[Patty55]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

If you wonder why we are feeling defensive, it is just simply that many of us love this place. It is now our hometown and are friends and peers live here. We network, we feel we KNOW what goes on, we have a lot of time to devote to that. This is the place where we have chosen to come to enjoy the fruits of our labors, we like it very much and are very satisfied with it. Many times people from densely populated areas carry with them the same level of preparedness against crime that they badly needed in their old lives. NO where is completely safe, but it is safer here than in Chicago, or in any large city populated with a lot of people on drugs.

I get defensive when the negative comments come from people who don't even live here. This board, although a little whiny at times, is made up of very open people who really try to help each other. They are very quick to welcome anyone and really don't deserve to be portrayed as a group of drunken bad drivers who have a predator problem. Would you all like the tables turned? Would you like the truth about wherever it is that you call home?

I also get offended when rather than listen to the truth some people get caught up in BS and drama. You take someone like Kitty who I'm sure has more experience than she would like to remember, you people should have listened to her rather than just continue your denial. You might have learned something.

Perhaps you should revert to what you think you can control, dog poop, because you sure as heck aren't going to fix the sexual abuse problem.

[senior citizen]

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[Peachie]

Originally Posted by senior citizen

There may not be crime in THE VILLAGES per se.....but there is indeed crime surrounding it.....sad to say. The same residents of Summerfield and other towns to the north and west can easily come into TV.

Who is this Bogie Shooter? Is he related to you?

No matter. If you say he's an intellectual, I believe you.

Awhile back, while researching 55+ communities in and around THE VILLAGES such as those in the area of Summerfield, which is very closely "north" of TV, I remember reading in the Ocala newspaper about a horrific crime committed by a bunch of teens.

I also read about it in the Orlando Sentinel. At our age, of 68, we do have a "need to know". This was a gruesome murder.

It's abbreviated version is shown below............but at the time it was happening and discovered, the details were scary.

I recall asking the realtor with whom I had been corresponding at the time, if she knew of the crime........at first she was reluctant to say anything, but eventually did tell me the story......but said her developements were safe from this kind of teen crime.

I still remember the photos of these young teen murderers in the newspapers.........they burned the kid's body in a barbecue pit, after cutting it all up.

That's not petty crime. Was it in the TV paper?

They were 15, 16, 18 and 20, etc. The 15 year old girlfriend planned the murder, etc.

It was premeditated......not a crime of passion....but thought out ahead of time.


　
Marion woman sentenced to life for role in teens slaying

Charlie Ely sentenced to life in prison for her role in the murder of Marion teen Seath Jackson.

October 17, 2011|By Bianca Prieto, Orlando Sentinel

A Marion County woman convicted of brutally murdering a 15-year-old boy was sentenced today to life in prison.

Charlie Kay Ely, 19, was found guilty last month of first-degree murder for her role in the slaying of Seath Jackson. She was sentenced today in a Marion County courtroom

Earlier this year Jackson was beaten and then shot by a group of five people, including Ely. Marion sheriff's investigators say the group then burned his body and disposed of his remains in 5-gallon buckets.

Ely lured the teen to her home in Summerfield where the murder took place.

Jackson's ex-girlfriend Amber Wright, 15, and her brother Kyle Hooper, 16, planned the murder with 18-year-old Michael Shane Bargo, Charlie Kay Ely, 18, and 20-year-old Justin Soto, the Sheriff's Office said.

Four others are awaiting trial for their roles in the teen's death.

bprieto@tribune.com or 407-420-5620.

　





　



　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

Senior, you've told us that Vermont is being infiltrated big time by drug lords. Do you think that is superior to the incidences in FL? That crime is what creates the problems seen in FL. I think I've lost sight of your point.

[Bogie Shooter]

The point was lost a long time ago.

[Skybo]

With all due respect Senior, I think most of us who live here are informed of what is going on in The Villages and in the surrounding areas. No one relies on The Daily Sun for their hard news. It may surprise you, but just like everyone else in the country, we have access to various local media outlets who duly report on all of the crime that takes place within our community and beyond. We are a pretty well-read and intelligent group of folks, and I'm baffled by why you think that you need to educate us on what is going on in our community. Add me to the list of people who don't understand your point.

[Patty55]

Oh, and by the way, Charlie Ely has Jose Baez handling her appeal. I don't see her getting out anytime soon. LOL

[graciegirl]

I haven't ever met Bogie Shooter, but I have read his posts over six years now and he gets the point, time and time again. He may not be wordy but I am convinced he is very bright indeed and sometimes he is abrupt.

It is hard to be told by people who do not live here how things are here..

I was trying to be clever by saying that there may be another intellectual in The Villages as the OP was pointing out the merits of her own intellect.

I think we who live here are better equipped to evaluate the safety of this place and the posts just before mine were pretty direct and very honest in saying that we were not a bunch of fools here. We frequently smile when people off site tell us the national news. We have all of the same media and information as those who live every where else in this country.

We have far less crime than most places in the United States.

People thinking to move here can either accept that, or continue to think this is a hot spot for sexual depravity

. Right now it appears that there will be more than enough people longing to move here to fill all of the homes the developer is going to build.