Posts Tagged ‘homeless’
Sunday, October 4th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
STUART — Two Riviera Beach City Police Department detectives were honored Friday by the Martin County Veterans Council for making certain a homeless, 61-year-old Vietnam veteran received a proper military funeral.
Other than the military honor detail and cemetery employees, the detectives were the only people at the service.
“He died alone, but he had served his country. We just didn’t want him to go to an anonymous grave,” said Detective Jeremy Summers, who came to Stuart to VFW Post 4194 Friday to receive the official thanks. The other detective, Sgt. Patrick Galligan, was unable to come because of a family matter.
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Tags: Gary Dale Wilson, homeless, Jeremy Summers, Military, Patrick Galligan, police, Riviera Beach, veteran
Posted in Martin County | 3 Comments »
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
VERO BEACH — New Orleans resident Lionel Sims broke a hole in his roof to be rescued from Hurricane Katrina’s devastating flood waters in August 2005, but he had to leave behind a best friend, his dog Peanut.
Rescuers said they couldn’t take the dog.
Sims didn’t know if Peanut was dead or alive for about two months, until an American Red Cross volunteer tracked it to the Humane Society of Indian River County and Vero Beach.
And the two were reunited.
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Tags: adopted, adoption, animation, baby, beach, best, club, dies, dog, dogs, Economy, flooding, Florida, food, golf, hand, holes, homeless, hurricanes, identity, jobs, man, name, pet, pets, saw, volunteer, volunteering, volunteers, water, wife
Posted in Stuart | 1 Comment »
Thursday, May 7th, 2009 by TCPalm.com
PORT SALERNO — Ann Gunsolus can’t bear the thought of losing her home, even though it’s a makeshift campsite in a privately owned woods a stone’s throw from U.S. 1.
“Cry: That’s what I do so far is cry,” Gunsolus said, while thinking about where she will go when the authorities evict the homeless people from the woods. “When you have nothing, there’s not much you can do.”
Gunsolus and more than a dozen other homeless men and women fear sheriff’s deputies will roust them as soon as Thursday from the patchwork of tents and tarps they call home. (more…)
Tags: author, beach, camp, codes, communication, deputies, deputy, dining, homeless, informant, jail, jobs, Martin County Sheriff's Office, Mass, police, profiling, property, sheriff, woods
Posted in Port Salerno | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 by Ana X. Ceron

Danny Ford
HOBE SOUND — A homeless man faces a charge of
animal abuse after he allegedly jabbed a
dog’s eyes with a
rebar pole.
The dog’s owner told Martin County Sheriff’s deputies that he saw Danny K. Ford in his yard in the 8400 block of Southeast Eucalyptus Way where he was stabbing the homeowner’s pit bull in the eyes.
The homeowner said Ford, 48, was known as a local in the Banner Lake area. When he saw Ford with the rebar shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Friday, he rushed into his yard.
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Tags: animal abuse, animal cruelty, Banner Lake, Danny Ford, Eucalyptus Way, homeless, Martin County Sheriff's Office, Rhonda Irons
Posted in Crime, Hobe Sound, Martin County | 1 Comment »