Farmer Jeanne Selander Thanks to everyone for your help and support for Easter on the Farm 2016. We broke ALL previous records with 1070 visitors through the gate! There were face painters, crafts, T-shirt sales, wooden toy-building from Home Depot (Shirley Carey and her volunteers), live music by Marty Stonely and Chris, photos with the Easter bunny by Daniel Kolbe of Southernmost Photography, and a huge egg hunt with nearly 9000 eggs hidden. My sincere thanks go out to the following people for making the event a success: Dennis Coleman for being the Easter Bunny! Mike Grattan for keeping count of all the visitors entering the farm. Dep. Emil LaVache for supervis- ing the donation box, and delivering flyers to the local schools. Capt. Anne Sweeney for hiding eggs and recruiting more volunteers than I have EVER seen at the farm! Kevin Callaghan for handing out flyers and egg hunt bags/baskets at the gate. Continued on the next page Next Weekly Rap Up will be April 1st.
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Editor’s Note: The Sheriff’s Office Weekly Rap-Up comes out on Friday afternoon If you have a submission, please send it to me and I will be happy to include it. Send it to [email protected], or in the courier to Deputy Becky Herrin, Media Relations Division, Headquarters building on Stock Island. This publication can be viewed on line at www.keysso.net/employees/weekly_rap_up/weekly_rap_up.htm
March 18, 2016
New Specialty Plates to Support Law Enforcement
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) is proud to announce two new specialty plates available now for purchase. The Fallen Law Enforcement and Florida Sheriff’s As-sociation plates will be available in all tax collector offices by November 6, 2015 to be proudly displayed on Florida registered vehicles.
The Fallen Law Enforcement plate was created by the Criminal Justice Academy class of 2014 at Pinellas Park High School in Largo, FL. The plate, memorializing fallen law enforcement officers, is $25 in addition to state registration fees. A portion of rev-enue generated from sales will go towards the Police and Kids Foundation, Inc. to invest in the operation of the foundation. More information can be found at www.policeandkids.com
Founded in 1893, the Florida Sheriff’s Associa-tion is made up of 67 Sheriffs of Florida to support the needs of the state’s law enforcement community. The purchase of this $25 specialty tag, on top of regular registration fees, will be used to develop and provide advanced and specialized training for criminal justice officers. Visit their website to learn more, www.flsheriffs.org.
Floridians can now select from 124 specialty plate designs that were created to support collegiate, envi-ronmental, wildlife, military, sports, and
special interest groups. The designs can be viewed on the DHSMV website at https://www.flhsmv.gov/html/tagbrochure.pdf.
The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles: providing A Safer Florida by securely maintaining the records of more than 19 million reg-istered vehicles and over 15 million licensed drivers, as well as providing safe travel along Florida’s high-ways. To learn more about DHSMV and the services offered, visit www.flhsmv.gov, follow us on Twitter @FLHSMV or find us on Facebook.Thanks for helping on the farm
By Farmer Jeanne SelanderThanks to everyone for your help and support
for Easter on the Farm 2016. We broke ALL previous records with 1070 visitors through the gate! There were face painters, crafts, T-shirt sales, wooden toy-building from Home Depot (Shirley Carey and her volunteers), live music by Marty Stonely and Chris, photos with the Easter bunny by Daniel Kolbe of Southernmost Photography, and a huge egg hunt with nearly 9000 eggs hidden. My sincere thanks go out to the following people for making the event a success:
Dennis Coleman for being the Easter Bunny!
Mike Grattan for keeping count of all the visitors entering the farm.
Dep. Emil LaVache for supervis-ing the donation box, and delivering flyers to the local schools.
Capt. Anne Sweeney for hiding eggs and recruiting more volunteers than I have EVER seen at the farm!
Kevin Callaghan for handing out flyers and egg hunt bags/baskets at the gate.
Continued on the next page
Next Weekly Rap Up will be April 1st.
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Director Becky Herrin for getting the word out to the media and taking photographs during the event.
Damon Reece, Samantha Horn, and Dep. Cliffi-sha Bostic for supervising the ceramic bunny bank painting and craft areas.
Sgt. Alvarez Rice, Roxanne and Joanna Posada (Kids Come First), Sally Botelho and Christine for do-ing the beautiful face painting for the children.
Carol and Pete Peterson for selling bottled wa-ter, books, and t-shirts.
Samantha Garcia for supervising the kids hold-ing the tortoise and alligator.
Kelly Anson for holding Chanel the skunk for the kids to pet.
Kathleen Lavelle for passing out bottled water to keep the volunteers hydrated.
Tamara Snider for helping with the bunny photo/donation area, and for decorating the photo booth.
Nestor Gonzalez and the maintenance crew for providing chairs.
The “egg-hiding crew”: Neil McMichael, Polly De-ihl, Donniece and Kylie, Brittany Brown, Debbie To-bin, Maureen Cerullo, Denise Dery, Dr. Rose Chan, Larry Harken-rider, Wanda Martin, Sgt. Mark Lindback, Sgt. Lakesha Grant, Stacy Robinson, Dep. William Hallett, Tracey Jackson, Mike Rogers, Dep. Charles Mon-tano, Dep. Javonte Joseph-Horton, Dep. Anaray Corzo, Dep. Louis Pazo, Dep. Markevious Smith, Dep. Travaris Mitchell, Dep. Anthony Pani-
agua, Dep. Kenson Jean-Baptiste, Dep. Ashley Dieg-uez, Dep. Gladimir Prinston, Sgt. Darlene McCloud, Dep. Alix Pierre, Dep. James Gardner, and Charles Slebodnick.
To Sheriff Rick Ramsay, Major Tim Age and Lt. Donnie Catala – thanks for your support.
Thanks again to all of you, as I could not have done it without your help!
(Please let me know if I omitted anyone, and I will add them to my very long list.)
Easter at the farm was a huge success with 1,070 people attending, 9,000 Easter eggs distributed and donations of over $1,700.00. At the top, Dennis Coleman as the Easter Bunny; at the left, Farmer Jeanne and Easter Bunny Mo; at the bottom, Sheriff Rick Ramsay and Major Tim Age greet people at the gate.
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Birthday Name Job Title3/19 Joseph-Horton Javonte Detention Deputy3/19 King Karen Communications Assistant3/19 Knowles Lisa Executive Director-Finance3/19 Paniagua Anthony Detention Deputy3/20 Stullken Donald Deputy Sheriff3/21 Lockwood Vicki Deputy Sheriff3/22 Darkins Biandrea Detention Deputy3/23 Atlas Kenneth Deputy Sheriff3/23 Floyd Marc Sergeant Detention Deputy3/23 Parker Jameson Detention Deputy3/24 Burgohy Angelita Detention Records Assistant3/24 Ciprian Michael Deputy Sheriff Trainee3/25 Brady Joshua Deputy Sheriff3/25 Brown William Detention Deputy3/25 Lenzini-Marengo Medean Senior Intelligence Analyst3/26 Fricke Thomas Deputy Sheriff3/26 Medina Stacey Work Release Specialist3/26 Paul Lorvie Detention Deputy3/27 Lott Marcus Sergeant Detention Deputy3/28 Arrazola Lely Finance Assistant 13/28 Bean Paul Deputy Sheriff3/28 Murray Gloria Airport Security Tech.3/29 Jenkins James Deputy Sheriff3/29 Lopata Patricia Purchasing Agent Asst3/29 Sielicki Jr. Michael Deputy Sheriff3/30 Callaghan Kevin Maintenance Assistant3/30 Nunez Michael Detention Deputy3/31 Joseph Jeanetta Detention Deputy3/31 Maison Marc Sergeant Deputy Sheriff3/31 Tobin Debra Detention Records4/1 Tabone Sheila Detention Deputy4/1 Torrijos-Paskiewicz Nancy Deputy Sheriff
Farmer Jeanne and Mo made appearances at picnic under the stars, where they met with Congressman Carlos Curbelo and at a Special Olympics event this past weekend.
Sheriff Rick Ramsay congratulates Deputy George Rosemeyer on his retirement this week.
The Finance Division celebrated three March birthdays. Left to right, Lely Arrazola, Lisa Knowles and Patricia Lopata. Happy Birthday!!!!
For RentHouse for rent in Marathon. Two bedroom, two bath,
1000 square feet. $2,000 a month. Call Chris Cameron at 305-923-9105.
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Easter at the FarmMembers of the Sheriff’s
Office family both big and small were at the farm for this won-derful event!
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A Soup / Chili cookoff held March 9th at the Roth Building was a great success, raising $416 for the MARC House. Det. Barney Sajdak won the cooking challenge. Thanks to contest judges Maria Aguilair, Luis Garcia and Sylvia Murphy for helping out. Below, organizer Peggy Bryan with Captain Don Fanelli and Lt. Al Ramirez present the check to MARC Coordinator Corinne Triviski and one of MARC’s clients in the Upper Keys.
In response to a citizen complaint about trash “blowing” onto the highway, Sgt. Scott Ward and Deputy Ben Elmore spent some time picking up garbage at the 101 mile marker of the highway.
Lt. Al Ramirez, Det. Jaques Rozek and Capt. Corey Bryan hand over a check to MARC. The money was raised from their participation in a recent fund raiser.
Members of the Sheriff’s Office handing over a check from Sheriff Rick Ramsay for $2,000 to help repair the roof of the aging VFW building in Key Largo. Here are Capt. Don Fanelli, Lt. Al Ramirez and Colonel Lou Caputo pictured with VFW Commander Norm Higgins, previous commanders Dennis Ward and John Dick, and Sara Hamilton.
The Upper Keys Citizen’s Police Academy learning about traffic stops.
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Members of the Sheriff’s Traffic Enforcement Unit helped out teaching the Citizen’s Police Academy about traffic stops this week in the Lower Keys.
Deputy Lazaro Valdes continues his clean up efforts on Stock Island. Here he is shown removing abandoned vehicles on Front Street.
Deputy Boyd Williams helped out with regional Special Olympics games last weekend. Here he is with the award winners.
Deputies Dyllon Hansen and Spencer Curry paint over graffiti on some stairs at Higg’s Beach in Key West.
After receiving a citizen complaint, Deputy Freddy Rodriguez organized a clean up of this state owned lot on Big Pine Key. He utilized state road prison inmates and had two abandoned boats on trailers removed by Anchor Towing.
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Explorers compete at Delegates conferenceOur three Explorer posts traveled to Brevard County this
past weekend to compete with other explorers from around the state in law enforcement related skills, including shooting and in a physical agility test. All three posts did very well, with Caileigh Lutz from Post 904 taking first place in semi-auto Tyro shooting competition and in the PAT test for women; David Wil-liams from Post 905 taking first place in Proficiency Reloading drills; and Angel Muino from post 906 taking first place in the PAT test for males. SRO Deputies Derick Velez and Will Schle-gelmilch went along as advisors to the group.
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For further information contact Sgt. Wirth at the Cudjoe Substation/or MCSO email.
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Saturday, March 19, 2016
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
IBERIABANK
5601 Overseas HWY
Marathon, FL 33050
ALL DONATIONS WILL BENEFIT THE MONROE COUNTY SHERIFF’S EXPLORERS
POST 906
For more info, please contact Deputy SRO Derick Velez 772-215-6265
