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The Citrus County Sheriff's Office on Thursday arrested a 17-year-old youth and charged him with lewd and lascivious battery on a Homosassa girl, 13.
Arrested was Jesse Lee Brentlinger, 10958 Grybek Court, Homosassa.
The Citrus County Sheriff's Office today arrested two Homosassa men in connection with a meth lab investigation.
Arrested were Roger Carl Smith Jr., 37, of 6429 W. Folger Court and Dana William Jowers, 32, of 7515 W. Miss Maggie Drive.
At one time, where Citrus County's Inverness Middle School now stands, once stood a consolidated school for people of color.
Some of the former students of that school for black students are planning to gather together Sept. 3-5 for a reunion to remember what was once known as Booker T. Washington High School.
HOMOSASSA - The Citrus County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man who burst into a Homosassa home at 2:30 a.m. today and demanded a couple's money and drugs at gunpoint.
The robbery occurred at 5616 W. Keating Court, the home of Jarod Walton, 29.
INVERNESS - The Citrus County Sheriff's Office is investigating an armed robbery at Brad's Food and Gas in Inverness.
Deputies were called to the scene at the intersection of South Pleasant Grove Road (County Road 581) and East Arbor Street shortly before 10:30 p.m. on Monday.
The Citrus County Parks and Recreation Division closed Ft. Island Gulf Beach Park to swimming Friday after the Citrus County Environmental Health Department issued an advisory for the beach, warning of high bacterial counts in water samples.
The samples showed fecal coliform bacteria counts were over the state standard.
Citrus County firefighters were called out at 1:36 a.m. today to battle a fully involved fire in a vacant mobile home at 11650 S. Rural Terrace in Floral City.
No injuries were reported.
The National Weather Service on has issued a coastal flood advisory for Citrus County.
The watch extends until 6 p.m. on Wednesday.
The Citrus County Sheriff's Office made arrests on Monday in connection with two separate incidents involving sex offenses against young girls.
The first arrest involved offenses against a 14-year-old Citrus Springs girl, and the second arrest involved offenses against two girls, ages 13 and 15, both of whom live in Brooksville.
What is being forecast as an all-day rain pelted Citrus County voters today, as a weather front moved in and began to flood many low-lying parts of the county.
